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02-08-43 Regular 2075 COUNCIL CHAMBER February 8, 1943 The Council met at 7:30 P.M. with tre City :Attorney and all members present. By motion regularly made, seconded and uranimously carried the mibutes of the last regular meeting held Jll1'luary 25th were approved as read. Mr. E. C. Mogfo rd appeared at tte meeting expressing appreciation of home owners in Ocean Breeze Subdivision for the clean-up v,ork recently done in that part of town by the City Superintendent. A letter was read from the Lake Warth Drainage DiB trict, soliciting the City's cooperation in the Legislature passage of a tax cancellation bill, whereby State ana County taxall for 1942 and 1943 vdll be cancelled on all lands belonging to the Lake Warth Drainage District, in return for cancell- ation by the DiB ttiict, of all drainage ilaxes on municipally owned properties lying wi thing tre drainage district. The letter was ordered filed, and the Clerk authorized to forward a list of all City of Delray property, lying within the Drainage District, to W.W. Thomron, Mgr. of the Drainage District. The following bid on work needed to be done at the City's Garbage Dump was received and read: FebrUllI"Y 8, 1943 To the Honorable City Council, Delray Beach, Florida. Attention: Sanitation Committee. Gentlemen: I am IIDving a drag line by your garbage piton Wednesday, February lOth, and, if possible, I would like to dig tre addition to your garbage pit, that is now very necessary. I lml willing to dig approximately the same amount of ditches as I did the last time for a price of $600.00; this will mean approximately 2,000 cubic yards ofT excavation. Trusting you vdll favor me wi th th is work, I remain Very truly yours, /s/ G. ELTON HARVEL The City Engineer reported that the present ditch would serve for only a week or two more; that he had contacted four contractors With a view to obtaining bids for excavating a JEW ditch but had received no satisfactory replies from any of the m, and since the above bid was 2076 Eebruary 8, 1943 higher than the cost of the previous ditch digging, he would like instructions from the Council in regard to same. The ChtiTman of the San- itary Conmittee reported tha t he had inspected the d.1mp and was of th e opinion tha t th is was the best method of garbage di sposal fo r the City and therefore moved that the bid of Elton Harvel be accepted and the work be dore, as ouUlimed. Mr. Wodischek seconded the motion and on roll call the vote was as follows: Mr. Hill yes, Mr. Jacobs yes, Mr McFee yes, Mr. Miller yes, Mr. Wodischek yes. The motion was declared carriea. Work requisition No. 26, Project 45, covering the removal of the old 6" terra cot ta stonn sewer and replacing same wi. th new 6" pipe on N.E. Second Street, between ~I.E. Fifth and Seventh Avenues, was submitted by City Engineer Croner. An attached letter of explanation stated that this line was costing approximately $;>00.00 a year to maintain, which money was a total loss as well as the service from said sewer being highly unsatisfactoty. The Engineer estimated this job would cost approximately $580.00 but to secure the car-lot price of .16 cents for tile it would necessitate an additional expenditure of $220.00 in order that a minimum car of 2000 feet might be purchased. He stated the extra 1440 feet of sewer tile could be stored at tIE water plant for future use. The condition of the old storm sewer was discussed, it being stated tha t the sewer was severely overtaxed by the ice-plant's discharge of water into this line, and that an old agreement with the ice compll1'lY obligated the City to provide an outlet far this water disposal from the plant. Mr. Hill trerefore moved that the City Engineer's reconmendation be carried out. Mr. Wodischek I!leuorlded the motion and on roll call the vote was as follows: Mr. Hill yes, Mr. Jacobs yes, Mr. McFee yes, Mr. Miller yes, Mr. Wodischek yes. The motion carried. Application of M.C. Naylon for liquor license to operate a bar at the Patio Delray, under managenent of L. S. Wilson and wife, was submitted to the Council. It was moved by Mr. Miller that the application be approved and license issued after tre usual advertising ll1'ld laying-over of the application for the required fourteen days allowed for objection. Mr. McFee seconded the motion, and on roll call tIE vote was as follows: Mr. Hill yes, Mr. Jacobs yes, Mr. McFee y<3s, Mr. Miller y<3s, Mr. Wodischek yes. The iIDtion carried. A petition signed by twenty-six property owners in Block 74 asked that the Council pass an ordinance to control barking and howling dogs, and the keeping of other animals inside the City limits, that may become a public nuisance. This matter was by motion of Mr. Miller, referred to tre City Attorney ~"nd Ordinance Comnittee to bring in an ordinance or recommendation for regulation of such nuisances. Mr. Hill seOOlnded the motLm and on l'IDll call the votl1 was as fo llows c: !.ir. Hill yes, Mr. Jacobs yes, Mr. McFee yes, Mr. Mille ryes, ),!r. Vlodischek yes. The motion carried. 