HomeMy WebLinkAbout02/21/45 February 21,
Regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Bremerton, Washington,
held in the ~ayor's office at ten e'clock A.M. Wednesday, February ~1,
Mayor Kean presiding. Commissionel· t{addon, Commissioner Gorst, the Assistant
City Attorney and the City Treasurer being present.
Clerk rs~ minutes of previous regular and recesseU meetings and on motion
by ~r. Gorst and f~r. Kean same were approve~ as rs~d.
Clerk read authorizations for non-civil ssrvlce appointments of Harold H.
Harrell and Z.D. ~ichaels as firemen to the Firs ~partment; Kenneth Calvin
~k>rgan end Fredrick Elmer Foote laborers to the Sanitation Department.
~iotion by ~r. ~orst and ~r. Ksan to approve the temporary non-civil
service appointments, carried.
February ~1, 1945 (Cch't)
Clerk read reports of separation of H.K. Vasey, police stenographer; Dick
Lindgren and Robert ~cGowan from the Recreation Department; Kenneth C. ~Organ,
Fredrick Elmer Goers, Marcus Severovic, A.C. puderbaugh, ~.~. Miller and Charles
R. young from the Sanitation Department.
Motion by Mr. Keen and Mr. Gorst to approve the separations, carried.
Clerk read notice of certification of Robert William Buckley, fireman, at
a salary of ~205.O0 per month and of Isabel McDaniel, police stenographer, at
a salary of ~165.00 per month.
Motion by ~r. Keen and Mr. Gorst to approve the certifications, carried.
Clerk read notice of employment or change is pay status of the following:
Tom Richards, Z.D. 2ichaels, Harold H. Harrell, Isabel McDanie!, Cale Dan
Campbell, ~artin E. Heidtke, Carl William Krause,Jr., ~ill£sm Stephen McLafferty,
Kenneth C. ~organ, Frederick E. Foots, Wilmer ~. Clark, Kenneth Dunn, J.R. Hill,
and R.~. Buckley.
Motion by ~r. Gorst and Mr. Keen to approve the notice of employment or
change in pay status of the foregoing, carried.
Clerk advised that the State Examiner had inserted two words into Resol-
ution No. 423 after it had been approved by the 0ouneil and requested that the
addition be approved.
~otion by Mrs. Haddon and Mr. Keen to approve the words as inserted by
Mr. Davisson, carried.
Clerk read copy of a letter from ~ayor Keen to Mr. L.R. Durkee, thanking
him for his assistance re Project 45-267-N and a~vising that the application
had been referred to the City Engineer, Fire Chief and the City Electrician
with instructions to proceed with the application.
Mr. Keen instructed that the letter be made a matter of record and the
persons to whom the application was referred be changed to read the Fire ~larm
Electrician, the City Engineer, Fire Chief and the Captain of Traffic.
Clerk read 0rdinsmce No. 1609, second reading, declaring an emergency to
exist on account of the need for emergency budgetary appropriations for the
Sanitation Department, the Water Department, the Police Department, an d t~e
Recreation Department, providing for the payment of certain employees of the
Recreation Department ~n a monthly basis, appropriating funds to meet such
emergencies, and declaring an emergency.
~otion by Mrs. Haddon and Mr. Gorst to approve the ordinance on final
reading, carried.
Clerk reported that Jack Thompson, policeman, had reported the loss of his
salary check, had submitted a bond and was asking that the check be reissued
to him.
Mr. Nutter advised that payment had been stopped on the lost cheek.
Motion by Mr. Keen and Mrs. Haddon to approve the bond, on the advice of
the City Attorney, and instruct the City Clerk to issue a warrant in lie~ of
the one lost, carried, all members voting yes.
Mr. Gorst reported that dirt was ~ing hauled onto Sixth and Adele Streets
but that a more permanent method would be applied soon.
Mrs. Haddon advised that the Wharfinger had reported that ~rs. Leiseke was
planning on putting another float at the First Street Dock.
Mrs. Leiseke was notified by the Mayor and Mrs. Haddon to submit any plan
for additional floats or changes of the landing areas to the City Council for
approval before they were carried o~t.
Clerk read copy of a letter from ~[ayor Keen to ~r. John Jarstad, ~lrector
of Park an~ Recreation, advising that inasmuch as the City has not received any
advice relstive to the application for Federal assistance for the Park and Re-
creation, it woulU be necessary to immediately reduce the payrolls an~ person-
nel to comply with the 1945 bud6et, unless Federal aid was forthcoming.
