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1924 SEP 19 CC MINEl Segundo, Calif. Sept. 19th, 1924. A regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City of E1 Segundo, ifornia, was called to order at 7s00 o'clock P. M. on the above date in the Council Chamber of the City Hall of said City by Peter Be Binder, President the Board. ROLL CALL. Trustees Presents Anderson, Gerow and Binder. Trustees Absents Cannon and Love. BEADING OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS. Fa Cal- of The minutes of the regular meeting held on September 12th, 1924, were read and no errors or omissions appearing, it was moved by Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Anderson, that the minutes be approved as read. Carried. The minutes of the adjourned regular meeting held on the 16th day of September, 1924 were read without error or omission being noted. The minutes were approved as read upon motion of Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Anderson, which carried. The minutes of the adjourned regular meeting of September 18th, 1924, were read. No errors or omissions being noted, it was moved by Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Anderson, that the minutes be approved as redd. Carried. WRITTENT COMMUNICATIONS. The following communications were read and disposed of as indicateds STANDARD OIL COMPANY, a letter dated September 16th, 1924, congratulating the Board of Trustees on its success in making the Admission Day Celebration, September 9th, 1924, one of the largest affairs ever held in El Segundo and thanidng the -Board for the invitation extended the Standard Oil Company to participate in the first aid contest. Ordered filed. Supplementary petition for the improvement of East Maple Avenue between Main Street and Penn Street, signed by Joseph Be Bender and others, which supplementary petition, in conjunction with the original petition filed with this Board of Trustees July 29th, 1924, and of record at Page F -7, minutes of the Board of Trustees, carries signatures of owners representing over 50% of the real property fronting the proposed improvement. Moved by Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Anderson, that the City Engineer be and he-is hereby authorized and instructed to prepare all of the data necessary to cause the said street to be improved in accordance with the wishes of the petitioners and to furnish such data to the City Attorney so that he may prepare the necessary legal proceedings. Carried by the following votes Ayess Trustees Anderson, Gerow and Binder. Noes$ None. Absents Trustees Cannon and Love. RAILROAD CONKISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, being its decision Bo. 14050, brantine to the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway authority to lay, oonstruot, maintain and operate a certain storage or spur track across Collingwood Street in the City of 21 Segundo, permission for which had previously been granted by the City of El Segundo through its Ordinance No. 105. Ordered filed. LEAGUE OF CALIFOR]IA MUNICIPALITIES, calling attention to the twenty -sixth Annual Convention of said League, to be held at Monterey, California, October 6th -10th, 1924, and urging that this city have representation at said Convention. Believing that much benefit is derived by the occasionall Inter��an $ de and discussions of the problems of the various munioipalities of tIIe a e 13 9144 v the agency of the League of California Munici polities, it was moved by Trustee Z Gerow, seconded by Trustee Anderson, that the following resolution be adopted, "RESOLVED, that the City Attorney of the City of IRI Segundo be and he is hereby authorized to attend the 1924 Convention of the League of California municipalities, to be held at Monterey, California, October 6th -10th inclusive, and to file his demand with this Board for one -half of his reasonable expenses in connection therewith, AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the President of the Board of Trustees and the City Clerk be and they are hereby authorised to attend said Convention and to file their demands for their reasonable expenses in connection therewith ". The foregoing resolution was adopted by the following votes Ayess Trustees Anderson, Gerow and Binder. Noels Hone. Absents Trustees Cannon and Love. It appearing from discussion that the Superintendent of the Water Department felt that his attendance at the Water Works Convention to be held at Sacramento, California, in the near future would be of greater benefit to the City of E1 Segundo than his attendance at the League of California Municipalities, inasmuch as the City of El Segundo would have other representation