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11-04-40 Special 157:3 COUNCIL CHA"flER NOVEMBER 4. 1940 THE COUNCil MET IN SPECIAl SESSION. ON CAll 0' THE MAYOR. 'OR THE PURPOSE 0' PASSING UPON ~uAIIFICATIONS OF CANDIDATES RUNNING IN THE CITY'S PRIMARY ElECTION ON NOVEMBER 12TH. AND FOR THE T8ANSAC- TION OF OTHER BUSINESS RE~UIRING ACTION AT THIS TIME. THE CITY ATTORNEY AND THE FollOWING MEMBERS WERE PRESENT: MR. CREGO, MR. JACOBS, AND MR. MillER. COUNCilMAN BRADSHaW CAME IN IMMEDIATElY AFTER THE MEETING WAS CAllED TO ORDER. r I THE MATTER OF CANDIOATES' ~uAIIFICATIONS WAS FIRST TAKEN UP AND MR. MillER MOVED THAT THE MEMBERS GO ON RECORD AS 'AVORING THE ADOPTION OF THE PRACTICE OF EXAMING ElECTION-CANDIDATES' ~uAIIFleATIONS, AS PROVIDED FOR IN THE CITY CHARTER. MR. CREGO SECONDED THE MOTION. , IN THE DISCUSSION THAT ENSUED IT WAS STATED THAT ~ll CANDIDATES HAD SIGNED WRITTEN STATEMENTS TO THE EFFECT THAT THEY WERE ~uA11'IED TO HolD O'FICE, AND MR. BRADSHAW CONTENDED THAT CHARTER PROVISIONS MADE MR. MillER'S MOTION SUPERFluous. MAYOR JACOBS SAID HE BEliEVED THE ,MOTION TO BE lEGAl BUT UNNECESSARY. AFTER ARGUING THIS POINT, AND OTHER ElECTION PROVISIONS CONTAINED ON THE CITY CHARTER, MAYOR JACOBS CAllED FOR A VOTE, WHICH REsulTED AS 'Follows: MR. BRADSHAW YES, MR. CREGO YES, MR. JACOBS YES, MR. MillER YES. THE MOTION WAS DEClAR- ED CARRIED. . , IT WAS THEN MOVED BY MR. CREGO THAT NAMES OF THE CANDIDATES, WHD HAVE MADE AFFIDAVITS, BE PUT ON THE BAlloT IN AlPHABETICAl ORDER. ,I THERE WAS MORE DISCUSSIDN AS TO T'HIS, BUT SINCE NO SECOND WAS RECEIVED TO MR. CREGO'S MOTION, THE CHAIR ORDERED TRAT OTHER BUSINESS BE PROCEEDED WITH. , A RE~UEST WAS READ FROM M. F. RIlEY THAT H IS, NAME, WH I CH HAD BEEN REMOVED '80M THE CITY REGISTRATION Roll, BE REPlACED. BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT HE WAS ONlY TEMPGftAR1IY RESIDING OUTSIDE THE CITY, AND H IS PERMANE NT 'pIAOE OF ABODE WAS AT THE SNOW GlEN APARTMENTS ON BRONSON STREET WHICH HE HAD' RECENTlY PURCHASED. IT WAS AGREED BY All MEMBERS THAT MR. RilEY SHoulD BE REINSTATED AS A CITY ElECTOR AND COUNCilMAN BRADSHAW THEREFORE MOVED THAT THE NAME 0' M. F. RilEY BE REPlACED ON S AID VOTERS' 11 ST. MR. MillER SEalNDED THE MOTION AND ON Roll CAll TH E VOTE WAS AS Follows: MR. BRADSHAW YES, MR. CREGO YES, ,MR. JACOBS YES, MR. MillER YES. THE MOTION CARRIED. .. BEAR HAlF ":';,,' H. V. POPE APPEARED AT THE MEETING RE~UESTING THAT THE Clif!i~ii:,< THE EXPENSE OF,8EPIACnn THE SIDEWAlK IN FRONT OF