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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03/29/61 March 29, 1961 Regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Bremerton, Washington was held at lO:O0 o'clock A.M., March 29, 1961 in the Council Chambers, City Hall with Mayor Domstad presiding. Present were Commissioner Clark, Commissioner Schoneman, City Clerk ~cGowan, City Attorney Holland, City Engineer Fortman and Water Supt. Humble. Also present were representatives of the press and radio. Motion by Mr. Clark and Mr. Schoneman to ~prove minutes of previous regular m~et- lng held March 22, 1961 as written, carried. Clerk stated it was the reco~mmen~ation of committee to award to low bidders on furnishing Water D~pt. materials as follows: H.D. Fowler, meter coupliags and curb stops; Palmer Supply, corporation stops; Pacific Waterworks, copper tubing. Mr. McGowan stated the bid call specified more or less could be purchased anti that it was felt the price of copper 'tubing was the best in a long time and that 5,000 feet should be purchased at this time. ~otion by Mr. Schoneman and ~r. Lomstad to make ~he awards as recon~ended, carried. March 29, 1961 (Con't) Clerk stated that the Cemetery has requested their sickle bar be declared surplus and be disposed in the best interests of the City. Mr. Clark coH~ented %hat the City Garage could not repair it any fu~6her and there was no turn-in value ih it. Motion by Mr. Clark and Mr. Schoneman to approve the request, carried. Clerk suggested that the Council authorize call for bids for obtaining laundry services for such items as coveralls, blankets, sheets and rags. Motion by Mr. Domstad ,and Mr. Clark to approve the bid call, carried. Clerk read letter dated ~arch 28, 1961 to City Clerk recommending that the City Council authorize bid eall for two chain-lth~ $~pe ~ackstops planned for Leto Field, to be paid from funds received from the Bremerton Lion,s Club. Motion by Mr. Domstad and Mr. Schoneman to approve the bid call, carried. Clerk presented application f~r a location license to install pinball machines at the Last Chance Tavern, under master license of Bremerton Amusement Inc., signed by Ray Presson, 630 Burwell, approved by Chief Morken. Motion by Mr. Domstad and Mt. Clark ~o approve the location license, carried. Clerk read letter dated March ~0, 1961 from James F. Gress, Owner, Inter-~oun- rain Const. Co, requesting extension for a period of thirty days on the ins~allation of sanitary and s~orm sewers on North Lafayette and Stevens Drive due to unusual amount of ground seepage caused by unusually wet weather. Clerk read letter dated March ~l, 1961 addressed to the City Council from City Engineer Fortman recommending approval of the Inter-Mountain request. Motion by Mr. Schoneman and Mr. Domstad to approve the thirty-day extension, car- tied. Clerk read Memo. dated March 28, 1961 from Mr. Humble to ~r. Schoneman recommend- ing that Instrument Laboratories be paid 95~ of their contract price and that b% be withhelduntil final acceptance of the job which isnow complete except for minor adjust- ments. Clerk presented two general claim vouchers: One on the Water Supply Fund for ~3,595.90 and the other on the Waterworks Betterment - 1957 Fund for. ~10,14V.77, re- presenting 95% of the price. Notion by Mr. Schoneman and Mr. Clark to approve the recommendation and pay the general claim, carried. Clerk read letter dated March 24, 1961 to the City Council from City Attorney Hol- lan~ which stated that he ~nd Fred Irish, Building I~spector, have been studying ordin- mnces to de~ermine i~ what manner it would be possible to issue a permit so that Mr. Parker can build an apartment house on Shore Drive; that it is his opinion, and pro- bably Mr. Irish's, that it will ~ necessary to rezone to R-2 the property in question; tha~ Mr. Parker probably will appeal the Elanning Co~mmission,s decision and suggested setting April 5th as date for hearing his appeal. ~otian by Mr. Domstad and Mr. Clark to concur with the City Attorney's opinion and set hearing date for'Wednesday, April 5, 1961 at 10:00 A.M., carried. Clerk read letter dated March 22, 1961 to Mayor ~omstad and City Council from Chief of Police Morken requesting the City Council to assign four more police officers to the Bremerton Police Oept. The request was based upon the fact the city has recent- ly annexed areas and that the recommended percentage on a national basis is 2-~ men for every thousand population. The letter gave detailed iuformation as to the work of the officers and the needs of the 8epartment. Chief Morken gave a few remarks in support of his request. Mayor Domstad complomented the Chief for his presentation and for the fine work hid ~epartment is doing and stated that his red, est would be tabled for the time being because there is not sufficient money set up at this time. Commissioner Schoneman pointed out that his public works is in need of additio~al men ~cause of the ~dditional areas but will have to ge~ along with what men an~ equip- ment they now have until funds are available to build up the departments. Mr. Clark gave the cost figures on the fire and police d~artments and additional receipts expected from the new areas and stated it was obviously impossible to hire additional men on the moneys to be received. Mr. Clark also cited figures showing that it may be advisable at some future time to drop from Grade 3 to Grade 4 fire rating rather than hire several additional firemen. Motion by Mr. Domstad and Mr. Clark that until money is available consideration cannot be given ~o this request and table it at this time, carried. Clerk presented two claim vouchers from Ace Paving, approved by City Engineer Fortman; one for $94.93 on Cu. Res. for Gen. Permanent Street [mprovemnts Fund, cover- in~ retain~d percentage on Project X-24 (6th Street ~fdening); and ~9,B96.67 covering retained percentage on the same project but from 6th St. Reconstruction Fund. ~!otion by Mr. Schoneman and Mr. Domstad to approve the payment of the claim vouch- ers, carried. Clerk read Ordinance No. 2434, "An Ordinance amending Use and Area Maps of Ordin- ance No. 1792 and declaring an emergency." ~otion by Er. Domstad and Mr. Schoneman to pass Ordinance Mo. 2434, carried. ~,~arch ~.