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1911-09-05 Regular CC MinutesREGULAR MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF T}fl CITY OF ALAMEDA, TUESDAY, SEPT; kB1PR 5TH, 1911. The meeting convened with Mayor W. H. Noy presiding. The roll was called and Councilmen Christensen, Walker, Krumb, Hammond, Spence and Bullock, (6), were noted present and Councilmen Ells, Morgenstern and Probst, absent. The minutes of the meeting of August 15th, 1911 were read and ordered approved. Councilmen Ells, Morgenstern and Probst arrived and were noted present. Mr. Bullock offered the following Resolution and moved its adoption:- RESOLVED, That the sum of Four thousand five hundred and thirty-six and 43/100 (04536.43) Dollars be and the same is hereby transferred from Municipal Improvement Fund No. 9 (Sewer) to the East End Intercepting Sewer Fund to pay claims for the construction of said serer, and the Auditor and the Treasurer are hereby directed to effect the said transfer upon their respective books. Mr. Christensen seconded the Resolution and it was adopted and passed by the following vote:- Ayes :Councilmen Christensen, Walker, Krumb, Hammond, Spence, Ells, Morgenstern, Probst and Bil7lock, (9). Nees:None. Absent:None. Claims against the General Fund amounting to 046.29; against the Police Fund amounting to 019.35; against the Electric Light Fund amounting to 01645.50; against the Street Fund amounting to 02663.61; against the Library Fund amounting to 82.72; against Local Improvement Fund No. 770 amounting to ,E32.29 and against Local Improvement Fund No. 772 amounting to 019.36 having been approved and audited by the proper officials were read by the Clerk as follows:- G7N7RAL FUND. Envelopes for City Justice Printing, Executive Dept Advertising Printing Labor Eroneous Sale Transcript for Assessor Stamps and ink for City Atty, Gas Switches & tolls Extension & switches Water Removing garbage Supplies ity Co. Premium on bond Total POLICE FUND. Incidental expenses ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. Printing Printin Alameda Daily Argus VT TI IT TI 111 TI Chapman, E. N. levelan3, W. E. 17 TI Inter-City Exrress Moise-Xlinkner Co. Oakland Gas Light & Heat Co. Paci4'ic Tel. & Tel. Co. IT If TT It Peoples Water Perata, P. Pioneer Sawdust Company United States Fidelity Conrad, John Alameda daily Argus It II IT TT, 3.00 2.25 .15 1.50 1.00 2.90 3.00 4.05 .20 :D.35 1.95 13.19 1.00 1.25 7.50 46.29 19.35 16.00 11.50 September 5, 1911. Brought forward - - Arthur, F. C. Signs Board of Electricity Incidentals for Aug. Clark, Herbert D. Premium on bond Crane Co. Supplies Crossoup, I. O. Supplies Dow _Pumping Engine Co., Geo. E. Lamp posts Gorham-Revere Rubber Co. Kellogg Express Co. King, A. R. Lomax, E. R. Miller & Roberts, National Brass & Conduit Co. Supplies Pacific Electric Heating Co. Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co. Tire Repair Drayage Horseshoeing Rent of Par St. Store TT TT TI It Park Garage Putzman, E. O. Rhodes-Jamieson & Co. Rickerson, A. Standard Oil Co. IT Lowering Cable on Clinton Avenue. TI II II TT yr Repairs Repairs & Supplies Feed Harness Supplies Fuel Oil 9 9 9 Gasoline Typewriter Inspection Co. Inspection & Ribbons Watson, Sidney Fire brick Weinstock-Nichols Co. Supplies Westinghouse Machine Co. Labor & Material Whittier-Coburn Co. Paint 9 9 9 Supplies Total STREET FUND. Associated Oil Co. Road Oil 4 . 247.51 9 " " Supplies 266.79 Austin-Wester Co. Ltd. The 9 35.00 Britt, W. Teming 94.50 California Corrugated Culvert Co. Supplies 381.00 9 9 9 9 9 196.25 8: Sons, N. 9 23.60 9 It It 9 12.00 9 IT 9 IT n .75 Enginger, Victor Oil Tank 25.00 Hammond, O. J. Supplies 162.95 Jamison, J. S. .Teaming 135.00 Jorgensen, P. Repairs 5.50 Miller, F. Labor 10.00 Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co. Rental 2.60 Park Garage Labor & Material 45.00 . -0,,,,,,,,,ow 1T Mynclm4Inn. if-A.R_nn 27.50 12.75 7.40 7.50 7.16 25.00 33.20 4.00 6.08 5.25 4.00 25.00 1.75 15.39 7.00 241.09 .35 2.50 19.45 3.60 1114.80 7. 4.00 15.60 6.50 34.88 4.25 2.25 1645.50 Cl IT J September 5th, 1911. Peoples Water Co. Peters, R. L. Plummer & Son, Geo. E. Secralithga, S. Stevens, A. F. Sunset Lumber Co. Sutton & Mayrisch United Works Alameda Daily argue Alameda Free Library Alameda Free Library Blake-Moffitt & Towne Cunningham-Curtis & Welch Fielding, G. Hicks-Judd Co. Hachen, R. J. Mazzini, L. Mincher, Harriet Newbcgin, John J. People n Water Co. Sherman-Clay & Strom, Carl E. Tripp, Co., John B. Volberg, C. C. Wheeler Publishing Co. LOCAL alameda Daily Argus Chpman, I. N. LOCAL Alameda Daily Argus 1 I I Browning, Geo. N. Brought forward Water Teaming Lumber labor Repairs Labor Limber Block Books Labor M1 Total - - - - 4 1778.45 86.66 270.00 11.95 160.00 12.25 10.00 39.50 265.00 29.80 - 2663.61 LIBRARY FUND. rinting supplies 12.75 Eastern Claims 63.85 Petty expenses 16.85 6upplies 7.50 1.38 Daily newspapers 6.00 Binding 17.75 