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Home My WebLink About02101919407 City Hall, Palo Alto, Cal., February 10, 1919, ati.or_s for a Concrete urface, Palo Alto, 'Works at its meeting motion of Jordan, unanimous veto on cificatioris for the commended. 1919, together with a pted by said Board ing, said Resolution and for all further was introduced and asterday, said ::esoe vote on roll call. ce for the Protection alo Alto„ Providing the L ity of Palo Alto e Characte'•, and for irst reading and on Committee #2. D.B.M:aurice requesting v r the jitney license ortion of the year for h refund as might be call. the following claims loured and warrants • $30.00 . . . 60.00 . . . 8.25 . 1.80 . . . 10.84 bet al 72.35 ,:or{s for November, of ,r for December were the San Jose- -e.lo Alto a service for the of Palo Alto. date for the hearing of 19, at 3 p.m. unci1 adj ot,rne or • ll The Council of the City of Palo Alto met in regular ses- sion on this date at 7:30 p.m. with Mayor Cooley presiding. Roll call as follows: - Present: Cathcart, Cooley, k'Aasterday, Fisher, =.envy, Jordan, Miller, Peterson, Roller, Snyder, Swain, Thoits. Vail. Absent: Mosher, Wing. The minutes of the regular meeting of January 13, 1919, were read and approved as read. n Ae;rr•or r nation ( 100) For Fire Depaeemen . A communication was received fro= the Board of Public Safety requesting that .the Council appropriate S100.00 to the incidental fund of the fire department. Vail moved that :.100.00 be appropriated from the unex- pended balance in the general fund to the incidental fund of the fire department. The motion was seconded by Roller and passed by unanimous vote on roll call. Sewer Asynrcri,a.tion: Action Deferree. A communication was received from the Board of Public Works, asking that $2,000.00 be appropriated for rebaading a por- tion of the outfall sewer. Thoits moved that the matter be referred to the next budget co: puttee with a- favorable recommendation. The motion was seconded by Vail and passed. Report o±' Works Board ._(Sewer ys to:) _y1 ee . A report was received from the Board. of Public Works recommending that. the Council take action to provide a sewer sys- tem.for South Palo Alto. The report was accepted and ordered filed. Jitne„ Station. Li, tzt3 TIn snt to P`q: A communication was received from the Board of Pudic Works stating that the city has been paying for careent used at the jitney station, and recommending that g Y the bills be charged against the tenants of the station. On motion of Peterson and Vail the recommendation was approved. ::{:T+`0'" t on Comm tt.ee 42. .Lau""ir_' s% ee .irsn e, Chaix•aar Vail of Committee #2 made a report on thec pro- posed laundry ordinance referred to this committee. :recommending that action on said ordinance be delayed. The report t was accept- ed. Reeort of Committee . Purees Chairman Swain of Committee #; submitted a report in re- latioza to the appointment of a purchasing agent and to making cer- tain changes in the accounting system in the a udi to:. ' s office and the meter reading department, .reeommsnding tha such appointment and changes be made. ' The report was accompanied by a report made to the committee by P.O.Coode, certified accountant. Cn motion . of Thoits and Z:i ller the report was acceptee and the recommendations approved. Report of Snecia1 Committee. Mr.. Swain, chairman of the special committee named to investigate the question of the annexation of Mayfield to Palo. Alto, submitted a report reviewing the proposition and finding that such annexation -would not be advisable at the present time, oat suggesting that should Mayfield vote in favor of annexation then the question would be submitted to the voters of Palo Alto for determination. Accompanying the report was a report from the City Engineer embodying a full survey of the ce r.ditions existing in Mayfield, On motion of Miller and. Thoits the report was accepted and. the recommendations approved. Hearing Pori none, . This being the time for the hearing of the application of the San Jose -Palo Alto Transportation Co. for a permit to use the streets of Palo Alto, the Clerk reported that he had received -a telephone message asking that action be delayed pending the fil- ing of a new application. On motion of Vail and Peterson the ap- plication was laid on the table. Re_port of E'n- inee+ : Accented, A report of the City Engineer to the Board of -Public � .