HomeMy WebLinkAbout05/03/44 May 3, 1944
Regular meeting of the City Council of the City o£ Bremerton, Washington,
held on Wednesday, May 3, 1944 at ten ~'clock A.~. ~ayor Keen presiding,
Commissioner Haddon, Commissioner Gorst, City Attorney Bryan and the City
Treasurer being present.
Clerk read minutes of previous regular meeting end minutes of re~ssed ~'
meetings. After slight correction and on Motion of Mr. Keen and ~r. Gorst
same were approved as corrected, carried, all members voting Yes.
Clerk read application for location license to install pinball machines
at 820 Burwell in the Casino Tavern and Cafe.
Motion by ~r. Keen and Mr. Gorst to approve the request, carried, all
members voting Yes.
Clerk read reports of separation for Roger Erederick from the Sanitation
Department; Cebert N. Coomes, end ff~nneth Smith from the Police Department;
Les. Walters, Ardis Callison, Robert L. Buroker, Bee Hardie, Scotty Olin, George
Lyons and Tom Manning from the Park and Eecreation Department.
Motion by Mr. Keen end Mr. Gorst to accept the resignations, carried, all
members voting Yes.
Clerk read authorization for non-civil service appointment of Bill Jordan
Vanderpool as Patrolman for the Police ~partment; Everett Thomas Hurst as
Recreation Leader, Mrs. Rachel Coilings as Field Director, ~illie ~ae Keen as
Recreation Leader, Mary Alice McPherson as Recreation Leader for the Fark and
Recreation Department; Herbert Walter Magnuson, Nieven J. Ezell, Charles Raymond
Nyhus as helpers for the Sanitation Department.
Motion by Mr. Keen and Mrs. Haddon to approve the temporary non-civil
service appointments of the foregoing, carried, all members ~oting Yes.
Clerk read letter f~om Mr. Andrew Pappas requesting permission to have a
door and two windows on the west side of a new building he is constructing at
522 Sixth Street, opening on the court of adjoining building.
Clerk read letter from M. G. McLeod, Building Inspector, asking that the
request of Mr. Pappas be denied as it was contrary to the Building Codes of
the City of Bremerton.
Motion by Mr. Gorst and Mr. Keen to uphold the recommendation of the Build-
ing Inspector, carried, all members voting Yes.
Clerk read letter from J. A. Adams, 1813 Fourth Street, submitting an offer
of $200.00 for Lot 2, Block ~, Peter Hesser,s First Addition to the City of
Bremerton.
Mr. Nutter explained the location of the property, gave a short history
of the property since it's acquirement by the City, explained the assessments
against the property, and advised consideration of the offer by the Council.
Motion by Mr. Keen and Mr. Gorst to refer the letter to the City CounCil
as a whole, carried, all members voting Yes.
May ~, 1944 (cont)
Helen Graham, Attorney, appeared b~fore the City Council in behalf of the
Housing Authority with an ordinance correcting Ordinance No. 1844.
Clerk read Ordinance No. 1564, correcting certain typographical errors and
errors of description in Ordinance No. 1544, which ordinance changed the map of
Bremerton, Washington, and declaring an emergency.
Motion by Mr. Kean and Mr. Gorst to adept the Ordinance as read, carried
as follows: Mr. Kean, Yes. Mrs. Haddon, Yes. Mr. Gorst, Yes.
Motion by M_s. Haddon and Mr. Gorst.to instruct the clerk to issue a call
for bids for onerused 1~ ton gravel truck, returnable~May 10, 1944 at 11:00
o'clock A.M., specifications to be furnished by Mr. Severance, carried, all
members voting Yes.
Motion by Mrs. Haddon and Mr. Corot to instruct the Clerk to issue a recall
for bids for two general motors or International trucks for the Sanitation
Department, returnable May 17, 1944 at 11:00 o'clock A.M., carried, all members
voting Yes.
Motion by Mr. Gorst and Mr. Kean to open bids on portable road roller for
the Street Department, carried, all members voting Yes.
Clerk opened and read aloud bids from the following:
Nelson Equipment Company, of Seattle, Washington, with a certified check
for $120.00, and a total bid of $Z269.00.
Feenaughty Machinery Company, of Seattle, Washington, with a certified
check for $85.00 and a total bid of $1639.76.
Motion by Mr. Gorst and Mr. Kean to refer bids to.,the Purchasing Agent and
the Commissioner of Public Works, carried, all members voting Yes. -'
Motion by Mr. Gorst and Mrs. Ha ddon to open bids on steel pipe for the
Water Department, carried, all members voting Yes.
Clerk opened and read aloud bids from the following:
Pacific Gas and Electric ComPany, San Francisco, California, with a bid
of $1.20 per foot.
Crane Company of Seattle, Washington, with a bid of $218.02 per 100 ft.
Pacific Water Works Supply Company, Inc., Seattle, Washington with a
certified check in the amount of $500.00 and bids of $218.60 per 100 ft, and
$229.60 per 100 ft.
Motion by Mr. Gorst and ~r. Keanto refer bids to the Purchasing Agent,
Water Superintendent, and the Commissioner of Public Works, carried, all members
voting Yes.
