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Home My WebLink About12/28/14 Bremerton Washington, December 28th !914. Rcgular meeting of the City Co~ncil~elled tc order by Mayor Cady at 7.30 o'clock p.m. Present, ~ouncilmen Worth,Fowers,Ward,I~c~illiYray and Reove~, Mr F~s arriving ia little l~ter, at~o pre~ent City tttor~ey,Treasur~r ~nd E.~ginc,~r, and Mayor-ele~ct ~aer and Attorney-cleat Stevenson,, ~¢iuutcs of previous ~;e,,sion read a,ld apb, roved as read. ~d a:,d sub~ittiug Fi,,,A1 estimnte and reco;.a~ending acceptance and al~proval, letter est[mate refevre:d to Z~rc=t and Azley Co~;r:ittec. S~re~t a~d alley co:?~ittc~: reported that ~cwer of District ff'TZa ]~d bcc,~ c,Ayefully i,~spectcd a~M found as per contract and ~ngin~er's report, and co~,;ittce th~_~t thc job be ~Acccptcd and a,d Final estimate approved. }~{otion by Worth aud Ward that Final estimate be approved a,~d job accepted,carried. Sire, ct and ail~y cur~mitt~e r~orted that M,s Knut~on had co~plalncd to Abe theft tho a~essme,~t a~ai,,st her prol~erty in L.I.D,~58 was not a just assesame~t, the Chairm~n of the com~:ittee further reported that he had gone over the matter with the E~gin~.r and found assess~',~ent alright, ~,{rs Knutson objected to the report of the Co~m:~itt*,,e, and tl~e Mayor informed her that the Council had no power to change the roll , , /~ep~r~ed Dil~t_ , ' st Wharf comm~tte~/~r ~,~cl~ay til~, Tooao00~t had a standing order w~th the Brem,rton ~ransfer Com[)a~y to deliver a].] freight consigned to him 2~d to sign for sam~, and that recently a co~slgnm~nt had come in for vr F.E.~IcKay of Park Avenue and this had ,be--n si,z~ed for by tha Transfer Co,~q~any and delive~ed to th~ wrong ~,~cKay, the tee regretted that the error had occurred but f~lt that th~ wharf management was not blameworthy. ~:trcet and Atl~y committee reported that ~r J. Sitko, ~dam Daubras,and ~r Pr~:d~n had overpaid their assessments and r~co~L, end~d that th~ Tr~a~,urer b~ a~thcri~d to r~fund the amount found to b~ overpaid. Motion by Wo~tL aud Ward to al~,~ov~ report and reco?,~eadati~,-~ of co,.u~ittc~, carviod. 5~r Fos~ ct~ilcd atLc,~tio~: of tke Council to action taken at a former moeting declar- ing its intc;~tion to pay ~lance duc on Warrant ~i7 of L.~.D.m61 and he also ezpret~3 tL~:, ~op~-~ 1~t t'~ council would clear the matter up before It adjourned sine die. Votlon by Worth and Foss that ~eneral Fund Warrant be la~ued for the amou~lt ~u~y to redc,~m warrant [/17 of District ~O~.Carried ~,~r Worth called ~tto~tio,, to a ~'cc~,~t controversey about tho ope,~ing o~ a by thc 2~opc~%y owner ~ithout taking et a bond as required by ~rdinance and as h~ felt bh:~t ho wa~ iu a m~nner responsible he would reeom.,,end t~t the boad be waived. Motion by Ward a~d Worth that Mrs Johnson be permitted to finish.up the sewer con- noc~ion uudei~ thru supervision of th~ street committee,a~d that no bond be requlrod. Ca rri e d. Finance Comr~.ttee a~a[n reported that Mr John B.Lex ~d not b~en allowed the amount agr~rd on for his services i~ grading of Eighth strnet, and on ~otion of }~cGillivray and Renowns the Treasurer was instructed to credit Mr Lex with the same amount as that allowed Vr Henschel. City Attorney reported on the cases per, ding in his department. }~otionjov Ward and Powers to allow all bills which had been approved by the Finance committe~.~~ ca~,rled. The followi~g bills were approved, R, R. Black $100. H. Re~ ,v~90. Dan-Hatldon.. $90. T. C. Roberts, ~90.~ J. E. Joder ~100.~, F. R?~lte, ~90,, ~.J.~cCa~. ,, i~92.25 Chas.L.3(aMit! ~91. Jas W.Carr $98.15 J. F. Munns ;~E0. H.H.Walkinton ~62. ~Frar~k ~elz~r ~3~. Frank Townsend ~23.75 George Clay $30. ~acob WedKe ~30. N.Love]and ~16.08 lao/~ ~,ambert ~;23.75 City'Fuel Co ~;10.75 Hutchison Coleman ~1.60 Fred Hatha- [th7; City into six voting precincts instead of four. ~ Motion by Ward aud Powers to approve report of committee and ~t otdlnance ~413 dLv[d]~,g the City iuto six precincts be passed and published, carried, [ ~Jr Andrew Price appeared before the Council and requested that his check for ~500. ~deposited with the City aa evidence of good faith that his Company woBld purchase ithe ~ bonds, ~,~~ of L. I. D. ~62 be returned, and on motion of Worth and ~Reevea the C]crk was author[zed to return said check. ; 'Wmrf committ~a reco imended that Rantz Brothers be allowed a reduction ir~ the amount ~of their rental to ,,~7o.00 per month from January 1st 1915. ~ ~ot[on by Powez~a and Reeves to adopt the reco~muendation of the l~M~arf cor,unitteo, car~ied. C~erk sub;~itted report of Police Judge for the month of November and same was ref- erred to the Finance committee. '~otlon by Raoves a;~,d Powers to adjourn until Wednesday evening, carried. Wednesday December 30.1914. No quorm pt~csent and Mayor announced the meeting adjourned until Tuesday evenimg :January 5th E. J. ~'?cCall. City Clerk.