\ + ab1:.0 Works, transmitted to the Council by said Board, on a proposed sanitary sever system for South Palo Alto was adopted on motion of Thoits and Swain by unanimous vote. Resolution (Sewer 3ondsj Adoµcted. A resolution, recommended to the City Council by the Board of Public Works by a resolution passed Feb. 10, 1919, and attached to said resolution, entitled, "Resolution Determining • that the Publie Interest and the Public Necessity demand certain Public Municipal improvements in and for the City of Palo Alto, the cost of which will be too Greats to be Paid out of the Ordi- nary Income and Revenue of the City, to wit, the Acquisition, con- struction and completion of a Sanitary Sewer System for the Ter- ritory Annexed to said City on December 17, 1917," was introduced and read and on motion of Thoits, seconded by Swain, w;.,s passed by unanimous vote on roll cn11. Ordinance )' 1,,,..C7 � PLly G....i;; 1.::. i'i.f ) Enacted,."(':: � 1 An ordinance, entitled "An Ond,inance of the City of Palo Alto Relating to the Appointment, Powers and Duties of a City Purchasing Agent and Amending Section_ 2, of Article IV of Codified Ordinance #1 of the City of Palo Alto," was introduced and read and on motion of Peterson and Jordan was passed as an emergency ordinance by unanimous vote on roll call. Repots Received. - 'he report of the Department of Public Works for Dece.- ber and the reports of the auditor and Treasurer for January were received and ordered filed. C1ai:,js Allowed. The following claims reported favorably from Committee were allowed an Ciar rime authorized in payment of the same on motion of Jordan and .1:enny by unanimous vote on roll call: City of Palo Alto, Defenders' Club, etc $128.90 C.L.Albee, salary . • -. . . . . . 85.00 City Clerk, distributionof annual report 25.00 Eli 'ling, bond premium Police Chief 10.00 A,`- =n On motion of Jordan, seconded by Henry, C:.ty Clerk Franc Kasson was appointed purc::.asinz ace:: for the city. Executive Se:_, io . Cathcart, sec'onde by :'rnyder, moved that the Council take a recess, and the motion was passed. 1 • Th ter of there appointed by taken up. Pe .G report. Th be left in to to act as soo Swa proceed to t? The eay, was pass R Th tion as soon placed in it - On to Saturday, Attest: —7`?�. City o to r of Palo Alto as a report from the conditions existing report was accepted of the application for a permit to use t'iat he had received ayed pending the fil- and Peterson the ap- e Board of Public rd, on a proposed adopted on motion ty Council by the Feb.' 10, 1919, and ution Determining sity demand certain City of Palo Alto, d out of the Ordi- the Acquisition, con - System for the Ter - 917,6' was introduced Swain, was passed by d. e of the City of Palo Duties of a City rticle N of Codified ntrcdu.ced and read ed as an emergency lib marks for Dee m- rer for January were ably from Committee #1 t of the same on on roll call: S128.90 85.00 25.00 10.00 C anlc =� � City C l .� rk �`r • city. V that the :::ouncil ::otion.. ws to Recommendation of Specie- Coemaiteee. The Council reconvened in regular session and the mat- ter of the recommendation to the Mayor of the special committee appointed by the Mayer to investigate the police department was taken up. Peterson and Miller moved that the Council consider said report. Thoaas and Jordan moved as a substitute that the matter be left in the hands of the Board of Public Safety with a request to act as soon as possible. Swain raised a point of order and moved that the Council proceed to the regular order of business, and it was so ordered. The following motion, made by Swain and seconded by -'aster- day, was passed, Peterson not voting: "That the Board of Public Safety be requested to take ac- tion as soon as possible on the report of the special committee placed in its hands by the Mayor." On motion of Vail,- duly seconded, the Council adjourned to. Saturday, February 15, 1919, at $ p.m. --- Attest: Ci ty Clerk