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Home My WebLink About11/25/59 November 25, 1959 Regular meeting of the City Coumcil of the City of Bremerton, Washington, was held at 10:OO. otclock A.M., Wednesday, November 25, 1959 in the Conference Room of the Bremerton Chamber of Commerce, with Mayor ~omstad presiding. Present were Com- missioner Clark and ~neaton, City Clerk McGowan, City Attorney Holland and Albert Dial, Engineering Aide. Also present was a representative of the press. Motion by Mr. Wheaton and Mr. Clark to approve minutes of meeting of November 18, 1959 carried. Clerk stated this w~s time and place for opening bids for sanitary sewer in Stewart-Wang Addition. Motion by Mr. ~Vheaton and Mr. Clark to open the bids, carried. Clerk opened the bids and read from the following: Lent's, bid bond, $5,084.70. Inter-Mountain, $4,676.95, bid bond. Josef Linden, bid bond, $4,804.20. Dave Ratzlaf, certified check for ~300.00., $5,582.60. Blossom Bros.', bid bond, $5,829.15. Bremerton Monument, bid bond, $8,206.60. Casebolt, bid bond, $4,946.00. Excavators, Inc., bid bond, $5,317.00. ~otion by Mr. Wheaton and Mr. Domstad to refer the bias t~ the City Engineer's Office for checking and report by the end of this meeting, carried. Clerk stated ~his was time and place for opening ~ids for a truck and utility body for the Water Department. Notion by Mr. Domstad and Mr. Clark to open the bids, carried. Clerk opem~ the bids and read from: Jacobson Motors, bid bond, 1960 GMC and special body, $2,6~$.24, less $200.00 trade-in a~owance. Kerr Motors, certified check for $120.00 enclosed, 1960 Ford ~2,200.00, in- cluding trade-in allowance, and add $100.00 for V-8 engine. Kluge Chevrolet, certified check for $1~5.00 enclosed, 1960 Chevrolet truck and body for $2,216.49, less trade-in GMC $100.00, net $2116~49 and with Morysville ~ody instad of Morrison bode, $2,136.74; add for V-8 engine $72.59 and add for 50 AMP Generator, $68.40. Motion by Mr. Wheaton and Mr. Clark to refer to the Purchasing Agent and Mr. Humble and anyone else ~hey want to include, carried. Clerk read letter dated Nov. 19, 1959 addressed to Mayor Domstad from Captai~ J.P. Preston, Commanding Officer, U.S.S. Shangri-La, thanking the Mayor and Citizenss of ~remerton for their fine welcome of the ship. Clerk stated that the City Council had referred to Mr. Elton, City Engineer, the matter of the series lamps removed by the State from the ~anette Bridge; that his investigation indica~ed these lamps are no good except as Junk. Motion by Mr. Domstad and Mr. ~heaton to dispose of the lamps, carried. Clerk read letter dated Nov. 23, 1959 to Mayor Domstad and Commissioners Clark and ~heaton, from Olympic ~iew School, P.T.A. expressing their appreciation for the recent blacktopping of the street near their school and for the continual work being done on the area in the interest cf the safety of our school children. Clerk read letter dated Nov. 24, 1959 to the City Clerk from Safeway S~ores asking tha~ ~rrangements be made to vacate the alley extended through to take in Lots 30 and il, Block 23, Third Addition to Charleston,~ less the southerly 12 feet; and they will deed to the city the south 12 feet of Lot 11 for alley purposes. City Attorney explained the Safeway Stores had to~ acquire additional lots to comply with ~he zoning l~ws as it pertains to parking and the same kind of agreement will be entered into with that company as was approved about a month ago by the City Council with Safeway. Motion by Mr. Clark and Mr. Cheaton to approve their request, carried. Motion by Mr. Domstad and Mr. Wheaton to set the date for hearing on vacation petition on December 30, 1959 at 10:00 A.M., carried. Clerk presented three change orders to the contract with W.G. Clark Const. Co. on the new city hall building~ Change Order No. 3, to insoall a 20 year bonded roof by Weyland, sub-contractor, no price change; change order No. 4, for a struc- tural steel slab support; accoustical plaster; Jail and west exit passage way re- vision; increase tiems A & B, $1,O58.05; decrease Item C $276.00; Change Order No. 5, replace the existing copper downspout with galvanized steel pipe above ground and replace the existing roof drain, and provide cast iron pipe below floor slab; and make connection bo sanitary sewer as shown on revised drawing; also, chan6es to heating piping, price increse on Item A $734.85, and price decrease on Item B ~201.00. Co~isstoner Clark commented that