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11-14-40 Regular j;'r_:.__"~ ..I..Jt t. COUNC I L CHAMBER t NOVEMBER 14, 1940 THE COUNCIl MET IN ADJDURNED REGUlAR SESSION AT 7:30 P.M. WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY AND All MEMBERS OF THE COUNCil PRESENT. t THE MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS OF OCTOBER 28TH, NOVEMBER 4TH, ANI NOVEMBER 11TH. WERE APPROVED AS READ. , it, ." A lETTER FROM THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SEA CREST HOTEl, THANK- ING THE COUNCil FOR THE lAYING OF A NEW SIDEWAlK, AlONG THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE SEACREST PROPERTY, WAS ORDERED FilED. f ' t A COMMUNICATION FROM THE F. E. C. RAilWAY COMPANY WAS READ, IN WH ICH MR. 8EAls, GENERAl MANAGER, ADV ISED THAT HE INTENDED TO MEET WITH THE COUNC 11 DURING THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 18TH FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION OF RAilWAY CROSSING GATES, Also REQUEST)NG INFORMAT ION AS TO WHAT THE SPEED RESTRICTIONS WERE TRHOUGH TWON, IN THE EVENT HIS COMPANY DECIDED TO COMPly WITH SUCH, AS AN AlTERNATE" FOR THE MANUAl CONTROllED GATE DEMANDED BY THE CITY. UPON REQUEST OF THE MAYOR THE CITY ATTORNEY AGREED TO lOOK UP THE STATE lAW AND THE RIGHTS OF MUNICIPAlITIES IN REGARD TO SUCH SPEED RESTRICT- IONS, AND THE ClERK WAS INSTRUCTED TO ADVISE MR. BEAls ACCORDINGlY. >1' A COMMUNICATION WAS RE"AD FROM E. G. THATCHER, SECRETARY OF THE VERlII BEACH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, INVITING CITY OFFICIAls TO MEE'l WITH OTHER REPRESENTATIVES OF EAST COAST MUNIC IPAIITIES, IN FT. LAUDERDAlE, NOVEMBER 22ND, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING DEVElOPMENT OF A MiliTARY, OR FOUR lAND HIGHWAY, AlONG THE FloRIDA EAST COAST. COUNCilMAN MillER AND BRADSHAW THOUGHT THE CITY SHoulD BE REPRESENTED AT THIS MEETING AND RECOMMENDED THAT THE MAYOR ATTEND, WHICH MAYOR JACOBS AGREED TO DO. A lENGTHY COMMUNICATION WAS READ FROM THE FloRIDA LEAGUE" OF MUNICIPAliTIES, GIVING THE LEAGUE'S HISTORY, OUTliNING ITS WORK AND ACTIVITIES AND ITS BENEFITS TO MUNICIPAliTIES &C, AND INVIT- ING THE CITY OF DEIRAY BEACH TO BECOME AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION; Also EXTENDING, TO CITY OFFICIAls; AN INVITaTION TO ATTEND THE LEAGUE'S ANNUAl CONVENTION AT THE GEORGE WASH INGTON" 'HOTEl IN WEST PAlM BEACH, ON DECEMBER 4, 5 AND 6. MEMBERS CONCEDED T-HAT THE LEAGUE WAS OF BENEFIT TO FloRIDA CITIES AND COUNCilMAN BRADSHAW RECOMMENDED THAT THE COUNCil JOIN THE LEAGUE, AND PAY THE SPECIFIED DUES, BASED ON PUPUlATION,OF $70.00. MR. MillER SAID HE WOulD liKE TO HAVE A liTTlE TIME TO CONSIDER THE MATTER BEFORE VOTING ON SUCH A DONATION. MR. HIll SECONDED MR. BRADSHAW'S MOTION, HOWEVER, AND ON Roll cAll THE VOTE WAS AS Follows: MR. BRADSHAW Y~S, MR. CREGO YES, MR. Hill YES, MR. JACOBS YES, MR. MillER NO. THE MOTION CARRIED. ~ CDUNCIL CHAMBER NOVEMBER 14, 1940 " '~".