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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - July 17, 1968234 CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF LODI CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS JULY 17. 1968 A regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Lodi was held beginning at 8.00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17, 1968 in the City Hall Council Chambers. ROLL CALL Present: Councilmen BROWN, KIRSTEN, SCHAFFER and HUNNELL (Mayor) Absent: Councilman CULBERTSON Also Present: City Manager Glaves, Assistant City Attorney Sullivan and Planning Director Schroeder. PLEDGE Mayor Hunnell led the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. MINUTES On motion of Councilman Kirsten, Brown second, the Minutes of July 3, 1968 were approved as written and mailed after making the following corrections; On page 1 in the paragraph entitled "Minutes" the name Kirsten was added to the first sentence. On page 4 the sentence sixteen lines from the bottom of the page was changed to read as follows: "Councilman Culbertson said he felt the matter was not a great problem, but he didn't want to see the City Manager forced into the position of being the judge in each individual request for interpretation of a residency requirement." PUBLIC HEARINGS ABANDONMENT City Manager Glaves explained that the hearing scheduled for OF EASEMENT this meeting on the abandonment of a landscape easement and WESTLAKE SU3D. a portion of a public utility easement could not be held due to legal requirements for notice and posting. On motion of Councilman Kirsten, Schaffer second, the public hearing for the abandonment of the easement in Westlake Subdivision Unit #1 was rescheduled for August 7, 1968. COMMUNICATIONS ABC An application for alcoholic beverage license was noted as follows: LICENSE Person -to -Person, Premise -to -Premise transfer William R. Crete, Lodi Drug Co., to Leon Perlegos, Savemart Foods, 1340 S. Hutchins Street, Off -Sale General REPORTS OF IH E CITY MANAGER CLAIMS Claims in the amount of $593,717.47 were approved on motion of Councilman Kirsten, Brown second. AWARD - Bids or. the Mobile Droo Hammer were presented, totaling as MOBILE DROP follows: HAMMER the Rix Company, Inc. $10,388.18 RES. NO. 3199 Edward R. Bacon Co. 10,762.50 Nixon -Egli Equipment Cc.,Inc. 11,004.00 Loggers and Contractors Machinery Co. 11,295.00 Mr. Glaves recommended the award be made to the low bidder, The Rix Company, Inc. Or. motion of Councilman Kirsten, Schaffer second, the Council adopted Resolution No. 3199 awarding the contract for the furnishing of the Mobile Drop Hammer to the low bidder, The Rix Company, Inc., for the amount of the bid. - 1 - 235 Minutes of July 17, 1968 continued AWARD - The City Manager then presented bids for Vinewood Park Sprinklers VINEWOOD PARK and Turfing as follows: SPRINKLERS & TURFING John. Birges $36,500.00 Bibea's Nursery 36,633.00 °S. NO. 3200 Mario Biundo Landscape 37,000.00 Talini Landscaping 38,626.00 R_ C. Collet, Inc. 39,900.00 Aerco Pacific, Inc. 40,192.00 Takehara Landscape 42,000.00 City Manager Glaves recommended award be made to the low bidder. On motion of Councilman Brown, Schaffer second, the Council adopted Resolution No. 3200 awarding the contract for the con- struction of the Vinewood Park Sprinklers and Turfing to the low bidder, John Birges, for the amount of the bid. AWARD - Mr. Glaves presented bids for the Lockeford Street Sanitary LOCKEFORD ST. Sewer as follows: SANITARY SEWER Lund Construction Co. $13,530.34 RES. NO. 3201 William Burkhardt 14,647.32 Central Underground Const. 16,944.00 Certified Sewer Service 17,986.00 A. Teichert & Son 20,881.00 Peterman Co. 21,111.60 The City Manager recommended award be made to the low bidder, Lund Construction Company. On motion of Councilman Schaffer, Brown second, the Council adopted Resolution No. 3201 awarding the contract for the Lockeford Street Sanitary Sewer to Lund Construction Company for $13,530.34. iITE SLOUGH The City Manager presented Change Order No. 2 consisting of WPCP CHANGE twenty-three items and totaling $10,800.56. The items had been ORDER r2 reviewed and recommended for approval by the Public Works Director and the City Manager recommended the Council approve the change order. After discussion, the Council, on motion of Councilman Kirsten, Schaffer second, approved Change Order No. 2 for the White Slough Water Pollution Control Plant. TIME EXTENSION The contractor on the Write Slough Water Pollution Control Plant WHITE SLOUGH requested an extension of the completion date to October 1, 1968 WIPCP due to a delay in delivery of the motor control center. The City Manager felt this was justified as the work has been on schedule and the delay is beyond the control of the contractor. Council- man Schafer moved approval of the requested time extension for completion of the project_ The motion was seconded by Council- man Brown. Under the question, Councilman Kirsten noted several past incidences where contractors had failed to meet the com- pletion date of the contract and he questioned if the contractor should not bear the responsibility for delays such as this. The motion then carried by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmen BROWN, SCHAFFER and HUNNELL Noes: Councilmen KIRSTEN Absent: Councilman CULBERTSON tTY City Manager Glaves reviewed briefly the discussion of July 3, •1PLOYEES 1968 regarding City employees residency requirement. After a __3SIDEVCY short discussion of the matter, Councilman