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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - October 18, 1920City Hall, Lodi, Cal., October 1S, 1920. In regular session of the Board of Trustees of the City of Loki, held this date, there were present Trustees Mor_tgoreery,Croee, Rich, Hale and Hicsok. Minutes of the previous meeting were read a nd approved. The Volunteer Fire Department, in a written communication_, asked the Board to again take up the matter of increased pay for the firemen. The Fire Department also submitted a schedule and estieete3 of the cost of additional fire equipment, with a request that its purchase and installation.be given seriuos consideration_ at ar_ early date. Plays and estimates were also filed by the City Engineer for the installation, of larger water mains and a water circulating system in the business center and around the main pack— ing a _eds. Chief Stark and Secretary Faust of tee .Fire Department and A. V. Frieeberger, J. K. Newfield and G. A. Keaele advocated the improvements and extensions mentioned above and were assured b;> tre President of the Board that the matters would be given early attention. Clark e Henery Construction Company having filed its peti— tion acing for an extension of ninety days time for tae comple— tion of the improvement of Weat Elm Street from the east line of Hutchins -Street to its west terminal, the -following resolution was adopted: WHEREAS, Clark & Henery Construction Company having filed wit: t is Board a petition asking for an extension of time in whish to complete its contract, dated August 5th, 1920, to pave West Elm Street, from the east line of Hutchins Street to 1te west terminal, and said petition coming on regularly to be heard, ane eooc cause appearing therefor, it 13 hereby RESOLVED, That sald Clark & Henery Construction Compa_ry be, and it is hereby, granted an extension of Ninety (90) days in which to corelete said contract. Upon motion of Trustee Hale, seconded by Trustee Rich, the foreecing resolution was adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Trustees Hale, Rich, Hickok, Crose and Montgomery. Noes: None. Absent: None. The City Clerk was instructed to secure an estimate of the cost of publiski1 g ana printing the annual report, to be submitted at the next meeting of the Board. Official notice of the League of California Municipalities convention to be held at Chico November Sth to lith was received_ andordered filed. Central California Traction Comeany having filed its ap— plication with the Railroad Cammission for permit to build a spur track across Cherokee Lane at Lodi Avenue, and the City of Lodi having been rotifled,.to appear and show cause,if any, w1y such permit should not "be granted, City Attorney Steele was delegated o re_resen_t the City at said hearing, to be held in the Court— house, Stockton_, October 22nd. In the matter of the abandoneent of a certain alley in Le rence Fomestaed Addition, petitioned for by Lawrence Folding Company September 20th, 1920, the followln ec resolution was in— troduced by Trustee Crose: RESOLUTION ABANDONING TEAT CERTAIN ALLEY UNNING NORTHERLY AND SOUTHERLY BETWEEN LOTS A AND B OF BLOCK NUMBERED THIRTY—EIGHT, AS PER ,SLP OF LAWRENCE HOMESTEAD ADDITION, FILED FOR RECORD ON THE 5th DAY OF APRIL, A.D.1920, in BOOK OF MAPS AND PLATS VOL. 10, PAGE 5, IN THE 0Fc'ICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF THE.COUNTY OF SAY TOAe IN, STATE OF CALIFORNIA. 1) f ,. Chambers of the Board of Trustees of the City of Lodi, County of Sar. Joaquin:, State of California. The petition of the LAWRENCE HOLDING COMPANY, a corporation., filed hereizt on the 20th dar of September, A.D.1920, praying for the abandonment or the alley above mentioned hereinafter particularly described, and t; is Boardhaving on the said 20th day of September, 1920, passed its resolution of intention to order the abandonment of said alley, aru. it appearing to the Board and the Board now rinds thattne Streit Superirterden_t did on the 2'4th day of September, 1920, cause to be conspicuously posted along the lire of contemplated work de- scribed In said resolution, to -wit: along the entire length of said alley at not more than 300 faet in distance apart, six notices of the passage of said resolution, by posting three of said notices on the east lire of said alley and three of said notices on the west line of said alley. That each of said notices was headed, "Notice of Public Work°, in ers not less tan one inch in lergtr in legible characters and stated the fact of the passage of said resolution, its date , and briefly the work for improvement proposed and referred to saicL-reso- lutior_ for further particulars. That said Street Superintendent also caused a notice similar In substance to those posted as hereinbefore mentioned, to be pub- lished for a period of more than ter. days by six successive inser- tions in The Lodi Sentinel, a tri -weekly newspaper published and circulated In said City of Lodi. All in accordance with the law ana th the order of this Board. Th at more that: ter. days have expired since the last.publica- tion of said notice, and no objections whatsoever have been delivered to t2,.7? Clerk or filed with t, is Board of Trustees. That the time prescribed during which an objection to the .bar_donraen t of said alley ray be made has expired, and no objections ^.a7inv been made, t; is Board has acquired jurisdiction to order the aba_ cor=ent of said alley. That it will be for the public interest and benefit of the City of nodi that said alley be abandoned, and that all the allega- tions in said petition are true. T'r"EREFORE IT IS ORDERED that said alley, which rums r�ortrerly and southerly between Lots A and B of Block Numbered Malrty-eig�,t (38) as per map of LAWRENCE HOIMSTAED ADDITION, filed for record on the 5th day of April, A. D. 1920, 1n Book of Maps and Plats Vo1.10, Page 5, Sar: Joaquin County Records, described as follows, to -wit: Beginning at aoint on the South line of said Block NUm- bered Thirty-eight (38) 151.35 feet west of the Southeast corner of said Block, and running thence Northerly to the North line of said Block 150.feet west of the Northeast corner of said Block; thence Westerly to a point in the *forth line of said Block:.: 150 feet East o the :•torthwest corner of said Block; thence Southerly to a point In the South line of said Block, 151.35 feet East of the SouthVest corner of said Block; thence Easterly along the South line of said Block to the point of beginning, be and it is hereby abandoned. Dated: Oct. 18, 1920. ' J. D. CROSE. Trustee. L Upon motion of Trustee Cr.ose, seconded .by Trustee Hickok, the foreZoiro resolution was adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Trustees Crose, Hickok, Ric",Hale and Montgomery. Nces: Yore. Absent: None. R.J.Custer filed a petition of electors of the City of Lodi asking the Board to call a special election to elect a Board of Freeholders to frame a chaster for the City of Lodi. Yiscellareous bills amounting to ;1525.51 were allowed and ordered ,z_id. Attest. City Clerk.