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Show Ifoieos, Sis, bet SfGiisr Pettey stated that vacant lots (including the city's) were a disgrace, and should be cleaned up. A discussion about cars being parked in streets and alleys for more than the allowed- 72 hours also al-so got attention. Mayor Young reported the auditor and attorney we re unable un-able to attend. The auditors audi-tors will return the city's ( books by bus. Mayor Young reported that the water sample were good in January from the state and Ford Laboratories, but there was one good and one bad from SUSC. Carl M. Johnson will present pre-sent a slide show Feb. 21st on urban tree problems to the council. Swain moved to authorize purchase of three pagers, two chargers and an incod-er incod-er for the police dept. to be purchased with a LEPA grant of $900 and matching city funds of $157.90. A letter notified the coun- When the auditor and city attorney didn't show up for city council as promised Monday, councilmen turned their attention to adding a few boards to fences in residential residen-tial areas, a leash law for dogs, and cleaning up city streets, alleys and vacant lots. There were no real skirmishes, skir-mishes, as it was determined determin-ed that the zoning ordinances should be studied to decide if other than the section on fences should be changed and discussed in the public hearing to be scheduled. Councilwoman Hanley moved at a previous meeting to change the ordinance to allow al-low four foot fences In front and up to ten foot fences in back In residential areas. Councilman ' Pettey said that In a future meeting he would propose a leash law , for dogs. Mayor Young said they should give such an ordinance or-dinance thorough study, and see how they are working in other communities, and what it costs to enforce a leash law: Councilman Swain said he would fight to Include cats in the ordinance, for licensing licens-ing and rabies shots. cil that Milford had received a reduction in insurance rating rat-ing from 8-7 in zone one, west of the tracks and north of 1000 South. Zone two which includes east of the tracks and the rest of Milford Mil-ford not included in zone 1 was reduced from 9 to 8. Purchased two copies of a book on Beaver County place names for the library. Recorded an application from Delmar Kirk and associates as-sociates for annexation of property north of the city limits li-mits and east of U-157. Application was submitted to the city attorney. After sumarizing an old opinion by the Attorney General, Gen-eral, that indicated the city treasurer and city recorder must be two separate jobs, Mayor Young appointed Betty Lou Bacon as Treasurer and Linda Addington as recorder. record-er. Council approved. Pettey Pet-tey moved that the city look for a deputy treasurer for sickness and vacation relief. Ordinance No. 48 was adopted and passed without being read. The model ordinance or-dinance is on new construction construc-tion insulation, and must be adopted by order of state legislature leg-islature action or City must write their own. Editor Wilson asked if the city would permit a sponsoring sponsor-ing organization to bring a circus to town on April 6th, and set up at the race track. Unable to get any kind of yes or no answer, Wilson said that if an organization decided decid-ed to sponsor the circus, they would set up outside of the city limits. |