Schaffer moved the REQUIREMENT City Council adopt the City Manager's recommendation regarding City employees residency requirement as follows: "All City employees shall be required to reside within San Joaquin County in that area between Eight Mile Road and the northern boundary of the County, except that.: - 2 - 236 Minutes of July 17, 1968 continued - 3 - "All Fire Department personnel shall be required to reside within the City limits of the City of Lcdi unless the City Manager shall grant an exception as a result of a hardship or other unusual circum- stances, and that: _ "The City Manager, Asais tan t City Manager and all department heads shall be required to reside within the City limits of the City of Lodi unless .an exception_ can be justified on the basis of a hard- ship or other unusual curcumstance." The motion was seconded by Councilman Kirste.r and passed by unanimous vote, WESTWOOD AVENUE City Mar_age= Glaves, having been instructed at the meeting of STREET July 3, 1968 to contact Mr. Gordon Nichols regarding the Westwood IMPROVEMENTS Avenue Street extension, stated that he had discussed the matter with Mr. Nichols and he concluded after talking with him that there had been a misunderstanding between the staff and Mr. Nichol -s regarding plans for the property. After Council discussion, Councilman Brown_ moved the City proceed with extension of Westwood Avenue north to Lake Street and the property owners be informed that they are responsible for the installation of all utilities. The motion was seconded by Councilman Kirsten and carried by unanimous vote. TRAFFIC Mayor Hun_nell stated that after further study of the report LANE concerning traffic lane striping at the intersection of Ham Lane STRIPING - and Lodi Avenue, he felt the Council shculdt the recommen- HAM - LODI dation of the Public Works Department to leave the striping as lrvl, �4� JtB� it is a' the present time_ Councilman Kirster. agreed with ld Mayor Hunr_ell but also felt the property owners in the area of the in.terse_tion should be made aware that in the future the intersection may be red zoned. Councilman_ Brown stated he favored an alternate method of striping similar to Plan D which the Public Works Department presented for study at the meeting of June 5, 1968. After further discussion, Councilman Kirsten moved the City Council adopt the recommendation of the Public Works Department that the striping remain as it presently is and directed the City Manager to advise the property owners that one day in the i.determinate future traffic conditions will require maximum red zor_ing a: this intersection. The motion was seconded by Mayor Hunneli and carried by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmen KIRSTP-14, SCHAFFER and HUNNELL Noes: Councilman BROWN Absent: Councilman CULBERTSON DISCONTINUE The City Manager presented a brief report regarding the proposed S.P. TRAIN discontinuance of service to Lodi of the Southern_ Pacific's train, the "San Joaquin Daylight." Mr. Chris Hoskins, 135 South Crescent Avenue, spoke against discontinuance of the train service, stating he would not like to see the City's last passenger train connections severed. Councilman Kirsten felt it would be unjust to insist that any company continue a service that was net profitable, After a brief discussion, it was the consensus of the Council that since it did not have all the facts, no action should be taken on the matter. KETTLEM4N Progress of the Kettiemar. Lane grade separation was reported to LANE GRADE be on schedule and public hearings on the same will be held in SEPARATION August or September. - 3 - 23t Min.z-ea cf July 17, 1968 cTnti-uet CAP IMAL The Capi'.al Outlay Budget for fis.al 1968-69 was presented for OUTLAY Council review and di-,_ussicr on the matt?r was Continued to BUDGET the meeti.g o. August 7. 1958, KOFU Mayor Hun^ell reported that two visitors :nom Kofu who are VISITORS st,dents at the University of Cali.fc n.ia will be visiting the City on Thursdsy, July 18, ORDINANCES AMEND Ordinance No. 863 entitled "AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 27 ZONING ORD. !.ZONING ORDINANCE) OF THE LORI CITY CODE AND THEREBY REQUIRING RE NO -FEE THE ACQUISITION OF A FENCE CONSTRUCTION PERMIT BEFORE ERECTING FENCE PERMIT A FENCE IN A REQUIRED YARD AREA'*, having been introduced at the meetirg of July 3, 1968 was brought up for passage on motion ORD. NO. 853 of Councilman Kirsten., Schafer second. Secorc reading was ADOPTED omitted after reading by title, and the ordinarze was then passed, adopted an. ordered to pzin.t by the following vote: Ayes; Councilman BROWN, KIRSTEN, SCHAFFER and HUNKELL %Cas, Councilmen - Nene At se n .. C,2%n ._ 1ma:. - Cr;LBERTSON REZONING O;dirance No, 865 a tiled '.1MEN-DING THE OFFICIAL DISTRICT MAP 728 N. CHURCH OF THE CITY OF LODI AND THEREBY REZONING TWO PARCELS LOCATED AT & 120 LOUIE 72B NORTH CHURCH STREET AND 120 LIXIE AVEN-CE TO BE IN THE R-4, TO R-4 MULTI?LE-FAMILY INSTITUTIONAL RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT", having been introduced at the meeting of July 3, 1968, was brought up for ORD. NO. 865 passage on motion o: Councilman_ Schaffer, Brown second. Second ADOPTED reading was omitted after reading by title, and the ordinance was then passed, adopted and ordered to print by the following -rote; Ayes; Councilmen BRaQN, KIRSTEN, SCHA€€ER and HUN ELL Noes; Councilmen. - None Absent; Councilman - CLLBERTSON ADJOURNMENT There beinq no fi:rther business, the meet -ng adjourned at 10:20 p. Attest: BESSIE L. BENNETT City Clerk