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City Hall, City of Lodi
Lonuay, August 17th.,1925
This regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City
of Lodi was called to order at 8.20 p.3:., Trustee Shattuck pre-
siding, Trustees Mettler, Roach and Shattuck present, Trustees
Hale and Spooner absent.
The minutes of ;he regular meeting of August 3rd.,1925
were read, approved as read and so endorsed by the President.
Public Hearings and Protests:
Cecil Perrin a2peared and presented a largely signed
petition that he is circulating in the portion of the Lodi Barn-
hart Tract north of Tokay Street as evidence that the people in
that district desire his type of lighting standard to be con-
sidered in the proposed lighting of this part of the City.
Co muni cat i ons :
The Clerk read a letter from Mr. GeorEe E. Lawrence inform-
ing the Board that the ruins of the old de -hydrator and other
shacks on Block 4 of Lawrence Homestead Addition constituted
a uublic nuisance. In order to give the owners of property on
which the buildings are located a chance to be heard, the Board
set Friday, August 21st., at 8 o'clock P.M. as the time for a
hearing on the alleged nuisance and the Clerk was directed to
notify the parties at interest.
A letter from the Lodi Volunteer Fire Department advising
the Board that fire hydrants should be installed at Tokay and
Sacramento Streets and at School and Spruce Streets was ordered
filed. Superintendent Henning suggested that if the Board con-
templated installation of new hydrants, one should be placed
at the intersection of Mission Street and Central Avenue.
A communication regarding the coming convention of Fire
Chiefs at Seattle was also ordered filed until there should
be more members of the Board in attendance.
In the ratter of the absence of Truck Driver P.H.Worison,
the Clerk read correspondence between his office and Mr Morison
at Monterey in which the latter asked that he be excused from
appearance until September 1st. as he had to go to San Fran-
cisco for an operation. It was decided to have the Fire Chief
secure a temporary driver until the 1st. and Make decision as
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to the retention of Yr. Yori son or the a.;point=ent of a suc-
cessor at the nest re,-ular meeting of the Board.
The City Attorney read a draft of a proposed agree -
Tent to be entered into with Erle L. Van Buskirk regarding the
use of a well on the latters property by the City and the Pres-
ident arra s authorized to execute the same by the passage of the
t f o 11 x-ving:
RE SOME ION
Resolved that it is to the public interest for
this City to enter into an agreement with Erle L. Van Buskirk
for the use of a certain well owned by said party and the
?resident of this Board and the Clerk thereof are hereby
authorized and directed to execute the agseement as this
date presented by the City Attorney.
On motion of Trustee Mettler, sec:,nded by Trustee
Roach and uranimDusly carried the above resolution was
a proved and adopted.
On motion of Trustee Roach, seconded by Trustee
r Mettler, bills as audited by the finance con=ittee were
allowed and ordered paid in the amount of $2,704.96.
. On motion of Trustee 3.ettler, the Board adjourned
until 8 o'clock P.;., of Tuesday, September 8th. , 1925 that
beim the date of the :zest regular meeting„ the first !Lon -
day in September being a holiday.
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