Books 6.00 Supplies 9.75 Set of mars 10.00 Books 28.78 Water 2.56 Book 1.35 Electrical work 23.20 Books 44.00 Rent 25.00 Books 6.00 ?I Total - IMPROVEMENT FUND NO. 770. Printing Fees Total - - IMPROVEMENT FUND NO. 772. Advertising Printing Notices Posting Notices Total - Mr. Bullock moved that the clal carried by the following vote:- Ayes Spence, Ells, Morgenstern, Probst and $ 282.72 • 12.00 370.29 _ 4; 382.29 1.36 15.00 3.00 19.36 as read he paid, seconded by Mr.' Walker and :Councilmen Christensen, Walker, 7rumb, Hammond, Bullock (9). Noes:None. Absent: None. The Poundmaster presented a report for the month ending August 31st, 1911. Ordered filed. A policy in the amount of ,3200 was received from the Royal Insurance Company insuring the police patrol and ambulance, Ordered filed. A communication was received from the Third National Conservation Congress September of Alameda to na three representatives to said Congress. Mr. Probst moved that the Mayor be authorized to appoint three delegates, seconded by Mr. Hammond and carried. Street Superintendent V. M. Frodden presented a request for a vacation of two week to comnence September 11th, 1911. Ir. Krumb moved it be granted, second- ed by Mr. Walker and carried. The following made applications for gratuitous licenses:- Dr. W. A. M. Dunbar & Son to sell Dunbar's Veterinary Remedies. James Casey to peddle shoe strings, pencils, and notions. Mr. Ells moved that they be granted, seconded by Mr. Hammond and carried. The Clerk o ted that the contract for supplying feed for the horses of the Fire Department would expire on October 19th, 1911, and thereupon Mr. Probst moved that the Clerk be directed to advertise for bids for the said supplies for the ensuing year, seconded by Mr. Walker and carried. Eeports were received from the Chief of the Fire Department and also from the Sanitary Inspector regarding the dangerous and unsanitary condition of the building owned by L. W. McGlauflin and looted on the north side of Webb Avenue about one hundred feet east of Park Street. Mr. Hammond moved that they be re- ferred to the Fire, Water and Police Committee, seconded by Mr. Probst and carried. Mr. Hammond moved that the matter of the hearing of the condemnation pro- ceedings regarding the aforementioned building be continued until the next meet- ing of the Connell, seconded by Mr. Probst and carried. A communication was received from the Police and Fire Commission stating that the telephone system between the several, fire stations was in very bad con- dition and recommended that it be rebuilt with a metallic return instead of a ground return as at present. Mr. Hammond moved that the matter be referred to the Fire, Water and Police Committee, seconded by Ells and carried. Communications were received from the Robinson Fire Apparatus Manufacturing Comnany, the Kanawha Chemical Fire Engine Manufacturing Company and the White Automobile Company recommending their respective auotmobile fire apparatus. Mr. Welker moved that the matter be referred to the Fire, Water and Police Committee, seconded by Mr. Krumb and carried. A communication was received from the Board of Electricity stating that the requests to connect the electroliers in McKinley Park for electric light service and to furnish the Chamber of Commerce with electric current for lighting their sign had been received and that the Superintendent had been instructed to do this work at his earliest convenience. Ordered filed. A communication was received from the Alameda Chamber of Commerce thanking the Council for its action in extending free lighting to the sign. in frontof their headquarters. Ordered filed. A communication was received from the Alameda Chamber of Commerce with reference to the sending of advertising matter tO the information burearu establish- ed by the 0-:land Traction Company in San Francisco and rtating that they would shortly place at the disposal of said company suitable advertising matter. Order- ed filed. September 5th, 1911. A communication was received from the Mayor suggesting that an Ordinance be adopted along sinilar Tines as those in force in San Francisco and Oakland regard- ing the movement of automobiles and other vehicles on the public streets. Mr. Hammond moved that the matter be referred to the Judiciary Committee, seconded by Mr. Christensen and carried. A connuni ation was received from the Southern Pacific Company stating that it would carry out the conditions of the agreement regarding the lighting of stations and streets crossing along their local lines. Ordered filed. The matter of the petition advocating the employment of Miss Ramsey as matron of McKinley Park was taken up. Mr. Hammond moved that the natter be referred to the Park and Playground. Committee with power to act, seconded by Mr. Walker. Mr. Morgenstern moved to amend by having any action in the matter by the Park and Playground Committee referred to the Council