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:.:ay 7 , 1934 .
:his. regular meeting. of the :y Council of the City of
Lodi :.as -
. 11e3 to order at 8 o'clock P by the _:ayor.
CouncilmenClark, :teazle, Spooner, ':,eiie and Steele present.
i:one aosent.
:he minutes of the regular meetings of april 4 and april
lo, 1934 and of the adjourned regular meeting held zpril 3Otb
1934 were read, approved as read and so endorsed b, the i:ayor.
_:r. John 7. Thompson ad3re: sed t::e Council in regard to
a building being moved into the rear of 113 i;.zutc: ins Street.
r, 2hompso: La3 informed that the owner intended to remodel
the building in such a shape t:.at it would not be an offense
to the neighborhood.
s Clerk read a petition asking the City Cou: cil to tare
su.ch steps as they :light deem necessary to cheep alive pending
application nuroered 5731 before the _ederal 3oard of ?uolic
4 .i3rc:s so that any future appropriations night be allotted to the
City if the voters should later gi:-o their consent. On motion
of .ou_ncilman "eihe, Spooner seoon y City Attorney was
authorized and directed to writ. to:'ederal 3oard of Public
Works and as-: that .:e application oe kept aline in _heir files.
The Clerk read the call
association for their annual
Yosemite Talley .:try 45th and
The report o. the Chief
and of the City Pound ijaster
read and ordered filed.
from the CaliforniaSewage Works
spring conferenceto held in
46th. i:o action taken.
of Police for the month of . ;pri1
for the same period were received,
The __ayor titan brought up __._ __.._d of unfinished business
and 71en . rest made an oral report as to water levels in
Smith's Lace, and as to his negotiations `••ith the Woodbridge
Irrigation District.
On motion of Councilman _eagle, Clark second, and carried
unanimously, it was moved that it i3 to the best interest of the
City of Lodi to purchase Smith's Lase at the price named by
Louis T. _Cason provided satisfactory evidence of title is furnished.
applications for the position of care taker at the Lake
should the City acquire the same, were received from Julius 3uell ,
Joseph E. 3enton, J. ';,agner Sollars, J. 3aton and W. L. Davis,
and the same were ordered placed on file.
'ire buildingpermits for structures to cost .540.00 were
allowed.
On motion of Louncilman ..eihe, Clark, second, the sum of
.,30.03 was appropriated for the prose of benches to oe used in
Lawrence Parc.
Superintenient ;itilities, J. Henning,
stated that
the health ins,lectorrhad reported that the premises of,...Lappas
on South. School Street were not connected with the sewer and that
it would cost aoout to extend the sewer to these prmises.
Cit:; attorney :.ler.:, .hast t sn addressed the 3oard in regard
to a report made by Professor . :onard 2. _tiller of the iini-ersity
of California and published jaat prior to the spacial oond elect-
ion of sprit 23d. On motion of Councilman Spooner, '.4eihe second,
(1onir.aation of minutes o f meetin.? of ay 7,1934) 113
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2esolution i:o. 716 in this matter ,';as then adopted.
=30-T..110i. U0. 713
?3*3 on April 2.3rd, 1934, a bond election was held
in. -he city of Lodi for the purpose of-uthorizing said city
to issue_ bonds in the --i-n of 520,000.00 wherewith to build a
^-ydrJ-electric po%e_ plant upon t . !,or-elumne i,,er to?ether
reit': transmission line, transformers and e•:iuipmant connected
therewith; and
: 5 1 +; days prior to said election one Leonard
?.
--:'ullar, Professor the ,:nirersity of California,
wrote a
port and mhereas it appaar3 that he furnished si--id report to
certain citizens of the vitt' of Lodi, +,;h0Vaused the stl,'1a to
be rublis__^.ed in local papers in support of th.eir opposition to
said bond el:ction; i;.nd
..uS it an pears that said oon d ol-ction failed to
recei-, . t -_a necessary ta.o-thirds -rote by _ small margin; and
7iHZHF,A3 it aopears that said report si:?ned by said
Leonard 2. _''Ills contains many state^;:nts ;:rich are opposite
to state rents and 'sets fur_.ish ed to said city by its consuit-
ina enJineers and by its lagal counsal; and
''-.a City 000!.oi1 of said city desires to have
said discrepancies clarified;
_TO. THER72023 .^e City Attorney of said city is hereby
authorized and directed to correspond ,vitt said Leonard 2.
2uller and request him to :sir.:ish definite state? .pts as to
where !'e ootaini9d the facts Upon h'hich said discrepancies a1O
based an: to end that said d.iscr'epancies may be e:^.tlrely'
clarified;
0- at
3:. -- _ U_- _ -- -" 3 .. i..i7 that 9�:1•i ..i t� :it$prney 13 Ld 3b.i
direct -ad to obtain such information as may oe necessary nor the
purpose : f clarifyin • all 3iscrenanci3s existing betsieen the said
sport of said Leonard 2. ?uller_:nd all other reports, ani
the ecorts furnished b;j said city's consultinz en?ineers and
le?al counsel.
3- 11 ,' il�? SOLv that a copy of this resolution
and of such corre-spondenoe as may be addressed by said City
attorney to said Leonard i'. 2uller shall be furnished b;,. said
City Attorney to the 33ard of of the university of the
State of 'California.
T-rs forefoing Resolution. l:o. 710 vias adopted by the iollow-
ino rote:
LYES: COuLC, 1L. moi: Spooner, ..eiCe, ClarG,-_eaJla a:.:1 Steele.
.i33:;..i: 'Cv vu v IL:. .r Lione.
iha _cretin- ::4s then thro;;n ooan to ;eneral discussion from
the mw_y persons in at tandance. -r.J3. „ones read 'his idea
of the groper method of pussi: a bond Issue, and especially
as to the 'di?pelling of douots as to the -low of water that 3ould
oe nacessar.- :Jr operation of a po6;er plant in t e .:_oielumne
114 ("onti r itati): minutas of meat in?if ..ay 7,19:4)
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_'.icer. ..:r. Join 'oswall 3arbour _.^d .r. Fran:
c.. Hanrin? also :d:._essed the Council uoth for a+nd a- in=t
another e13.:ion or, Do-vLer o13nt issue.
Sills in the-.noant of 91 ,380.69 as arpro —ad by the
roe Co: ittee . allowed and ordered raid on motion. of
Councilman Clark, „eih-a second.
On motion of the :.:a, or, seconded by Cou_ncil=an b+eihe, the
Council then adjourned to the dal and "our of its next re?ular
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