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1913-09-16 Regular CC MinutesO6 REGULAR MEETING OP THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OP ALAMEDA TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16TH, 1913. The meeting convened with Mayor Frank Otis presiding. The Roll was called and Councilmen Bartlett, MacRae, Morgenstern, Morris, Roth and Stewart, (6 )were present and Councilmen Bullock, Hammond and Probst, (3) were noted absent. The last three named arrived during the read- ing of the Minutes and were noted present. The Minutes of the regular meeting held September 2nd, 913 were approv- ed as read. The following report from the Finance Committee was received.and read and upon motion of Mr. Bartlett, seconded by Mr. MacRae ordered filed:- "Alameda California. September 16th, 1913. "Gentlemen:- Your Committee to whom the estimate of the various departments of the City government for exoenses for the fiscal year of 1913-1914 referred, beg leave to submit the following report:- 1 9 1 3 Auditor and Assessor....... Building Inspector.....,,,, City Attorney... City City Justice......... COuncil Expenditures. Fire Alarm.. 060404049 Fire.... ............. 000 • 00* Mayor...000•0000004 90 Pound... .01.04 4 0 9 4 04 O 9* 41* O 40 O 00 O 90 900 690 400 690 404 O 49 O 00 *90 404 O 90 906 GENERAL FUND. * 0* 660 • 0.09040 O 0•006000 9000 • O 00900000 00000 O 060 00•4•4 6 046 • 964 00.900 90•60 • 490066000 40** * 0606 60.460 4** 60 •••••4660000 ••••••000•0004 O 00.4000449 0060 • 004,0040 09090 o 4 0604+000 400 90 Treasurer and Tax Collector.... ...................., City Estimated Revenue........... Net General Fund.. settot$0,10,0 0 6147.00 350.00 2475.00 2300.00 2025.00 1640.00 1200.00 50673.00 2102.00 1240.00 33674.00 1950.00 4800.00 22500.40 Geheral Fund ..... 04044004004046000000 Health F . . . . . . . . .und. 04400600000404066 Library Pund...... 00106.06 4)**600490469 Interest & Redemption Fund.... .04 40000 Recreation Street Probst called Amount 87,719.00 6,265.00 11,250.00 39 180.62 16,325.00 40,835.00 e!N was 0.33,076.00 45,357.00 87,719.00 Rate. .4536 .0325 .0583 .1892 .0846 .2118 1.0300 Respectfully submitted, F. H. Bartlett, Chairman. Conrad. Roth. Chas. W. MacRae. Finance Committee." up the natter of a Petition submitted by residents of the West End asking that a hook and ladder truck be provided for that section of the City. Mr. Probst moved that 0,000 be included in the budget for the purchase of the desired apparatus seconded by ]r. Hammond and lost September 16th, 1913. Noes:Councilmen Bartlett, MacRae, Morgenetern, Morris, Roth ancl. Stewar (6). Absent:None. Mr. Bartlett moved that the Petition be filed, seconded by Mr. Probst and carried. Mr. Probst introduced the following Resolution:- 4HAREAS, the electors of the City of Alameda at the last Municipal Election, voted favorably for a Commission form of government in this City and WHEREAS, it is the sense of this Oouncil that they favor the Com mission form of government now therefore be it RESOLVED That the sum of Seventy-five Hundred (7500) Dollars of the Contingent Fund be put aside by the Auditor of the City of Alameda for the purpose of holding a Freeholders and Charter Election as soon as possible. After a discussion of the Resolution, Mr. Probst moved that the matter lay over until the next meeting and that in the meantime the City Attorney prepare an opinion as to the powers of the Council in the premises and as to the effect such Charter election would have, if successful on certain rights of the City, seconded by Er. Bartlett and carried. Mr. Bartlett introduced the following Resolution and moved its adoption:- RESOLVED, That the taxes for the City of Alameda, be and are here- by levied for the current fiscal year as follows:- On each 100.00 of the Assessed. Valuation of all property both real and personal, in the City of Alameda and all property assessed on the Assessment roll of said City for the current fiscal year a tax of 01.03 which is hereby apportioned as follows:- General Fund................ 0004)460e.,04,4*4000000000W Street .4536 .2118 and separately there shall be levied for the following purposes Health Pund. **00400Seem*.es.000O0000000ef#0*000000000.0 .0325 Library Fund... .00o0.0***0.000000000.0e4.000iO000e8.0 .0583 Interest and Redemption......................... ....... .1892 Recreation Fund..•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••....... .0846 Mr. Stewart seconded the motion to adopt the Resolution and it was passed and adopted by the following vote:- Ayes:Councilmen Bartlett, Bullock, Hammond, MacRae, Morgenstern, Morris, Probst, Roth and. Stewart, (9). Noes:None. Absent:None. Claims against the General Fund amounting to 47.66; against the Police Fund amounting to 088.95; against the Electric Light Fund amount- ing to 0154.40; against the Street Fund amounting to 02015.60; against the Health Fund amounting to 0121.27; against Local Improvement Fund Nos. 780-782 amounting to 085.00 and against Municipal Improvement Fund No. 10 (Electric) amounting to .:183.00 having been approved and audited by the proper officials were read by the Clerk as follows:- GENERAL FUND. California Oil &c Burner Co. Fuel Oil 0 12.75 2O September 16th, 1913. Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co. Rental and switches $ 2.33 Peoples aater Company Water 21.08 .-3 37.66 Conrad, John Swanson, A. B. Moore ? Co., Chas. C. TV VP TT It 111 Westinghouse Machine Co. Total - POLICE FUND. Incidental expenses Vacation special Total ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. $ 13.55 75.40 • 88 -v 9 • $ Supplies 29.62 94.48 30.30 Total ------------154.40 11 Inspecting Turbine STREET FUND. Associated Oil Co. Road Oil 258.03 Clark & Sons, N. Supplies 54.96 Dearborn Chemical Co. TV 21.75 Empire Foundry Co. TT 102.00 Hammond, C. J. Gravel and cement 43.90 Pacific States Refineries Gasoline 8.23 Peoples Water Company Water 31.12 Rhodes-Jamieson & Co. Material 358.15 TV IT TV IV TV 341.05 9 9 9 9 9 196.30 Standard Corrugated Pipe Co. Culverts 212.50 IT TV TV 11 11 273.12 Stone & Co., E. B. & A. L. Rock 44.02 Sunset Lumber & Mill Co. Lumber 49.22 Vocburgh, L. W. Hardware 9.25 Wood Lumber Co., E. K. Lumber 6.00 9 9 It 9 9 11 6.00 Total - - - .-. 2015.60 HEALTH FUND. Cranston, A. R. Services as Sanitary Inspector .,P 6 28.80 Godfrey, Matilda Labor 10.25 Konigshofer, L. A. Cheese cloth 2.95 Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co. Tolls and rental 1.42 Parisian Laundry Laundry 9.55 Rienecker, N. Assg. F. Allen Services 6.00 Schultis, Frank Labor 9,00 Secretary Board of Health Transportation 20.80 Times Star Co. Printing 24.00 II IV TV TV 8.50 Total - - - 121.27 LOCAL IMPROVEMENT FUND NOS. 780 - 782. DeLorme, G. V. Clerical aork 85.00 MUNICIPAL ITPROVEEENT FUND NO. 10, (EL:LTRIC). September 16th, 1913. Mr. Bartlett moved that the claims as read be paid, seconded by Mr. MacRae and carried by the following vote:- Ayes:Councilmen Bartlett, Bullock, Hammond, MacRae, Morgenstern, Morri.sProbst, Roth and Stewart, (9). Noes: None. Absent:None. The Poundmaster report for the month of August, 1913 was received and ordered filed. The Auditor's Balance Sheet for the month ending August 31st was received and ordered filed. Oaths of Office were received from the following and ordered filed: - J. 1. Sedgley, as member of the Board of Health. 'Alen E. Langren, as member of the Recreation Commission. ''Geo. d. Christensen, as Deputy City Clerk. A communication from Allen E. Langren thanking the City Council for appointing her a member of the Recreation Commission was received and filed. The application of John Sath for a position in the parks and pia grounds in the City was received and referred to the Recreation Commission. A communication from the City Auditor under date of September 5th, 1913,notifying the Council that the correct rate for the Bond interest and redemption to be used in the coming tax levy is .1892 was received, read and filed. \ ° A communication from the City officials of Venice relative to the Convention to be held there by the League of California Municipalities and the State Board of Health from October 6th to llth was received and the Clerk instructed to answer same. .A communication from the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners re- commending that two policies covering insurance on automobiles in the service of the police and fire departmentswhich policies were annexed to the communication, be accepted was read and referred to the Finance Committee. A communication from 3. C. Mills requesting that the Council approve his plan to transfer his liquor license from 2170 Encinal Avenue to Bay Station was referred to the License Committee. An application from E. C. Mills for a license to sell liquors at 1205 Lincoln Avenue was received and referred to the License Committee. A communication from Charles Adams, together with a protest against the plan of E. C. Mills to transfer his liquor license to Bay Station was received and referred to the License Committee. AA communication from A. E. Craig of 2215 Encinal Avenue, relative to a liquor store at Walnut Street Station was received and referred to the License Committee. A communication from the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Alameda asking that the Council investigate an alleged outrage perpetrated at the boat house at the foot of Ninth Street was received and referred to the Chief of Police. 20' September 16th, 1913. the Board of Health in which that Body requested the re-enactment of the dog muzzling Ordinance. Mr. Bullock moved that the City Attorney be in- structed to prepare a Bill for such Ordinance, seconded by Mr. Probst and carrie(t. ''An opinion from the City Attorney, prepared at the request of the Mayor, defining a Commission under the Charter and a Commis ion as created by Ordinance was received and ordered filed. E' A communication from John Sorenson of 4041 Pacific Avenue, address- ed. to the City Clerk, having to do with plan of mutual fire insurance for the City)was received and ordered filed. A communication from the Alameda Improvement Club under date of September llth, 1913 urging that the Council include in the Budgetlmoney necessary for the election of Freeholders was received and filed. An application from Henry R. Fowler of 1345 Weber Street for a Gratuitous License to sell a patent clothes drier was granted, same having been endorsed and :recommended by the Chief of Police. A communication under date of September 16th, 1913, was received from the City Attorney in which he gave notice that he had at the request of the Board of Electricity,prepared a Resolution that would delegate to the Board authority to sell at public auction personal property of the Department of Electricity deemed unfit for further use by the City. A copy of the Resolution accompanied the communication. Mr. Morgenstern introduced the Resolution as follows and moved its adoption:- RESOLVF,D that the Board of Electricity of the City of Alameda be, and it hereby is, authorized and empowered to sell at public auction, after advertising for five days, any personal property acquired for the Department of Electricity that may be unfit or unnecessary for the use of the City. Mr. Hammond seconded the motion to adopt tILe Resolution and it was -oassed and adonted by the following vote:- Ayes:Councilmen Bartlett Bullock, Hammond, fiacRae, Morgenstern, Morris, ?rot, Roth and Stewart, (9). Noes:None. Absent:None. A communication was received from the City Attorney.relative to the proposed widening of Santa Clara venue at Webster Street, together . with a Resolution of Intention and alternative plats of proposed Assess- ment Districts prepared by the Oity Engineer. All were on motion of Mr. Probst, seconded by Mr. Roth referred to the Street Committee to take up with the owners of the property required for the proposed widening with a view to ascertain if some other form of settlement other than condemnation proceedings could not be had. The Street Committee was instructed to act in the matter without delay and to be prepared to report at the next rneot:ing of the Committee of the Whole of the Coun October 3rd, 1913. communication from F. . Knower under date of September 16th, — 4-11c1 17/4AnInlinn. was received and filed. Upori written request permission was granted. SeTterther 16 p -intendent V. M. Frodden to take a vacation of two weeks, same to commence Monday September 22nd, 1913 and extend to October 6th, 1913. 0A report was received from the Street Superintendent certifying that the work of constructing a sewer in Brush Street from the existing manhole in Third. Street to a point 225 feet easterly therefrom, done by C. F. Fischer under Resolution of Intention No. 14, New Series had been completed to the satisfaction of the Street Superintendent. Ordered filed. A report was received and filed from the Street Superintendent certifying that the work of putting a 2-inch asphaltic concrete top on the Hassan) pavement on the Webster Street roadway, and constructing a redwood curbing on the west side of the roadway, done by Ransom) rummey Company, under private contract had been completed to the satisfaction of the Street Superintendent. The following report from the Street Committee wasreceived and read:- "Alameda, Cal., September 12, 1912. Gentlemen:- In the matter of opening San Antonio Avenue through to Burbank Street, which was referred to your Street Committee, we find upon examina- tion, that the opening is a public necessity. When the South Shore Land Company was given the right by the Council to close up the west end of San Antonio Avenue that company promised in return to open a street along the bay shore from 8th Street to 9th Street. This agreement the company has not been able to keep, therefore, your Street Committee recommends that the Council direct the City Clerk to write a letter to the South Shore Land Company asking them to re-open San Antonio Avenue into Burbank Street. Respectfully submitted. Chas. W. MacRae, Conrad Roth, G. W. Stewart. Street Committee." Mr. Probst moved that the report be adopted and that the City Clerk be di- rected to write the South Shore Land Company requesting the re-opening of San Antonio Avenue into Burbank Street, seconded by Mr. Bullock and carried by the following vote:- Ayes:Councilmen Bartlett, Bullock, Hammond, MacRae Morgenstern, Morris, Probst, Roth and. Stewart, (9). Noes:None. Absent:None. A communication under date of September 10th was read from the Street Superintendent in which he suggested that new proceedings be started for the improvement of Pearl Street from the northerly line of Buena Vista Avenue to the southerly line of Harrison Avenue and including the crossing of Lincoln Avenue with Pearl Street. Mr. Bartlett moved that the communication be referred to the Street Committee seconded by September 16th, 1913. The City Clerk was authorized to advertise for bids for supplying feed for the horses of the Fire Department. -A protest against the proposed re-macadamizing of Alameda Avenue at the expense of the property owners, bearing