--" :.a.~,.~ THE STATE BOARD OF HEAlTH QUARTERlY WATER REPORT, STATING THAT IT WAS GOOD, WAS READ AND ORDERED FilED. THE ClERK RE-SUBMITTED THE APPliCATION OF CHAS. D. & GEO. M. BOUGHTON, FOR BAR liCENSE AT THE COlONY HOTEl, 525 EAST ATlANTIC AVENUE. IT WAS REPORTED THAT SAID APPliCATION HAD BEEN ADVERTISED, AND lAID OVER THE REQUIRED 14-DAYS FOR INVESTIGATION BY THE COUNCil, AND THAT NO PROTESTS ON SAME HAD BEEN RECEIVED. IT WAS THHREFORE MOVED BY MR. BRADSHAW THAT SAID liCENSE BE GRANTED, AS REQUESTED. MR. CREGO SECONDED THE MOTION, WH ICH CARRIED UNANIMOUSlY, ON Roll CAll. .. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE LIGHT COMMITTEE REPORTED THAT HE AND MR. SECNOR HAD MADE A SURVEY OF STREET liGHTS AND HAD FOUND 10 PlACES WHERE liGHTS WERE BADlY NEEDED, AND THEREFORE RECOMMENDED THAT THESE 11 GHTS BE INSTAllED. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. CREGO THAT MR. MillER'S REPORT BE APPROVED AND STREET liGHTS BE I~AI1ED AS RECOMMENDED. MR. Hill SECONDED THE MOTION WHICH CARRIED UNANIMOUSlY. r I I COUNCilMAN MillER STATED MR. JOHN HAWlEY REQUESTED THE CONSENT OF THE COUNCil TO PlANT TWO CABBAGE PAlus BETWEEN THE CURB AND SIDEWAlK ON CITY RIGHT-OF-WAY, IN FRONT OF HIS RESIDENCE, CORNER OF SWINTON AVENUE AND N. E. SEVENTH STREET. THIS WAS DISCUSSED, BUT THE MAYOR AND SOME OF THE COUNCil MEMBERS THOUGHT IT WOUlD BE SETTING A BAD PRECEDENT, AS SUCH TREES PlANTED ON THE STREETS OFTEN BECOME TRAFFIC HAZARDS. IT WAS RECOMMENDED THA T ACTION BE DEFERRED, FOR THE TIME BEING. ) , COUNC IIMAN MIllER REPORTED THAT HARRY BlANK, OF FT. LAUDERDAlE, THE NEWly APPOINTED PlAYGROUND DIRECTOR, HAD BEEN GOING OVER THE PlAYGROUND EQUIPMENT AND HAD FOUND MOST OF IT IN BAD CONDITION, WORN OUT AND DETERIORATED FROM EXPOSURE TO THE WEATHER, AND THEREFORE REQUIRING TO BE REPlACED. HE SUBMITTED A liST OF SMAll EQUIPMENT AMOUNTING TO $2B.95 WHICH HE SAID WAS NECESSARY TO PURCHASE IF THE INSTRUCTOR WAS TO CONTINUE HI$ WORK. HE FURTHER RECOMMENDED T.- T MR. BlANK BE AllOWED AN EXPINDITuttE OF APPROXIMATEly $2.50 FOR MATERIAl TO BUilD A SMAll ClOSET WH""" THIS EQUIPMENT MAY BE STORED, STATING THE TENNIS ClUB HAD AGREED TO Allow SPACE FOR THIS CUPBOARD INSIDE THE ClUB HOUSE WHERE IT Will BE PROTECTED FROM THE RAIN AND WEATHER. IT WAS ACCORDINGlY MOVED BY COUNCIlMAN Hill THAT MR. MillER'S RECOMMENDATIONS BE APPROVED AND EXPENDITURES BE MADE FOR THESE PURPOSES. MR. BRAD- SH AW SECONDED THE MOT ION AND DN Roll CAll THE \0 TE WAS AS Fll110ws: MR. BRADSHAW YES, MR. CREGO YES, MR. Hill YES, MR. JACOBS