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Show Ngtj Council Settles Down To City Business Without Fanfare appointed as Mayor Pro-tern. The TV Committee was retained re-tained as is with Hardy Chm., Norm Thompson, John Beitz, O. C. Koch and John H.Davis. A letter from the County Commission requested appointment ap-pointment of members to the proposed County-wide Fire Study Committee. Mayor Young was appointed by the Commission as the temporary chairman to call a meeting to get the group underway. He said he had appointed Hardy and Fire Chief Whiting to represent Milford 'on the Committee. , He explained the purpose of the Committee which is to study the fire protection needs of the county and make recommendations re-commendations to the Commissioners. Com-missioners. The purpose is to equalize financing and quality of fire protection in the county, while maintaining the individual districts. Councilwoman Whittaker made her recommendations for a Milford Historical Society. So-ciety. Appointments and direction will be made at the next meeting. Other business included: Approved 23 applications for reduced water fees. In the absence of bidding on city gasoline, they decided decid-ed to stick with present supplier sup-plier If possible. Raised price of aviation fuel and authorized automatic raises as they are received from wholesaler. Authorized purchase of at least one fire plug. Read letter from EPA on request for additional grant for outfall and treatment project. pro-ject. E.P.A. recommended that grant if needed be applied ap-plied for after bids are let. Noted receipt of Hand- book on Emergency Housing Funds. Recommendations and projects to be decided on at next meeting. Noted that minutes permitted per-mitted bars to stay open until un-til 1;00 A. M. during daylight day-light saving time. With little fanfare new Mayor Young and his new city council settled right down to the matter of taking care of the city's business. Mayor Young andnewCoun-cilmen andnewCoun-cilmen Dalton and Jiminez were sworn into office at the stroke of noon Monday by City Recorder Nadine Jones. The only item of immediate immed-iate business facing the council coun-cil was a complaint filed against Caspers Bar and owner LuDean Barnes. He was asked in the complaint to appear before be-fore the Council and answer why he did not close at the appropriate hour on New Years Eve. He stated simply that he had received permission from Mayor Mayer, who was still in office at that time. On Mayor Young's recommendation recommend-ation the complaint was dismissed dis-missed at tliis time. Mayor Young said that the laws of the city were going to be followed and that any violation would be dealt with at that time. Mayor Young immediately got into the task of making appointments, as follows. Recorder, Re-corder, Nadine Jones; Chief Marshall, Cliff Cook; Justice of Peace, E. L. Smith; Treasurer, Trea-surer, J. C. Smith; Purchasing Purchas-ing Agent, Nadine Jones; Board of Health, Dr.' D. A . Symond, Mayor Young, E. L. Smith, Cliff Cook, and Building Build-ing Inspector and Watermast-er, Watermast-er, Alvln Skillicorn. Department and Committee heads were: Police Dept. Mayor May-or Young; Water and Sewer Dept., Councilman Swain; Street Dept., Councilman Jiminez; Jim-inez; Sanitation and Airport, Councilman Dalton; Fire Dept. and Buildings, Councilman Hardy; and Parks and Recreation Councilwoman Whittaker. Councilman Jiminez was |