these changes have been discussed with the three commissioners and they are considered to be essential and practical. Clerk read letter from Northwest Plaster Bureau, dated Aug. 31, 1959 addressed to ~r. Stuart, Architect, regarding the acoustic plaster. ~ November E5, 1959 (Con't) Motion by Mr. Clark and Mr. ~aaton to approve the change orders, carried. Clerk presented notice of separation for M. Jane Pennington, stenographer, Leg- al Department and notice of employment for Barbara Brose, Stenographer, Legal Depart- ment at $149.50 'per month effective No. 23, 1989. Motion by Mr. Domstad and Mr. Clark to approve the separation and employment, carried. Clerk presented no~ice of change in pay status for Donald W. Kipfer, patrolman E/c, Police Department from $3?8.40 to $389.40, effective Nov. ES, 1959. Motion by Mr. Domstad and Mr. Clark to approve the change in pay, carried. Clerk presented application for~dance hall license, signed by Perl Maurer, for lo~ation at 4~5 So. Cambrian. ~otion by Mr. Domstad and Mr. Clark to approve the application, carried. Clerk read letter from Ch~f of Police Lewis, to City Commissioners, dated Nov. E3, 1959 recommending that the taxicab driver's permit for Earl VonReece, Rt. 6, Box 3036 be revoked, due to the fact that Mr. VonReece was found to be harboring a Juv- enile runaway in his home on Nov. 19, 1959. Motion by Mr. Domstad and Mr. Clark to set date for hearing on the recommended revocation on December 9, 1959 at 10:O0 o'clock A.M,, carried. Clerk read letter dated Nov. 19, 1989 to Mayor Domstad from J.C. Claypool, ~is- trict Engineer, which forwarded one copy of a fully executed agreement dated Nov. 1959 with the City rel~tiYe to the qualified commitment for the participation of ~125,OO0 for cost incurred by the City for the improvement of 6th between Callow and Pacific AvenUes; and that the agreement is qualified to the extent that parti- cipation will be made when funds are available. Clegk read Ordinance No. 2379, second reading, "An ordinance relating to out- door fires, amending Section 7 of Ordinance No. 2068." Motion by Mr. Wheaton and Mr.~lark to pass Ordinance No. 2379 carried as fol- lows: Mr. 'Domstad, yes; Mr. Clark, yes; Mr. Wheaton, yes. Clerk read letter to Ma~or Domstad from Bldg. Supt. and FireChtef, dated Nov. 16, 1959 requesting that the City Attorney 0e .iirected to institute condemnation proceedings at once on the following abandoned or unkept and unsafe buildings which create a serious life and fire hazard, and which are in violation of Building Code #2173, Section 203 and Fire Code #2255, Section 1.05: 1. 01d garage building, 1124½ Park Avenue. 2. Old house and garage, lll2 Park. 3. Old house - ~yle property, S.E. corner of Pleasant and 13th Street. 4. Two old houues, 1511 and 1511~ Warren. 5. Garage and outbuildings rear of ll08 12th. 6. Old house, 81U 7th. 7. Partly razed house, old lumber strewn over lot, N.E. corner of 6th and Broadway. Motion by Mr. Domstad and Mr.~heaton to concur with the recommendation, carried. C Clerk read ~tter dated Nov. 10, 1959 to Mr. Wheaton from Taylor and Bruckart, Inc., submitting application for renewal of the Bremerton Watershed Forestry Manage- ment ~rogram Contract, under the present~rms and conditions. Motion by Mr. ~eaton and Mr. Clark to extend the contract for another year, carried. City Attorney stated the change in the agreement with the State Highway Dept. for improvement of 6th Street, which change was set out in the letter from Mr. Clay- pool, should be accepted by motion. Motion by Mr. ~omstad and Mr. Clark to accept the change, carried. Mr. Albert Dial, Engineering Aide, reported on the bids opened earlier in the meeting for improvement by installation of sanitary sewer in the Stewart-Wang Addi- tion, stating that a few small errors were found, otherwise the bids were in order, and that Inter-I'~ountain Const. Co., was low bidder with a corrected bid of $4,660.75, that this bid was below the Engineer's estimate. Motion by Mr. Wheaton and Mr. Clark to award the contract to the low bi~:~der, Inter-~,~ountain Construction Co., carried. Commissioner Clark noted excellent progress to the City Hall Building improve- ment. Motion by Mr. Oomstad and Mr. Clark to pay all ,.ills that are approved by a majority of the Commissioners, carried. Mayor Domstad stated he would 0e leaving Friday night for Denver, Colorado, to attend the American Municipal Association convention. ~eeting adjourned. APPROVED: City Clerk Mayo~