YEW, MR. MillER YES. THE MOTION CARRIED. BowliNG l~NKS WERE DISCUSSED AND THE CITY ENGINEER STATED HE HAD BEEN UNABlE TO OBTAIN ANY DEFINITE INFORMAT ION ON SAME, SO FAR. THE '-'AYOR "THEREFORE RECOMMENDED THAT THIS INFORMATION BE OBTAINED AND THE MATTER MADE A SPECIAl ORDER OF BUSINESS AT NEXT MEETING. COUNCil CHAMBER NOVEMBER 14, 1940 1.579 MR. JACOBS ftEPORTED BRIEFly ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE RECREATION ClUB AND ITS PlANS FOR THE COMING SEASON. .. MR. BRADSHAW,' CHAIRMAN OF THE WATER COMMITTEE, REPORTED THAT THE TEST WElls H AD BEEN DR IIIED TO A DEPTH OF 215 FEET, AND NO ROOK HAD BEEN ENCOUNTERED BElow A lEVEl OF 109 FEET, EVERYTHING BElow THAT DEPTH BEING OF A SHEll FORMATION THAT WAS IMpOSSIBlE TO CORE. SAMPlES OF THE WATER AT THE 109- FOOT lEVEl HAD BEEN TAKEN AND FORWARDED TO BOTH THE STATE BOARD OF HEAlTH AND TO DR. KlEIN OF THE LAYNE-ATlANTIC COMPANY'S WATER TREATMENT DIVISION, AND IT WAS EXPECTED THAT REPORTS ON THESE SAMplES WOUlD BE AVAilABlE SOME TIME THE FollOWING WEEK. THE REPORT OF THE WATER COMMITTEE WAS ORDERED'FIIEO AWAITING FURTHER DEVElOPMENTS. THE MAYOR URGED THE REMOVAl OF COCOANUTS FROM TREES AlONG CITY STREETS, TO AVOID ACCIDENT AND PROPERTY DAMAGE BY REASON OF TH E I R F Alll NG. THE CITY ENG IN EER REPORTED TH AT MR. BlANK WAS NOT INTERESTED IN DBTAINING THE NUTS AS HE HAD lOST MONEY ON THEM IN PREVIOUS YEARS. IT WAS THEREFDRE ORDERED BY THE MAYOR, THAT MR. BAKER BE AUTHORIZED TO SEE THAT THSSE ARE REMOVED AS SOON AS POSSIBlE; Also THAT HE REMOVE THE DEAD TREE ON THE STREET W!ST OF SWINTON. ) f COUNCIlMAN CREGO BROUGHT UP THE MATTER'OF TREES AND GROWTH AT THE EAST END OF THE PUBliC RIGHT-OF-WAY COMMONlY KNOWN AS LOVERS LANE, AND SAID THAT BOTH MISS HUNTER AND MRS. GIBBS HAD REQUESTED THAT THESE BE REMOVED. HE THEREFORE MADE A MOTION THAT LOVERS LANE BE ClEANED OUT. MR. BRADSHAW SAID HE WOUlD SECOND THE MOTION, PROVIDED lINES WERE PROPERlY SURVEYED OdT, TO SHOW JUST WHERE THE RIGHT-OF-WAY IS. THE" MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSlY ON Roll CAll. MR. EISINGER, REPORESENTATIVE OF THE AMERICAN-LAFRANCE FIRE' ENGINE,COMPANY, CAME BEFORE THE COUNCil WITH A PROPOSITION FOR PURCHASE OF FIRE HOSE AND REPAIR PARTS FOR THE LAFRANCE TRUCK PURCHASED FROM SAID COMPANY IN 1929. HE SAID HE AND THE FIRE CHIEF HAD CHECKED INTO THE HIS- TDRY OF THE FIRE APPARATUS AND FOUND THAT CONSIDERABlE REPAIR PARTS HAD BEEN PURCHA SED AND WERE NEEDED AT THE PRESSNT TIME, FOR REPA IRS AND REPlACEMENTS ON THE ENGINE, WHICH WAS MOST UNUSUAl IN THEIR, EQUIPMENT. THAT THERE EVIDENTlY HAD BEEN SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE MOTOR TO CAUSE THESE PARTS TO WEAR OUT, AND THAT AlTHOUGH THE TRUCK WAS ElEVEN YEARS OlD AND PAST THE