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COU`1CIL CHAMBERS CITY COUNCIL
CITY HALL - CITY OF LODI
B OCTOBER - 1947
Pursuant to the adjournment taken from its regular seating of
October 1, 1947, the City Council of the City of Lodi met at 8:15
o'clock FA of Wednesday, October 8, 1947, Councilmen Haskell, Lytle,
Riggs, Tolliver and Rinn present. _
The first two hours were spent in considering the City's present
financial condition in consultation with the City Clerk, City Treas-
urer Vincent C. Webb, City Engineer Henning, Superintendent of Utilit-
ies Killelea and City attorney West and in formulating plans for the
early installation of means of augmenting revenues to meet increased
costs in the administration of city affairs as well as financing the
expenditures for capital outlays to which the city is now committed.
Suggestions from the City Treasurer relating to accounting for
and collecting business license taxes and sewer rentals were approved
as practical and he was instructed to continue toward the necessary
surveys required to set rates for both of the ordinances to be adopted.
Open meeting was called at 10:30 P.M. when Mr T. G. Killelea was
authorized to obtain the services of Davey Tree'Surgery to prune trees
obstructing the city's power lines; bur Killelea estimated that this
work would take six weeks and cost about $1 737.00.
Claims in the total amount of $46,121.82 as approved by the
Finance Committee were allowed and ordered paid on motion of Council-
men Tolliver, Riggs second these being claims not audited for pagmont
at the October 1, 1947 meeting.
Glens West, who in company with Street and Park Superintendent
N. L. Bruner and Eugene Howell of San Joaquin Local Health District
has just returned from a trip to view the garbage disposal sites at
Turlock and at Fresno, reported at length on his observations and of
the total absence of odor, flies or rodents at either site.
At the request of Mr West, the following resolutions were then
introduced, explained by him and then adopted by unanimous assenting
vote of all five members of the City Council:
Resolution No. 1370, stating that the City of Lodi has acquired i
forty acres of land in Section 31, Township 3 North, Range 7 East for
the purpose of disposing of garbage and refuse matter and directing
the Superintendent of Streets and Parks to proceed with preparations
for its use for this use.
Resolution No. 1371, authorizing the Mayor to cause the necessary
data to be prepared, investmgations to be made and,�n the name of the
City, to sign an application to the State Board of Health for a permit
to install, maintain and operate a garbage and refuse disposal pit for
disposal of such garbage and refuse by the " sanitary fill " method on
the lends acquired in Section 31, T3N, R7E from Fredrickson and Watson
Construction Company.
At 11:40 P.U. the City Council adjourned on motion of Councilman
Riggs.
d. F. BLAKELY, Ci C rk
Twp above w itten minutes a_proved as correct
at a subsequent meeting of the City Council
of h-- Ci -,7 of Lodi haid October 15, 1947