for confirmation. After some discussion Mr. Morgenstern withdrew his amendment and thereupon the original motion made by Mr. Hammond was put and dilly ecerried. A communication was received from the Street Committee recommending that the City Clerk be instructed to request the Southern Pacific Company to remove the bell now located at the corner of Walnut Street and Encinal Avenue. Also, that he he instructed to request the Southern Pacific Company to place a flag man at the crossing of Encine1 Avenue and Park Street. Mr. Hammond moved that the recommendations he adopted, seconded by Mr. Ells and carried. Mr. Hoover, Industrial Agent of the Southern Pacific Company addressed the Council in answer to a communication requesting information and stated that as soon as the City Attorney had returned the matter of improving Lincoln Avenue between Oak Street and Parle Street would be immediately attended to. That he would take up with his Company the natter of putting fenders on the electric cars. That he .believed that within the next few days the matter of building a station in Lincoln Park on the Boulevard would be attended to. A communication was received from Hutchinson Company to which was attached a communication from their attorneys claiming that the proceedings relating to the matter of the construction of the East End Intercepting Sewer had been irregular. Mr. Krumb moved that as the bids for the said work had been referred to the Street Committee that the said Committee be granted two weeks further time in which to make report,as it desired to consult with the City Attorney in the matter, seconded by Mr. Probst and car d. A petition was received signed by Mrs. Elizabetha Wagner and others pro- testing against the erection, etc. of electroliers in District No. 1 under Resolution of Intention No. 760. Mr. Mehrtens addressed the Council respecting the said petition and after some discussion Mr. Krumb moved that as the petition had been filed too late for consideration that it be filed and no action taken, seconded by Mr. Hammond and carried. A petition was received from property owners owning property on Centennial Avenue requesting that the said street be macadamized and otherwise improved. Mr. Krumb moved that the sane be referred to the Street Committee and Street Superintendent, seconded by Mr. Hammond and carried. Mr. KruMb stated that the Street Committee was not ready to l'elDort on the nf Intention September 5, 1911. No. 767 and reeved that it be granted two weeks further time in which to report, seconded by Mr. Christensen and, carried. The City Engineer presented an estimate of the cost and a map of the district for the improvement of the south end of Lafayette Street. Mr. Krumb moved that the matter be referred to the Street Committee, and Street Superintendent, second- ed by Mr. Ells and carried. A Bill entitled "A Bill For Ordinance No. 590 to Establish the Grade and Name a Certain Road and Street in Bay Farm Island in the City of Alameda, Cal." introduced. August 15th, 1011 by Mr. Krumb came up for passage and was read by the Clerk. Mr. Krumb moved its adoption, seconded by Mr. Walker and it was adopted and passed by the following vote:- Ayez:-Councilmen Christensen, Walker, Krumb, Hammond, Spence, 1,, ls, Morgenstern, Probst and Bullock, (9). Noes:None. Absent: None. Mr. Krumb offered the following Resolution and moved its adoption:- RESOLVED, That the public interest and convenience require and that it is the intention of the Council of the City of Alameda to order the following street work to be done in said city, namely: That Kinkenny Street on Bay Farm Island in the City of Alameda hetwenn Station No. 14 of the County Road. Survey No. 1468 and the Bay of San Francisco on the west shall be improved as follows:- That said street between said limits and to the width of fourteen (14) feet equi-distant on eaCh side of the center line thereof, shall be graded to the official grade; that said street between said limits and to said width. shall be macadamized with a layer of broken trap rock eight (8) inches in thickness, and that said macadam shall be oiled and covered with find hard rock screenings one- half (1;-) inch in thickness. The Alameda Daily Argus is hereby designed as the daily newspaper published and circulated in this City in which this Resolution, and the Street Superinten- dent's flotice of the passage thereof, shall be published. The Clerk is hereby directed to publisn thie Resolution by two successive insertions in said newspaper, and post the same for two days conspicuously near the Chamber door of this Council. Mr. Christensen seconded the esolution and it was adopted and passed by the following vote:- Ayes:Councilmen Christensen, Walker, Krum"), Hammond, Spence, Ells, Morgenstern, Probst and Bullock, (9). Noes:None. Abeent:None. Mr. Krumb offered the following Resolution and moved its adoption:-' RESOLVED, That the public