GUARANTY PERIOD, YET HE WAS RECOMMENDING, TO HIS COMPANY THAT SOME ADJUSTMENT BE MADE ON SAME, AS TH E I R TRUCK S SElDOM SHOWED. EVEN M I NOR TROUB lE I N THAT lENGTH OF TIME. HE SUBMITTED SAMPlES OF FIRE HOSE FOR THE COUNCil's INSPECTION, WHiCH THE FIRE CHIEF "HAD APPROVED, AND MADE A PROPOSITION WHEREBY HE AGREED TO PROCURE AT lEAST $100.00 REFUND FROM HIS COMP ANY ON THE REPA I R PARTS NECESSARY FOR THE FI~ ENGINE, AND IF THE COUNCil WOUlD AGREE TO PURCHASE 500 FEET 1-580 COUNC I L CHAMBER NOVEMBER 14, 1940 OF FIRE HOSE FROM THE LA FRANCE COMPANY, THEN HE WOUlD RETURN TO THE CITY A CREDIT OF $100.00 ON SAME, THUS ASSURING THE CITY A TOTAl CREDIT OF AT lEAST $200.00. THE FIRE CHIEF STATED HE BE- liEVED THE HOSE <FFEREO AT $12.0 PER FllOT TO BE THE BEST THAT COUlD BE PURCHASED AT THE PRICE, THEREFORE IT WAS MOVED BY MR. BRADSHAW THAT THE CITY BUY 500 FEET OF HOSE AT $1.20 PER FOOT, SUCH PURCHASE BEING CONTINGENT ON THE CITY RECEIVING A $100.00 CREDIT MEMORANDUM ON B l'l,Also THAT AN AODIT 10NAl CREDIT AMOUNTING TO AT lEAST $100.00 FOR DEFECTIVE FIRE ENGINE PARTS, BE GiVEN THE CIT~ .. THE FIRE CHIEF BROUGHT UP THE MATTER OF WATER HEATER FOR THE FIREMEN'S QUARTERS, AND SUBMITTED A PRICE ON AN ElECTRIC HEATER. COUNCilMAN MillER SAID HE WAS AFRAID THIS WOUlD BE TOO EXPENSIVE TO OPERIITE AND THOUGHT A SOlAR SYSTEM MI GHT BE BETTER. AFTER DISCUSS- ION, IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT FIGURES ON BOTH HEATING SYSTEMS BE OBTAINED AND SUBMITTED BY THE FIRE CHIEF AT NEXT MEETING. f' , , , I THE FIRE CHI EF REPORTEII THAT NOT SUFFICIENT MONEY HAD BEEN collECTED BY THE HAllOWEEN COMMITTEE TO PAY FOR THE lUMBER IN THE JUDGE'S STAND, AND IT HAD BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THE CITY PURCHASE SAME AND MpVE IT ON TO CITY PROPERTY FOR USE AGAIN NEXT HAllOWEEN OR FOR SIMIlAR CElEBRATIONS WHICH MIGHT TAKE PlACE DURING THE YEAR. CONSIDERABlE DISCUSSED ENSUED AS TO WHETHER IT WOUlD BE ADVISABlE TO MOVE THE STAND, AS SUGGESTED, OR Allow THE COMMITTEE TO SEll THE lUMBER IN IT FOR $20.00 AS HAD BEEN OFFERED, AND TO DONATE TO THEM, THE DIFFERENCE, AN AMOUNT OF APPROXIMATEly $45.00. IT WAS FINAlly MOVED BY MR. Hill THAT THE CITY PURCHASE THE STANO AT ITS ACTUAl COST, $65.85. MR. BRADSHAW SECONDED THE MOTION, WH1CH CARRIED UNANIMOUSlY, ON Roll CAll. IT WAS RECOMMENDED BY THE BUilDING INSPECTOR, THAT IN PlACING THE STRUCTURE ON THE CITY'S lOTS, THE BlOCKS BE SET ON CONCRETE TO PREVENT FOUNDATION ROTTING AWAY IN THE GROUND. MAYOR JACOBS REPORTED THAT THE GOlF COMMITTEE WAS ASKING THAT A SHO~R BE BUilT FOR THE lADIES AT THE ClUB-HoUSE AND HE RECOMMENDED THAT SAME BE PROVIDED. HE SAID THERE WAS SOME DIFFERENCE OF OPINION AS TO JUST WHAT AND HOW MUCH WORR"SH001D BE DONE, AND P