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COUNCIL CHAMBERS - - CITY COUNCIL
CITY HALL - - CITY OF LODI
"on iay, npril 19, 1937
This regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Lodi
was called to order at 8:00 o'clock. P311. of :::onlay, April 19, 1937.
Councilmen, :lar::, sra:figna, Spooner, ±reihe and Steele present, none
absent.
The minutes of the last regular neeting held April 5, 1937
were read, approved as read and so indorsed by the lliyor.
Ho persons desiring to address the Council at this ti=e, the
order of Public llearings :w -s pessed and the City Council proceeded to the
opening and canvassing of bids received on a sewage pump.
The Clerk report=_d the due publication of the t;otice of Intention
to receive sealed proposals on the same and the Council then proceeded to
publicly open and declare the bin's received . Proposals on the sewage
pump were received frc= t^e following firms:
Fairbanks, '::orse and Company, Victor Equipment Company,
Allis ChaL:.ers 1. ufacturing Company, and the Sterling
Pump Corporation.
After the opening of the bids and at the direction of the 12--jor, the City
En?ineer was directed to tabulate the same and report to the Council at
an adjourned meeting to be held at 4:00 o'clock P.M. of Tuesday, April 20,
1937.
The Council then proceeded to the opening of bids on circuit .
breakers and a relay panel. Proposals .sere received from :general Electric
Company, Pacific Electric Yanufacturing Cor+pany, H. B. Squires Company,
and 7.estinghouse Electric and Llnufacturing Cor -many. All proposals were
ordered referred to :•-.. john %L. Henning, Superintendent of Public Utilities -
to report to the Council at an adjourned meetin_7 to be held at 4:00 o'clock
P...i. of T::esday, April 2C, 1937.
The Clerk ren_orted that he had received a check from the State
Compensaticn Insurance land for $1,068.00,being 37-"-% of all premiums paid
by this City,for the food record during the past year.
The Clerk read a letter from the Department of Public .forks
stating the amount of increased gasoline tax apportionment accruing to
the City on account of the four latest annexations of new territory.
A letter was received from the Lodi Business Len's ;association
in re-ard to '`etter street lighting in the business district. Bulletins -
were received from the League of California Mnicipalities and from the
California 1'nicipal Utilities Association regarding:pending:le3islat ion.
A petition signed by the total number of owners of real property
in the 300 block o`_' Cherry Street asking that the City apply to the works
Progess Administration for a project to install curbs and gutters was received
and on mgtion of Councilman Clark, seconded by Councilman uraffigna, such
anplication was arvroved by the adoption of Resolution ?Io. 905.
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Nlt .�, nub'_ic convenience and necessity require that the following
work be performed in and for this City; to -wit:- --
Constrsctirn of curbs and ,utters on the ^300" Block
of Cherry Street.
;'l_-" "7 S, the cost of this work is in excess of the funds available
and no amount has been.pro-n-ded in the annual budget adequate to accorplish
this _ur.--ose wit: out su-p'_irertary assistance;
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3=: 1r R23Ci r�,that application be :7i --de to t--3 Federal ...:.e^3e1cy
-Ralial .z'�iaistratip cfhublic l;orss for the asris`aace ..ecessary to do the
work coni fated;
°5' I^_ _LSC PESCL:'sD, that ,._.. 3=r�L:, L:aycr o`_' this Citi, and
nL ve City Clerk tereof, be, and they are hereby authorized
and diracted to anprove and si �: said application in the name of this City
as spcnsor of this project, said 1.!ayor and said City Clerk to act as
"Sponsor's went" and "Fiscal Officer" respectively.
The foregcing Resolution No. 905 was then passed and adopted
by the follcvrin3 vote:
A;:es: Councilmen, Clark, '3raffigna, Spooner, Weihe and Steele
:ions: Council=en, :Tone.
.;hsent: Council en, !Tone.
