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HomeMy WebLinkAbout09/27/44 September 27, 1944 Regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Bremerton, Washington, held on Wednesday, September 2?, 1944 at ten o'clock A.M. Mayor Kean presiding, Commissioner Haddon, absent, Commisioner Gorst, the Assistant City Attorney, the City Treasurer and the State Examiner being present. Clerk read minutes of previous regular meeting and recessed meeting and after slight correction and on motion by Mr. Kean and Mr. Gorst same were approved ss read, all members voting Yes. Clerk read authorization for non-civil~service appointments of John Vincent 0'Co,mcr to the Police Department; Josephine 0. Outcher to the Recreation Department; and Gertrude C. Giles, Junior Accountant to the Sanitation Department. Motion by Mr. Kean and Mr. ~orst to aoprove the temporary non-civil service appointments of the foregoing, carried, ali members voting Yes. Clerk read report of separation of John McDowell, laborer from the Sanitation Department. Motion by Mr. ~orst and Mr. Kean to approve the separation, carried, all m~bers voting Yes. Clerk read letter from Ralph Davisson, State Examiner, requesting that vouchers for the Street and Water Department be kept as a permanent record in the office of the ~ity Clerk. Motion by Mr. Kean and Mr. Gorst concurring in the recommendations of Mr. Davisson, carried as follows: Mr. Kean, Yes. Mrs. Haddon, absent, Mr. Gorst, Yes. Clerk read letter from Mr. Davisson, State Examiner, listing the corrections that were necessary in the Cash Book totals kept by the ~ity Treasurer, owing to incidental errors in recording revenues, etc. ' Motion by Mr. Kean and Mr. Gorst to refer the letter to the City Attorney requesting him to prepare the necessary resolution for the Corrections on the ~asn Boo~, cs~.rJ.e~ a~ £o±lows: ~r. Kean, Yes. ~rs. HaGGon, ~bsent, ~r. G~'~t, Y~s. ~l~z.~ reau l~ter iroia ~r. ~avi~s~n rem~n~zng ~e ~ity ~ouncll ~at ~e auuF~mon ~ u~.~lnance N~. loVb plac~ all "out~iGe" m~n, other that Police ana Flre~:len anG c~roalll speclat assxcne~ pOSl&ion~ un an noGrly basls~ an~ this will ma~e 1~ necessary to change all such positions in the budget, from a monthly basis to an hourly basis, and recommending that supervisors concerned should prepare and bring to the staff meeting on Thursday, their recommendations for the proper hourly rate to substitute fort he monthly rate now shown in the budget. Motion by Mr. Kean and ~r. Gorst that the Heads of the Departments be re- quested to 0ring to the staff meeting suggested hourly rates, based on Ordinance 1576 for discussion in order that these rates may be established, carried as follows: Mr. Kean, Yes. Mrs. Haddon, absent, Mr. G~rst, Yes. Clerk read petition, signed by 16 residents and property owners, for street improvements on the 900 block of North Cambrian Avenue bounded on the South by 9th Street and on the North by llth Street. Motion by Mr. Gorst and Mr. Kean to refer the petition to,he Commissioner of Public Works, carried, all members voting Yes. Clerk read letter from E. S. Severance advising the Council that it had been suggested that the City Limit boundaries be ~esignated where same crosses Highway No. 21 and 2lB, but suggesting as a better plan the incorporation of all parts or parcels of such Highway E1 and ElS into the City limits, and enclosing a map. Mo2ion by Mr. Gorst and ~r. Kean that the map and letter be referred to the City Attorney for action in regard to taking parts of Highway 21 and ~lB into the City limits, carried, all members voting Yes. Clerk read letter from James ~. Bryan, Jr. regarding the suit between t~e Marine Drive Water District and the City of Bremerton advising the 0ouncil it~at inasmuch he was City Attorney at the time that contract'was enterCd"Tnto h~ suggested that the Division of Municipal Corporations should be asked to request the Attorney Ceneral to defend the action on behalf of the City. Clerk read copy of a letter from the Office of the Attorney General, signed by John Spiller, Assistant Attorney General, to Mr. Lawrence Hu0ble, Chief Examiner, Division of Municipal Corporations, advising that their officihls took decided issue with the State Examiners conclusion that the City