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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - December 21, 1949C01r:CIL CHAMBERS CITY COUNCIL CITY HALL - CITY OF LODI +'7P�SDiv, DEC LB 21, 1949 Regular meeting beginning at 8:00 o'clock P.M. of 37ednesday, December 21, 1949. Councilmen Lytle, Tolliver and Rinn present. Councilmen uas'sell ani Bull absent. Minutes of the meeting of December 7th,1949 approved without correction. R -ORT OF T.:-7 CI^I ',1.QXAaRR - City Manager 'Weller read a copy of a proposed lease agreement B.S.A.LEASE with !.ortheru San loaquiu Council, Hoy Scouts of America, D3. -.PM- covering the lot and building occupied by the former Municipal Baths Building. Some doubt as to the valuation expressed in the recapture clause arising, the City Manager was directed to again confer ;:zth Mr R. H. hhllen, representing the B.S.A. and resubmit the proposed lease for Council approval. 1-D,, '.i :eller requested that he and Fire Chief' Polenske be granted „''%AROF further ti=e is which to submit a rec—endo tion on the purchase FIS ".:t Cd5 of one or two fire trucks, bids opened December 15th, suggesting =CSTPM7=51). that the bids be narrowed to three or four proposals, after which he, the Fire Chief and Councilmen might view sir..ilar apparatus in neighboring cities. _a the matter of the withdra^ral of the City of Lodi from San Joaquin County Library as contemplated in Resolution. No. 1498 Adopted December 7th; proper publication of notice of intention 11TEMR.:WAL to determine upon such withdrawal being prove= by affidavit, CITY OF LODI no persons appeared to object to the proposed action. Council - from COU2;TY man Lytle, Tolliver second, moved the adoption of Resolution No. 1IBRARY 1504, definitely statin=g that the City Council had determined DL'TER11=— to withdraw the City of Lodi from San 7oaquin County Library ?.r'S 1504 and directing the 111eyor to so notify the Board of Supervisors of ADOPTS San Joaquin County. A vote being hwd, this resolution was adopted by the assenting votes of all Councilmen present. ler PROD -_SS City ',anageF presented a progress report made by the Department 7AT1'R SUP= of -Public Uorks, Division of ;Vater Resources, on the survey now R -7 -PORTED unden:sy on tater conditions in the &?okeludme River area, copies i were furnished each Councilman. �t this time ':5 Weller read a letter addressed to the Mayor and City Council from Local No. 439, Teamsters,'Chau.'fAurs, Ware - Housemen anf Helpers, denying that union pickets had intimidated any customers of"City Cab Company, denying that this union was picketing City Transit System and offering their services to continue bus service. I tsyor Rinn stated that the City of Lodi had no part in the dispute ! between H.H.'xhaffey, of City Cab Company and Lodi Transit System; LCDI i7Vgp;SIT '.he city's interest is solely in attempting to have the bus lines yS= a^- 3m continue in operation. The only offer made by the city to either -0 A3;=. DC% ?Us parts, was that it would afford a place where — impartial elect- ion could be had by Mlahaffey's employees. 15:' Weller then read i t.T lh`�_=fey's formal. re.uest that -he be relieved of the obligation inposed by the franchise granted him by Ordinance No. 324. 4x We'ler than presented several letters protesting abandonment of bus service; stating that he and the City Clerk had received telephoyed requests that service be continued. '.yor Kinn stated that before the City Council could make any det:3=ination in this matter, it should conduct an investigation i to the operations of the bus line and „ aks its findings as to ;•rhe her ';ehs_'fey should continue operations or be relieved of his f.anctise obligations as requested; therefore, he appointed t.ta following o mittee to conduct an ir_vestiSatior_ for this e TDOle, neniag Cit? Councilmen Tolliver, City !,hrzger Weller, City Attorney ;gest and City Clerk Blakely as members, to report to the Council by Ta nua=y 18, 1950. 'Payor Rinn inviteaL ceuacents fro= the Audience present and only 3tr Mahaffey respond4d. Mahaffey stated his reasons for requesting discontinuance of bus service Sanu_ry 1st, 1950, offering his records for the committee. `.a,ror Rinr_ and City &5aYiager Weller again stated the necessity for an investigation and report end the setting of a fixed future date for cessation of service, should the Council so dete-.ine. (minutes of -_cember 21, 1949 - continued) CODICIL CHAMBERS CITY COUNCIL CITY HALL - CITY OF LODI 401 Councilman Tolliver, representing the City Council on the City P1a-r-ing Ccmission, recuested that the City Council study the PIL.CCAT_3Q request of the Board of Trustees of Lodi School District for 0'?Y DRIV? location of proposed Holly Drive extension through the new '-j? H1H R'asain3;o: School site a.7 irst the right of way of Southern :acinic 7iAS-i^,TCt: Woodbridge Branch Railroad instead of about 110 feet Southerly SC:'_COL ,'2=17J from this right of .