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12-11-40 Adjourned Regular 1600 COUNCIL CHAMBER DECEMBER 11,1940 THE COUNCil MET IN ADJOURNED REGUlAR SESSION AT 7:30 P.M. WITH THE FollOWING MEMBERS PRESENT: MR. BRADSHAW, MR.CREGO, MR. JACOBS AND MR. MillER. COUNCilMAN Hill AND THE CITV ATTOR~V WERE ABSENT. Mv BVRD APPEARED BEFORE THE MEMBERS, ASKING WHAT DECIS_ ION HAD BEEN ~EACHED IN REGARD TO GRANTING OF SPECIAl PERMIT FOR WAll AT REAR OF MR. C. L. LA BOITEAUX'S PROPERTY. MR. BRADSHAW WAS IN FAVOR OF THE COUNCil GRANTING THE pmMIT. THE MAVOR RECOMMENDED THAT THE WAll BE BRACED. MR. BVRD SAID HIS CliENT WAS PERFECTlv WilliNG TO PlACE ABUTMENTS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE WAIL THE BUilDING INSPECTOR STATED 'THAT CODE REl!UIREMENTS CAllED FOR BRACING EVERV TWElVE FEET. IT WAS FINAllv MOVED BV MR. BRADSHAW THAT SPECIAl PERMIT BE GRANTED C. L. LA BOITEAUX FOR RETAINING WAl', AS NOW CONSTRUCTED ON HIS PROPERTY. MR. MillER SECONDED THE MOT ION, AND ON Roll CAll THE VOTE WAS AS Follows: MR. BRADSHAW YES, MR. CREGO YES, MR. JACOBS YES, MR. MillER YES. THE MOTION CARRIEO. THE MAVOR ENqUIRED WHETHE R BRAC I NG WOUlD BE DEMANDED'AND THE MEMBERS THOUGHT IT SHoulo NOT BE RE,<UIR,ED. MR. BVRD ADV I SED THAT THE PR OPOSE 0 pIA T OF "WATERWAV LANE" HAD BEEN SO AMENDED THAT THE lOT liNES OF LOT "6-A" HAD BEEN ERASED AND THIS lOT THROWN INTO AND MADE PART OF THE VACHT BASIN, WHICH HAD BEEN ,DEDICATED, IN ITS ENTIRETV, TO THE CITV. IN THIS WAY THE CITV'S REl!UEST FOR DEDICATION TO THE PUBliC, OF SAID STRIP OF WATERWAV, HAD BEEN COMPliED Wtr H. THE AMENDED PlAT WOUlD BE PRESENTED TO THE COUNCil FOR FI NAl APPROVAl, BEFORE RECORDING, HE SAID. COUNCilMAN MillER BROUGHT UP THE MATTER OF DOCKAGE FACiliTIES AT THE VACHT BASIN, STATING THAT THE CITV HAD MORE DOCK SPACE THAN WAS BEING USED AND THAT ADDITIONAl BOATS COUlD BE ACCOMMODATED IF THERE WERE ~ORE DOCKS FOR THEM TO TIE UP AT. HE SAID ANOTHER 20xlO FOOT DOCK COUlD BE PROVIDED, TO TAKE CARE OF THE lARGER BOATS, AT A COST OF $78.00, AND IN ADDITIGN SOME CONCRETE ANCHORS COUlD BE PlACED FURTHER OUT IN THE VACHT BASIN WHERE SMAll BOATS COUlD TIE UP. HE SAID THESE WOUlD COST $10.00 EACH BUT THAT PROBABly THE C ITV COU'.D MAKE FOUR OF SUCH FOR #20.00. HE RECOMMENDED THAT THESE ADDITIONAl DOCKS, CONCRETE ANCHORS AND CHAINS BE PROVIDED, FOR DOCKAGE NEEDS. 