HomeMy WebLinkAbout05/04/14 Bremerton, ~Jashington, Nay 4th 1914.
tlegular meeting of the City Co%moil called to order by Mayor Cady at eight o'oloo]
p. m. all members being Dresent.
IJinutes of ~revious session read and approved as read.
Applications were recei~'e~[~ from John Booth and William Smith for the position of
Poundmaster. Same were ordered filed.
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Letter read from City Enginee~ reporting progrees of contractor in Distri,,~t .... .
Motion by 'Ward and ~[cGi.].livray to draw warrant on District .~VJ for ~1000.O0 in
favor of L. L. Lent, Contractor; carried.
Letter read ~rom City ~n~ineer oall~dgatSention of Council to conditio~.~ of bulk-
head on the So~:ta side oF l;ourth Street between WaShi:~gton and Pacifies referred to
Street and ~klley Oom~ittee.
Letter read from City Engineer reporting tha~ Mrs. R. D. Clemens J19 Pourth
Street desired to construct a concrete sidewalk in front of her property '~.nd had aske,
for elevation of grade for same but that in making survey he fo~d the 2resent walk
at the west end of the ~arrison Building to be nine inches above the .established
grade and enclo~sin~ copy' of letter from former engineer showing that ~. I[arrisQn
had i~ored the grade set by him.
Hotion by l'[ard and 2ewers to authorize Engineer to change oontour of vmlk if i~Irs.
Clemmons will sign waiver; carried.
Street and ~.~lley Committee requested more time in the investigation of the
clai~ of ?r. Carter and there being no objections request was granted.
~.~[r. Ward reported that [~,~r, JOh~n~acob~on who had won his case against t~e City
now regretted his action in bring/suTt and was willing to quit-claim all ]~.i~
to the City on the Payment of t]~ costs of the case amountin~ to about ?5.00.
by Worth and Powers to lay over for one week; carried.
Sanitation Cm~mittee requested that notices to clean up arom~d their premises
be sent to E. B. Hagans on Washington Street, John ~itzpatrtck on Broadway and ~7, V.
Shannon on Second Street and the matter was referred to the City Attorney.
Complaint having been made about tho use of water at Cemetery on motion of Kost
and Worth matter was referred to the Cemetery Committee to ajust a schedule of
char~es for water.
~2~rk read Ordinance ~500 being an Crdi~.anoe amending Ordinance ~ 490 and corm[t-
' i;~'~ ,~ ~ ~. T, ~ystem of ~l~nbing in ~ buildings. Hot~ by '//ard a~
~ng ..e uo~ ~f the urham
.o.['tn to oa~:s 0rd~mnce ; carried ali members voting aye on rolI call.
Hotion by HoOil~ivray.:,nd ~oss that teamster be instructed to get hay f~om cooper.
ative Store; Carried.
;.~otion ~y .'fa:rd and .forth that property owners be requested to destroy the cater-
pillars, if any, on their ~remfses and the superintendent of Streets bo ordered to
destroy them on the ~operty of nonZresident owners; carried.
The City Attorney rep~rted on some ~ ~:: the eas~s occupyin~ the atteuti~ of his
departmen~ and re~u,e~t.~d that he b ~"'~ "~
e allowed ~for costs. ,~,o,,ion by Ward aud Worth
thai; Ci~y Clerk be authorized to issue Current ~ense Fund Warrant for '.~22 in favor
of City Attorney; carried.
~iayor Cady read a procl~ation naming the week begi~ing :.lay llth 1914 as Clean-
up Yeek and requesting all citizens to make a special effort to clean t~p :~n~] heart,fy
their
L[otiou by ~owers a~d ~ard to 0. K. all bills previously ap:,roved, by the
Co~it tee; carried.
The fo ~ --' ~ ~
lo,,~n~> bills wer~ a~)proved: E, R. CauGhie ~33; Pranl~ ~,[elzer .~18; Fran]:'
Townsend ,[~15; Leou L~bert ~15; George ~lay $15; Jacob Uedge ~1~.50. Star
Service ,~Jl.00;, Loveland Boat Wor]~ ~11.95; B. F. Good::ich Rubber Co. ,jl.3E; o::~r~merton
:3earchli~:ht Investment 9empathy ~152.5~; Prank ~. Coder e20; ~arrJson F~shor Come,any
~lZ.90; ~]remerton i[ews
Motion by I~owers and '.';orti~ to a$ourn; carried.
C~ t:,: Clerk.