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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - December 7, 1914392 euricipal Building, Lodi, Cal., Dec. 7, 1914, The Board of Trustees of the City of Lodi convened in regular session at 8:20 p.m. President Hale called the meeting to order, all members being present. wiling permits were granted to: O.W.Kintney, dwelling on lot 9, `.',103k 3, Ayers & Pitcher's Add. H..:.3tarley (for Emma Randolph), kitchen and bath room, lot 17, _clock 3, Barnhart Tract. . J.H.Griffith, roof on barn_ at 105 East Locust Street. Superintendent of Public Utilities Herring recommended that the Jail be provided with a coal stove, as the electric :.eater in use was __ unLatistactory, the latter to be transferred to the City Clerk's of- • flee in exchange for a smaller one in use there and requested per- mission to sell the heater now being used in the Clerk's office. The matt -r was referred to the Public Utilities Committee. The Superintendent of Public Utilities recommended that a charging set be provided for charging the storage batteryof the fire truck, the Board upon motion regularly ,rade, seconded and carried, authorizing him to procure and install tie same. An ea3'eee t was presented and read whereby Henry Princevalle grants to the City of Lodi 'right of 'ray for sewers, etc., over and across the south 5 feet of the west a of lot 59, Barnhart Tract, which easement was accepted and ordered recorded. J. C. Brier presented a plat of a proposed subdivision_ of the Brier land located between North Church and North School streets in Ayer's °.' Pitcher's Addition, offering to dedicate to the city a strip of land for street purposes !V0 feet wide ruining east and west through the tract, ishi:.''t1 by the following resolution was accepted: W 2:REAS, sr. J. C. Brier has offered to the City of Lodi a tract of land forty feet wide running from the east line of North Church street to the west line of North School street to be used for- ever as a thoroughfare, be it, RESOLVED, That the Board of Trustees of the City of Lodi, as- sembled in regular meeting, accept such strip of land as designed in the accompaeyine map filed with the City Clerk and to be filed with J eecorder of San Joaquin County. Upon motion of Trustee Deaver, seconded by Trustee Black,the President of the Board and the City Clerk were authorized to execute the necessary certificate of acceptance of the plat offered by .7,0. Brier. Tee above motion was carried by the affirmative votes of Truste=e Deaver, Black, Keeney, Fola__de: f and Hale. Superin`eneent Henning and City Engineer Barzellotti pre- sented estimates for sewer and water system extensions in. tiie Barn- hart Tract and for storm ewer on want Elm etreet Upon motion regularly made, seconded and carried, the Super- intendent of Public Utilities wa.e auteorized to procure the neces- sary pipe and proceed to construct the proposed sewer extension in the Barneart Tract. The matters of the proposed water extension in the Barnhart Tract and storm sewer on nest Elm street was referred to the Com- mittee of the Whole. Superintendent Henning presented a written report, estimates and recoaa.ndation3 for extending the ,later System in the newly an- nexed district which matter was referred to the Committee of the whole. 7pon motion regularly made,aeconded and carried, the bill of sale of tee Western States Gas & Flectrlc Compary conveying to the City of coed a part of their electric distriiutive system situated within that portio'.: of the City recently annexed, was accepted and ordered filed. The following resolution was introduced, read ane adopted: WP:r.R AS, A nert_on of North School street in the City of Lodi was dedicated end 'aid out to the width of eig'r_ty (80) feet and an- oteer :crtion of said strut is sixty (60) feet in width. THNRE7_0itE, 3E IT RESOLVED, That it 13 the intention of tri? City Board of Trustees of tie City of Lodi to diminish the width of a portion of Borth School street in said city by vacating a strip of land on the west side of said street, as the same is bounded and described as follows to:Jit: Beginning at the inter- section of the nest lin? of 'corgi eceool atreet with the north line 393 of lot of land owned by Amos T. Dunton and ',Sabel Dunton, his wife ; thence we3t along the north line of said lot twenty feet to a point; thence in a northerly direction along the lino of said street as ded- icated and along the land of W. P. Boden and of lots numbered Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven and six of Block One (1) of Moran-handle Addi- tion to tiTA city of Lodi, Three Hundred Ninety-Three. a:nd 'Two-Tenths (393.2) feat to ti"? south line Of land of John Acker; thPrx e east along the south line of land of said ,Tohn Acker twenty feet to the southeast corner thereof; thence in a so,.;tnerly directlon along a line parallel with the east line of said street, as dedicated, to the place of* beginning, being a strip of land twenty feet wide and Three Hundred Ninety-Three and Two Tenths feet long. That the Lodi Post, a semi-weekly newspaper, published and circulated in thR City of Lodi, is hereby designated as the paper in whicii notice hereof shall be published. That all bf the proceedings shall be in pursuarce of an act of the legislature of the State of California entitled "An act to provide for laying out, opening, extending, widening, straighten- ing or closing up, in whole or in part, any street, square, lane, alley, court or place within municipalities, and to condemn and acquire any and all land and property necessary or conva.nie nt for th8t purpose," approved starch 6, 1839, and the several acts amenda- tory thereof or supplemental thereto. Upon motion of Trustee Keeney, seconded by Trustee Black, the foregoing resolution was adopted by the affirmative votes of Trustees Keeney, Black, Folendorf, Deaver and Hale. Upon motion regularly made, seconded and carried, the Superin- tendent of Streets was authorized to publish and post in accordance with law a "Notice of Proceedings to Diminish the Width of North SchGol Street In th- City of Lodi," as provided in the above Reso- lution of Intention. Upon motion regularly made, seconded and'caTried, the City Clerk was authorized to purchase six cuspidors for the Council Chamber. Trustee Keeney moved, seconded by Trustee Deaver, that the engineering fees on street improvement be fixed at three per cent of the total cost or the work. The foregoing motion was carried by the affirmative votes of,Trustees Keeney, Deaver, Black, Polendorf and hale. The attention of the str?et coTCmi.ttee Was called to the nP.ces- sity of property owners attending to the proper trimming of side- walk trees; also that the practice of plowing up sidewalk space fronting vacant. lots should not be permitted; and it was suggested tiiat the Chairman of the Street Corr-mittee request the Street Super- intendent to notify property owners as above. The Street Superintendent, by a notion regularly made, second- ed and carried, was authorized to order two carloads of crushed rock to be used on street crossings. The report of Plumbing Inspector Henning for the month of No- vomber was read and ordered Mad. Claims against the city amounting to $5146.05, having been pasaed by.the auditing cormittee, were allowed and ordered paid. The Board adjourned. Alt test; Cite Clerk.