'MR. CREGO MOVED THAT COUNCilMAN MillER'S RECOMMENDATION BE APPROVED AND THIS WORK BE DONE. MR. BRADSHAW SECONDED THE MOTION AND ON Roll CAll THE VOTE WAS AS FoiHows: MR. BRADSHA W YES, MR. CREGO YES, MR. JACOBS YES, MR. MillER YES. THE MOTION CARRIED. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PARKS CO~ITTEE REPORTED, Also, THAT' ONlY FIFTEEN OF THE TWENTY-ONE CHAIRS AT THE BEACH PAViliON F',F';, COUNCIL CHAMBER OECEMBER 11,1940 1.601 WERE WORTH FIXING, AND RECOMUENDED THAT THESE BE REPAIRED AND TWENTY-SIX NEW CHAIRS BE PURCHASED FOR THE WINTER SEASON. HE RECOMMENDED THAT BOB BRITT BE EMPlOYED TO DO THIS WORK AND AFTER DfSCUSSION, IT WAS MOVED BY MR. CREGO THAT THE FIFTEEN 010 CHAIRS BE REPAI REO AT A PRICE OF $26.25 AND THAT BOB BRITT BE EMPlOYED TO MAKE 26 NEW CHAIRS AT A PRICE OF $3.00 EACH. MR. BRADSAAW SECONDED THE MOTION AND ON Roll cAll THE VOTE WAS AS FOllows: MR. BRADSHAW YES, MR. CREGO YES, MR. JACOBS YES, MR. MillER YES. THE MOTION CARRIED. MR. MillER REPORTED, FURTHER, THAT All THE CEMENT BENCHES AUTHORIZED FOR THE BOUlEVARD HAD BEEN COMPlETED AND PUT IN PlACE, AND HE PRESENTED Bill OF CARl PRICE FOR $85.00 COVERING COST. MR. MillER REPORTED THAT A SKISH ClUB WAS BEING ORGAN- IZED AND PERMISSION HAD BEEN A SKED FOR THE USE OF THE CITY PARK TO PlAY IN. HE SAID AI' THEY WANTED WAS TO PUT UP THEIR TARGETS AND PlAY ON THE PARK GROUNDS. MR. CREGO MOVEO THAT PERMISSION BE GRANTED. MR. MillER SECONDED THE MOTION, WHI CH CARRIED UN AN IMOUSlY ON Roll CAll. [ ~ , COUNCilMAN MillER Also ASKED THAT THE FOOTBAll SqUAD BE GRANTED USE OF STERliNG PARK FOR PlAY AND FOOTBAll PRACTICE FIElD. HE SAID IT WAS THE INTENTION OF PARENTS AND INTERESTED PARTIES TO CONDTTION AND BEAUTIFY THE FIElD WITHOUT COST ro THE CITY, IF THE BOYS WERE PERMITTED TO USE IT. MR. BRADSHAW MOVED THAT PERMISSION BE GRANTED PROVIDED ITS USE WAS IN ACCORD WITH DEED GIVEN TO THE CITY BY MR. STERliNG. THE MOTION 'WAS lOST FOR WANT OF A SECOND. MR. MillER THEN MOVED THAT THE SCHool FOOT-BAll TEAM BE AllOWED TO DEVElop ANO USE STERliNG PARK, TEMPORARilY, UNTil IT WAS NEEDED FOR OTHER PURPOSES. MR. CREGO SECONDED THE MOTION AND ON Roll CAll THE VOTE WAS AS Follows: MR. BRADSHAW NO, MR. CREGO YES, MR. JACOBS YES, MR. MillER YES. THE MOTION WAS OEclAREO CARRIED. , , THE qUESTION OF PARKING SPACE IN THE CITY PARK WAS 'AGAIN REVIVED,AND MR. CREGO qUESTIONED WHY THE STREET HAD NOT BEEN BUilT ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE BANK STAND AS PREVIOUSlY AUTHORIZED By THE COUNCil. COUNCilMAN BRADSHAW REPliED