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Home My WebLink AboutMinutes - February 25, 1948244 COUNCIL CHAMBERS CITY COUNCIL CITY HALL - CITY OF LODI :=LMSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 1948 Pursuant to the adjournment taken frcm its regular meeting of Feb- ruary 18, 1948, the City Council of the &ity of Lodi met in adjourned regular session beginning at 8:00 P.M. of Wednesday, February 25, 1948. Councilmen Haskell, Lytle and Rinn (Mayor) present, Councilaan Riggs and Tolliver ahsent. The minutes of the last meeting held February 18, 1948 were read, approved without correction and so endorsed by the Mayor. The principal purpose of this meeting being an open discussion of the proposal to be submitted to vote of the City's electors on March 9th to adopt the Council -Manager form of government, Mayor Rinn stated the views of the City Council on this subject reading pertinent abstracts from the administrative report of Public Administration Service prepared at the Council's request and submitted December 31,1947. Councilmen Haskell and Lytle concurred in the views expressed in this report and urged that the voters turn out on election day and express their wishes on this import - and change. Mayor Rinn then asked that any person present ask questions or nake statements either for or against the city manager form of govern- ment. -Several persons expressed views in keeping with the thoughts of the City Council as expressed by the Mayor. The meeting then was turned over to consideration of matters accumulated since February 18th. This being the time and place set for the reception of bids on a crawler type diesel tractor and shovel for use at the BIDS ON new sanitary fill garbage disposal site, proposals were DIESEL TRACTOR received as follows: OPEM Hamsher Tractor Company ................... $ 10,280.00 Thompson -Sage, Inc. ....................... 10,982.90 Moore Equipment Company ................... 10,225.00 All bids ordered referred to the Superintendent of Streets and Parks for comparison and report. On the recommendation of the City Planning Commission, GAT= Lir Clifford Gatzert was employed to complete portions of ELPLOYED the City's master plan for streets and highways to be paid WOR STREET $50.00 for each area plotted for an estimated eight areas. PLAN. Motion Councilman Haskell, Lytle second At the suggestion of Richard Graves given in a letter to O=POS'E the Council, the City Clerk was directed to write the Senator REDISTRIBUTION and Assemblyman representing the Lodi district, requesting POST-WAR that they oppose any attempt to realocate funds distributed FONDS to the Cities and Counties of California for post-war works and distribute them to other governmental units. On his estimate that it would cost $645.15 to level and oil S.P.PARKM the lot leased from Southern Pacific Company for automobile LOT parking, Superintendent of Streets Bruner was authorized to IMPROVEMENT proceed with this work. M. Carlton Yoder, in charge of the Activated Sludge Sewage AU70MATIC Disposal Plant advocated changing this plant for automatic OF-TFATION operation for sixteen hours each day, the cost of this SEWAGE DISPL. change to be between $1 500 and $2 000. Mr Yoder justified PLANT. this expenditure as saving the wages of two operators at $227.50 each. Recommendation approved and work ordered. The City Clerk was directed to write Central California Traction Company that it would be permitted to remove its C.C.T.00. abandoned tracks on Sacramento Street from Lodi Avenue to SACRAMENTO Lockeford Street on the condition that the concrete in STRT�...ET TRACKS which the rails are inbedded be not disturbed and that the REMOVAL street surface be restored to a good and travelable condit- ion acceptable to the City and its Street Superintendent. Superintendent of Utilities gi.11elea submitted a revised S ZR & WATER statement of the costs of extending sewer and water lines EX=- IONS as contained in his letter of February 18th, eliminating NODIFIED several items so that the cost of those remaining would not exceed $1 000 per project. He was directed to proceed with this work under the modified program. Motion Councilman Haskell, Lytle second. (minutes of Feb 25-194-81coutinued) 245 COUNCIL CHASIBE3S CETY COUNCIL CITY HALL - CITY OF LORI A recommendation of California t3unicipel utilities Association DAY LIGHT that the City recommend to the