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REGULAR MEETING.
A regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the city of
Vernon 1 Oounty of Los Angeles, and State of California1 was held
on the 15th day of May , 1917 , at 2 o'clook P. M. of
said day at the regular. meeting plaoe of said Board in said city
of Vernon, which said ~i~e 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 Trustees1 Kniffin, stevens,
Leonis, Furlong.
There were absent from suoh meeting Trustee, Durbin.
President Trustee
Furlong
:presiding.
The minutes of the meeting , held on May 1st and May 8th,
1917 , were: read and approved.
Ordinanoe No. 184 entitled an ordinance establishing an "Infor-
mation Bureau" and providing for a secretary therefor and defining
the powers and duties of such seoretary, was read for the second time
and adopted.
Thereupon the President of the Board of Trustees was authorized
to appoint a secretary for the Information Bureau and to fix a
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salary for such secretary.
The matter of making necessary arrangements to reduce the dis-
tance at which crude oil or the products thereof may be stored from
the side line of any public street, avenue, highway or boulevard in
the City of Vernon in accordance with ordinance No. 154 was re-
ferred to the committee of the whole.
The Clerk presented a letter from the E. K. Wood Lumber Company
complaining in regard to a barn adjoining the lumber company on Audry
street.
The compa.ny stated that rabbits, chickens etc. are kept
on the premises on which the barn is located and the premises are in
an unsanitary condition. They further requested that the premises
be ordered cleaned up. Said letter was referred to the police
department.
A letter was received from the Railroad Commission in regard
to signs at grade crossings and said letter was laid over.
The Boara, also received a communication from the County Council
of defense regarding the promo.ion of production and conservation
of foods. Said letter was taken under consideration.
Ordinance No. 185 entitled an ordinance granting to the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company a franchise for a spur track
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aeross 26th Street East of Boyle Avenue for the purpose of serving the
Stauffer Chemical Company, was introduced, read and passed its first
reading.
Thereupon the City Clerk was instructed to send a letter to
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company in words and figures
as follows, to-wit:
"Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company,
Los Angeles, California.
Gentlemen:
At a regular meeting of the City Council of Vernon, held on
the 15th day of May, 1917, the following resolution was adopted by
unanomousvote of the members present:
Referring to application presented by the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe Railway Company on May 1st, for franchise covering the
construction of track across 26th Street in the City of Vernon for the
purpose of serving an industry. It is the sense of the Board of
Trustees of the City of Vernon that permit be granted the said
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company allowing for the con-
struction, operation and maintenance of said track as reflected on
drawing L-7-707, with the understanding that, regular franchise
ordinance will follow, will be accepted by the said Railway who
agree to comply to such requirements as are set forth therein.
Yours truly,
(Signed)
T. J. Furlong,
City Clerk.
Vernon, California, May 15th, 1917."
Deeds from the General Petroleum Corporation and the New-
market Company, conveying to the City of Vernon an easement for the
construction and maintenance at all times as against the Newmarket
Company at the City's own cost and expense, but as against the other
creditors it must bear its proportionate expense whether by assessment
or otherwise, a storm water sewer in, along, and through a strip,
piece or parcel of land being 20 inches in width and lying 10 inches
each side of the following described center line$
Beginning at a point on the South line of East 37th street
said point being South 89002' West 282.1 feet from the Northeast
corner of Lott 3, Tract No. 3058 as per map recorded in Book\3l"
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page 50 of Maps, Records of Los Angeles County, Ca.lifornia; thence
South ~ 0010' West along a. line pa.rallel with the East line of said
Lot 3, Tract No. 3058 to a point on the South line of Lot A, Tract
No. 3037 a.s per map recorded in Book 31, page 10 of Maps, Records
of said Los Angeles County; thence South 0010' West along a prolonga-
tion of the above described center line to its intersection with
the North line of Vernon Avenue, a,ll being in the City of Vernon,
County of Los Angeles, State of California, were received by the
Board and said deeds were accepted and ordered recorded.
The City Attorney reported that in accordance with instructions
received from the Board of Trustees he had written a letter to the
City Council of the City of Los Angeles regarding the construction of
the lateral to the outfall sewer of Los Angeles, which letter is in
words and figures as follows, to-wit:
"May 3rd, 191?
To the Honorable City Council of the
City of Los Angeles,
Los Angeles, California.
Gentlemen:-
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City of Vernon, ~
duly a,nd regularly held on the 3rd day of April, 1917, I was requested
to wri te you 8,S follows:
1. A short while preceding the meeting of the Board the
Griffin Wheel Co., California Food Products Company; Globe Cotton
Seed Oil Mills;
Western Oxygen & Gas Products Company; Kinmout
Manufacturing Company; Union Iron Works; Boyle Manu~acturing
Company, Vernon Manufacturing Company; Pioneer Paper Company; Cali-
fornia. Tissue Mills and E. F. Eisemeyer asked the Board of Trustees ~
of the City of Vernon to provide for And cause to be constructed
a swwer springing from the present outfall sewer on Compton Avenue
in the City of Los Angeles in Slauson Avenue and thence Easterly
a.long Slaus on Avenue to Santa Fe Avenue and thence North along Santa.
