Show MORAN VElVET 18 RECOMMENDED Engineer Presents Elaborate Explanation to Justify Bonus Bon s of rf RECORDS ODDLY MUDDLED LETTER DATED DEC C 24 2 WAS WRITTEN ON FEB 9 r is The finance committee of the city council yesterday deckled decided that P J J Moran the t e contractor la in I charge chargo of oC the Big Cottonwood conduit should be al allowed allowed lowed loved a bonus of O for fOl completing a portion of ot the cond days ahead of or the time specified in the con contract contract contract tract The Thc council wil be he asked at its next meeting to ratify the payment off ot o othe the bonus The members of the tile committee hav hat having havIng hating ing at the Investigation in charge were were Councilman A J Davis pavis chairman and Councilmen T R Black and G Co J I Crabtree Others who were iverc drawn Into the discussion were City Auditor Ru RudOlph Rudolph dolph AlIt Alff City Engineer L C Kelsey F P R H Christensen clerk of the board of or public works and Contractor P J 3 Moran ran Letter Is Presented A letter from the engineers en office was read in which It was stated that thata a letter lett r had been sent to Moran on Dec 24 4 peremptorily stopping the work ork on cm the concrete on that date because cold i ld weather had set In and the work could not be properly proper done The Thc engineer presented an elaborate orate compilation of figures to show Mr Moran loran is entitled to collect his hia hl velvet in the sum of The statement shows that the Hie inal time set for completion of the con conduit conduit conduit duit was July 15 1906 He then al allowed allowed lowed days das for fol fog the sus suspension suspension pension of work by order ot at the board of public works giving Moran foran until Oct 11 1906 as the contract period The actual time of completion was Aug 10 1906 1106 a margin of days in favor of Mr lr Moran At a day daj da the bonus Is figured at The engineers statement In full Is as follows I Under his contract to construct Big Cottonwood conduit dated Sept 6 1905 Laying concrete in the he open stopped by order of or the board of Or public works Dec Dee 24 21 4 1905 Concrete laid contrary to ordem orders of oC board of or public works in the open Jan Tan Tani 7 i 8 10 arid and four days Feb Feh Fe 6 to 19 inclusive fourteen n days total eight eighteen een ecu days Laying concrete suspended by order of city engineer on account of pro proposed proposed proposed posed change of plans Plans Pians changed and laying of concrete resumed April i ii 7 i 1906 Laying La ing of ot concrete suspended April 16 and 17 on account of excavating for tor at Talbott creek I Summary i Laying of or concrete in the open sus suspended suspended i vended from Dec 24 2 to April 16 inclusive sive ive days less number of days da s on which concrete was wa laid In January I f I i and February aJ 18 is days daya plus two days da s April 16 and 17 leaves 88 days Contract time of completion of or con conduit conduit conduit duit except back filling July Jub 15 1906 Plus time of suspension by order of or board of public works 88 days Time of or completion as per contract Oct 11 1906 19 Actual time of completion to sta station station station tion No In 1 Aug 10 1906 Difference 61 days das At per day Contract Seems Regular I As soon as these documents were weM read Councilman Black said that it seemed to him that the contract was in regular form and that the estimate was wan correct and in accordance with the Ule contract Auditor AUf Alff was asked what authority he desired to issue the war warrant warrant warrant rant for the amount The approval of ot the board of pub public public lic lie works said Alff AUf At Monday afternoon Chairman Leonard asked me to verify the account and he said that he would send the papers down to me the next day The paper papers did not come said the auditor The Th board told me m e when wh ll I 1 asked for the he verification of the mat matter matter matter ter that there was no data in that of office off office fice on the subject The matter must mustI go through the board of public works before I will approve the tile warrant Moran Breaks Bre ks In Moran who had been listening in intently Intently to the discussion dl said f r understand that this Is referred to the committee which will report to the council as to whether the amount should be allowed or disallowed The Th authority of ot the city council Is ia sufficient dent to warrant Ma Alff to go ahead and Issue the warrant All iAH I want is authority and protection protection tion said s Mr Alit Alff Those matters usually go in this manner An estimate is Ia prepared by Mr Ir Kelsey the city en engineer engineer engineer It then goes to the tile board of public works then to the auditing de department department department and then to the council I insist that this course be followed No Records in Office Clerk F R 11 Christensen of the board of public works was then asked for forIn information In We have no records There is noth nothing nothing ing lug in the office to Justify the extension of the contract There is nothing on the records to show that the contract was nas waS extended A minor sensation was sprung at this point when Clerk Christensen made the tM statement that the letter dated Dec Dee 24 21 1905 1903 was wast not ot written until Feb 9 0 It was also brought out but that the letter was w s copied in the office copybook on the later date The Tho explanation of this was that the Instruction to discontinue the work had been given verbally on the night of Dec 23 and that the letter lett r confirming that order was not called l Cot fo by Moran until Feb Fob 9 t 4 Continued on Page 2 MORANS VELVET VEL VET I IS RECOMMENDED Continued from Page 1 Is Js that letter of Dee Dec 24 2 in exist existence existence ence once asked Councilman Co Black It Is ia in the copybook answered Auditor Alff Aut Clerk asked if Moran had bad the letter would It be possible for him to disregard the Instructions conveyed therein and still claim chaim the bonus on the strength of the letter Letter Is Only Record Councilman Crabtree wanted to know the other record of if It there was any matter aside from the letter and Chris Christen ChrIsten Christen ten answered that there are no other records bearing on the thc matter in his office Alt All other records bearing on the matter are in the office of the city en engineer engineer engineer said Raid Crabtree Moran Is indignant If Ir I had been sixty days das behind time with the contract said Moran explosively there would have been some record to show how It Ive Ivo had the tho tho same trouble for years because of or lack of proper records According to the showing of or the engineers office said Councilman Black Slack Moran Is entitled to the bonus Crabtree then presented the follow following ing lag motion which wag waa wa adopted Thero being no other record save that in the office of the city engineer and this record showing howing that Moran Is entitled to a n bonus for fOI sl days das at per day da I move that this thiB com coin committee report favorably on the grant granting granting grantIng and the adoption of ing of or the bonus the tha estimate |