19150720 Regular City Council Meeting - Minutes
REGULAR MEETING.
A regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the city of
Vernon) Oounty of Los Angeles) and State of california) was held
on the 20th day of July ) 1915) at 2 0' olock P. M. of
said day at the regular meeting plaoe of said Board in said city
of Vernon, whioh said time and plaoe is the time and plaoe fixed by
ordinanoe for regular meetings of the said Board to be held.
There were present at suoh meeting Trustees) Furlong, Leonis,
and Kniffin.
There were absent from suoh meeting Trustee$ Stevens and Durbin
President Trustee
Furlong
presiding.
The minutes of the meeting , held on July 6th,
1915 , were: read and approved.
George W. Crouch appeared before the Board and presented a letter
in words and figures a,efollows, to-wit:-
n July 20th, 1915.
City Vlerk of the City of Vernon, Cal.
Dear Sir:-
Enclosed please find resolution which we have pr.epared or-
dering the improvement of 28th street in the City of Vernon. This
resolution can be adopted to-day without the necessity of any pre-
liminary reading and should be posted forthwith. We also enclose
copies of notice inviting bids which should be posted in the same
manner and places. Attention is respectfully called to the fact that
the specifications of copies thereof must be posted on the City Hall
door at the same time. They do not, however, require posting at any
other places. Enclosed copies should of course all be signed up
before posting.
Very truly yours,
GWC-H
(Signed) CROUCH & CROUCH,
By, George W. Crouch. ·
Thereupon Resolution No. 142, being a reiolution of the
Board of Trustees of the City of Vernon ordering certain work to be
done on East 28th street, was introduced, read and adopted by the
following vote:
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Absent
stevens
Durbin
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of the aggregate of the proposal.
The City Clerk is also directed to attach a copy of the speci-
fications referred to in Resolution No. 141 to the copy of the notice
inviting bids which is to be posted at the front door of the City Hall
in said City.
Adopted and approved this 20th day of JUly, 1915.
(Si~ned) J, J. Hurlon~
President of the Board of
Trustees of the City of Vernon,
Cal.
I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was adopted by
the Board of Trustees of the City of Vernon, Cal. at its meeting
July 20th, 1915, and on said date was approved by the President of
the Board of Trustees of said city.
(SEAL)
(Signed) T. J. Furlong
City Clerk of the City of Vernon,
Cal. "
Thereupon the Board ordered the following Notice inviting street
work proposals to be duly and regularly published and posted in words
and figures as follows, to-wit:-
"NOTICE INVITING STREm' WORK PROPOSALS"
"Pursuant to statute and a Resolution .No. 142 of the Board of
Trustees of the City of Vernon, California, adopted July 20th, 1915.
directing this notice, said Board of Trustees invites sealed proposals
or bids for the following street work to be done according to the
plans and specifications for said work posted and on file.
That East Twenty-eighth Street, for.merly Joy street, in said
City, from the Easterly line of Santa Fe Avenue to the Easterly line
of Day Star Tract, as per map recorded in Book 25, at page 66, Mis-
cellaneous Records of Los Angeles County, be improved in the manner
described in Resolution No. 141 of the Board of Trustees of the City
of Vernon adopted May 18th, 1915, to which resolution a reference is
hereby made for a further description of the said work.
That bonds shall be issued to cover the cost and expense of said
wotk of improvement as described in said Resolution No. 141, to which
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reference is hereby made for a description of said bonds.
The specifications therefor are as follows:
Grading and paving-
Concrete gutters
Cement curb
Specification No. 11
Specification No. 10
Specification No. 9
Vitrified pipe sanitary
sewer, man holes, flush
tanks and other appurte-
namces
Specification No. 12
Said sealed proposals or bids are to be delivered to the under-
signed City Clerk of said City at his office in the City Hall of said
City of Vernon, on or before two o'clock P. M. on Tuesday, the 17th
day of August. 1915.
Bidders must file with each proposal or bid
either check payable to the order of the President of the Board of
Trustees of said City, certified by a responsible bank, for an amount
which shall not be less than ten per cent of the aggregate of the
proposal, or else a bond for said amount and paya~le as aforesaid,
signed by the bidder and by two sureties who shall justify before any
officer competent to administer an oath in double the said amount
over and above all statutory exemptions.
Office of the City Clerk of the City of Vernon, City Hall,
July 20th, 1915.
(SignedL-T. J. Furlong
City Clerk of the City of
Vernon, Cal.
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E. R. Maier, President of the Vernon Athletic Club, appeared before
the Board and asked for a temporary permit to play games of base ball
at the park known as the Vernon base ball park in the City of Vernon.
Permission was sranted to hold such games until August 3rd, 19~5.
In the mean time the Athletic Club expects to and promises to make
formal application for a general permit as required by ordinances of
the said City of Vernon.
Ordinance No. 159 entitled an ordinance, prohibiting the obstruction
of sidewalks or streets by bushes, hedges or trees and prohibiting the
growth and existence of certain weeds upon sidewalks and premises; and
prohibiting the depositing or accumulating of rubbish and other substance
on any premises in the City of Vernon, was introduced, read and passed
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its first reading.
Ordinance No. 160 entitled an ordinance. fixing the amount of money
necessary to be raised by taxation upon taxable property in the City of
Vernon, as a revenue to carryon the various departments of said City jor
the current year, not to exceed the limit fixed by law and to pay the
bonded or other indebtedmess of said City, was introduced~ read and pas-
sed its first reading.
Upon mention duly and regularly made it was resolved that enough
money be deposited in the All Night and Day Bank, from the general fund
to draw four p~r cent interest. Said money to be used to meet the pay-
ment of interest and the bonds and coupons attached to said bonds in
January 1916, and the matter was refered to a committee consisting of
the City Clerk. City Treasurer and the President of the Board of Trustees.
This being the day upon which warrants were to be audited and
paid. and Mr. Stevens a member of the finance committee being absent
Trustee Leonis was appointed as a temporary member of said committee~
Map of Tract No. 2688 was accepted by the Board.
The fOllowing warrants were audited and ordered paid:-
T. W. Garr, salary for June, 1915.
F. J. Valz, painting street signs
Dr. O. R. Stafford. salary health officer.
$ 80.00
Howard McCurdy
Huntington Park Signal, pri nting 50 grade or.inanc.') eigns
E. K. Wood Lumbe~\ Co., hauling and spreading gravel on
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Alameda Street between 46th and Vernon Avenue
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5.00
165.00
33.50
12.50
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7.00
1.85
145.00
126.50
4.50
T. W. Garr. board for prisoners
Herman Scheider. salary for June. 1915,
stamps
Huntington Park Signal. printing 1000 death certificates in 1913
Western Blue Print and Map Company
George W. Crouch
T. J. Furlong. salary for June. 1915
Fred Harris. salary t~r June, 1915
J. B. Weil, salary for June, 1915
50.00
30.00
150.00
40.00
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~~ Molino. street work,
Abbott Printing Company,
Helen J. Canby, typewriting for June, 1915
Gesner Williams, salary etc. for June, 1915
J. J. Doyle, street work
Thereupon the meeting adjourned.
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