THE NE~i.,,>" '~",,,,,,,,~,>':"","~' ',r~~;<';, . '. ~,~t., 1574 COUNCI L CHAMBER NOVEMBER 4, 1940 THE NEW CASON BUilDING, WHICH HE STATED woulo HAVE TO BE TORN UP AND REBUilT TO SUIT THE NEW STRUCTURE. IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT RECENT PRACTICE HAS BEEN 10 PAY HAlF THE COST OF SUCH SIDEWAlK CONSTRUCTION ON NEW BUSINESS BlOCKS. MR. CREGO MOVED THAT THE CITY ENGINEER, C. A. BAKER AND THE CHAIRIIAN OF THE STREET COIIIIITTEE INVESTIGATE, AND FIND OUT WHAT THIS w111 COST AND REPORT BACK TO THE COUNCil. THE 1I0TION WAS lOST FOR WANT OF A SECOND. MR. POPE STATED TIME WAS A FACTOR IN THE CASE, AS THE BUilD- ERS WERE READY TO POUR CEMEN,T NOW, AND MR. BRADSHAW THEN 1I0VED THAT THE CI GO AHEAD, ACCOR,DING TO PAST PRACTICE, ACCEPTING THE ARCHITECTS ESTlIIATE OF COST, AND AGREE TO PAY HAlF THE COST OF THIS SIDEWAlK CONSTRUCTION, WHICH AMoUNT SHAll NOT EXCEED $125.00. THE M.\YOII ...GAI N B,ROUGHT UP THE IIATTER OF WATER COOlER BUT UPON RECOMIIENDATION 0' MR. MillER AGREED TO DEFER AGTIDN ON PURCHASE OF SUCH UNTil Full REPRESENTATION OF COUNCIIIIEN WAS PRESENT. r j l MR. POPE Also RE~UESTED INFORIIATION AS TO THE CITY'S TRAFFIC SIGNAl, STATING IT WOUlD BE NECESSARY TO REMOVE THE POlE AT CORNER OF ATlANTIC AND FEDERAl HIGHWAY, WHICH NOW SUPPORTS THIS liGHT, AND SUGGESTING THAT, AS A SU8STITUTE, THREE WIRES BE STRUNG FROU THE F'IRESTONE, THE FlAMINGO, ANO THE COlONY HOTEl. IT WAS STATED BY COUNCIIIIAN BRADSHAW, THAT THE COlONY WOUlD NOT PERII,IT SUCH TO BE STRUNG FROII THEIR BUilDING AND MR. POPE WAS INFORMED THAT IT,WAS UP TO THE ARCHITECT AND OWNERS OF THE CASON BUilDING TO WORK THIS OUT AT THEIII OWN EXPENSE, -AS THE CITY HAD NO JURISOICTIDN OVER PRIVATE PROPERTY. " " MISCE11ANEOUS IIATTERS OF BUSINESS HAVING BEEN FINISHED, THE MAYOR REVERTED TO THE ~UESTION OF ElECTION REqUIREMENTS, AND THE MATTEII OF HAVING BAllOTS PRINTED &C. MR. ,BRADSHAW SECONDED MR. CREGO'S MOTION MADE IN THE EARly PART OF THE MEETING, THAT THE NAMES OF THOSE CANDID- ATES, WHO HAD ~AOE AFFIDAVITS AS TO THEIR qUAliFICATION, BE PUT ON THE BAllOT IN AlPHABETICAl ORDER. IN VOTING ON TH IS 1I0TION THE RESPONSE WAS AS Follows: MR. BRADSHAW YES, MR. CREGO YES, MR. JACOB S YE'S, MR. MillER NO. MR. MillER ~uAIIFIED HIS VOTE BY STATING THAT HE HAD VOTED "NO" BECAUSE THE 1I0TION .,0 N~ CONTAIN THE WORDS "~uAIIFIED TO HolD OFFICE". THE MOTION WAS THEREFORE DEClARED CARRIED, ON A THREE-FOURTHS VOTE. TH,ERE BE ING NO IIEETING, IT WAS REGUlARly COUNCil ADJOURN. FURTHER BUSINESS TO