Pe -ports of the City Clerk and City ._easur__ for the Quarte_
ended 17e -ch 31, 1937 ere received, read and ordered filled on motion of
Ccu:.cil..an lliaff14na, seconded by CO'.lnpilman '-,Veihe.
L:r. I. A. Hearing recom--ended that the City execute a purchase
a�reeinant with the 0 --neral Electric Company for electric globes delivery
to be mede through H. S. Hook. L:r. 'renning's recozrendetion was approved
on motion of CourciLman =raffigna, seconded by Counciirian ;.eihe.
Seven arrlications for business licenses ::o. 8439 to and
including No. 84445 were allo:•:ed and ordered granted.
It the order of the Cc,ncil the Clerk was directed to notify
the Chief of Police that all ordinences prohibiting the display of
merchandise on the streets of the City --ust be strictly enforced,
particularly as _ ;ards automobiles :w 1d for sale.
Arnlication to the :+. P. A. for a project to install sto=
And serita^.r sewers in several parts of town were approved on the
adoption of Resolution No. 906.
?ESCLC'T-'IOI•i NO. 906
public convenience and necessity require that the following
work be performed in and for this City; to -wit: -
Construction of storm and sanitary sevrers in Bewley Acres, storm
sewers on Lee Avenue, Pleasant "venue, Church Street, School
Street, .Ialnut Street, Eutchins Street and Sacramento Street.
V -7-77-F20, the cost of this work is in excess of the funds available
and no am.unt has been provided in the annual budget adecuate to accomplish
this purpose without sunnlimentery assistance;
c?. I"_' REESCL=, that application be made to the Federal Zmer-;ency
Relief ?d:rinistration of 'Public :;orks for the assistance necessary to do
the. .^orb: conter.rleted;
2L IT ztTSC '72SCI:-- , that .r. '..T. 37 L:eyor of this Citi and
S. F. 91 -'}r -MY, City Clerk thereof, be, and they are hereby authorized and
directed to arrrove evil sign said application in the name of this City as
spersor of this rroject, said L:ayor end said City Clerk to act as "Sponsor's
Agent" and "Fiscal Officer" respectivee ly.
The fore;oing Resolution No. 906 was then passed and a, -;opted
by the unanimous vote of all the nm.hers of the City Council.
Pursuant to proceedings had under Resolution of Intention Ila. 900
the Clerk reported due publication and costing of the Notices of Public
'7ork therein required and Resolution No. 907 as prepared by the City
Attorney was read by the ;1=rk and considered by the Council.
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�ESCLu.ic;T No. 907
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the City Council of the City of Lodi (San Joaquin
Ccuhty, California) Lid or. the 22nd day of carch, 1937, adopt its Resolution
No. 900,wherein it declared its intention to abandon a certain portion of
"Stur'_a Street", :more definitely described in the said Resolution No. 900,
reference to which is hereby Lade for further particulars; and
*)=ZAS, it appears that the Street Superintendent of said city
duly and rgT:larly caused to be conspicuously posted along the line of that
portion of said street so intended to be abandoned, at not more than 300
feet in distonce apart, and more than three in all, notices of tae passage
of said resolution, as more fully appears by the affidavit of Clinton Henning,
Street Superintendent of said City of Lodi, who personally posted said notices
as aforesaid, which affidavit is nor, on file in the office of the clerk of
said city, and whereas it ap^ears that said notice was duly and regularly
published in The Lodi News -Sentinel, a na:sniper of general circulation
printed, published and circulated in said city, and designated by said City
Council for that nur-ose, for a period of amore than ten days, as required by
Law, such pu'-)lication being proved by the affidavit of DeL--nar B. Rinfret,
now or file in the office of said City ark; and
. 77=AS, more than ten days ha-t�e elapsed since t`e last publication
of said notice and since the posting of copies of said notice, and no objection
to t:,e abandonment of said portion of said street, and no objection whatever,
has been filed or presented or .:.ode either by filing the sane with said City
Council or with the Clerk of said Cit•r or otherwise; the said City Council
hereby finds that said Resolution ;To. 900 was duly and re;ularly passed and
adcrted, Leclarin; the intention o.' said City Council to abandon that portion
of "Sturla Street" hereinafter declared to be abandoned, that due notice
of the passnge of said resolution has been made, posted, published and given
in all respects as required by lace; that no objection to the abandonment of
that Dor-tion of said street hereinafter declared to be abandoned has been
made, filer: or .given, and that the tine in which to make, file or give such
obiectiors,has expired, and that said City Council has acquired jurisdiction
to order the abando=ent of that portion of said street hereinafter ordered
to be abandoned.