interest and convenience require and that it is the intention of the Council of the City of Alameda to order the following street work to be done in said city, namely: That Pearl Street from the southern line of Lincoln Avenue to the southern line of Harrison Avenue, including the termination of Eagle Avenue in Pearl Street and the crossing of Lincoln. Avenue with Pearl Street, and excepting portions hereinafter referred to, be inTroved as follows: That the entire width of said street between said limits, where not herein- after excepted, from property line to property line, be graded to the official grade; that concrete cnrbing,eight inches by fourteen inches in cross section dimension,be constructed. on the curb lines of said street between said. limits, where not hereinafter excepted, and on the curved corners of said crossing, and tember 5th, 1911. that concrete gutters of the flat pattern, three feet in width and six inches thick, be constructed along the roadway of said street, contiguous to said curbing, between said limits, where not hereinafter excepted; that two part-circle corrugated iron culverts, one with and one without branches and handholes, shall be constructed, one on the eastern and one on the western side of the crossing of Lincoln Avenue with Pearl Street; and that a part-circle corrugated iron culvert with branches and handholes shall be constructed on the opposite termination of Eagle Avenue and Pearl Street; that the roadway of said street, between said limits and in- cluding said cros!=ing and termination, but excepting that portion herelhafter re- ferred to, and excepting that portion of said roadway occupied by gutters, be macadamized with a layer of broken trap rock eight inches in thickness. That all that portion of said street already improved, lying between the northern line of Lincoln Avenue and the northern line of Buena Vista Avenue, and all that portion oceupied by the tracks of the S. E. R. R. Company, lying northerly from the northerly line of Clement Avenue, produced easterly to the easterly line of Pearl Street, and a line twenty-eight and 30/100 (28.30) feet northerly from and parallel with the northerly line of Blanding Avenue, produced easterly to the easterly line of Pearl Street shall be excepted from the improvement ordered hereunder. That said culverts to be constructed hereunder shall be of part-circle corrugated iron, in accordance with Plan and specifications for corrugated iron part-circle culverts" adopted by the Council of the City of Alameda, May 3rd, 1910, and on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Alameda, which plan is hereby referred to and made a part hereof. The Alameda Daily Argue is hereby designated as the daily newspaper pub- lished and circulated in this City in which this resolution , and the Street Superintendent's Notice of the passage thereof, shall be published. The Clerk is hereby directed to publish this Resolution by two successive insertions in saia newspaper, and post the same for two days conspicuously neat the Chamber door of this Council. Mr. Walker seconded the Resolution and it was adopted and passed by the following vote:- Ayes: Councilmen Christensen, Walker, Krumb, Hammond, Spence, Ells, Morgenstern, Probst and Bullock, (9). Noes:None. Absent :None. Mr. Bullock introduced a Bill entitled "A Bill For Ordinance No. Calling and Providing For A Special Election To Be Held in the City of Alameda, State of California on the day of , 1911, to Submit to the Qualified Voters of said City the Proposition of Incurring a Bonded Indebtedness in the Sums and for the Purposes Specified as Follows:" which was laid over under the provisions of the Charter. Mr. Spence moved that the petition of G. Beocconi for a refund of license presented at the meeting of August 15th be denied, seconded by Mr. Probst and carried. Mr. Hammond reported that the matter of the communication received from L. J. Burgk, of 3257 Eneinal Avenue asking what inducements could be offered toward the establishment of a scale factory in Alameda. had been referred to the Chamber rInwimarno September 5th, Mr. Bullock moved that the Finance Committee ve empowered to have the books of the Municipal Electric Licht Plant experted, seconded, by Mr. STence and carried by the following vote:- Ayes :Councilmen Christensen, Walker, Krumb, Hammond, Spence, Ells, Morgenstern, Probst and Bullock, (9). Noes:None. Absent:None. Mr. Probst moved that the Clerk be directed to have published in full in the city official paper the Local Improvement Act providing for the erection of electroliers, seconded by hr. Walker and carried by the following vote:- Ayes: Councilmen Christensen, Walker, Krumb, Hammond, Spence, Ells, Morgenstern, Probst and Bullock, (9). Noes:None. Absent:None. There being no further business to transact the Council adjourned until the next regular meeting, Tuesday, September 19th, 1911 at 7:30 P. M. City Clerk.