State Legislature that "Day Light" SA71FGS TIME savings time be required in view of the present power shortage was deferred to the March 3rd meeting BLDG.INSPR. The annual report of the City Building Inspector for 1947 ANN. REPORT was received and copies furnished each Councilman and the press. City Engineer Heekenlaible reported an .his efforts to secure EMPLOYMENT proposals from local builders on the alterations and addit- BDILDING ions to the Employment Office Building under specifications PLANS omitting some non-essential features. I public hearing, at.mhich no protests were receil& having been held before the City Council on February 18th, Ordinance ORDINANCE 363 No. 363 as prepared by the City Clerk introduced thereat, on ADOPTEII. motion of Councilman Haskell, Lytle second, it was then. N.CROSS ST the ordered that ORDINANCE NO. 363, entitled " AN ORDINANCE AI+3TEXATION. APPRGVM THE ANNE=ON OF NORTH CROSS STRUT ADDITION TO THE CITY OF LODI, CALIFORNIA " be.adopted-dnd•bnfa-vote,bo Ukg had,-it'was so ordered'..Ogor Rinn then approved the ordinance. Satisfactory performance reports being submitted by City CONFIRMATION Engineer Heckenlaible it was then ordered that the following AND SALARIES probationary employees be granted permanent status at the PROBATIONARY salaries hereinafter severally nerved, effective March 1,1948: EMPiAY�B YODER,DAQIS, M. Carleton Yoder, Sanitary Engineer ...... $ 400.00 INUM do YOUNG Marvin Davis, Engineering Aid ............. 212.50 Alvin C. Inman " " ............. 212.50 Willard Young, Surveyor ................... 285.00 The apclidation of Paul Amick of Courtland on behalf of HORSE SHOW Edward Streib for use of Lodi Stadium on the afternoons of STAD= Saturday and Sunday, March 6 and 7 for a trained animal MAR 6 & 7 show was granted, the City charge to be 10V on each adult admission and 59F for each child. Superintendent of Streets Bruner submitted a list of project GASOLINE TAX statements for expenditure of gasoline tax moneys on city PROJECTS streets aggregating $79,816.65. Action deferred to a later DEFERRED meeting for consideration of the equity involved in improv- ing streets benefitting abutting property owners without their sharing in the costs. The Council than retired into executive session, returning to open meeting within a few minutes when adjournment was had at 10:59 P.M. o=n tion of Councilman Haskell. AtteCity Clerk s'cova =inutes - =cued as it.en �, 19_8 _—YLI3 ORDINANCE 140. 365, entitled " AN ORDINANCE AUERDING THE ZONE DISTRICT MAP OF THE CITY OF LODI BY ADDING TMMTO WOODLAKE ORDINANCE 365 TRACT, SPEMT ADDITION, KRIEGER ADDITION, TURNAGE ADDITION, INTRODUCED HALLENTYPE ADDITION, WALNUT ORCRARD ADDITION, h=RIAL HOSPITAL INITIAL ADDITION, MORENZ ADDITION AIM IASE STREET ADDITION, CLASSIFYM ZONING AND ZONING MM PROPERTIES THEREIN AND ALSO ZONING R MINSON AMEXATIONS TRAGI ( LOT 52 LODI BARNHART TRACT ). was then introduced on motion of Councilman Haskell, Lytle second and then ordered laid over for the statutory period of not less than five days. Satisfactory performance reports being submitted by City CONFIRMATION Engineer Heckenlaible it was then ordered that the following AND SALARIES probationary employees be granted permanent status at the PROBATIONARY salaries hereinafter severally nerved, effective March 1,1948: EMPiAY�B YODER,DAQIS, M. Carleton Yoder, Sanitary Engineer ...... $ 400.00 INUM do YOUNG Marvin Davis, Engineering Aid ............. 212.50 Alvin C. Inman " " ............. 212.50 Willard Young, Surveyor ................... 285.00 The apclidation of Paul Amick of Courtland on behalf of HORSE SHOW Edward Streib for use of Lodi Stadium on the afternoons of STAD= Saturday and Sunday, March 6 and 7 for a trained animal MAR 6 & 7 show was granted, the City charge to be 10V on each adult admission and 59F for each child. Superintendent of Streets Bruner submitted a list of project GASOLINE TAX statements for expenditure of gasoline tax moneys on city PROJECTS streets aggregating $79,816.65. Action deferred to a later DEFERRED meeting for consideration of the equity involved in improv- ing streets benefitting abutting property owners without their sharing in the costs. The Council than retired into executive session, returning to open meeting within a few minutes when adjournment was had at 10:59 P.M. o=n tion of Councilman Haskell. AtteCity Clerk s'cova =inutes - =cued as it.en �, 19_8 _—YLI3