NC"t,"SB^•.:0REE', 3S IT R7:S[`L--T, By the City Council of the City
of Lodi, that it is to the public interest and benefit that there be abandoned,
and that there is he-eby abandoned (as a public street, way and/or p]e ce)
all that -ortion of the following named street in "Sturla School Addition"
as per rep of said addition filed April 6th, 1920, and recorded in Book 10
of -Taps and 7-1 is at page 6 in the office of tr_e County Recorder of the
County of San Tosquin, State of California, to -wit:
All that -ortion of "Sturla street" lying
between the +est line of South. Church Street
and the East line of South :leasant Avenue
in said city.
RES•.=- , By said City Council that said portion
of said street so ordered to be abandoned shall be and the same is hereby
closed up, as a 'public street, a:ay and/or place and that no public
easement of any 'kind or ctiaracter (as or for a public street, way and/or
place or otherwise) shall hereafter exist oyer, in, upon, or across the said
Dart of said street so o dered to be abandoned.
The foregoing; Resolution No. 907 was then passed and adopted by
the follcwin3 vote:
Ayes: Councilmen, Graffiya, 64eihe, Clark, Spooner and Steele
*hoes: Councilmen, `,Tone.
Absent : Council_en, ?Tone.
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tBuilding permits No. 1684 to And including No. 1690 for structures
to cost X19,800. were allowed and ordered 5ranted.
Claims No. 28853 to the including No. 28921 in the total amount of
$5,75c.57 as approved by the Tinance Cor=ittee were allowed and ordered
paid on notion of Council=an Spooner, seconded b_r Councilman GrafP14
Ordinance No. 233 entitled "-AN OSI.+r"OE FRCHIBITI`?, TKE U iaRP_?s,
771ISFIII; OR 733 C7 CtirMIMT ST_..)' ITICITS LJTIRTAIE: R'_E.^,TZ.:.^.IPTG Z4*5' USE OF, AM
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=, USE C? CERTAIN DERC:;A7__C3`.', 1= 0=7, 7T ALM OPPROBRIOUS L.Ula!i ,.E, LOUD
.,i':9 wus L ^.'CI.''i'' _: DES'_^7j S FOR C� L",I1? iL7H CS33: AND PR07I7':D
P 1"AL=-'S FOR 7I" LzlICI? was introduced on motion of Council-
man 3nooner, seconded by Council_an ":eihe and by the same motion laid over
for the statutory _perioaof not less than five days.
On the rscom erdation ofy
A. Henning that the current
regulators .'or sale by the TurlockIrrigatior- District were not of a
sufficient size for this City's grovring population and because of the
irregular voltage furnished by the Pacific Gas & Electric Company
the Clerk'.was directed to advertise for -current regulators of an approved
type end s_reci-ications to be furnished by !.s. Henning, On motion of
Councilman aeihe, the City Council adjourned to and until 4:00 o'clock.
P.L:. of Tuesday, April 20, 1937. Z.otion carried.
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The fore7oing minutes of a
regular meeting of the City
Council of the City of Lodi
were read at a subsequent
meetine_ of said Council held
Lay 3, 1937 and approved with-
out correction.
L:avor .
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