Show COUNCIL ASK MUST FOR BIDS I INo 4 No Day Work Allowed Says S ys I GUy City Attorney t I tHE STATUTES PROHIBIT IT 4 FIRE STATION ST ANNEX mX TO BB BY Y CONTRACT CO CT I William H R Bywater and Frank Prank W 1 Lewis is have hav lost their their jobs Not as chief of ot the fire firs department lid and city ln inspector tor of ot buildings but as a builders of ot the proposed new central Sire lire station by bythe bythe bythe the day labor plan And all aU because of or oran an opinion of City Attorney Charles C Dey Pey He has decided the Ute Improvements cannot be made by plans proposed ed by bythe bythe bythe the city council but must be let Jet by hy contract to the best and lowest bidder I Some months ago It was waa decided to I improve the central station by enlarging ing it After considerable con delay plans and specifications were drawn up tip and ADd bids asked for fOT A number of contractors tors tore competed When the bids bid were opened it was found by correspondence e ein In the hands banda of City Recorder John S SJ Critchlow that the lowest bidder Bad 1 made a mistake and asked ked permission to add about iWO to his hl estimate en on ene the e Job which bleh eliminated hint him from front get et t I ting the contract AU All Bids Are Aie Rejected Then arose a big bier lon relative to ng any of the bids aids The coun were pretty welt weft divided upon the matter maUer as us some noise thought Ute the lowest bidder was entirely too high That opinion gained ground when Chief Chier By Bywater Bywater water was given floor and aid he be and Building Inspector Lewis could make mako the Improvements amounting to about by day labor bor for fix less Jess than thai the lowest bidder Further discussion resulted In ta the re ye reJection lection of all bids the return of the several certified checks and the i 1 paso a ase 5 I ing of ot a resolution giving the chief and aad the Inspector orders alders to make JD e the hn lee The action of the th council counell did not suit 1 of ot the contractors ar d they began Il looking up the law on OR the authority of or the city to do work worle by the day s sih s stem I tem tern It was not tone long before it was Jound that the statutes s prohibited it It providing that all city work should be let to the best and lowest bidder City Attorney Dey De also took a 8 peep j et Lit the statutes statute and came to the same sante il opinion A communication to that ef cC I to the city council has baa cost Chief Bywater and Inspector Lewis their SObs Jobs and means ns that the tile council will have hae to advertise ad for bids all allover over again Much Meat Moat Is Condemned Food Inspector Joseph eph Jo J Meyers tiled flied his bis semiannual report with the council last evening It shows that since Jan J JanI 1 I he has bos condemned 1 pounds a Q of meat Ineat and produce He says MYS the under Sunder his bis jurisdiction are in condition and the milk inspected In is of or excellent quality At 11 this morning the streets committee will wUl take a trip up City Creek reek canyon not to see zee the scenery but to inspect the rock JCk crusher doing business there which has baa been com coin complained complaIned of by President Joseph F Smith and many other citizens |