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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06/29/40 RESOLUTION WttEREAS, the City Commission of the City of Bremerton has had several meetings of persons holding jitney bus licenses in the City of Bremerton pursuant to Ordinance No. 876, and has devoted considerable time and thought to the problem of affording the public better transportation facilities within the City of B2emerton, without creating any hardship upon the operators of said buses; and the City Commission and the bus operators have agreed to try out certain schedule changes, as hereinafter set forth, for a period of one month from July l, 1940, and ',VHEREAS, the City Commission has the absolute right, under Section 8, of said Ordinance No. 876, to change or alter any jitney bus route within the City of Sremerton, by resolution entered of record, but does not desire to arbitrarily make such changes permanently effective until said changes have been under trial for a period of one $onth, and ?f~IEREAS, the following provision appears in Section 3, of said Ordinance No. 876: "No license issued under the provisions of this ordinance shall be transferable," and it has come to the attention of this Commission that at least one of the licenses issued for the fiscal year from July l, 1939 to June 30, 1940, has been transferred, or attempted to be transferred, by the holder thereof without the knowledge or consent of the City Commission of the City of Bremerton, and it is deemed desirable to call attention to the holders of such licenses to said provision of said Section 3, and ResolUtion (cont) '~TEREAS, it has come to the attention of the City Commission that the provisions of said Ordinance No. 876, with respect to the amount of license fee for each bus, has not been fully complied with by all of the holders of such jitney bus licenses, NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Cow~ission of the City of Bremertoh, that the holders of jitney bus licenses and others in the City of Bremerton, are hereby notified that said Ordinance hTo. 876 must be complied with in all particulars, both as to the amount of license fee payable for each bus in operation and in connection with the transfer, or attempted trans- fer, of such license. Beginning July l, 1940, all of the provisions of Section 3, of said 0rdinance No. 876, which reads as £ollows: Section 3. OCCUPATION TAX. Any person operating Jitney buses in the City of Bremerton, with a seating capacity of not to exceed seven (7) persons, shall pay an occupation tax or license fee of Fifty ($50.00) Dollars per year for each bus. ~A~ny person operating a jitney bus, having a total seatir~ capacity in such bus of not less than eight (8) and not more than twenty-five (25) passengers in the aggregate, shall pay a license fee of One Huhdred ($100.00) Dollars per year for each jitney bus. Every person operating an auto stage between the City of Bremerton and any point outside the incorporated limits of any adjoining city, shall pay a license fee of Five ($5.00) Dollars for each and every such auto stage. No license issued under the provisions of this ordinance shall be transferable. shall be strictly complied with. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all present holders of Jitney bus licenses in the City of Bremerton, who file on or before July l, 1940, or who have now on file, applications for license for the fiscal year starting July l, 1940, and deposit, or have deposited, with the City Clerk the correct amount of the license fee, and who have in full force and effect an indemnity bond as pro- vided in Section 5 of said Ordinance No. 876, for one full year from July l, 1940, shall be allowed to continue the operation of their present routes, with changes as hereinafter indicated, until August l, 1940, whether or not the Commission directs the City Clerk to issue licenses prior to August l, 1940. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that it is the present intention of the City Commission not to issue licenses for any period longer than one year, to-wit, to and including the 30th day of June, 1941, and the City Clerk is hereby instructed not to issue any licenses for the coming fiscal year until the further direction of the City Commission. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that starting July l, 1940, and to and including the Zlst day of August, 1940, the bus routes hereinafter named within the City of Bremerton, shall be changed as follows: The Bremertoh-Charleston bus shall continue its present route, except that it will turn East on Front at Pacific to ~ashington, turn ~Jorth on ~ashington to Second Street, turn West on Second Street to Pacific Avenue, and North on Pacific Avenue to continue its present route. The Boston-Naval bus shall continue South at Fourth on Pacific Avenue to Front Street, turn East on Front to Washington, turn North on Washington to Fourth Street, to continue its present route, except that the extra bus on this line during the evening rush shall not make the loop above referred to but shall continue on the present route coming in on Sixth Street. The Park Avenue bus shall continue its present route, except that it shall make a loop exactly as indicated above for the Boston-Naval bus route, and shall not make s~id loop during said rush hour. The Manette bus shall continue its present route with no changes. Resolution (cont) The North Callow bus shall continue its route North on Callow to Eight or Eleventh Streets, on Eighth or Eleventh Streets to Olympic, on Olympic to Seventh, on Seventh to Naval, Naval to Fifth, and return, transferring passengers to Bremerton-Charleston Trans. Co. The Burwell Avenue bus continue present route to Burwell and Pac~flc, turn South on Pacific to Front, turn East on Front to Washington, North on Washington to Fourth, and West on Fourth to Pacific, and continue present route out Fourth Street. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that it is the intention of the City Co~rmlission to grant, in due course, licenses for one year from July 1, 1940, to the present operators o£ the bus lines hereinbefore enunierated, and that the City Commission has had the support of the bus operators in agreeing to a month's trial of the routes above indicated for the purpose of attempting to give bettSr service to the traveling public. PASSED by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton, signed by the ~ayor, and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage, this 29th day of June, 1940. Atte st: