Show M MUST US T LET C CITY ITY ESTABLISH GRADE A and nd Su supervise pervis e all work on cement sidewalks the property owners to arrange terms RECORDER RESIGNS AS WATER CLERK but city will not net stand for more than 25 salary reports of 0 ficere ers showing condition of finances and city business generally the council met thursday evening with all present but councilman smith attorney uarl carl evans was up from salt lake to look after the logal end of the council two ordinances were presented one establishing the office of city electrician and one pertaining to tile water rates etc these ordinances will be included in the revised ordinances which have been in preparation for the past nine months and which are now practically ready to be turned over to the printer various bids have been received by the committee for the printing of same and the award is expected to be made some time this month recorder mrs holland tendered her resignation as clerk of the water department which was wag accepted on motion of cour w mcgill and the books ordered turned over to the audi auditing tinb committee the lady requested that per month be allowed her for services on these books A motion prevailed that 2500 a month was ample for the work done against the protest of mrs holland hollan d who threatened to resort to law if tile the amount slie she asked for was not allowed for months past the auditing 0 committee lias has been working on these same water books and to date owing to the muddled condition of the same a detailed report has not been made and in view of this fact it seems rather an unusual proceeding to accept a resignation until a final report was made and all disere accounted for from all reports tile the books of the water department are in a bad shape and it is to bo be hoped that whoever tile the council names to keep tire important water accounts will adopt some system whereby a check can be kept and the department e part ment know where it is at at all times the proceedings after the reading and approving of the minutes the city pay roll was read amounting to fi 1 divided as follows city officers police department street labor an and d teaming sidewalk inspector ector water department the current bills for the alie month amounted to which included second payment for new cement sidewalks wa aks for light 55 for feet of 20 inch pipe for woodside canyon flume attorney fees for fire liose hose etc making the expenditures for the month of september the neat sum of officers report city treasurer cash on land hand sept 5 02 received for licenses 4 police cor court Lirt cem aein elary sidewalk tax for 1911 miscellaneous total receipts for fa 5 grand total for inon month 1 warrants paid lw dur ing month leaving n 7 1 cash balance on hand october i water department balance on land hand september collected for month making a total of paid out during month leaving 1 a cash balance october 1 of 1 outstanding war rents the recorders report tallied with the above for the month city justice 1 judge crossman disposed of 37 cases during the month fines imposed coni committed bitted collected in cash city sexton sexton gidley reported five 0 deaths in September thre three adults two children cli ildren four males one female collected in m cash street commissioner blair reported that 2922 feet of lumber was used during month for repairs etc on motion of thompson all reports were adopted with exception of treasurer and city recorder these being bein referred to auditing committee A new bass drum A communication from mana gitary band asking that definite action be taken regarding tile purchase of a bass baas dram for the use of his organization it was reported that if city would purchase drum IV W D sutton would ager aubrey was authorized to purchase cymbals on motion of thompson Thoi man blau purchase the desired instrument and present bill to city with the understanding that drum was to be the property of the city new walk desired paul billings and others asked that a new walk be put P in on the east side of norfolk between eighth 0 and ninth on motion of paull the matter was referred to committee conin littee on streets alleys and bridgm bridges not authorized by city councilman thompson suggested that hereafter when new cement sidewalks was put in at tile the request of property owne owners rs that a grade be established and tile the city asked to do it before work was commenced lie ile called attention to the fact that chiat the walk put in on east side of park avenue between sixth and avenue was a poor un bi lightly job this piece of work is not in paving district yet it was in eluded in mr webers second estimate and the work paid for at al thur thursday day nights ni ats meeting 21 thompson objected to such pro po cee dure lie ile thought that an all th the city should do in such cas casis s would be to establish the 91 graap acia and supervise tine the work and let property owners arrange terms with contractors the city should not assume any responsibility city attorney E evans vans to coincided with mr thompson and instructed committee on streets alleys and bridges who authorized this work to collect tile the monkey money as soon as possible tenders resignation under the lead head of new business mrs holland tendered her resignation as water clerk with result as above stated the lady also asked for 50 per month for the time the books were mere in her charge this met with strenuous objections from councilman and McGill who maintained that mrs airs holland had a agreed agreed to do the extra work for 2500 per month and that amount had been embodied in m the new ordin ordinances ames when mr air mcgail moved that 2500 extra per month be given the recorder for services mrs holland emphatically informed the gent gentleman leinan that she would not accept this amount aud and would resort to law if necessary to collect the amount demanded the motion of Me mcgills Gills prevailed however without a dissenting in voice liquor licenses granted fourteen saloon men applied for liquor licenses for the cri cn swati suing quarter and upon attorney evans approving the bonds saine were granted on motion of coun oilman cilman thompson two new ordinances the committee on laws submitted the ordinances relating to the creating of a city elentri cian and water rates with certain modifications they were put on their third reading and passed by an aye bud and nay vote wants the pest house councilman report ed to the council that some fellow wanted to purchase what remained of the old pest house ove in door deer valley the subject appeared too loo gruesome for discus disc us slon sion so fco it was referred to mar mial mair to dispose of tile mat tor ter as lie he thought best new steps needed mayor welsh called attention to delapi dilapidated dated condition of tile steps leading leadin ff from slam alain street past jefferson school to park ayecue alenne and thought cement steps should be p ant u t in councilman thompson then called attention to the poor piece of cement walk in front of maple hall site and also a stretch across the road from there and thought it wise to put therm them in ili good condition on motion of councilman paull paul tile matter was refer referred Ted to committee on streets alleys and bridges with power to act this concluding the business councilman thompson slipped in in llie in popular motion to adjourn and it carried unanimously |