Clerk rea~ copy of telegram from ~r. Livingston, of the Federal gorks
Agency, to ~.H. Cheney, Division Engineer, FWA, Rerkeley, asking the status
of the application from the city of Bremerton for federal aid.
~r. Keen explained that the City is at a loss to know howto proceed unless
they are certain aid will be s:~tended for the Park and Recreation program, he
further asked that the letter and telegram be made a matter of record and re-
ferred back to him for his files.
Clerk read letter from ~r. Livingston, advisi~g that due to contemplated
change in their method of routing applications, it is necessary that they clear
all spplicatior~s now held by them.
Clerk res~ copy of a letter from Mayor Keen to ~r. Livingston advising
that a reply to him was being hel~ up pending i~formation from the Housing
Authority as to just what the City would receive in lieu of taxes.
The letcers were ordered made a matter of record and referred back to the
~i~yor.
February ~1, 1045 (CCh't)
Clerk read letter from T.0. Hoagland, Field Recreation Representative oI~
the Federal Security Agency enclosing a copy of the material teac compiled
previous to the field trip of Mr. Lee Brown, Architectural Consultant, and
further advised that ~r. Wynstra w~s also gathering material for the survey.
Contents were noted and referrcd to the Committee of the ~hole.
It was agreed, general!y, that no separate action ~ ul~ bo taken by the
City Council on the midnight closing edict of the Government.
~r. Kea~ reported that Senator Todd and Representative Hanks will In~
troduce the Bill Pretaining to the Waterfront in the Legislature.
~otion by ~r. Keen and ~rs. Haddon to allow all bills ~resented at this
meeting and approved by a majority of the Ooun¢il, carried as follows: ~r. Keen,
Yes. Mrs. Haddon, Yes. ~r. Gorst, Yes.
Clerk reported that p~rsuant to call for bids for digging of well, one
bid hsd been received, and on motion by Mrs. Haddon and Er. Kean same was open-
ed and read aloud aS follows:
N.C. Jannsen 9rillin6 Company, Seattle, Washington, with a total bid of
~12,942.50.
~otion by Mr. Gorst ~d Mr. Kean to refer the bid to the Purchasing Agent,
the Superintendent of ~ater, the 0fry Engineer and the Commissioner of Public
Works, carried.
~otion by ~r. Gorst and Mr. Kean to recess until 2 P.M. Friday, February
23, 1945, carried.
APP[~OVED: ~City Cle~rk
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February 23, 1945
Pursuaat to recess the re~ularmeeting of the City Oouncil of the City of
Bremerton, ~ashington, was reconvened st 2 P.f~., Friday, February 2~, ]_945.
Layer Kean presiding, Commissioner Haddon, Commissioner G~st and the State
Ezsminer being present.
The meeting was called to order ~y the i~ayor, who explained that the meet-
ing had been ~ecessed for the purpose of awarding the bid for well digging for
the Water Department.
~r. Cased, reporting for the Committee, advised that after thorough study
and exami~ation the bid of the Jannsen Company was a very good bid for the City,
and he so reconm~ended.
After a general discussion by the Council and Mr. Jannsen of the methods
and prices of well digging, a motion by Mr. Gorst and Mrs. Haddon that the bid
bo awarded to the N.C. Jannson Drilling Oompany, carried.
Mrs. HaCdon advised that the payment to the ~arine Drive and Phinney Bay
Water Districts would require an emergency ordinance, and on motion by Mrs.
Haddon and Mr. Gorst the City Attorney was instructed to prepare the ordinance
in ore!er that payment could be made.
5~r. Gorst, reporting on his trip to Olympia, advised that the preliminary
draft for the building of the new bridge which ~ uld call for an appropriation
from the State l~ighway Department in the amount of One Million, Two H~mdred
and F~fty Thousand ~mllars, which would be based on 50% of the cost of the bridge
and access highway. He reported a discussion with }~r. Hickey and Mr. I~incke,
of the Highway Department, and advised that they had agreed, informally, to O~e
~illion ~ollars as their share of the bridge. The bill was being reprocessed
by Mr. Ford for presentation to the Legislature.
February 25, 194& (Con't)
~r. Kean reported that the bill pretaining to the waterfront was still
being worked on and discussed.
Motion by ~r. Gorst arid ~Irs. Haddon to adjourn, carried.
APPROVED: JCity C~I~ r k
Mayor