the names of eighty-five persons was received and ordered filed. ee A protest against the propose e re-paving of Central Avenue, at the expense of the property owners, bearing the names of fortynine persons was received and ordered filed. -, A Bill having to do with the regulation of the construction of bill- boards entitled "A Bill for Ordinance No. New Series, to Amend. Section 744 of Article 8, Chapter IX of Ordinance No. 1, New Series, known as the Municipal Code of the City of Alameda approved January 14th, 1913, by Re-enacting said Section as Amended," introduced by Mr. Stewart, June 27th, 1913 was called up for final passage and read by the Clerk. Mr. Stewart moved that the Bill be adopted, seconded*by Mr. Bartlett and carried by the following vote:- Ayes:Councilmen Bartlett, Bullock, Hammond, Mac- Rae, Morgenstern, Morris, Probst, Roth and Stewart, (9). Noes:None. Absent: None. . Roth brought up the matter of the condition of the floors of the Park Street, Fruitvale Avenue and High Street bridges across the Tidal Canal. He said that they were badly in need of repair and dangerous to horses. Mr. Roth moved that the City Clerk communicate with the County Board of Supervisors and request that Body, if it had authoritY, to order that the floors of the bridges be repaired, seconded by Mr. Hammond and carried. Chairman Bartlett of the Finance Committee reported that additional money would be required to defer the expense of refunding surplus assess-. nts in electrolier Districts Nos. 4 and 5. Mr. Hammond moved that the Committee be thorized to expend such additional money as was necessary, seconded by Mr. Morris and carried. \Mr. Stewart, Chairman of the License Committee reeorted on the matter of the application of Company G, Fifth Infantry N. G. C. for permission to conduct a boxing exhibition in the Guardsmen's Armory. He said that he favored granting the permit on the same conditions that attached to the permit granted the Loyal Order of Moose of Alameda on September 4nd, 1913. Mr. Probst, Mr. Hammond and. Captain Rushton McConnell also spoke on the matter. Mr. Probst moved that Company G be granted a gratuitous license to conduct a boxing exhibition, seconded by Yr. Hammond and lost by the following vote:- Ayes:Councilmen Bullock, Hammond, Morgenstern and Probst, (4). Noes:Councilmen Bartlett, MacRae, Morris, Roth and Stewart (5). Thereupon Mr. Hammond introduced the following Resolution and moved its adoption, seconded by Mr. Probst:- WHER■S, Company G, Fifth Regiment, National Guard of California has made application to this Council for authorization and license to conduct an exhibition or entertainment of sparring or boxing at the be it September 16th 1913. day of for the purpose of raising funds; now therefore RESOLVED that permission be, and the same is hereby granted to said Company G to conduct such an exhibition or entertainment of sparring or boxing at said Armory on the day of 1913, between the hours of eight o'clock P. M. and twelve o'clock midnight of said day; and be it further R3SOLVED, that said Company G be, and it hereby is granted permission to charge an admission fee for all persons desiring to witness or attend said exhibition or entertainment; and be it further R3SOLVED, that the permission hereby granted shall be operative only after the payment of a license tax in conformity with the provisions of Section 536 of the Municipal Code of the City of Alameda. Mr. Stewart moved to amend the Resolution so that Company G be not permitted to advertise said exhibition by placards or sign-boards or by any other method except by rovate, oral or written announcement,or by ordinary news items in the local press. Mr. Morris seconded the motion to amend and it was lost by the following vote:- Ayes:Councilmen MacRae,Morris,Roth and Stewart, (4). Noes:Councilmen Bartlett, i3ullock, Hammond, Morgenstern, and Probst, (5). The vote on the original motion to adopt the Resolution resulted as follows:- Ayes:Councilmen Bartlett Bullock, Hammond, MacRae, Morgenstern, Morris, Probst and Roth, (8). Noes:Councilman Stewart, 1). Absent: None. N\Mr. Probst brought up the matter of the condition of the east end of Briggs Avenue at Fernisde Boulevard and moved that the City Attorney and City Engineer be instructed to draw up a Resolution of Intention to improve said Avenue seconded by Mr. Hammond and carried. Mr. Bartlett, Chairman of the Jinance Committee moved that Auditor and Assessor F. J. Croll be authorized to employ such extra help as he deemed necessary to make the extensions on the Assessment Rolls seconded by Mr. Hammond and carried by the following vote:- Ayes:Councilmen Bartlett, Bullock, Hammond, MacRae, Morgenstern, Morris, Probst, Roth and Stewart, (9). Noes:None. Absent:None. Mr. Probst of the Recreation Commission gave notice that the Commission had been presented with two Russian Eagles. There being no further business to transact the Council adjourned until the next regular meeting time Tuesday evening, October 7th, 1913 at 7:30 o'clock. City Clerk.