Fe Avenue to at least 49th Street in the City of Vernon.
2. Your Board will be reminded by referring to your archives
and records, that some years ago by joint agreement between the City
of Los Angeles and the City of Vernon, your outfall sewer was
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constructed through the City of Vernon, with the right in the City
of Vernon to construct laterals joining to and by direct connection
joining to the outfall sewer system but of necessity caused from the
contour of the ground, a small section of the City of Vernon was
excepted from this right of .connection to your outfall sewer. It
being agreed among your officers and the officers of the City of
Vernon who consulted in reference to the arrangement, that at the
proper time and as necessity arose, other and further arrangement
I might be made so as to provide for the said section of the City of
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Vernon left out of the former arrangement.
3. The time has now come and the necessity is urgent for the
further carrying out of the arrangement between the two cities for
the construction of the lctteral to your outfall sewer asked for by
the concerns first hereinbefore mentioned. The section of the City
of Vernon to be covered by the sewer now asked for is that section
of said city which was excepted from the origina.l j oint agreement
between the two cities.
The section now asking for a. sewer is in the extreme Southwest
section of the City of Vernon and is now thickly settled Ylith large
manufacturing con cerns and is rapidly being more thickly built upon
by such factories.
The owners of the factories mentioned sbove are practically all
citizens and residents of the City of Los Angeles a.nd in the ~'i
interests of the City of Los Angeles as well as the City of Vernon the
sewer should be constructed.
4. By following the route 8sked for by the bus inesses e.bove
mentioned, the sewer would pass along and within the Northern limits
of the City of Huntington Park and likewise int~ the County of Los
Angeles. If, however, instead of passing along Slauson Avenue, as
asked for, the sewer would be YGAde to pass Along 8 str'3et immediately
North of Slauson Avenue, it would serve the factories in the City of
Vernon just HS well a.nd would eliminate the City of Huntington Park
and the County of Los Angeles in providing for its construction 8.S
the sewer line would then rea.ch the City of Los Angeles almost at
the Southwest intersection of Vernon with the City of Los Angeles,
which would be at Alameda immediately North of Slauson.--Not intendq-
iug to be technically correct but substantially so, at 57th and Alameda
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Streets.
The great advantage to accrue to the City of Los Angeles in
addition to that mentioned above in serving :its citizens who own
factories in the City of Vernon, is that;- after the sewer leaves the
Ci ty 0 f Vernon f),t the Southwest corner it will, 1letvreen Alameda
street o.nd Compton Avenue, serve 8 section of Los Angeles which is
badly in need of sewer service.
5. A cornmittee representing the industries desiring the sewer
in the City of Vernon have appointed a connnittee and this committee
made the request on the City of Vernon for the Rction it has taken;
and this committee h8s joined with the City of Vernon in asking me
to write you this letter asking you to a.ppoint a committee to con-
fer with them for the purpose of providing for the construction of
the lateral sewer asked for and mentioned hereinbefore.
Respectfully yours,
(Signed) Gesner Williams
City Attorney of Vernon, Gal."
The City Clerk was instructed to notify the }\[ushet Audit Company
to audit the books of the city do\vn to June 1st, 1917 at which time
the secretary of the information bureau will take charge of such
books.
The following warrants were audited and ordered paid:
b. K. Wood Lumber Co.
$3.78
Doyle & Kelly, cinders for 52nd Street
25.50
Helen J. Canby, typewriting minutes etc. April,
191'7
Gesner Williams, salary etc. for April, 1917
4.50
48.00
30.00
57.00
7.50
10.13
J. B. Weil, salary for April, 1917
T. J. Furlong, salary ab. for April, 1917
}lanuel Montijo, teams, Cleaning streets
Wm. Miller, cleaning streets,
A. Anderson, Cleaning streets
J-. H. Boliday, grading and street work
10.13
5.50
150.00
5.25
50.00
Fred Harris, salary for April, 1917
Frank M. Kelsey, premium on bond
U. W. O'Donnell, salary March Bnd April, 1917
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Herman Scheider, salary Apri. 1917,
C. Ganahl Lumber Co.
$6.00
39.30
20.00
19.58
w. H. Hoegee, garden hose
Howard McCurdy, City Engineer,
The 5th day of June, 1917, being a legal holiday by virtue of its
being "Conscription Day.' t and said day being the first Tuesday in
the month and the regular meeting time for the Board of Trustees,
thereupon the meeting adjourned to meet again on the 6th day of
June, 1917 at 2 o'clock p. M. at the regular meeting place of the
Board.
Approved this /~ ~ day of
1917.
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Vernon, California.
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