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19190721 Regular City Council Meeting - Minutes :'"" "'''',~,,;: :,.,.,..,,,- "W''''-l'''''''''''",,",,~''''~<''',~___'''J'''''''''-'''-' i;""""';:'-'*':~' ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING. An adjourned regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Oity of Vernon, county of Los Angeles, State of california. was held on the 21st day of Ju.ly 1919 I at 11. 0' clock A ~. M. of said day at the regular meeting place of said Board in said City of Vernon, which said place is the place fixed by ordi- nance for regular meetings of said Board to be held, pursuant to adj ournment from the regular meeting held the 15tlla.y of July 1919 , There were present at such meeting Trustees, Leonis, Kniffin, and Furlong. There were absent from such meeting Trustee, stevens and Durbin. President Trustee Furlong presiding. T:B:~x~t e fJox "0'~';Otit-ey ~ Draft of an ordinance numbered 211, entitled, crAn ordinance fixing the amount of money necessa~ to be raised by taxation as rev- enueto carryon the various Departments of the City of Vernon for the year 1919-1920 and to pay the bonded indebtedness of said City", was read for the second t~e. Upo~ motion of Trustee Leonis seconded by r.rrustee Y..niffin said ordinance was passed and adopted by the fol- lowing vot.e. Ayes; Trustees Leonis, Furlong and Kniffin. Hoes; none Absent; :.rrustees Stevens and Durbin. Protest of W. C. Greene and lrrs. W. C. Greene against the proposed improvement of East 26:1ili Street as declared in Resolution of Intention lIo. 174 passed May 20th, 1919, was read by the Clerk"denied'bythe Board and ordered filed. Thereupon Resolution No. 176 reading as follows: VlliEREAS, the California Vehicle Act as amended by the Legislature of the state of California at its last session w1l1 on and after July 22, 1919, on which date the amendments to said Act bec.omes effective, req:m-re the erection and maintainance bw: the various counties and munic- ipalities of the State of California of certain speed limit signs as a condition pre-reqUisite to the enforcing of the regulations of the speed of vehicles contained in Section 22 of said Act, and WHEREAS, the City of Ve:rn.onis desirous of enforcing and. complying with this law. and WHEREAS, the Automobile Club of Southern California, an ineorpor- -1- 1 Page 2, minutes rp.eating ,july 21st, 1919 ated, non-profit association of motorists residing in Southern California has erected a sign posting system covering all of the principal highways of Southern California and the principal highways leading into Soutaern California throughout the western States, and is therefore particularly well equipped and qualified to perform the work of erecting the signs which the California Vehicle Act requires, by Section 1, Subdivisions 5 and 6 of the said Act, the various counties and Cities to erect; and the said Automobile Club of Southern California having offered to erect in the. City of Vernon. free of charge, all signs necessary for a full compliance with the law upon the agreement of the said City of Vernon to employ said CIUlh to maintain said signs and to pay said Club the actual cost of replacing or rel)airing such signs or repairing become necessary. HOW THERElfORE BE IT RESOLVED that this Board does hereby authorize its Chairman to execute a contract on behalf of the City of Vernon with the said ~utomobile Club of Southern California, a corporation, for the said Resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote: Ayes; Trustees Leonis, Furlong and Kniffin. Noes; None. Abesnt.;Trustees Steven and Durbin. 1~~ Page 3, minutes meeting July 21st, 1919. Upon motion duly made, seconded and carried Trustee Furlong, President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Vernon, was authorized to execute a contract between the City of Vernon and the Automobile Club of Southern California, a corporation, for the erection of Speed warning signs as set forth in Resolution No. 176 passed and adopted by the Board of Trustees on the 21st &ay of July, 1919. Thereupon Resolution No. 175 reading as follows: Resolution of the Board of Trustees of the City of Vernon ordering certain improvement work to be dOlle on certain portions of East T'llenty- sixth Street in the City of Yernon. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF VERlWN :DO RESOLVE .AS FOLLOWS: Section 1, That the Board of Trustees of the City of Yernon deems it to be required by the public interest and convenience, and hereby orders that the followi~g street work be done, to wit:- That a cemaat concrete gutter eight inches thi~ and ~ielve inChes wide be constructed parallel and adjacent to the curb along the north side of the roadway of East ~,enty-sixth Street from. a poin ten feet westerly of the Easterly line of Santa Fe Avenue to a point ten feet westerly of the Westerly line of Minerva Street and that a cement concret gutter, eight inches thick and twelve inche4 wide be constructed parallel and adjacent to the curb along the south side of.the roadway of East Tv'lenty-sixth Street from a point tvvof.eet easterly of the Southern,Pac- ific Railway Company and San Pedro, Los iillgeles and Salt Lake Railway Company tracks intersecting East Tvventy-sixth Street to a point two feet westerly of~he Westerly tracks of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company intersecting East Tv'ienty-sixth Street, all in the City of Vernon, in accordance with, and in the mal~er and within the limits described in,Resolution of Intention No. 174, adopted on the 20th day of , 11ay, 1919, and Plans No. 106 and Specifications No. 10 adopted therefor by the Board of Trustees. That the northerly eight feet of the roadway of East ~venty-sixth Street from a point ten feet easterly of the Easte~ly line of Santa Fe Avenue to a, point ten feet vlesterly of the ~ line of Minerva StreEt in the City of Yernon be graded to the official grade and paved with asphalt concrete pavement on a six inch cement concrete base and surfaced with twoinch asphalt concrete wearing surface in accordance with Plans No. 106 and Specification No. 14, adopted therefor, and Resolution of 1.10 Page 4, minutes meeting July 21st, 1919 Intention No. 