THAT THE MATTER HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP AGAIN, AND AN AlTERNATIVE pIAN PRESENTED FOR PARKING ON EIGHTH AVENUE, SI NCE MANY OF THE BUS- INESS OWNERS IN THE VICINITY WERE UNFAVORABlE TO PARKING IN THE CITY PARK. MR. MillER REPORTED HAVING TAlKED TO VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE RECREATION ClUB, AND All HAD BEEN AGREEABlE TO SPACE IN THE PARK, THE ENTRANCE AND EXIT TO SAME, TO BE FROM THE NORTH END. AFTER CONSIDERABlE DISCUSSION IT WAS MOVED BY MR. MI'lER THAT THE PREVIOUS MOTION OF OCTOBER 28TH, MAKING RECOMMENDATION AS TO PARKING GROUND, BE RESCINDED. MR. BRADSHAW SECONDED THE MOT ION AND ON Roll CAll THE VOTE WAS AS Follows: MR. BRADSHAW YES, MR. CREGO YES, MR. JACOBS YES, MR. MI'IER YES. THE MOTION CARRIED. ....,~ COUNC IL CHAMBER 1602 DECEMBER 11,1940 IT WAS THEN MOVED BY MR. MillER THAT THE plAN OF PARKING CARS IN THE CITY PARK BE CHANGED SO THAT CARS SHAll ENTER AND lEAVE THE PARKING GROUND FROM THE SOUTH SIDE OF FIRST STREET AT THE NORTH END OF THE PARK. MR. CREGO SECONDED THE MOTION, AND ON Roll CAll THE VOTE WAS AS Follows: MR. BRADSHAW NO, MR. CREGO YES, MR. JACOBS YES, MR. MillER YES. THE MOTION CARRIED. BIOS ON HOT WATER HEATER, FOR THE FIREMEN'S qUARTERS WERE RE CE I VED AS Follows: FROM FlA. POWER & LIGHT COMPANY 18 GAl HOT POINT, SqUARE WITH 2 ElEMENTS 1500 WATTS EACH, ORIGINAl PRICE-$97.00 REDUCED TO $82.50 \ SOUTHERN ElECTRIC CO. 20 GAl ROUNO DOUBlE UNIT WATER HEATER $73.00 r IT WAS MOVED BY MR. CREGO THAT THE BID OF SOUTHERN ElECTRIC COM- PANY BE ACCEPTED. MR. BRADSHAW SEOONDED THE MOTION AND ON Roll CAll THE VOTE WAS AS Follows: MR. BRADSHAW YES, MR. CREGO YES, MR. JACOBS YES, MR. MillER YES, THE MOTION CARRIED. THE CITY ENGINEER REPORTED IT HAD BEEN NECESSARY TO EMPlOY THE DE' RAY PlUMBING & SPECIAlTY COMPANY TO MOVE ROOF lEADER SEWER TO PERMIT THE TElEPHONE COMPANY TO CHANGE lOCATION OF POlE, NECESSITATEO ON THE WEBB BUilDING JOB. A BI'1 OF $20.98 HAD THEREFORE BEEN INCURRED AND WAS DUE THE PlUMBING COMPANY FOR THIS SEWER WORK. QUESTION HAD ARISEN AS TO WHO WAS 'IABIE FOR THIS EXPENSE, AND MR. CROMER ASKED THE COUNCil TO DECIDE. AFTER DISCUSSION, IT WAS MOVED BY MR. MillER THAT THE CITY Bill THE TElEPHONE COMPANY WITH.THIS EXPENSE. MR. BRADSHAW SEC0NDED THE MOTION, AND ON Roll CAll, THE" VOTE WAS AS FOllows: MR. BRADSHAW YES, MR. CREGO YES, MR. JACOBS YES, MR. MillER YES. THE MOTION CARRIEO. A RE,<UEST WAS RECEIVEO FROM