2077 February 8th, 1943 Letters were read from J.B. Miller of The State Board of Health, ad:vising that ths Board's representative had made an investigation of the lake level at Lake Ida, hut that this matter appeared to be a question not coming under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Health; also stating that at the time of their inspection, there was little, if any, mosquito breeding as a result of the lowering of the lake, but that they were re- questing the Palm Beach County Engineer, who mndles mosquito control oper- ations here, to keep close supervision of the lake with respect to any possible mosquito breeding. The Council discussed the matter further and recOl1lllended that the Sanitary Committee contact or write a letter to the Mosquito Control Board, asking that trey install gates to control the water level of the lake, as one of thsir first projects in 1943. The City Clerk submitted request of G. Wells forpsrmission to erect a tent, just East of Williamson's store in colored town, for the holding of religious meetings by the Seventh Day Adventist Church. It was moved by Mr. Wodischek that permit be granted on condition that such meetings .close at 10:00 P.M. and that psrmit may be reMoked if the meetings prove objectionable. Mr. McFee seconded tre motion and on roll call the vote was as follows: Mr. Hill yes, Mr. Jacobs yes, Mr. McFee yes, Mr. Miller yes, Mr. Wodischek yes. The motion carried. . Upon enquiry, th e Cle rk reported ha ving received no reply from the F.E.C. Railway Company with reference to a crossing at N.E. First Street. It was therefore recommended tha t she write direct to P .L. Gaddis, Supsrintendent, at New Smyrna. The matter of a dike along Atlant ic Avenue, East of the Canal, cam!, up for discussion, the Cler k reporting tm t she already had an agreement from W.C. Williams, dated February 15th, 1936, giving the City permission to construct such dike and flood-gates. It was there- fore moved by Mr. Hill tha t the City Engineer be a uthorized to purchase material and go ahead and construct a dike and instal necessary flood- gate so that the next high tides will not flood Atlantic Avenue. Mr. Wodischek seconded the motion and Dn roll call the vote was as follows: Mr. Hill yes, Mr. Jacobs yes, Mr. McFee y<3 s, Mr. Mille ryes, Mr. Wodischek yes. The motion carried. TIE Clerk submitted a list of registered voters, now deceased, or who are believed to be no longer residents of Delray, and recommended tha t their !laIll6lS be stricken from the registration roll; after due adver- tising, and providing no objection is made thereto. It was moved by Mr. Miller that the CJsrk's recommendation be approved and said list be advertised; am after sixty days tha t these names be removed from the registration roll, where no objection has been made. Mr. Hill seconded the motion and on roll call the vote was as follows: Mr. Hill ;;e s, Mr. Jacobs yes, Mr. McFee yes, Mr. Miller ;;as, Mr. Wodischek y<3s. The motion carried. i," :, It was recomnended by Mr. McFee tha t the Chairman of the Golf Committee be requested to supply the Courcil with an inventory of the movable equipment ant at the course, as of February 15th, the date of its closing. 2078 Eebruary 8th, 1943 It was moved, seconded and carried that the following crdinance be placed on its second reading: A CRDnIANCE 1.62 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 376, ENTITLED - "AN CRDINANCE 'OF THE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, DESIGNATING CERTAIN DISTRICTS AS DEFINED BY THE CITY ZONING ffiDINANCES, INSOFAR AS THE SAME ARE IN CONFLICT HEREWITH" . Mayar Jacoos stated he was not in sympathy with the ordinance, as he felt it was unnllcessary and would work a hardship on some property owners. TIli ordinance having been read for too second ti.Jr&, however, i,t was moved by Mr. 'Miller that it be adopted on its second and final reading. Mr. Wodischek seconded the motion and on roll call the vote was as follows: Mr. Hill yes, Mr. Jacobs no, Mr. McFee J"'s, Mr. Miller ~s, Mr. IVodischek jllS. The motion carried. It was moved, seconded and unanimously carried that the follcwing ordinance be placed on its first reading: , ffiDINANCE 463 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE OF 1HE CITY COillTCIL OF '!HE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, GRANTING TO JOURNEYMEN PLUMBE.l1S FOR '!HE DURATION OF THIS WAR AND SIX MON1HS THEREAFTER, ALL RIGH'IS AND PRIV- ILEGES CF MAS TER PLUMBEIB AS DEF INED BY THE PLUMBmG CODE CF DEmA Y BEACH. Tre ordinance, having recited that an emergency existed, it was moved by 1fr. Hill that it be adopted on its first and firn.l readirg. Mr. McFee seconded the motion and roll call the >>"ote was as follows: Mr. Hill jllS, Mr. Jacobs yes, Mr. McFee yes, Mr. Miller yes, Mr. Wadi schek J'" s. The moti on carrie d. The City Attorney submitted an ordinance which he had drawn for the adoption and enforcelllilnt of lighting and dimout regulations, as issued by Major General Bryden, governing Atlantic Coastal areas. It was regularlrmoved, seconded and carried that said ordinance, as follows, be placed on its first reading: ORDINANCE 461. AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE OF TIE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, REGULATHW LIGHTDJG. It being reci~d as an emergency ordinance, it was moved by Mr. Wodischek that said ardinance be adopted on its first and final