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January 15, 1941
This regular meeting of the City Council of the City cf Lodi was called
to order by the Mayor at 8 o'clock P.M. on Wednesday, January 15, 1941, .lith
C:,urcil.-nen Bull, Graffigna, Rigs, Weihe and Steele (iw3ayor) present, none
absent.
The minutes of the last meeting held January 2, 1941 were read, approved as
read and so endorsed by the Mayor.
No persons desiring to be heard appearing at this time, the order of
Public Hearings was passed and the Council proceeded to hear Reports and
Cormurications as filed with the City Clerk.
nuarterly Reports of the City Clerk and of the City Treasurer for the
quarter ended December 31, 1940 were received, read and ordered filed.
A letter was read from the City Rnployee's Association asking that the
Council provide by resolution for assurance to employees,who might be
drafted into military service, that positions held by them would be avail-
able at the completion of their terms in such service. The Clerk was
directed to draft such a resclution and present the same to the Council at
its next meeting.
Councilman :tieihe of the Committee on Parks, to which co=ittee the
a -plication of Lodi L:otorcycle Club for use of the Lodi Stadium had been
referred on January 2, 1941, reported thatthe field tract in the stadium
was too wet to allow a test as to its suitability for motorcycle racing
and that the Committee and the Club desired to submit recommendations
later, after such a test could be made by qualified judges. -
Complaints having been received that the camp ground (Martin's Camp),
was still in operation at No. 400 ?fest Lockeford Street, :.ayor Steele
stated that the present lessee was preparing to vacate by February 1st.
The State Relief Administration having made several minor changes in
its rules for the employment of relief workers, the agreement for assign-
ment of relief workers dated January 1st and approved by the Council on
January 2nd by its Resolution No. 1066, was amended by the adoption of
Resolution No. 1067 by the assenting votes of all nembers of the City Council.
Notices of transfers of liquor licenses to R. Lehr and N.A.Lorenz were
received from the State Board of Equalization and no objections offered.
Business License Applications Nos 1777 to 1781 were read by tae Clerk
and licenses ordered .granted wit" exception of that covered by Application
No. 1778, which was refused.
Claims akainst the Treasury in the amount of $9,183.38 as approved by
the Finance Gc=ittee were allowed and payment ordered on motion of Council-
man Graffigna, Weihe second.
:.:r Glenn '.Fest reported at length on several matters that had been
submitted to him as City Attorney, viz: on the proposed lease and sub -lease
to the "Lind Airport", on the-
stablishment of a Personnel System for City
Employees and on the operation of a municipal garbage collection department
as now in operation in the City of Roseville.
John 3essel'a-:peared before the Council at this time and urged the
installation of street lights on South Cturch Street and Pleasant Avenue.
On motion of Councilman Bull, :6eihe second, reconstruction of the
refreshment stand at Lake Park was authorized under plans to be prepared
by the City Engineer.
On reco-mendation of Superintendent of Public Utilities, John A. Henning,
the wages of Gurdon D. Steele as relief operator in the City Water Plant was
fixed at $75.00 per month and that of William Keyer in the Water and Sewer
Department, at $175.00 per month. This was done on motion of Councilman
Bull, seconded b;: Councilman Graffigna, Mayor Steele not voting on the first
reco-nendat ion .
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11irther test of the fire alarm horn now held on a�nroval +rag directed,
the horn to he mounted on a pole so as to give it greater altitude.
At 10.05 o'clock, -.he City Ccuncil adjourned on notion of Council`*ar
:1ei•ne,
this being "Boy's Day" the seviral positions of Layor, Ceurcil-
men, City '01erk, City Attorney and City Tr=asurer we_e surrorted by -
bovs elected from the student body of Lodi Union High School)
r. BLAMMY, City Clerk
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