-m7 as set forth in the Cocmission's FEster Street Plan. City manager Weller stated that he would have sketch plans of this property Wade so that the Council could have accurate knowledge of the proposed change. Protests against the proposed annexation of 1E.F.Ayers Addition No. 1 coming on to be heard as contemplated in Resolution No. A ?v�^Gi)iC"i OF 1496 of December 7, 1949, due publication of Notice o£ Hearing tl.?.A= was proven by affidavit. No persons appearing and no written -- A11DITICN rl objections having been presented, it :gas moved by Councilman r A�DROV D Tolliver, Lytle second, that Ordinance No. 403 be introduced, 4 _ 0_KDIN,97CL' 403 entitled: A?FROJTsIG '"==;7,iF:%TION OF CERTAIN UNINT.i,33ITM Th17RCD=H . T-RITORY IN SAPS 70Aq=, CCONTY, DESIXATF.D AS " it. F. A= ZDITICN NO. 1 ", TO THE CITY OF LODI. Reading of this ordinance in full, after reading by title rras dispensed x'ith by unanimous consent, and the ordinance declared introduced, to lay over for the statutory period of not less than five days before adoption. - CASv IPE^ .t this time, a petitior_, accompanied by the favorable reco=send- ?OR 1950 ation of the City Planning Co mission, rias received from Catherine A'AMED Fuga i, requesting that a tract of twenty acres south of "lest I1,,T TICF TO Lockeford Street and East of Ham Lane be annexed to the City X -1 -EX " ?AIR- as uninhabited territory. It appearing that this tract qualified YCNT PARK " for annexation under the '* Annexation of Uninhabited Territory R?S. 1503 Act of 1939 ", it was moved by Councilman Lytle, Tolliver second, ADOPTED. that intention of the City Council to annex this tract be expres- sed by the adoption of Resolution No. 1503, therein designating the territory proposed for ennexation as " Fairmont Park Addition as a suitable name therefore. Resolution Pio. 1503 was then adopt- ed by the following vote: A>.S: Councilmen, Lytle, Tolliver and Rinn. Y -C S: Councilmen, None. ABSEtiT: Bull and Saskell. Oc favorable report of the City Planning Comission, s H. Oswald V-1KMICE OF ,:.as granted a variance relating to rear yard space affecting Lot E. H.OS'Vp1.D 12, Ruminson Tract and also, his proposed separation of the Borth GRANTED fifty feet of this lot and adjoining lot 11, whereby a building set back of twenty feet from 'Washington Street would be observed, approved.on motion of Councilman Tolliver, Lytle second. Councilman Tolliver, representing the City Council on the City P1a-r-ing Ccmission, recuested that the City Council study the PIL.CCAT_3Q request of the Board of Trustees of Lodi School District for 0'?Y DRIV? location of proposed Holly Drive extension through the new '-j? H1H R'asain3;o: School site a.7 irst the right of way of Southern :acinic 7iAS-i^,TCt: Woodbridge Branch Railroad instead of about 110 feet Southerly SC:'_COL ,'2=17J from this right of .-m7 as set forth in the Cocmission's FEster Street Plan. City manager Weller stated that he would have sketch plans of this property Wade so that the Council could have accurate knowledge of the proposed change. Lynn Boynton and Kern oth Bybee, doing business as " Teihe Drug Store " on the Northwest corner of Elm and Sacramento Streets, OB.T 'T C'+; requested by letter that the space allocated City Cub Company OF 9CYNIM74 for a cab stand in front of their place of business be vacated, &: B' -7B= TO alleging that this stand interfered with their customers, also, CAB STA'I'D that in the existing labor troubles of City Cab Company, the N. MH ST Teamsters Union was picketing this space, giving the false impression that picketing applied to their place of business. Application referred to the City Attorney for his opinion as to the proper method for revoking a regularly granted cab stand pe -mit. _-.:r^_rd of the annual contract for furnishing the City's re?uire- - CASv IPE^ meats for t: gasoline for R9 year beginning January 1, 1950 was ?OR 1950 accorded Petroleum Products Company at 15.7¢ per gallor. for Ethyl A'AMED and 17.6, for stsmdard gasoline, this Company being the lowest PFTRCL"u?C bidder in bids opened by the Purchasing Agent on December 19th, PRODUCTS Motion. Councilman Tolliver, Lytle second. CC:iic?2Y 402 ( minutes of December 21, 1949 - continued ) COUICIL CHAMBERS CITY COUNCIL CITY HALL - .CITY OF LODI City -.'wager ':teller submitted the report of Street Superintendent __FE PCFEIN,s 77. L. Bruner, stating that free parking lots at 116 West Oak_ Stivet T 0 I:i and or South Sacramento Street south of Pine Street were in full �- CP 4Ti@. operation, providing sixty-t-wo parking spaces, equivalent to five and one-half blocks of -parallel parking. Claims in the amount of $35,556.26, submitted by the Department CLAIMS of Finan=ce and as approved by the City Manager were allowed and ordered paid on motion of Councilman Tolliver, Lytle second. At 9:44 o'clock P.M. the City Council adjourned on motion of Councilzman Tollivar, all members remaining for informal discuss - AD CUR171IM47 ion of several pending matters which would later come before the Council when its full membership is present, particularly sale of Lodi Aamory to the State of California and the petition for the licensing of " games of skill " under an ordinance iientical with that existing in San Joaquin County. _ttest: m=y, _=k.