MR. ZOOK, ASKING THAT FRONTAGE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF ATlANTIC AVENUE RUNNING EAST FROM THE CANAl TO WITHIN 100 FEET WEST OF GlEASON STREET, BE CHANGED TO INClUDE lOCAl BUSINESS, AS WE!' AS APARTMENTS. THE ClERK WAS INSTRUCTED TO ADVISE MR. ZOOK THAT IT WAS NECESSARY FOR A $15.00 FEE TO ACCOMPANY SUCH A RE,<UEST TO THE ZONING COMMISSION. THE ClERK Also ASKED INSTRUCTIGNS AS TO ISSUANCE OF liCENSE TO MRS. K. R. MONTGOMERY IN SAID APARTMENT HOUSE ZONE, AND IN T4E DISCUSS ION WHICH FOlloWEO, IT '/liAS STATED THAT SINCE THE BUilDING WAS lOCATED UNOER A TEMPORARY PERMIT AND HAD AlWAYS BEEN USED FOR BUSINESS, .THERE SHoulD BE NO OBJECTION TO CONTINUING ITS TEMPORARY USE OF BUS INESS PURPOSES. IT WAS ACCORDINGlY MOVED BY MR. BRADSHAW THAT THE PARTIES OCCUPYING 1603 .~... COU~~C I L CHAMBER DECEMBER 11,1940 THE PREMISES BE GRANTED OCCUP~TIONAl liCENSE FOR 1940-41. MR. MillER SECONDED THE MOTION, AND ON Roll CAll THE VOTE WAS AS Follows: MR. tlRADSHAW YES, MR. CREGO YES, MR. JACOBS YES, MR. MillER YES. THE MOTION CARRIEO. MR. CREGO MOVED THAT PERMIT BE GRANTED O.E.HARVEl, FOR MOVING OF HOUSE FROM THE REAR OF LOT 9 BloCK 5 TO tOTS 3 & 4, BlOCK 8, DEll PARK, THE BUilDING INSPECTOR HAVING ASSURSD- THE COUNCil THAT SAME WOU'D COMPlY WITH All THE ORDINANCES AND PROVISIONS OF THE BUilDING CODE. MR. MillER SECONDEO MR. CREGO'S MOTION, ANO ON Roll CAll THE VOTE WAS AS FOllOWS: MR. BRADSHAW YES, MR. CREGO YES, MR. JACOBS YES, MR. MillER YES. THE MOTION CARRIEO. c' , MR. SINKS SUBM I TT ED REQUE ST OF THE OWNER OF THE WEST 3BO FEET OF THE S~ OF OCEAN BEACH lOT 19 AND THE N~ OF 20, ASKING THAT THE COUNCil ABANOON TH~T PORTION OF BRONOSON AVENUE RUNNING SOUTH FROM THE COMMUNITY CHURCH TO THE WI'lIAMSON-DIEBEI SUBDIVISION, AND PERMIT HIM TO TAKE THIS STREET PROPERTY AND USE IT IN A PRIVATE UIIlA DEVEloPMENT OF SIXTY OR SIXTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOllARS, WHICH HE CONTEMPlATES. THE COUNC lIMEN WERE GENERAllY FAVORABlE TO GRANTING THE REqUEST, BUT MR. MillER STATED THAT BEFORE DOING SO HE WOUlD liKE THE COUNCil TO CONTACT THE DEVEloPERS OF THE WilliAMSON-DIEBEl PROPERTY IN AN EFFORT TO PERSUADE THEM TO MOVE THE HOUSE lOCATED AT THE 0 EAD END OF BRONOSON AVENUE ANO PERMIT THE STREET TO CONTINUE THROUGH THEIR PROPERTY AS HE WAS NOT IN FAVOR OF ANY DEAD-END STREETS. IT WAS AGREED TO DO TH I S BEFORE TAKING ACTION ON THE RE,<UEST. THE NEED OF PASSING AN ORDINANCE REGUlATING THE HEIGHT OF HEOGES AND FENCeS CAME UP FOR 0 ISCU 55 ION BUT NO ACTION WAS TAKEN. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. BRAOSHAW, SECONDED BY MR. MillER AND ON RoIJ CAll, UNANIMOUslY CARRIED, THAT MRS. STER'ING'S COMMUNICATION IN THIS REGARD, BE FilED FOR FUTURE CONSIOERATION. THE ClERK REPORTED THAT MR. MARR'S WATER METER HAD BEEN INSPECTED ANO FOUNO TO BE IN GOOD WORKING ORDER, AND THAT MR. MARR, THEREUPON, HAD PAID HIS NOVEMBER WATER Bill OF $13.80. No ACTION WAS DEEMED NECESSARY BY THE COUNCil. THE ClERK SUBMITTEO APpliCATION OF MAGGIE FAIR FOR WATER CONNECTION IN THE "MAGGIE Ro'IE SUBD." SECTION 17. SHE STATEO IT WOU'D REqUIRE APPROXIMATElY 250 FEET OF 2-INCH PIPE AND SHE q:UESTIONED WHETHER THE COUNCil WAS WI,lING TO MAKE SUCH AN EXPENDITURE FOR ONE WATER CONSUMER. By MOTION OF MR. BRADSHAW, SECONDED BY MR. Mi'lER AND ON Roll CAll, UNANIMOuSlY CARRIED, THE MATTER WAS REFERRED TO MR. BAKER TO MAKE RECOMM~NDATIONcBACK TO THE COUNCil. MR. MilleR REPORTED HAVING RECEIVED COMPlAINTS FROM RESIDENTS, ON THE NORTH FEDERAl HIGHWAY, REGARDING THE "CITY 1604 COUNC I L CHAMBER OECEMBER 11,1940 .' LIMITS" SIGN AT THAT END OF TOWN, STATING IT WAS lOCATED CONSIDERABlv SOUTH OF THE NORTH CITY liNE, AND THAT THEY HAD ASKED THAT IT BE MOVED TO 'MiERE IT BElONGED. I T WAS ACCORDINGly MOVED BY MR. MillER, SECONDED BY MR. BRADSHAW, AND ON Roll CAll, UNANIMOUsly CARRIEO THAT MR. BAKER BE INSTRUCTED TO MOVE SAID ,SIGN UP TO THE ACTUAl liNE OF THE NORTH CITY liMITS. THE MAYOR REPORTED HAVING lOANED THE STEPS OF THE HAlloWEEN JUDGE'S STAND TO THE MUSIC TEACHER OF THE PUBliC SCHOOl, FOR USE IN CONNECT ION WITH CHRISTMAS EXERCISES. MR. BAKER WAS AUTHORIZED TO TRANSPORT THESE BACK AND FORTH FROM THE SCHool. () THE MAYOR STATEO THE CH IEP OF Poll CE ASKEO AUTHOR ITY FOR OVERHAUliNG OF THE POliCE CAR BY THE FORD COMPANY. THE ME~ERS RECOMMEND ED THAT THIS WORK BE DONE BY THE CITY'S OWN MECHANIC, JOHN GREGORY, IF POSSIBlE, AND IF NOT, UPON HIS RECOMMENDATION, THAT IT BE SENT TO DEl RAY MOTORS FOR NECESSARY REPA IRS. IN THE ABSENCE OF MR. Hill, THE MAYOR APPOINTED A. L.'MI'IER AS MEMBER OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, PRO TEM. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. MIl'ER TH AT Bills NUMBER EO 6264 THROUGH 6314, H AV I NG BEEN AP PROVED BY THE F I NANCE COMM I TTEE , BE RETURNED TO THE COUNCIl AND ORDERED P~ID. COUNCil ADJOURNED. ~A h 0 -eJ.G 1YrM~ CITY ClERK APPROVED: ~~~ '.