HomeMy WebLinkAbout11/12/58 NOVENBER 12, 1958
Regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Bremerton, Washington, was
held on Wednesday, November l~, 1958 at lO:00 o'clock A.M., in the Nayor's ~fftce,
City Hall with Mayor Domstad presiding. Present were Commissioner Clark, Commis-
sioner .~/aeaton, City Clerk McGowan, City Attorney Holland and City Engineer Elton.
Also present was a representative of press and radio.
Motion by Nr. Wheaton and Mr. Domstad to approve the minutes of the regular
meeting held November 5, 1958 as written, carried.
Clerk stated this was time and place for opening bids for a used quonset type
hut and that one bid had been received.
Notion by Nr. Wheaton and Mr. Domstad to open the bid, carried.
Clerk opened the bid and read from Kitsap County Fair Assn., B.A. Getschmann,
president, one quonset type building approximately 40' x 100' for $2,000.00 cash.
~i0tion by Mr. Wheaton and Nr. Clark to accept their offer, carried.
Clerk recormmended the Council authorize, transfer of truck from Water & Sewage
Department to Engineers and Oldsmobile from Engineers to Water and Sewage Depart-
ment and 'trade the Oldsmobile on a new truck for the Sewage Treatment plants.
5~otion by Mr. Wheaton and Nr. Domstad to authorize the transfers and handle
the way recommended, carried.
Clerk suggested Ohe Councii authorize him to write to the County Commissioners
requesting them to alter the COmmissioners districts placing the boundaries inside
the city limits so it would be unnecessary to set up new precincts each time an an-
nexation was effected unless it was a large enough annexation to warrant a new pre-
cinct. Small areas could be joined to the contiguous precinct.
Notion by Mr. Domstad and Nr. Wheaton to authorize the Clerk to do so, carried.
~ C~er~ read letter dated Nov. ~, 1988 from Assistant Secretary of Defense, Was~h.
D.C., to ~ayor Domstad, in reply to a letter recently written to him by ~ayor Dom-
stad. Defense letter stated they were studying feasibility of consolidating its
Pacific passenger operations at one port and tha~ the factors set forth in the may-
or's letter would not be overlooked in evaluatlng the study.
The ~ayor had written~in favor of continuance of military personnel centers in
the Pacific Northwest.
Clerk read following letters: (1) Saburo Toyama, Commander, Tokyo Japan, in
a[~preciation of his visit to Bremerton; (2) C.C. Wei, Commander, Chinese Navy, to
the Mayor thanking him for friendship shown while here in Bremerton recently; (~)
Fumio Sata,Div. Cdr., Japanese Maritime Force, to the ~ayor expressing his gratiEude
for his visit to Bremerton and the U.S.
Nayor Domstad displayed two penants received from the captains of the Chinese
Navy L.S.T. ships which ships had been transferred to their Navy from U.S.A. These
penants bore the name of the mayor, ship's name ~nd greetings, written in Ch~hsse
characters.
Commissioner Clark reported on the latest count from Monday, on the absentee
ballot canvas and sta~ed at that time there were 90 in favor and 79 against and
the City proposition seems to be safe now.
Pat Nicholson, State Representative, was present~ and Mayor Domstad congratulat-
ed him on winning his second election.
Ron Scamfer, KBRO reporter, introduced Don Atkins, stating he will replace A1
Showalter on the staff.
Mr. Wm. Paddision, 704 12th complained of poor water drainage at llth & Park
and asked if he could accompany the City Engineer to inspect the area.
5~r. Elton agreed that a meeting could be arranged with ~r. Paddison.
Mayor Domstad reported he m~s planning on attending a Civil Defense meeting
to be held at Spokane this Friday and Saturday.
Commissioner Clark co~mmented that the demolition contractor expects to be
through with the Burks Bldg. by the end of this week or not later than two or three
days of next week.
Clerk presented general claim voucher from I~arvin Construction Co., on LID
for Estimate No. 2, Net amount of $6,~9.~; approved by City Engineer and audited
by City Auditor.
Motion by Mr. Wheaton and ~r. Clark to allow the claim, carried.
~.~otion by Mr. Domstad and Mr. Clark to pay all bills that are approved by a maj-
ority of the commissioners, carried.
Nee ting a d journed. ~.~~ ~z~/
APPROVED: City ~lerk