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Earned Regular :.!eetilag. City Hall, Palo Alto, Cal.,
.Aril 22nd, 1912.
The Council of the 'Ci ty of Palo Alto met, pursuant to ad-
journment, on this date at 8 p.m., with Mayor Jordan presiding.
Roll call as follows:
Present: Ackley, Henry, :dettinger, Hyde, Jordan, La Peire, Millis,
"h o i t s , iimphr ey s , «i ng .
;Absent: Congdon, Downing, Mosher, Vail, Vandervoort.
Ordinance No. 70 Adonated.
Ordinance No. 70, "relating to telephone service and rates"
the special was given final reading and on motion of Thoits and '.;inn was adopted
:;Uii_o d by the following vote -on roll call:
is service n Ackley, Jordan, .+a Peire, Millis, T of Umphreys,
ye'3: :Henry,.zC'nry `� , a ✓ r
that. Nr Or- Wing. •
n as to whe- Noes: Hettinger.
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Vim. '.larica.'ice No. 1 !Y Bond Election, Adq eIJ•
Ordinance No. 73, entitled "an ordinance calling a special
election in the City of Palo Alto, county of Santa Clara, State of
California, for th urpose of submitting to the qualified voters of
said city, several propositions to incur a bonde'. indebtedness to pay
the cost of certain public municipal improvements in said city, the
cost of which is too great to be paid out of the ordinary annual in-
come and revenue of said city," was given final reading. Millis
roved that the ordinance be amended to read that one -fortieth part
of the bonds proposed in propositions' One, Pi.ve and. Six, aggregating
ta33,000 shall be paid each and every year, and that one -fifteenth part
of the bonds proposed in propositions Two, Three and ",our, aggregating
x34,000 shall be paid each and every year. The motion was seconded
by ling and adopted by unanimous vote.
On motion of Wing and Ackley, the ordinance as amended was
adopted by unanimous vote on roll call.
Memorial Day heDor t.
City Attorney Malcolm, to• whom was referred at the pre-
vious meeting the -request of McKinley Post, G..A.:2. , for an appropri-
ation to aid in observing Memorial Day, reported that the Council
does not have the legal power to make such an appropriation.
Jrdinance No. 74 Control of Public Jtilit.Aes, a:.oPt ed.
Millis, reported from committee, on Ordinance No. 74, in-
troduced and given first reading at the meeting held on April 8th,
1912-, with the recommendation that the same be adopted.
Millis and Wing moved the adoption of Ordinance No. 74,
entitled "an ordinance providing for a special election to be held
in the City of Palo Alto for the object and purpose of submitting •
to the electors of said city the question whether the City of Palo'
lto shall retain its powers of control respecting certain classes
of public utilities." The motion was seconded by Wing.
Councilmen Hettinger and. Ackley stated that while not
committing themselves to the question, they were willing to submit
the same to a vote of the electors.
On roll call the motion was adopted by the following rote:
Ackley, Henry, Hettinger, Hyde, La Peire, Thoits,
Umphreys, Vandervoort, Wing.
Noes: Jordan'
Ayes:
On motion of Millie and La Peire the Council adjourned.
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