Show COUNCIL I CANNINGS PAINTERS Decided to Pay the tile Sprinkling Cart Bill Billt t COST OF STREET T PAYING PA mG v vE E o ENGINEER ENGIN R Rt RIt t It fell to the lot of ot Councilman ertson last I t evening to show how how hew hew public Jc funds ru ds are ore spent at the tiie e direction of councilmen without authority off the council as the th rules and ud ordinances provide The The matter came to the coun court councils attention when Robertson took up the letter from Auditor Audit r Reiser stating that he had hd audited the payroll of the street sprinkling department because it seemed to be regular regula and the th compu i mathematically U correct Just why the auditor had passed as correct this payroll when the council had never neer authorized a the expenditure the chairman of the tho finance committee could not understand un I UL L notice that the th last payroll ll which has been hung hunS up remarked Robert bert son carried the names nam names s of these men as painters but in ln this roll they are down as laborers Jan an the chairmen chairman of ithe the sprinkling committee explain this Painting what the town asked Buckle No uNo Not the sprinkling carts earth n Canning the chairman of the commit t to e which had ordered the work done without authority a from the council Canning said that the cost would run up uJ to about he e mayor mayor is 16 as much in this as the committee Is added Canning hut but b t I take the blame for t the e whole thing The carts carta are done now and it Is a good job of painting better than was done last year i L I Robertson wanted ta t bring out the tle th admission that Councilman Cottrell had hada a brother rother working on the te painting Job although he also is not tx Q painter but hut Canning would only say that the toe names n mes of Df the painters are Brown and Green Then why change the names of these painters to laborers asked Rob Robertson Robertson Robertson ertson but he failed to get a a satisfactory tory reply Thomas remarked that the discussion would result in the determination that no work shall be ordered done without the councils consent He suggested to Canning that hereof r je hi eO together and make t th the ie proper pr r request of f the council for tor authority to 0 Incur expenses and then he would es escape escape escape cape being catechized as he hod h baen bep be beby by the chairman of the finan rom lom comA Inasmuch as the men had done the th painting job to the satisfaction of the chairman of ot the street sprinkling cOrn and that they should not be made to suffer for the n s un undue undue undue due exercise of authority the payroll pa for the painters was wan w J ordered approved ap Street Paving Propositions Engineer Kelsey submitted an esti estimate estimate estimate mate of the cost of curbing and pat paving pa big ing Third South street t from State and West Temple and State St UJ streets from Fourth to t Fifth South as directed by Councilman resolution The estimate showed the half share for the grading would amount to and that the cost of paying paving and curbing in front of the 2640 feet of abutting property would wOul be 14 per front foot or for the entire work The estimate for paving and curbing the one block of State street in front of the city and county building showed that the cost to the city for half the grading and paving the intersection would be and for paving in front of the 1320 feet of private and public property or 14 a front foot The i estimate was referred to the street I committee I James Hegney and nine others own owning lag ing 1133 feet of ground fronting on Second South street from First West to Sixth West petitioned for the pave pavement pavement ment of that thoroughfare the cost to tobe toI I be defrayed by levy of a special tax on onI I the property to be benefited John H HAlmond Almond owner of 82 feet abutting on the street protested against paving The petition was referred to the corp com committee on streets and the city engi engineer engineer neer The Brigham Young Trust Company I by C S Burton and N W Clapton ClaXton the executive committee tendered which is the amount of f the tax with interest for paving Commercial avenue facing on State street remitted by the council years ago in consideration of I the city accepting and maintaining tie the I avenue as a r public street The i consideration named In the tender now nosy is that the city shall withdraw its suit in court against the trust company to compel enforcement of or the agreement to widen the avenue from to fiftysix feet The matter wag wa referred to the street committee Five hundred dollars were to the mayors contingent fund to be paid to Varian Varl n at attorneys i as a retainer fee feo in the retrial of the Parleys conduct can cas for services in assisting the city attorney I An appropriation of 00 was made to City Attorney Stephens Stephene to pay the fees of witnesses On behalf of the in the trial of the Jordan river water case Five hundred dollars were appropriated to pay off the mortgage p on a part of lot 6 block platA A which the city secured years ago for a for the gravity sewer Auditor Reiser submitted the de do department payrolls for lor the first half of the month aggregating Under suspension of the rules the payrolls payroll were referred to the finance committee and the chairman of the department committees for foe approval |