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Show LIGHT AND POWER I PLANT IS SOUGHT I Proposition Made to Incoming City Adminis- H tration For Outright Purchase Results In H Granting of Three Months Lease On the H Same Terms As Heretofore -Appoint- H ments of Mayor Confirmed, Except One. H The first meeting of the new city council was held last Tuesday H evening nnd was attended by all members, including Mayor Hors- H ley, and quite a number of citizens were there as interested spec- M tators. Mayor Horsley and the four newly elected members had H taken their oaths of office at noon on Monday Inst. The meeting H hnd been called for making appointments to the several offices to M be filled. However, before proceeding Mayor Horsley asked if H there were any matters that those present wished to bring before M tho council. V. It, Putnam, sales manager for Utah Power and M Light company, stated that he had a proposition to offer for the M purchase of tho city's lighting and power plant. The gist of the M gcntlemnn's talk was that his company was ready nnd willing to buy outright the system, which is, or was up to December 31, 11)15, M under lease to J. II. Manson. Tho price, however, wan not staled M by Putnam. Mayor Horsley said that as himself and the council M were not familiar with the matter he believed It proper that more 1 time bo taken to go thoroughly into the matter. As the Manson M contract expired on December SI, 1015, snid Mayor Horsley, and M as Putnnm for the Utah Light nnd Power company hnd submitted M a proposition to run the lighting system on the same terms as hnd l Manson, he thought things should go on as they were for a time at least. After an interchange of opinions of tho mayor, members ,M of the council and the representative of Utah Light and Power jl company (Putnnm), it was decided that the Utah Light atd Power H company should take up at onco the running of the plant (from "-BbI December 31, 1015) for a term of three months nnd a coutrnct to ' M this effect was authorized to be drawn. Utah Power and Light -1 company receives from tho city nine hundred dollars per month 'H for operation and maintenance of the plant as under the Manson H coutrnct. Mayor Horsley and members of the council stated to M Putnam that they would take the mnttcr of tho salu of tho city r -iH plant to Utah Power and Light company under consideration nnd LbV let the company know in tlic very near future. To sell tho plant M takes a vote of the taxpayers of the city. The cost of the planl to H dntc is in the neighborhood of thirty-four thousand dollars. Of H course there has been some depreciation. M Wants to Make Collections. H Another matter came up which caused considerable surprise H and about which the council wns undecided. It was tho proposal Vfl of Lee Whitmorc to collect the light nnd water bills nnd the out- standing bills of tho same nature for a commission of 3 per cent M Heretofore the city hns paid A. II, Hunten, the city treasurer, B H commission of 5 per cent on all such collections. Innsmuch as the iH salary of the city treasurer is not so large aa to causo an npprc- M ciable shrinkage of the city's revenue nnd that lie (tho treasurer), H hns to pny his own office rent, no one nt least no ono with a keen H sense of tho ridiculous could consider the commission of 5 per H cent exorbitant, nnd tho proposal seemed to tako tho council M "all aback." At till events tho matter wns Inid over until the next M rcgulnr meeting. 1 Mayor Horsley then rend to the council tho various nppoint- H ments to the different committees nnd tho mnttcr of nppoint- A"bb ments to other city offices wns then tnken up. The present mar- bb! shnl, David Bryner, received tho nppolntmcnt of city marshal. F. H E. Woods was reappointed city attorney. Albert Pncc succeeds M himself ns superintendent of streets and waterworks and Arthur M J. Lee will again serve as city justice. The reappointment of A. M J. Grnmes ns sexton nnd city janitor wns made, but the mayor's M appointment of Dr. R, E. Cloward as city physician was not en- H dorscd by tho council. The marshal's salary wns cut from a hun- M dred to ninety dollars a month, tho city nttornoy from forty to H thirty nnd tho superintendent of streets nnd wntenvorks from CW-wBB ninety to eighty dollars. Tho city hall janitor nnd sexton, Albert H J. Grames, is to receive forty dollars n month. This wns thought J M little enough and is tho snme ns heretofore. Tho city physician, 'B when nnmed, will get ten dollars a month, tho samo ns it has been. H "Morg" King, fire chief, will receive five dollars for each firo ho H attends, and his assistants two and a hnlf dollnrs each. The city ' ""bb marshal is named as poundkeepcr. City Justice Lee, of course, H works on tho fee plan. ,H Stnntling Committees Nnmed. (H Henlth City physicinn, Lars Frandsen and Thomas Fitzger- jH aid. Wnterworks J. W. Loofbourow, J. O. Fnusett nnd.Lnrs Frnnd- jH sen. "I 4H Public Park Lars Frandsen, Thomns Fitzgernld and John H. Pace. Streets John II. Pace, Thomas Fitzgerald and Lars Frandsen. H Electric Lights A. W. Horsley, J. W. Loofbourow nnd J. O. JbI Fnusett. jjM Cemetery Thomns Fitzgernld, Lars Frandsen nnd John H. Pace. jB Building Inspection J. W. Loofbourow, J. 0. Fausett"nnd Lan JH Frnndflcn. 1H Members of Library Board Mrs. T. R. McMillan and F. E. )BB Woods, Esq. " The council ndjourned to next Tuesday evening. Regular jK meetings wero fixed for the second and last Tuesdays of ench $ month. 9BB |