was paying an illegal rebate to the districts in turning over to the latter twenty percent of the gross proceeds of rates charged the district consumers, and that the pay- ment from the City to the Districts of the amounts stipulated in their respective contracts need be held up no longer. After general discussion by the Council and the State Examiner and on motion by Mr. Kean and Mr. Gorst the City Attorney was directed to call the suit of the Marine Dri~e Water D~ trict to the attention of the Division of Municipal Corporations with a request that the office of the Attorney General either inter- vene or defend the action, carried as follows: Mr. Kean, Yes. Mrs. Haddon, absent. Mr. Gorst, Yes. September 27, 1944 (cent) ~otion by Nr. Kean and Mr. Gorst to refer prior correspondence regarding the ~arine Drive Water District, which had been referred to the Committee as a Whole, to the City Attorney, carried, all members present voting Yes. Clerk read letter from the Manson Construction & Engineering Company, Seattle, ~ashington offering an estimate on labor, equipment and materials for thc repairs to the First street D~nk ~in the sum of $17,780.00. Nr. Kean advised the council that this letter was a reply to a request from the City, made some time ago. Motion by Mr. Kean and Mr. Gorst that contents be noted and the letter referred to the ~ity Engineer for filing after it had been called to the attention of Mrs. Haddon, carried, all members present voting Yes. Clerk announced this as the date for the opening of bids on tractor, dozer and scarifier for the Park Department and on motion by Mr. Gorst and Mr. Kean Clerk opened and read aloud bids from the following: Kerr Motor Company, Bremerton, with a total bid of $1171.11, including Sales Tax. Leo S. Ross Construction Company~ Seattle, Wa~ington, offering one used Black-Hawk Angle Dozer for the sum of $150.00. ~ot~.on by Mr. Kean and Nr. Gorst to reject the bid of the Leo. S. hess Construction Company and accept the bid of the Kerr Motor Company, carried as follows: Nr. Kean, Yes. Mrs. Haddon, absent. Mr. Gorst, Yes. Clerk read letter from the International Association of Machinists signed by G. O. Giblett, recording secretary, urging the City to adopt an ordinance making it unlawful to violate O.P.A. regulations. ~otion by ~r. Kean and ~r. Gorst to refer the letter to the Committee of the ~hole, carried, all members voting Yes. Clerk read letter from the American Legion Post N. 149, signed by H.W. Kuett, ~djutant, stating that it was the consensus of opinion of that Post that there be no celebration upon cessation of hostilities with Germany. Not,on by Mr. Kean and Mr. Gorst that contents be noted and the letter filed, carried, all members present voting Yes. Clerk read excerpt from the minutes of the meeting of the Planning Comm- ission, September 20, 1944, recommending the improvement of Highway 215 in t he vicinity of 16th and Narlowe in accordance with the recommendations of the City ~gineer. Motion by Mr. Kean and Nr. Gorst to refer the excerpts to the Committee as ~ ~hole, carried, all members present voting Yes. Nr. ~erkel read the certification ~hat all papers and documents constituting the record upon which the ruling of the City Planning Commission was made in the matter of the application to Rezone from R-1 to C-1 was herewith transmitted to the City Council to be filed in the office of the City Clerk. ~r. Nutter advised the City Council that the case of Lots 2~ and 26, Block 10, Port Orchard Addition to Bremerton had been studied with regard to buying them from the County and reselling them to Nra. Holly, as requested by her at a previous meeting, and the total assessments of the two lots was ~91.40, and asked that the City Council set a valuation of the lots for resale. ~otion by Mr. Gorst and 'L~. ~esn to refer the matter to the Committee of the Whole, carried, all members pres~nt voting Yes. Mr. Nutter advised that he would be in attendance at the Count sale of property, which would be held in the near future, and would look to the City's interests in the purchase of property for the protection of the watersheds, which would be approximately $614.53 for 320 acres. Motion by Mr. Gorst and Mr. Kean that the ~ity Attorney be instructed to