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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - No. 09-17-1917499 City Pall, September 17, 1917. In regular session of the Board of Trustees of the City of Lodi held this date there were present Trustees Yale, Black, Keeney, Deaver and Folendorf. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Trustee Keeney moved, seconded by Trustee Black, that the City Marshal be authorized to procure an assistant to write the tax bills; also that he proceed to collect city taxes as usual at the First National Bank. The motion was carried. In the matter of west Oak street improvement the following J? resolution was introduced, read and adopted: j{ RESOLUTION OF AWARD. WHEREAS, this Board of Trustees of the City of Lodi, County of San Joaquin, state of California, did in open session on the 11th day of September, A.D.1917, open, examine and publicly declare all sealed proposals or bids offered for the following work: That West Oak Street from the east line of School Street to the Past line of Hutchins Street as delineated and so designated upon the official map or plat of said City of Lodi, approved by the Board of Trustees of said City, on the 20th day of January, 1913, and on file in the office of the City Clerk of said City of Lodi, BE IMPROVED. (1) First by grading the roadway, the curb and gutter space thereof; (2) By paving the roadway between the gutter lines with a pavement consisting of li inc2ies of warrerite wearing Surface, laid on an asphaltic concrete base, 2J inches in thickness; (3) By constructing hydraulic concrete curbs and gutters of the combined type on each side of the pavement for the entire length of the portion of said street to be improved; (4) To build curb approaches at street intersections of the dimensions and materials shown in the plans and specifications, which _t plans and specifications are now on file in the office of the City Clerk of said City of Lodi, and hereby referred to and made a part hereof for ail purposes. And whereas the consideration of said bids and the awarding of said contract were regularly continued for hearing to this 17th day of September, A. D. 1917, at the hour of 5:00 o'clock p. m. and the matter coming on regularly to be heard at said time; now there— fore be it RESOLVED, that this Board of Trustees rejects and does here— by reject all of said bids, except that next herein mentioned, and hereby awards the contract for said work to the lowest regular re— sponsible bidder, viz: CLARK & II"NERY CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, at the prices specified in its proposals or bids on file for said work. The President of the Board of Trustees of said City of Lodi Is hereby authorized and directed to execute and enter into a con— tract for said work on behalf of the said City of Lodi, with said CLARK & f-MMY CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, in accordance with the terms and conditions therefor, and to the amount of said bid, and subject to the plays and specifications for said work heretofore adopted by the Board of Trustees of said City of Lodi. All of the herein proposed work shall be done in accordance with the plans and specifications heretofore adopted for doing said work, which said plans and specifications are now on file in the -- office of the City Clerk, and which for greater certainty are hereby referred to; also as provided by Resolution of Intention No. 14, which Resolution of Intention is hereby referred to for greater cer— tainty and made a part hereof; also in pursuance of the provisions n of aact of the Le 1slature of the State of California, designated as the "Inprovement Act of 1911u and Acts amendatory thereto. That in and by the terms of said Resolution of Intention said Board of Trustees determined and declared said work and im— ^rovemer_t to be of more than local or ordinary public benefit, and 500 Aw Aw that the cost and expenses of said work should be assessed upon the lands and district particularly described in said Resolution of In— tention and which district was thereby determined and declared to be the district benefited by said work and improvement. That in and by the terms of said Resolution of Intention said Board of Trustees of said City of Lodi, declared and gave no— tice, and notice is hereby given that serial bonds to represent unpaid assessments and bear interest at the rate of 7 per cent per annum, will be issued 'hereunder in the manner provided by the Ir— provemer_t Bond Act of 1915, the last installment of which bonds shall mature rine years from the 2d day of July next succeeding nine months from their date. That notice hereof be posted, and published for the per— iod required by law In uThe Lodi Ser_tir_el." Trustee Folendorf moved, seconded by -Trustee Keeney, the adoption of the above resolution as read, which motion was carried by the following vote: Ayes: Trustees Hale, Black, Keeney, Deaver and Folendorf. Noes: Prone. Absent: None. In the matter of improvement of North School Street Trus— tee Keeney introduced a resolution providing for the purchase of certain pieces of land from Hannah Watkins and E. F. Nickel, which resolution was upon motion laid on the table for not less than five days. ORDINANCE. NO. 92, °An Ordinance Repealing Ordinance No. 90 and Amending Sect— ion 2 of Ordinance No. 38, as Amended by Ordinance No. 89,9 was in— troduced and read and upon motion of Trustee Deaver, seconded by Trustee Keeney, was laid on the table for not less than five days. Trustee Black moved, seconded by Trustee 'Keeney, that the city take the necessary legal steps to deed to E. K. Deaver a piece of land five feet wide fronting on DeForce Avenue, Deaver agreeing to d,aed to the city in exchange therefor a piece of land of equal dimersior_s north of and adjacent thereto. The motion was carried, TrusteeDeaver voting -present." Trustee Keeney loved, seconded by Trustee Black, that the Chief of the Fire Department be instructed to have the chemical tank of the fire ergine repaired, which motion was carried. Upon motion of Trustee Black, seconded by Trustee Keeney, the City Attorney was authorized to attend the League of Munici— palities convention at Santa Rosa. Trustee Black moved, seconded by Trustee Folendorf, that the-3oard instruct its delegates to the League convention to use their best endeavors to induce the league to take some action in the next Legislature toward amending the street improvement laws to the end that property owners may be relieved of the exorbitant charges imposed by street paving companies. The motion carried una _imous ly . Miscellaneous claims against the city amounting to $387.67 were allowed and ordered -paid. The Board adjourned. r f� Attest: City Clerk.