COUE BEFORE THE MOVED, SECONDED AND UNANIIIOUS1Y CARRIED THAT '; ~flu.J.d~ CITY ClERK APPROVED : Ohr J1~ "Ma :1575 COUNCI L CHAMBER NOVEMBER 11, 1940 THE COUNCIl MET IN REGUlAR SESSION AT 7:30 P.M. WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY ANO All MEMBERS OF THE COUNCil PRESENT. THE CITY ClERK REPQtTED HAVING RECEIVED AN OFFER ON $642.10 WORTH OF DEli NQUENT INTEREST COUPONS FOR, A PRICE OF $170.00 FRou THOMAS M. COOK, AND IT WAS MOVED BY MR. BRADSHAW THAT THE ClERK BE AUTHORIZED TO PURCHASE THESE COUPONS WITH MONEYS AVAilABlE IN THE ESCROWED INTEREST FUND. MR. CREGO SE~OND- ED THE MOTION, WHICH ON Roll CAll, CARRIED UNANIIIOUSly. THE CITY ClERK SUBIIITTEO TO THE COUNC 11 THE REqUIRED NUMBER 0' OFFICIAl BAllOTS, A liST OF THE REGISTERED VOTERS, TAllY SHEETS AND OTHER PARAPHERNAliA NECESSARY FOR THE HOlDING 0' THE CITY'S PRIIIARY ElECTION ON NOVEIIBER12TH. p r AFTER THE BAllOTS, liST 0' VOTERS, &C. WERE EXAIIINED BY THE COUNcil, AND FOUND TO BE IN PROPER FORM ANO ORDER, IT WAS 1I0VED BY MR. Hill THAT TIE BAllOT BOX BE lOCKED, SEAlED AND DEliVERED TO THE ClERK OF THE ElECTION BOARD WITH INSTRUCTIONS AS TO HOLDING OF SAID PRIIIARY ElECTION, IN cOIIPIIANCE WITH THE CHARTER OF THE CITY 0' OE!RAY BEACH AND THE ElECTION lAWS OF THE STATE OF FlORIDA. ,i ) COUNCIIIIA, Hill REPORTED THAT THE FIRE CHIEF HAD ATTENDED A COIIBINED CONVENTION OF ElECTRICIANS AND FIRE UNDERWRITERS AT JACKSONVillE RECENTlY AND HAD INCURRED A TRAVEllING EXPENSE OF SOIlETHING OVER $25.00. COUNClluAN Hill SAID HE HAD RECOMMENDED MR. COOK'S ATTENDANCE AT THIS MEETING AND SINCE IT HAD BEEN THE PRACTICE OF THE CITY TO PAY EXPENSES OF OEIEGATES TO SUCH CONVENTIONS, COUNCilMAN MillER MOVED THAT MR. COOK BE PAID $25.00 ON THIS EXPENSE ACCOUNT. MR. Hill SECONDED THE MOTION, AND ON Roll CAll THE VOTE WAS UNANIMOUS, AND THE MOTION WAS DEClARED CARRIED. " A lETTER OF cOIIPIAINT WAS READ FROM W. J. ENRIGHT, IN WHICH HE COIIPlAlNED THAT H IS TAXES HAD BEEIl JUIIPED OVER 100%. THE TAX ASSESSOR ExplAINED THAT THIS WAS DUE TO CHANGING THE BASIS OF ASSESSMENT FROII 30% TO 50% OF ACTUAl PROPERTY VAluES, WHICH RESulTED IN $3,468. OF HIS ASSESSED VAlUATION BEING SUBJECT TO THE 22 Mill OPERATING lEVY, WHEREAS PREVIOUSlY ONlY $240. WAS SUBJECT TO THIS HIGH OPERATING MillAGE. IT WAS THEREFORE MOVED BY MR. MIllER THAT THE CITY CIERK,,"WRITE MR. ENRIGHT ExplAINING TO HIli, IN OETAI1, WHY HIS TAXES HAVE BEEN INCREASED THAT AIIOUNT. MR. Hill SECONDED THE MOTION, WH ICH ON Roll CAll CARRIED UNANIMOUSlY.