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COUNCIL CHAMBERS - - CITY COUNCIL
CITY HALL - - CITY OF LODI
Monday. December 18, 1933
This regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Lodi was called to order by the *Mayor at 8:00 o'clock P.M.on
the date first above written, Councilmen Clark, aeagle,,
Spooner, Weihe and Steele(Mayor) present, none absent.
No persons being in attendance, the order of Public Hear-
ings was passed and the Council proceeded to hear communicat-
ions and reports :
(1) A letter from Lodi Post Veterans of Foreign 'liars thank-
ing the City Council for its contribution to the celebration
of -December 2nd.,;
(2) A letter from the Division of Highways in regard to
projects for the exnanditure of the City's allotment of gasoline
taxes;
(3) A communication from the publisher of The Lodi News
asking the opportunity of submitting a proposal on the City's
o'ficial printing for the year 1934;
The Council then took up the matter of :he publication of
the official notices etc. for the next year.
The Clerk submitted specifications and the s=e were read
at length and approved and adopted by the passage of the fol-
lowing resolution :-
3y3'JLliT10N No. 698
Resolved by the City Council of the City of Lodi
(1) That the annexed "Specifications for the Publication of
of Legal Notices in Conformance with Section No. 874 of the
Municipal Corporation Act as Amended by the Statutes of 1933" be,
and the same are hereby approved and adopted as the official
specifications under which the annual contract for the publication
of said notices shall be let for the calendar year ending on
December 31, 1934 ;
(2) That the City Clerk publish a notice inviting sealed
proposals for the publications of the matter described in the
said specifications, such proposals to be received and opened
in this City Council on Tuesday, the second day of January,
1934 at a regular meeting of this Council.
The foregoing Resolution No. 698 was thereupon passed ad
adopted by the following vote: -
AYES: Councilmen, Clark, Keagle, Spooner, Wieihe and
Steele Wayor),
NO3S: Councilmen, hone. ABSENT: Councilmen, None.
The Mayor stated that he had been approached by Lodi
Business den's Association relative to the placing of four
Christmas trees at the corners of the intersection of
School and Pine Streets; the association_ requesting that
the City provide suitable receptacles for their install-
ation. after some debate as to the possible interference
with traffic, no action was taken.
Superintendent John a. E e_. ing stated that the outfall
storm drain on :tort- Sacramento Street aas not functioning
properly owing to the collapse of metal piping on the river
end, he was authorized to purchase concrete pipe to the
amount of 1_;4160.00 and proceed with replacement.
Kr Eenning also proposed that the City purchase 400 feet
of cast-iron pipe available at 37w a foot for future instal-
lation in improving fire mains to South School Street. Ee
c:as directed to make the purchase.
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The LE�yor stated that JLr Robert M. Searls had requested
that the Cit, file a brief as amici curiae in the case of
East Bay runicipal Utility District vs Earl Lee Kelley as
Dirgctor of Public '!corks now pending in the state courts, in
which case the plaintiff seeks to have certain restrictions
set forth in its water permits deleted as they appertain
to the rizhts of lower or down. -stream :.:.ter users. On motion
of Coungilman Spooner, rveihe second, City __torney West was
directed to file such a brief in opposition to the petition
if and when he was advised that this proceedure was necessary.
On motion of Councilman i:eegle, 6eihe second, .the City
Clerk was authorized to accept the ssm of X8.50 in compromise
of the water bill of ILrs Helen l.:atthews on S. School St.
The. annual purchase agreement for the supply of liquid
chlorine used at the sewage disposal plant was renewed with
Great Western Electro Chemical Company at the price of 4
per pound F.O.B.Pittsburg, Calif. and the Mayor executed
the agreement.
Bills in the amount of $3,583.13 as a.proveA by the
Finance Committee were allowed and ordered paid on motion of
Councilman Clark, Weihe second.
On motion of Councilman leihe, and passed unanimously,
the City Council then adjourned in respect to the memory of
ILr George L. Lawrence, Lodi's first Mayor who died December
14th, 1933,and it -.as so ordered.
Lt at:
City Clerk.
the fore<_ir-a ==nutes of
a rnF'_uiar of :he
City ,Council :,f the City
of Lodi hell Demme ber 18,
19_,:, were read and a:pro-
red without correction
at a sllcs=3uent remalar
meetirK :elc Hanuar7 Ld. ,
1934.
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