at the latter convention, It was moved by Trustee Anderson, seconded by Trustee Gerow, that the Superintendent of the Water Department be and he is hereby authorized to attend the California Mapter of the American Water Works Association Convention to be hold at Sacramento, California,.0otober 23rd, 24th and 25th, 19249 and to file with this Board his demand for his reasonable expenses in connection therewith. Carried by the following votes Ayess Trustees Anderson, Gerew and Binder. Novas None. Absents Trustees Cannon and Love. Hone. Hone, ORAL COMMNICATIONS. REPORTS OF STANDING COUNITTEES. REPORTS OF OFFICERS & SPECIAL COMMITTEES. The marshal announced the appointment of George McCord as a Deputy and requested the Board's approval. Moved by Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Anderson that this appointment be approved. Carried. The Clerk announced that Mr. Hugh R. Pomeroy, Assemblyman, 62nd District, had presented to the City of M Segundo, with his compliments, a copy of the California Blue Book Legislative Manual or State Hooter, published in April, 1924, and that the same would be on file in the office of the City Clerk for public reference. Moved by Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Anderson, that the gift be accepted and the City Clerk instructed to send a letter of thanks to Mr. Pomeroy. Carried. The City Attorney reported that the City Engineer had delivered to him a signed copy of a resolution adopted by the El Segundo Graamnar School Board concerning the construction of sidewalks on a portion of Virginia Street adjacent to school property and their willingness to be included in the assessment district to pay the cost of such improvement, which resolution he would refer to the County Counsel for approval. The City Engineer filed with the Board his estimate of the cost of constructing the pergola and sidewalks in the municipal park oast of the American Legion Building in accordance with the sketch furnished by the Beverly Hibls Nurseries Company, the total amount of the estimate being $150.00. P45 The City Engineer filed with the Board map showing the descriptions of the various parcels of land to be acquired in Blocks 75, 76, 77 and 85 of the City of El Segundo in order to prove the public park as heretofore recommended to this Board by the Chamber of Commerce. In order to determine the cost of the property, so that the proposition might be submitted to the voters at an election to be held In the future, it was suggested that an Appraisal Committee, consisting of local realty men, be appointed and it was also suggested that the approximate cost of this property might be determined by the right -of -way agent which the city con- templates employing. Upon emplanation by the City Attorney that an election of this character could not be consolidated with the Presidential Election .be held in November, action in the matter was held in abeyance. The City Clerk reported that Mr. H. A. Crowell is circulating a petition for the improvement of Mariposa Avenue from Bonita Vista Avenue to the Westerly City Limits, by the construction therein of cement sidewalks and curbs, which Mr. Crowell believes he will have completed by Saturday or Monday, and it was suggested that possibly this improvement might be included in the proceedings under way for the improvement of other streets within the City of E1-Segundo. It was there- upon moved by Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Anderson, that the following resolution be adopted: "RESOLVED, that, providing the petition asking for the Improvement of Nest Mariposa Avenue from Bonita Vista Avenue to the Westerly City Limits, now in course of circulation, is filed with the City Clerk in ample time and in proper form and bears signatures of the owners of not less than 50% of the real property fronting on the proposed improvement, and provided further that the Instruction hereinafter given will not delay the improve - ment of portions of Whiting Street, Palm Avenues, Bonita Vista Avenue and Virginia Street, the preparation of the proceedings for which have heretofore been ordered by this Board, the City Engineer be and he is hereby in- structed to include in the said proceedings the data necessary for the improvement of the said West Mariposa Avenue, also of East Maple Avenue ". Carried by the following votes Ayess Trustees Anderson, Gerow and Binder. Noes: None. Absent: Trustees Cannon and Love. The City Engineer advised having delivered to Mr. H. Co Hanna of the Standard Oil Company a sketch of the flag pole proposed to be constructed and erected in the municipal park east of the American Legion Building and that Mr. Hanna had advised taking