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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - August 1, 193249116) Council Chambers -City Council City Hall - City of _Lodi 2Tonday,August 1,1932 -ie City Council of the City of Lodi met in regular at S o'clock P.M. on the date first above written, Councilmen C1ark,Keagle,Weihe and Steele present, Councilman Spooner absent. The reading of the minutes of the regular meeting; of July 13th and the adJJ'ourned meeting of July 25th was dispensed with, being incomplete, and the same was deferred to the next meeting to be held August 15th,1932. No persons a pearirig; the order of Public Hearings was passed and the Uouncil proceeded to hear eounications and reports : The monthly report of the Chief of Police for July and that of the City oound*master for the same month were received, read and ordered filed. A cocv unication from the County Ielfare Board stating that a meeting would be held August lst, was read and ordered filed. A letter from the League of California Municipalities acknowledging receipt of annual dues bas also read and ordered filed. A communication from the City Clark, then temporarily absent, regarding the discontinuance of certain police pphones on power roles in various parts of the City was read -and briefly discussed. 1-ir Henning stated that his electricians used these phones also but that he thought that the monthly charge of $x.00 each was excessive. On motion of Councilman W-eihe, Clark sec.;nd, the action of the City Clerk in ordering the service discontinued was unaniu ously affirmed. It appearing, from a letter from the City Treasurer, that there was a deficianc in the Street Assessment Bond Fund, owing to delinquent tax collections and also to meet installments due on properties sold to the State or to the City ar_d not displayed on the 1931 assessment roil, the pproper transfers of funds were directed by the passage of ?esolution No. 667 by the following vote :- AYES: Councilmen, Clark, Ke b le, Weihe and Steele. CounciLmen, None. ABSENT: Councilman,Spooner. ?SSOLLTION No. 667 A Resolution Directing that Certain Transfers of Fords be Made by the Cit Treasurer to Pay Prin- cipal and Interest on Delinquent Street improvement Assessments in the Tag Year 1931-32. n SOLV D, by the City Council of the City of Lodi that the following transfers of funds be, and the'same are hereby authorized to be made to satisfypayments of principal and interest due on Street Improvemnt Bonds payable in the tax year 1931-32 :- (1) :rom General Hund to Street Assessment Bond Fund. the sun of ME THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED TWO DOLLARS AND NINETY - O r CENTS ($1,702.91), the said s= being the amount of street improvement assessments delinquent July 31, 1932 plus $362.00 due from properties sold to the City or to the State of Californiaand not displayed upon the said assessment roll; (2) From "Street Assessment Account", a revolvir fund in the custody of the City Clerk, to Street Assessment Bond Fund, the sum of ONE THOUSAND TIFEE FUNDRED FIFTY-SIX and SEVENTY TIiREE 0JINDREDTHS DOLLARS ($1,356.73), representing the amounts due of principal and interest paid .in advance, less amounts due from bonds or coupons whose maturity has been previously advanced and the bond cancelled. The City Council then co --mended Police Officer Clarence Stonewall Jackson for his action in apprehending one Phillip Gier on the night of July 25th,1932 b,� adopting the follcwing _ (Iinutes of r'.ugust 1.1932 cont.) resolution by unanimous vote :- Resolution No. 668 iyrLR A5, on the ni`ht of i:`onday, July 25th ,1932, C.S. Jackson, =police officer of the City of Lodi, acting in the line of his official duty, shot o.e Phillip Gier; and whereas, it a, -pears that said Gier and his companion were then in the act of burg larizinz a service station in said Cityy, at the corner of ("herokee Lane and Load A venue,and thatm as said Jackson a..oroached to arrest said burglars, said bier stooped and made a motion as if to pick up some deadly weak on, probably an iron bar which said Gier had at the time in said service station, and that said Jackson thereupon shot said Gier; ,10d, TIIMFO.E, BE IT RESOLVED: First. That Lhe Council of said City regrets that it was necessary for said C.S.Jackson, said Police Officer, to shoot said Gier. - Second. That said C.S.Jackson was justified in -shooting said Gier, because said shooting was necessarily done in a lawful attemt to arrest a person In the act of, committing a felony, and because it then appeared to said C.S.Jackson necessary to overcome resistance to arrest and to prevent great bodily 'arm to said C.S.Jackson. Third. That, while the City Council rerets the neces- sity for said shootin,.it cormends the saig police of F,officer for performing his official duty, and recon -mends that all police officers rigorously enforce the law in this city, and deal with all offenders as severely as the law and the facts may justify.. Street Superintendent B,C,Dou.:hertyy reported orally on j the progress in patching gutters and sidewalks and .gas instructed to continue the work throughout the City where he thought it necessary. Bills in the amount of $10,093.33 as a,_:proved by the Finance Committee were allowed and ordered paid on motion of Councilman Clark, keagle'second. After'a short executive session, the City Council adjourned to and until the day and hour of its next regular meeting_to be held August 15, 1932. Attest'``" Deputy City Clerk. 'he fora�.oir -dr of a rem ar meatyrg of t,Ee City Council held AuSast 1, 1932 v;ere read at t'r_e next following Meeting __eld August ib, 1932 and a.proved wishout I correction. i Ya fo% the' City of Lodi AuE:st 15, 1932 49!