RI CES SUBM I TTEO HAD RANGED FROM $50.00 TO $500.00. IT WAS THEREFORE MOVED BY MR. CREGO THAT THE GOlF COMMITTEE BRING IN A REPORT AS TO WHAT IS NEEDED, SUBMITTING PRICES ON SAME, FOR CONSIDERATION OF THE COUNCil, AT NEXT MEETING. IN THE MATTER OF WATER COOlER FOR THE CITY HAll, IT WAS Also AGREED TO BRING IN PRICES ON VARIOUS TYPES TO BE CONSIDER!D AT NEXT MEETING. THE MAYOR ENQUIRED WHAT HAD BEEN DONE ABOUT PROVIDING A PARKING GROUND AT THE CITY PARK. MR. MillER STATED HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE COUNCil WAS FUllY DECIDED ON SAME BUT AGREED TO' GO AHEAD AND HAVE THE WORK DONE IN ACCORD WITH HIS RECOMMENDATION PREVIOUSly APPROVED BY THE COUNCil. \ ,~ :1581 COUNCIL CHAMBER NOVEMBER 14, 1940 IT WAS MOVED BY MR. MillER, SECONDED BY MR. CREGO, AND ON Roll CAll UNANIMOUSly CARRIED THAT Bills NUMBERED 6131 TO 6224, HAVING BEEN APPROVED BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, BE RETURNED TO THE COUNCil AND ORDERED PAID. IN CON~ORMITY WITH SECTION 137 OF THE CITY CHARTER, T.HE COUNCil THEN PROCEED TO CANVASS THE RETURNS OF THE PRIMARY ElECTION HElD NOVEMBER 12. J THE ElECTION BOX WAS OPENED AND THE RETURNS, AS MADE TO THE MAYOR AND CITY ClERK, DUlY SUBMITTED FOR THE COUNcil's APPROVAl, WHEREUPON IT WAS MOVED BY MR. MillER, SECONDED BY MR. Hill, AND ON Roll cAll UNANIMOUslY CARRIED THAT THE FollOWING RESoluTION BE ADOPTED. , , WHEREAS, CERTIFIED COPIES OF THE ElECTION RETURNS AS DEliVERED TO THE MAYOR AND CITY ClERK BY ElECTION OFFICIAls IN CHARGE OF THE PRIMARY ElECTION, HElD IN THE CITY OF DEIRAY BEACH ON NOVEMBER 12TH, SHOW VOTES TO HAVE BEEN CAST AS Follows FOR CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR NOMINATION: FOR COUNCI LMAN GROUP "D" FRANK CREGO 121 E.C.HAll 235 JOE PRIEST 171 ) E. H.SCOTT 385 FOR COUNCILMAN GROUP "E" D.M.BRADSH AW 124 J.M.SABATH 459 F.W.WODISCHEK 294 THE TOTAl NUMBER OF VOTES CAST BE ING 945 AND VOTES SPoilED 20, NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCil OF THE CITY OF DE1RAY BEACH, FloRIDA, THAT E.H.SCOTT BE DEClARED THE DUlY ElECTED NOMINEE FOR THE OFFICE OF COUNCilMAN, RUNNING IN GROUP "D". THAT J.M.SABATH BE DEClARED THE DUlY ElECTED NOMINEE FOR THE OFFICE OF COUNCilMAN, RUNNING IN GROUP "E". AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE CITY ClERK BE, AND IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO PlACE THE ABOVE NOMINEES' NAMES ON THE OFFICIAl BAlloT, AS CANDIDATES RUNNI.e lN THE SAIO,RESPECTIVE GROUPS ABOVE SET FORTH. .~e:::82 ..La , COUNCIL CHAMBER NOVEMBER 14, 1940 THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS TO COME BEFORE THE MEETI NG I T WAS REGulARly MOVED, SECONDED AND CARR lED THAT COUNCil ADJOURN. ~rv O).~~ CITY ClERK -' APPROVED: ~~~ MAYI1R . ," / ,