the matter up with Mr. Anderson of his Company and that the matter would be talmn care of. UNFINISHED BUSINESS. In the matter of the planting of ornamental trees on Main Street between Mariposa Avenue and Collingwood Street, the City Engineer presented a sketch showing that to plant trees fifty feet apart within the boundaries mentioned, sixty- two trees would be required. It appearing that preference had been expressed for flowering eucalyptus trees to be used in this connection, it was moved by Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Anderson, that the City,Clerk be and he is hereby authorized and instructed to purchase from the Beverly Hills Nurseries sixty -two flowering eucalyptus trees at a cost not to exceed $50.009 Carried by the following votes Ayes: Trustees Anderson, Gerow and Binder. Noess None. Absents Trustees Cannon and Love. f7 PAYING BILLS. The following demands, having had the approval of the Committee on Finance and Recorda, were reads Water Works Fund Electric Shop 1.83 Kalamazoo Loose Leaf Binder Co. 6.40 The Worthington Co. 17940 Pacific Pipe & Supply Co. 4913 Mrs. C. H. Green 90.00 $119.76 General Fund H. S. Crocker Company 11615 E1 Segundo Herald 25.20 The Electric Shop 3.05 Henderson Motorcycle Sales Co. 6.72 Shields, Harper & Co. 13.06 Grimes- Stassforth State Co. 3098 Moved by Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Anderson, that allowed and warrants drawn on the respective funds for the same* following votes Ayess Trustees Anderson, Gerow and Binder. Noes: None. Absents Trustees Cannon and Love. NaW BUS INESS0 $63.06 the demands be Carried by the Moved by Trustee Gerow, seoonded by Trustee Anderson, that the following resolution be adopted: "RESOLVED, that Harold D. We be and he is hereby appointed to the office of right- of-way agent of the City of 31 Segundo, to assume the duties of his office on the 22nd day of September, 1924. As such right -of -way agent, it shall be his duty to do and perform all things useful and necessary in procuring rights - tf- -way for public streets running easterly and westerly through the acre blocks between Palm Avenue and Collingwood Street, from the Westerly line of the Fisher Subdivision to the Westerly City Limits, subject to and under direction of the Board of Trustees of the City of E1 Segundo, and to do and perform such services as the Board of Trustees may, from time to time, determine. Said appointee shall, until the further order of this Board, receive, as compensation in full for all services rendered as such right -of -way agent for the City of El Segundo, the som of $200.00 per month, which said salary shall be payable monthly as other city salaries are paid, and in addition theretohe may file his demands for his necessary expenses In connection with the discharge of the duties of his office ". Carried by the following votes Ayes: Trustees Anderson, Gerow and Binder. Boess Bone. Absent: Trustees Cannon and Love. ?loved by Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Anderson, that P. D. Gardner be and he is hereby granted permission to absent himself from his regular duties from September 24lh, 1924 to Sept. 27th, 1924, inclusive, in order to permit of his attending a church conference to be held at Santa Barbara, California, between said dates. Carried. The-City Engineer informed the Board that a Mr. Green, who is contemplating the erection of several bungalows on a lot located on the Northeast corner of Loma Vista and Grand Avenue, had requested the cooperation of the Board to the extent of replacing the curb paralleling the South side of his lot, for the reason that the existing curb is about 2" only above street level and storm water floods the lot during the rainy season. After discussing the matter at some length and it appearing desirable to encourage the erection of substantial buildings within the City of El Segundo, it was moved by Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Anderson, that the City Engineer be instructed to inform Mr. Green that the Board of Trustees of the City of 31 Segundo will cooperate in a reasonable a`T V _.1 es- A• manner in the matter of replacing the curb paralleling his property as soon as this Board shall have satisfactory evidence that he is in good faith prosecuting the erection and completion of his proposed buildings. Carried by the following votes Ayess Trustees Anderson, Gerow and Binder. Noes: None. Absents Trustees Cannon and Love. No further business appearing to be transacted at this meeting, it was moved by Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Anderson, that the meeting adjourn., Carried. Respectfully submitted, Approveds city e President, Board of Trustees.