~, 1961 (Cch't) Clerk read an ordinance, fi~,st reading, "An ©rdinance relating to t he City Bremerton's retirement system and amending Paragraph (k) of Section~, Paragraph (1) of Section 2, Paragraph (b) of Section 14, Subsection (P~), Paragraph (a) of Section 1~, and S~ction 1~), of 0rdinanee ~o. 187~; repealing Sections 1~ ~ and 7 of Ordinance No. ~1~ an~ S~ctIon 1 of 0~dinance No 15~7; and d~claring an emergency." ~otion by ~r. Clark an~ ~r. ~mstad to approve t~e ordinance on first reading, carried. ~ayor stated he had a chck from the Bremerton Housing Authority for ~)g,868.0U, which is somewhat more than anticipate~ which was about $1700.00 an~ which will b~ needed in the budget in the coming year. ~ayor ~mstad presente~ th~ che~k to Edna Odden, City Treasurer. ~r. Clark observed this check shows things are a little better than anticipated in that area an~ that the co~issioners did not ~o overboard in estimating receipts in some areas. Co~issioner Schoneman req~ested authority to purchase a small portion of proper- t~ sdjacent ~o the water, shed on Anderson Hill road. Cost ~BO0.00. Reason for the purchase is t~at Anderson ~ Creek flows through this area w ich has been used for pasture and the City Water ~partment should have control. ~otion by ~'~r. ~mstad and ~r. Clark that authority ~ given to purchase the pro- perty, c a~ried. ~r. Paddi~on sta~d there was a sunken sidewalk by the African ~.E. Chu~ch which caused large pu~le to form on the sidewalk; also, stated he had noted the )~ayor's suggestion published in ~e newspaper regarding a study may ~ made o~~ this City's type of government an~ th t he favored Council-~,~ana~er form of gover~ent. ~ocion by R~r. ~mstad and ~¥~r. Schoneman to pay all bills tha~ are approved by a majority of the Co~issioners, carried. ~ayor ~mstad stated that thre~ ~est High School boys c~ne to him last Friday and stated they would lik~ to take on a project of city beautification or do something as teen-agers toge~.~her for the co~unlty. This week the students are out of school but they will get a group together and discuss the matter with the school; that Is has been suggested they take Forest Ridge an~ clean it from one side to the other. ~ayor also sbated the group would work under the supe~ision of Andy Pendergast who will furnish equipment. Co~issioner Clark stated he a~reed with ~r. Pad~ison on one statement he had made a~ ~ that it is it would b~ good to have one Council meeting each month in the evening t~ gi~e citizens an opportunity to a~tend and for the Commisaioners to review their pro[ress and plans. In connection with the ~uestion of th~ form of gover~ent about wBich ~r. Clark stated he had read in the newspaper, ~,.~r. Clerk stated the ?~ayor in his c~paign had cl~me~ there were no issues an~ that he ha~ claimed there wer~ issues and ~r. Clark stated the changes now proposed by the ~ayor should have be~n brought up during the cam?aign; that a change as important as a change tn the form of gove~nment should not be the act of one member of the council nor is it his prerogative to select a co~ittee. ~.~r. Clark then cited from the State Law which gave the prescribed method of deal- ing with Charter chaages. ~r. Clark stated he personally felt the~,e was nothing] wrong with the present form o~ ¥over~ent; tha~ the only thing wrong might be the way it is abused or used once in a while. ~r. Clark stated further he felt it t~ere were changes to be made, they shoo, id be made bj direct r~en~ation of the Councl. ~r. Cl~rk went furth~r into the ramifications of changing the form of cover~ent, election of freeholders, etc. ~r. Clar~ state~ that in reference to the suggestion of the ~,~]ayor t ~ put the position of City Clerk under Civil Service, that he has had ~he past three years to observe the present setup and that he believed ~his was not an honest recommendation of the management s~rvey firm who made the report; that he is convinced they were told to put this in their ~eport and that it was not the kind of reco~enda~ion of a consulting firm wo~ld make. ~r. Clark s~ated it there was any combining of offices, it should be the [~reas~rer and Finance Co~issioner but that he would not propose this Because it would then ~ie down the legislative head. ~r. Clark stated he felt this proposal was a deliberate act to get rid of a present office hold- er who ~r. Clark felt was doin~ a good job. ~r. Schoneman reported that the City En~]~ineer had investigated the piling on th~ First Street Wharf site an~ that no piling was fo~ to be actually useable; that It will be ~r. Fortm~'s reco~:~endation to entirely remove the dock an~ to do so at th~ earliest possible time in the future. APPROVED: C ~ Cl~rk ~ayor