174, adopted on the 20th o~ May 1919. That the southerly eight feet of the roadway of East T\venty-sixth from a point two feet easterly of the Southern Pacific Railway Comapny and San Pedro, L04 .Angeles and Salt Lake Railway Company tracks inter- secting said East Twenty-sixth Street to a point two feet westerly of the ~1esterly tracks of the A.tchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Railw&y Company tracks intersecting said East ~venty-sixth Street in the City of Vernon be graded to the official grade and paved ~ith asphalt-concrete pavement on a six iIl1lh cement concrete base and surfaced with two inch aspAbJ. t- concrete wearing surface in accordance with Plans no. 106 I}Ild Specifica- tions no. 14 , adopted therefor and Resolution of Intention No. 174 adopted on the 20th day of May 1919. That the centre twenty feet of the roadway of East l'Wenty-sixth Street from the eaterly line of Santa Fe Avenue to a point two feet west- erly of the Westerly tracks of the ~itchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company intersecting s&id East ~lenty-sixth Street including all inter- sections of streets and alleys be re-surfaced with asphalt-concrete wearing surfacein accordance with Plans No. 106 and Specifications No. 14 adopted therefor and Resolution of Intention No. 174. adopted on the 20th day of May, 1919. EXCEPTING, however, from all of the aforedescribed work such portion or portions of said street or any part theremf as is or are re- cuired by law to be kept in order or repair by any person or company having railroad tracks thereon. REFERENCE is hereby made to the plans and specifications herein- above mentioned and Resolution of Intention No. 174 for further partic- ulars regarding the work or improvement hereby erdered. All of the herein ordered work shall be dmne in pursuance of an act of the Legislature of the State of California entitled, rr An act to provide for work upon streets, lanes, alleys, courts, places and side- walks, and for the construction of sewers rli thin municipalities, H approv- ed Uarch 18th, 1885, and the several acts amendatory thereof and supple- mentary thereto. Section 2. It is further deterrnined, in pursuance of an act of the Legislature of the State of California, entitled "An act to provide a system of street improvement bonds to represent certain assessments for 1 ''11_ Page 5 - minutes meeting July 21st, 1919. the cost of street work and improvement within municipalities, and also for the payment of such bonds," approved February 27th, 1893 and the several acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, that bonds shall be issued to represent assessments of twenty-five dollars or over for the cost of said work and improvement hareby ordered done. Said bonds shall be seria extending over a period of nine years from the second ay of January next succeeding the issuance of said bonds, and an even annual proportion of the prmncipal sum thereof shall be payable by coupon on the second day of Januaw every year after thJir date until the whole is paid, and to -bear interest at the rate of six per cent per annum on all sums unpaid, until the whole of said principal and interest is paid; said interest shall he payable by COUl)On semi-annually on the second day of January and July respectively of each and every year. Section 3. That the City Clerk be, and is hereby directed and required to post, or cause to be posted and kept posted, this resolution conspicuously for two weeks in three of the mos.t public places in the City of Vernon, to wit; the northwest corner of Thirty-eighth Street and Santa Fe Avenue, the no~thwest corner of Thirt~y-seventh Street and Santa Fe .1venue and the northwest corner of Thirty Eighth and Irving Streets, there being no daily, semi-weekly or weekly newspaper published and circulated in the City of Vernon. Section 4. The City Clerk is hereby directed and required to post conspicuously for five days on or near the council ch&nber door of the BOard of Trustees in the City Hall of the City of Vernon, notice with specifications, inviting sealed proposals or bids for doing the work here- by ordered done, there being no newspaper published in said city. Said notice shall r~tiuire that all proposald or bids offered shall be accompan- ied by a cheill~ payable to the order of the President of the Board of Trustees of the Ci ty of Vernon, ce.ctified by a responsible b,j"rik:, for an amount which shall not be less than ten per cent of the aggregate of the ~ proposal, or by a bond for the said amount and so pa:;able, signed by the bidder and b~T v.yO suri ties who sh:..:.1l justify, before s~ny officer competent to administer all oath, in double the said amount, and over and above all statutory exemptions. The foregoing Resolution ITo. 175 Vias read by the Clerk an d upon notion made by Trustee Leonis seconded oJ 'l':rustee Kniffen said Resolution 1 ., '0 ?Gge 6, minutes meetinG july 21st, 1919. no. 175 vras pa~!8ed and adOlJterl by the following vote: Lyes; Trustees I,eonis, I:i1iffin and Furlong. noes; Fane. .c.bsent ;J.1rustees Stevens and D-Llrbin. .. The City J'..ttorney Vias instnlCtcd to d.raw up an ordinance [unending Ordinance ro. vii thdr8.winc from the di strict set forth in sc~id orclinc:mce the follO\Iin[; c1escri bed )rope::cty, to wit: Beginning at the inter-section of the East line of BoylB Avenue with the North City Boundarw: Line of the City of Vernon thence easterly along said north city boundary line to an intersection with the easterly line of the right of way of the San Pedro Branch of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. thence southerly along the easterly line of said right of wai to an intersection with the prolongation Easterly of the northerly line of the John R Taylor's Vernon Averlue Villa Lots Tract as per map of same recorded in Book 4.2age 42 of Maps, Records of Los Angeles County; thence westerly along the prolongation of and the northerly line of said John R Taylor's Vernon Avenye Villa Lots tract to the easterly line of said Boyle Avenue; thence northerly along the easterly line of said Boyle Avenue to the point of beginning. Upon motion duly made. seconded and carrieQ, meeting was adjourned. Vernon. A?proveQ: 143