Mrs. Haddon discussed the condition of the planking, piling and caps on
the City Dock and suggested that the City Engineer and the City Council pay a
vis2t to the dock, ~with the. idea of finding but the extent of the repairs needed.
Clerk read letter from Mr. Wynstra, Superintendent of Schools, asking the
annexation of George Dewey, Lulu D. Haddon and East Bremerton Schools into the
City limits.
After general discussion by the City Council, and on motion of Mr. Kean
and ~rs. Haddon t he letter .was referred to the City Engineer for checking school
property sites, and instructing him to prepare a legal description of the prop-
erties to be turned over to City Attorney for further action, carried, all
members voting Yes.
Clerk read Resolution No. 559 declaring a Local Improvement District of
the folloWing described streets: Charleston Avenue from Farragut Street to
the East and West Alley of Block Three o~ P~m~t Orchard Addition and the
Improvement of said East and West alley of Block Three, and the improvement
of Farragut street from Charleston Avenue to Yantic Avenue.
Motion by Mr. Gorst and Mr. Kean to adopt the resoletion of intention for
improvement of streets by construction of storm and sanitary sewers, the date
of hearing to be ~ay 24, 1944, carried as follows: Mr. Kean, Yes. Mrs. Haddon,
Yes. Mr. Gorst, Yes.
Mr. Bryan delivered Title Insurance Policy No. h-5~ll of the Puget $otmd
Title Insurance Company for property located at Dera and Burwell Streets, with
instructions that tt be filed in the Clerk's office.
Mr. Bryan reported on the law suit of Kring,s versus the City of Bremerton,
and advised the City Council teat the prospects seemed very favorable for the
City.
Mr. Gorst discussed the work to be done on Pitt & Harkin's Streets,
requested by residents of that vicinity in a petition which had been read in
May 3, 1944 (cont)
a preceeding meeting of the City Council, and said that he would strongly
advise paving of the Streets in question.
Mr. Keen advised the City Council that about 90% of the employees of the
City had applied for membership in the Blue Cross Hospital Plan and on motion
of Mr. Keen and Mr. Gorst the City Clerk's office was instructed to set up a
system of payroll deductions for the monthly charge, carried, all members
voting Yes.
Mr. Mutter, City Treasurer, gave an acturary report on the cost of the
Civil Service Pension systems.
Motion by Mr. Keen and Mrs. Haddon to allow ~ 1 bills presented at this
meeting and approved by a majority of the Council, carried as follows: Mr.
Keen, Yes. Mrs. Haddon, Yes. Mr. Gorst, Yes.
Motion by Mr. Gorst and Mr. Keen to recess until 2 P.M. Friday May 5, 1944,
carried, all members voting Yes.
May 5, 1944
Pursuant to recess the regular meeting of the City Council of the,City of
Bremerton was reconvened at two o'clock P.M. May 5, 1944. Mayor Keen presiding,
Commissioner Haddon, Commissioner Gorst and the City Treasurer being present.
The commissioners of the North Perry Avenue Water District appeared before
the City Council with a preliminary agreement between the North Perry Avenue
Water District and the City of Bremerton.
Clerk read agreement, and on motion by Mr. Gorst and ~r. Keen the agreement
was accepted end the City Council was instructed to sign same, carried, all
members voting Yes.
Clerk read application for a license to operate music machines in a tavern
at 20E First Street, Bremerton, owned by Fred Wilson.
Motion by Mr. Keen and Mr. ~orst to grant permission to issue a license to
operate the machines, carried, all members voting Yes.
Clerk read applicaM on for operators license, from Fred Wilson, Tavern
owner, and application for location license from Fred Wilson.
Motion by Mr. Keens nd Mrs. Haddon to refer the applications to the Chief
of Poli~e and the City Attorney until next Wednesday, carried, all members
voting Yes.
Mr. Go rst, reporting for the Committee of the ~hole, advised that the road
roller offered by the Feenaughty ~achinery Company was not of a su£ficlent
weight to be used as intended by the City.
Motion by Mr. Gorst and Mrs. Haddon to accept the bid of the Nelson Equip-
ment Company for the Gallon Portable Road Roller for a total price of $2300.00,
carried, as follows: Mr. Keen, Yes. Mrs. Naddon, Yes, Mr~.Gorst, Yes.
Mr. Keen d~scussed the emergency appropriation for the Par~ Department
endto have advised it ready the Council for presentation, it would be delayed until next Wednesday, when he hoped
Mr. Nutter, City Treasurer, gave a more detailed report on the acturary
report on the cost of the Civil Service ~ension and pointed out' the difference
in benefit to the City between 2 and ~ % and recommended the ~% for the City
of Bremerton.
Motion by.MrS. Haddon and Mr. Keen to autherize the ~ayor to sign the
carried,agreement all with members Coates voting and Herfurth,Yes. designating the interest Fate to be used,
A general discussion of the offer of $2OO.00 for the lot on Fourth and
Anoka Streets by Mr. J.A. Adams was followed hy a motion by Mr. Gorst and Mr.
Keen to refer the letter to the City Treasurer with instructions to reject the
offer, carried, all members voting Yes.
Motion by Mr. Gorst and Mr. Keen to adjourn, carried, all members voting Yes.
Approved: _