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Show I : ' " 1 ' -. 'X ft I 1 SEWER-WATER, CORRALS CREATE CITY PROBLEMS Thp city council set the new rn'M levy at 23. 5 mills Monday ;ht. a rai?e of three mills to help pay off the hangars at the airport. 20.5 mills goes to th'3 general fund and five mills goes to the retirement of bonds ami interest. Lester Williams and Lorraine Gillins, were the only two horse owners, and the Lions share of the committee didn't show up at all. Roy Young was present, as chairman of the committee which has had so much difficulty getting the new corrals built at the race track. Lester Williams said in the absence of being able to get any help from neighboring horseowners, he put his in himself with the help of his son-in-law and had them com- REMEMBER WHEN? This picture of Claude Morris and the waiting room of the Union Pacific Depot was taken in 1924. Claude is Ibehind the counter. It should bring back memories to many Milfordites and old-time railroaders. Do you have an old time picture of early Milford or Beaver County. plated and painted. Roy Young found fault with his ten foot gate, saying that the committee had decided on eight foot gates. Williams stated stat-ed that eight foot gates were the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard of, since it was too difficult to back a stock truck into the small gate. Young then said that the committee com-mittee had decided on silver paint and asked why Williams had painted his white. Williams Willi-ams stated he was a member of that committee and that he had attended no meeting that these decisions had been made, and asked who was there and when the meeting took place. There was no answer, except the meeting took place "right at the stalls." Williams' stalls and corrals are the only ones completed and painted in the project which is well oyer a year old. The mayor recommended that the committee should have met and laid some ground rules and laid some guidelines so that all would be working the same and eliminate these problems and discrepancies. Jan Coyle and Tom Gray approached the council on the grounds that they were inter- ested in purchasing some lots and building on them. They wanted to know what the provisions pro-visions were for developing the sewer and water lines in undeveloped un-developed areas. This subject has come up several times iu the past year, and the council always has ruled in favor of the developer suffering the total to-tal cost of running the lines at the city's specifications, release re-lease of the lines to the city as city property as soon as they are cut into the city mains, plus paying $150 for each sewer connection and $30 per water connection. They have also refused a rebate if another developer or builder hooked into this main run at the builder's expense. This was the same pat answer ans-wer thrown at Coyle and Gray until Councilman Swain mentioned men-tioned that there was some merit to what Coyle had been saying, about this antiquated attitude being the cause of stifling sti-fling the development within the city limits of Milford. The result was: Councilman Swain was authorized to research re-search the matter, have an ordinance or-dinance drawn, which would eliminate the hookup feet on sewer and water, where the developer within the city limi is not served by city lines and the developer must stand all the cost of running the mains to serve the development. Alo. he is to research the feasibility of the developer recovering re-covering part of his expense of running the main by getting a rebate or fee from new hookups hook-ups that tie into the main line that he has run, between the end of the line and the original orig-inal c'ty main. This will give the builder See Council, Page Four HERE'S MORE ABOUT COUNCIL an opportunity to recoup part of the additional expense of having to run his own main line, though in .no case will' he be able to get by cheaper than if he were to build on an established lot. The mill levy was discussed and the three mill raise was the result of a motion by Young that it was all the citizens cculd stand at this time. The Mayor was in favor of a five mill levy, which would keep "our credit good." The raise is need to pay the interest free loan on the hangars hang-ars at the airport. Only one hangar is now rented and the airport revenues are not adequate ade-quate to keep up the payments. men for their action in the recent request for extension of drinking hours in bars. Mayor May-or Mayer did not receive a lette.V Swain asked that the Water Master be instructed to attend all regular meetings of the council. ' Swain requested, and was granted permission to explore the offer of the Railroad Wells by The Union Pacific Railroad. Roy Young asked what value val-ue they were to the city. He suggested that it would require re-quire considerable looking into in-to to determine whether it be a liability. Beitz reported that vandals van-dals had shot out lights on the runway at the airport and that a rock had been thrown through the window of the big C123 flvinff boxcar that is parked there, having repairs made. Mayor Mayer instructed the Marshall to do his utmost to stop this Vandalism at the airport and to stop the howling howl-ing hondas that are being run on the ball parks and other vacant lots, during the wee hours of the morni.ng. The council asicea. ior an extension ex-tension on the interest free note last spring, but was turned turn-ed down by the State Aeronautics Aero-nautics Board. They owe $2,327 on last year's payment, and the payment coming due Jan. 1 is for $3,327. A total of $5,654 The three mills will raise just over $1,000 a mill or $3,000 and will require two years to pay of-'. The Mayor was in favor of a five mill levy and to pay it off in one year. Other business included: Reading of letter from Ralf Kleine about garbage pickup, (letter printed on page two) and authorized Beitz to answer it and explain the situation created by holidays and emef5 gencies. It wasn't explained how it came that his garbage was missed two times in a row. Awarded bids on the sump slab and foundation for the new well at the race track to Del-Mar Const, for $476.63. Awarded bid on pump, casing, etc for the new well at race track to Ron Chevrolet and Equipment. Bid was for $3,600 but council decided that need was for 140 ft of casing rather than 160 so accepted the bid for $3,400. Schow's Pump Service bid $4,195.33 with 5 discount if paid in 30 days. Bill submitted from Call Engineering for $4,500 as the remaining part of their $6,000 for the preliminary report. It was disclosed that they had not according to FHA complet-) ed this requirement, though specific details were not disclosed. dis-closed. The Mayor reminded the council that at the time of employment, Mr. Call had agreed to $1,500 down and thq remainder at the time of bond issue to complete the project, in case the bond issue is a failure, the $4,500 would be due and payable. Swain made motion that they be paid $10Q a month starting now and Jimenez Jim-enez seconded. Beitz reported letter from the State Aeronautics Board reporting that the funds for repair of airport had been increased $3,764 to bring the total cost of the overlay to $17,248.25. Citys share is furnishing fur-nishing the gravel at the airport. air-port. Mayor and several coun-cilmen coun-cilmen expressed displeasure with the new fire truck being taken out of town to the truck fire on Monday. Instructed the Marshall not to let it happen again. Donated $100 for equipment equip-ment to the Married Ladies Ballteam. Read letter from Bob Wright commending council- |