prepare a resolution for transferring funds into Oapltal Outlay for the purchase of the forty acr~ tract'of land adjoining Heinz Lake, carried, all members presc-nt vot£hg y~S. ~r. ~erkel advised that the lease of the 01d ~'ire Hall with the United States of America had never been properly executed by the Government, and'~t this time they were submitting a new lease, identical to the first, except for Section ~, and ~lso that they were asking that the lease bo executed with Shaw ~a~ss, ~rphy and Sylliaasen, Naval Engineers. Notion by Nr. Kean and Mr. Gorst authorizing the ~ity Council to execute a lease between the C~ty of Bremerton and the United States of America to be dated February 1~, 194~, at terms provided for in the lease, providing the United States of ~merica files with~e City a letter signed by Ceptain Duncan, to the effect that the original lease between the City and the United States of ~erica has never been execute~ or submitted to the City Council, carried as follows: ~!r, Kean, Yes. Nra. Haddon, absent, Nr. Gorst, Yes. September 27, 1944 (cont) Following a general discussion of the need for additional places of registra- tions for the forthcoming election a motion by Mr. Kean and Mr. Gorst that the Mayor be authorized to proclaim the week of October 2, 1944 as Registration Week and the Oity ~lerk be authorized to solicit such help as necessary to accomplish the work, carried, all members present voting Yes. Mr. Kean announced that the p~inting of the Recreation Hall Restaurant started on Tuesday, September 26, 1944 and that Mr. Miller had been authorized to cut a door in the building. Motion by Mr. Kean and Mr. Gorst that the list of corrections need to make the Recreation restaurant Grade A, as required by the Department of Public Health be referred to the Commissioner of Public Works, carried, all members present voting Yes. Mr. Kean advised the Council that arrangements have been made with the Bridge Clinic. on a fee basis for Police Surgeon and Physician for the ~'iremen's Relief Board. Mr. Keen announced to the Council that he had been approached by Mr. Hegerman regarding leasing part of the City Oock as a fruit and produce landing place. Motion by Mr. Keen and Mr. Gorst that the ~ayor be authorized to negotiate a tenentcy for the First Street Dock, carried, all members present voting Yes. After a discussion by the Council concerning the Nordeen's failure to answer correspondence sent them by the City Attorney a motion by Mr. Kean and Mr. Gorst to authorize the City Attorney to 2ake such steps as he may deem necessary in this connection, carried, all members present voting Yes. Mr. Keen advised that a meeting was being held at 2 o'clock P.M. today to formulate a plan for increasing the assessed valuation of the Housing Areas. The i~ayor informed the Council that the State Examiner had suggested holding future Council meetings in the Council Chambers upstairs in order that the public would know where the meetings were taking place. ~r. Kean explained that the reason the meeting place had been changed to his office was due to the fact that the public was not attending meetings, and his office was more suited to this purpose for a smaller group and was at all times ooen to the public. Motion by Mr. Kean and ~r. Gorst that the wo~ds Council Chambers be printed on the door of the Mayor's office, carried, all members present voting Yes. Mr. Davtsson, State Examiner, recommended that in the future tenants of City owned buildings be required to carry their own insurance. it was unanimously agreed by everyone present that it woul~ henceforth be the duty of the City Clerk's office to notify the persons concerned by any ordinance, resolution or motion formulated by the City Council. Mr. Keen announced that the building in the Evergreen Park. had been leased to L.J. Lucas co~mencing October l, 1944, for the sum of $26.25 including water. The tenant to pay all lights, and garbage. Motion by'Mr. Kean and ~r. Gorst to allow all 0ills presented at this meet- ing and approved by a majority of the Council, carried as follows: Mr. Keen, Yes. Mrs. Raddon, absent. Mr. Gorst, Yes. Motion by Mr. Kean and ~r. Gorst to adjourn, carried, all members present voting Yes. /City Ulerk ' Approved: Mayo r