HomeMy WebLinkAbout09/04/40 September 4, 1940
Regular meeting of the City Commission of the City of Bremerton, Washington,
held on Wednesday, September 4, 1940, at ten o'clock A.M. Commissioner Bruenn,
Commissioner Casad and City Attorney Bryan being present at roll call. Meeting
called to order by Mr. Bruenn, who instructed the Acting Clerk to read the
minutes. Mayor Jones arrived at this time.
Clerk read the minutes of August 28, 1940 and were corrected to show that
$2500.00 was to be paid by the State Highway Department from Gas Tax funds on the
mechanical street sweeper to be purchased by the city. Motion by Mr. Casad and
Mr. Bruenn to approve minutes as read and corrected. Carried as follows: Mr.
Jones, Yes. Mr. Bruenn, Yes. Mr. Casad, Yes.
Clerk read letter from E. W. Granger, representing J. W. Anderson, owner of
property in Tract 3, Decatur Acre Tracts, requesting the city to take steps
necessary to vacate a six foot alley on the East line of Tract 4, Decatur Acre
Tracts. Motion by Mr. Jones and Er. ~ruenn to refer letter to the Commission~r
of Public Works for investigation. Carried as follows: Mr. Jones, Yes. Mr. Bruenn,
Yes. ~r. Casad, Yes.
Clerk reported this as date set for opening of bids on L.I.D. 211, providing
for the improvement of the Alley in Block 8, Original Town of Charleston by paving
with concrete six inches thick and twelve feet wide, ahd on motion of Mr. Casad
and Mr. Bruenn, the Clerk was instructed to open the one bid received. Carried
as follows: Mr. Jones, Yes. Mr. Bruenn, Yes. Mr. Casad, Yes. .Bid from Lofthus
Lumber Yard was $2383.65. Motion by Mr. Bruenn and Mr. Casad to refer bid to the
Engineering office for tabulation, carried as follows: ~. Jones, Yes. Mr. Bruenn,
Yes. Mr. Casad, Yes.
Mr. Casad presented plan submitted to him by Navy officials regarding the
Park Avenue sewer with its outfall through the Navy Yard. Motion by Mr~ Jones
and Mr. Casad to instruct the City Attorney to prepare an emergency ordinance on
the Park Avenue sewer line including supplies and materials for the outfall through
the P1S. Navy Yard. Carried as follows: Mr. Jones, Yes. Mr. Bruenn, Yes. Mrl
Casad, Yes. Motion by Mr. Casad and Mr. Bruenn to instruct the Clerk to call for
bids for 400 feet of 21 inch vitrified clay pipe, 390 feet of 24 inch vitrified
clay pipe and 4 heavy duty manhole castings, to be opened September 18, 1940,
and Clerk was instructed to send one cell for bids to the Daily Journal of
Commerce. Carried as follows: Mr. Jones, Yes. Mr. Bruenn, Yes. Mr. Easad, Yes.
The Engineering office returned the bid of Lofthus Lumber Yard for L.I.Do 211
and on motion of Mr. Jones and Mr. Bruenn the bid was rejected as too high.
Carried as follows: Mr. Jones, Yes. Mr. Bruenn, Yes. Mr. Casad, ~bsent.
Motion by Mr. Jones and Mr. Bruenn to instruct Clerk to readver~ise for bids
on L.I.D. 211 in the Daily Journal of Commerce, bids to be opened September 18,
1940. Carried as follows: Mr. Jones, Yes. Mr. Bruenn, Yes. Mr. Casad, absent.
Clerk read resolution selling Tract 39, Bremerton Water Works Tract No. 2,
to F. B. Van Decar and Martha M. Van Decar, his wife, for a total purchase price
of $225.00, $45.00 down and $10.00 per month, together with interest on unpaid
balances at six per cent per annu$, and when paid in full, that a deed be
delivered to said purchasers. Motion by Mr. Bruenn and Mr. Jones that said
resolution be adopted. Carried as follows: Mr. Jones, Yes. Mr. Bruenn, Yes.
Mr. Casad, absent.
Clerk read resolution directing the Mayor and Clerk to sell Lot 11, Blockk 11,
of L. S. Rowe's Addition to Bremerton, to J. E. Mc¢own and Jessie McCown, his
wife, for the total purchase price of $400.00, $40.00 down and the balance in
monthly installments of $10.00 per mont~, plus interest at 7% on unpaid balance.
Motion by Mr. Jones and Er. Bruenn to adopt resolution, carried as follows: Mr.
Jones, Yes. Mr. Bruenn, Yes. Er. Casad, absent.
Clerk read resolution of intention to improve Ohio Avenue, Seventeenth
Street, Lincoln Avenue, Chester Avenue, Fifteenth Street, Alley running East and
West between Thirteenth and Fourteenth, and extending from Chester to Broadway,
and Alley running North from Fourteenth Street between Chester and Broadway,
Fourteenth Street, Collection Line, by a system of storm and sanitary sewers,
in accordance with maps and specifications to be placed on file in the office of
the City Clerk, and designating Wednesday, the 2nd day of October, 1940, as the
time set for hearing on said proposed district. Motion by Mr. Jones end ~r.
Bruenn, that said resolution be adopted. Carried as follows: Mr. Jones, Yes. Mr.
Bruenn, Yes. Mr. Casad, absent.
Clerk reported that the preliminary budget had been filed with the
'Commissioner of Finance.
SeDtember 4, 1940 (cont)
Attorney Bryan read letter from the Association of Washington Cities inviting
the City Commission and other officers interested in municipal government to
attend the regional meeting to be held in Tacoma, September 24, 1940. $~. Bryan
recommended that the letter be held over and read September ll, 1940 when Mr.
Casad would be present.
Mr. Bruenn, acting for the Committee of the '~nole, reported that the
Committee considered the bid of Lofthus Lumber Yard, for construction of sewers
on Yantic Avenue, to~ high and a motion was made by Mr. Bruenn and Mr. Jones
that'the bid be rejected and readvertised in the Bremerton Sun and the Daily
Journal of Commerce, to be opened, September 18, 1940. Carried as follows: Mr.
Jones, yes. Mr. Bruenn, Yes. Mr. Casad, abeent.
Motion by Mr. Bruenn and Mr. Jones that all bills approved by a majority of
the commission presented at this meeting, be approved and the Clerk instructed to
issue warrants for same. Carried as follows: Mr. Jones, Yes. Mr. Bruenn, Yes.
Mr. Casad, absent~
Motion by Mr. Jones and Mr. Bruenn to adjourn, carried as follows; Mr. Jones,
Yes. Mr~ Bruenn, Yes. Mr. Casad, absent.
E. J. McCall, City Clerk
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Deput~ t
Approved: