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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06/08/54 The ~regular meeting of the City council was held on Tuesday June 8, 1954 in the Mayor,sOffice, Clty Hall. Mayor Yowell presiding with~Commissioner Cul- lin, Commissiener Wheaton, City Clerk McGowaniand City Attorney Wallace being present.~ A representative of the press was also in attendance. Motion by Mr. Wheaton and Miss Cullin the minutes of the regular meeting of June 2nd be approved as w~tten, carried. The City Clerk read notices of employment for: l~nomas Michael Micklin, $8.00.per day and Peter Barth, $50.00 per month, Park and Recreation Depart- ment and Ethel Pruitt, Treasurer's Office, $1.6§ per hour. Motion by Mr. Yowell and Miss Cullin the employments be approved, carried. The City Clerk read changes in pay for Leonard R. Remington, Park and Re- creation from Groundskeeper at $276.80 per month to Extra Labor at $1.60 per hour; Frederick Haskins from Extra Labor, Cemetery, at ~1.72 per hour to Extra Labor, Traffic Maintenance Department at $1.~7 per hour. Motion by Mr. Yowell and Mr. Wheaton bhe changes in pay be approved, car- ried. The City Clerk read voucher from the Commissioner Of Public Lands in the amount of $48.00 covering the annual rental under Lease No. 1277, 20 feet run- ning southeast from Evergreen Park and the annual rental under lease No. 1ET6 covering 60 feet running northeasterly from Pacific Avenue extended. $otion by Mr. Wheaton and Mr. Yowell the voucher be approved, carried. The City Clerk read a letter from the State Tax Commission in which they sentaa copy of the commission's order in the matter of the appeals of the Town of Ephrata and the City of Moses Lake. The Mayor requested the matter be brought up again at the meeting next Wednesday, as the ~ubJect will be discussed at the Association of Washington Cities Convention being held this week in Spokane. June B, 1954 (Con't) The City Clerk read a letter from the City Engineer and a voucher was tached in the amount of $28?.55 being the adjusted balance of fixed charges on L.I.D. No. 259 to be transferred to the G~aeral Fund. Motion by Mr. Wheaton and Mr. Yowell the voucher be approved, carried. The CityCClerk read the following letters from various organizations in favor of the proposed Warren Avenue Bridge: Veterans of Foreign Wars, Kitsap Lake Community Club, Harper-SouthworthCommunity Club, S~quamish Community Club, G!enwood Community Club, Waterman~Improvement Club, Kitsap County Pomona Grange No. 21 and the West Side Improvement Club, Inc. The letters were ordered filed in the Clerk,s Office. The City Clerk reread letter from Garland & Garland regarding the sales tax being charged on monuments from the Bremerton Monument Company. The letter turned over to the City Attorney who will contact Attorney Garland and report back to the Council. Mr. Jack Driscoll, Mrs. John Mattock and Ike Parker attended the Council to oppose the imposition of tolls on the proposed Manette Bridge. The Mayor reported that an open meeting will be held on the East side for the people to voice their opinions on the bridges. The City Clerk read a letter from C.C. Casad, Water Superintendent, recom- mending Estimate No. 4, Forest RidgeReservoir,in the amount of $13,370.46,be paid to Ted Hyde Construction Company. Motion by Mr. Wheaton and Miss Cullin the voucher be approved, carried. Motion by Mr. Yowell and Miss C~llin the bills be paid if approved by a majority of the Commissioners, carried. Mayor Yowell excused himself from the meeting as it was necessary for him to catch the next boat to Seattle to at~end the Executive meeting in Spokane of the Association of Washington Cities. Commissioner Cullin brought up for discussion the matter of ordering more billing supplies for the Water Department and wished to know if the matter of changing to post card billing and bi-monthly billing had been decided. mr. Casad, Water Superintendent, who attended the meeting was in favor of post card billing but not in favor of bi-monthly billing. Discussion followed but nothing definite was decided. The City Clerk read the minutes of the Investment Board meeting and it was the recommendation of the Board that a $1,000.00 bend be sold by the Con- Sumer's Deposit Fund to the Cumulative Reserve for Water $~£e~n~mraneem~nnd and also $15,000.00 in the Cumulative Reserve for Acquisition of Site and Con- struction of City Hall be invested in bonds and in First Federal Savings and Loan Association; also that $5,000.00 bf Cumulative Reserve for Water Self- Insurance be in~sted in Series K Bonds. Motion by Mr. Wheaton and Miss Cullin to concur in the recommendations of the Investment Board, carried. Motion by Miss Cullin and Mr. ~heaton to adjourn, carried.