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1925 APR 17 CC MIN474 El Segundo, Cal. April 17th, 1925. A regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City of E1 Segundo, California, was called to order at 7 :00 o'clock P. Us on the above date, in the Council Chamber of the City Hall of said City by Peter r.. Binder, President of the Board. ROLL CALL. Trustees Present: Anderson, Cannon, Gerow, Love and Binder. Trustees Absents None. READING OF MIICUTF.S OF PREVIOUS 3'rr.E"TING. The minutes of the regular meeting held on the 10th day of April, 1925, were read. No errors or omissions appearing, it was moved by Trustee Cannon, seconded by Trustee Anderson, that the minutes be approved as read. Carried. SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS. The hour of 7:15 o'clock P. M. this meeting, having heretofore been set as the time for further considering bids received on April 10th, 1925, for furnishing the City of E1 Segundo with fire hose in accordance with advertisement therefor, the Chair announced that said hoar had arrived, and the Board then proceeded to discuss the various bids received. After due deliberation and consideration, it was moved by Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Cannon, that the following resolution be adopted: "RESOLVED, that all bids received for furnishing the City of El Segundo with 500 feet of * double jacketed fire hose pursuant to public notice of the City Clerk dated the 13th day of March, 1925, with the exception of the bid hereinafter referred to, be and the same are hereby rejected, and that the contract for furnishing the City of F-1 Segundo with 500 feet of *" double - jacketed fire hose be and the same is hereby awarded to the Merioan Rubber Manufacturing Company at the price therefor specified in Item No. 1 of their proposal on file, to -wit: *" D. J. Wawona Hose 0 $1AO per ft,, AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk shall return the checks of all unsuccessful bidders ". Carried by the following votes Ayes: Trustees Anderson, Cannon, Gerow, Love and Binder. Noes: None. Absent: None. WMTTEN COM .nMICATIOITS. The following communications were read and disposed of as indicateds EL S EGUNDO CHMBER OF COIlS"Mi CE, advising that at a regular meeting of the organization held April 16th, 1925, a resolution was adopted recommending that the salary of M. W. Stogdill be increased to an amount equivalent to that received by other police officers because of his courageous performance of duty on April 3rd, 1925, and also because of his usual alertness and attention to duty at all times. Ordered filed. EL SEGUNDO CHA1BM OF COi9MCE, advising that at its meeting held April 16th, 1925, it went on record as heartily endorsing the following projects: Sewer Bond Issue, Park Bond Issue and the Annexation of Annexation Territory No. 2. Ordered filed. Petition of J. VJ. Partlow and others, requesting an estimate of the cost of improving Valley Street between Holly and Pine Avenues with a macadam veneer paving. On motion of Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Love, which carried, the City Engineer was instructed to prepare such estimate. ,2 ZZ EL SEGUNDO CHAMBM OF CO12 CE, copy of a letter addressed to said body by "alter J. Little, Assemblyman, requesting, if consistent, the approval of Assembly Bill No. 1095 and that Governor Richardson be advised of such approval. The bill having been read to the 3oard, it was moved by Trustee Love, seconded by Trustee Gerow, that this Board of Trustees go on record as approving Assembly Bill No. 1095 and the City Clerk be instructed to advise the Governor of the State of California and the Assemblyman of the 62nd Assembly District of such approval. Carried by the following vote: Ayes: Trustees Anderson, Cannon, Gerow, Love and Binder. Noes: None. Absent: None. CITY OF LONG BEACH and the LONG BEACH CHWBER OF COMEMCE, extending an in- vitgtion to City Officials and the people of E1 Segundo to attend the Fifth Annual Harbor Industrial Exposition of Southern California, to be held in Long Beach, California, April 22nd to 29th, 1925. Ordered filed. ORAL C0I 1UNICATIOP:S. IIr. Harold D. Dale, speaking as a property owner of the City of El Segundo, asked the 3oard to consider the widening of Mariposa Avenue from Arizona Drive to Center Street, such work to be undertaken at the same time that proceedings are taken for the opening of Mariposa Avenue east of Arizona Drive and that one district be formed to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses of the entire work. No action taken. 11r. E. L. Meyer requested the Board's permission to place mint vending machines in the stores of several merchants within the City of El Segundo, whom he claimed have requested the same. The matter was discussed and the Board being opposed to the operation of such machines within the City of El Segundo, no permit was granted. REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEEES. Trustee Gerow advised the Board that Mr. Co 4J. Lewis, residing on the Northwest corner of Main Street and Palm Avenue, had again complained to him concerning the grade at which the sidewalk and curb in front of his premises had been completed. The members of the Board, having previously viewed the work, and feeling that Mr. Lewis had cause for complaint, it was moved by Trustee Love, seconded by Trustee Anderson, that the Street Superintendent be and he is hereby atthorized and in- structed to cause the sidewalk and curb at the northwest corner and at the southwest corner of Palm Avenue and Main Street to be reconstructed in a satisfactory manner and in accordance with good engineering practice, all at a cost not to exceed $250.00. Carried by the following vote: Ayes: Trustees Anderson, Cannon, Gerow, Love and Binder. Noes: None. Absent: None. REPORTS OF OFFICERS & SPECIAL COLS1ITTEES. The City -7mgineer reported that he and Mr. A. H. Koebig, Jr., a member of the firm of Koebig & Koebig, Consulting Engineers, had conferred with 11r. Knowlton of the City of Los Angeles Engineering Department, with respect to the proposed agreement for the use of a portion of the City of Los Angeles outfall sewer by the City of El Segundo, and that Mr. Knowlton had suggested very few changes, those made being principally of an engineering nature, and that following the conference the agreement as corrected, was returned to the City Attorney for redrafting. The City Attorney reported that he had prepared a redraft in final form, a copy of which had been delivered to the Legal Department of the City ef-Los Angeles, April 16th, 1925, with the request that the same be given immediate attention. The original and one copy of the redrafted agreement was filed with the Board this date by the City Attorney. Harold D. Dale, Right -of -Way Agent, advised that in his opinion, the report of the Commissioners concerning the opening of Sycamore Avenue will be filed with P173 the City Clerk during the coming week. The City Attorney recommended that the Board purchase a copy of Hillyer's Justices' Code, as an aid and guide to the Law Enforcement Agencies of the City, following which it was moved by Trustee Love, seconded by Trustee Anderson, that the City Clerk be and he is hereby authorized and instructed to purchase one revised edition of Hillyer's Justices' Code, at a cost not to exceed $12.50, Carried by the following vote: Ayes: Trustees Anderson, Cannon, Gerow, Love and Binder. Noes, None. Absent: None. The Street Superintendent reported pursuant to previous instruction, that his estimate of the cost of grading Collingwood Street from Bonita Vista Avenue west is $150.00. No action taken. UNFINISHED BUS IX3SS. It appearing, after demonstration and recommendation of the City Hall care -taker and other officials, that the substitiUon of Solar Taste Receptacles for wire baskets heretofore used in the rest rooms in the City Hall is desirable, it was moved by Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Cannon, that the City Clerk be and he is hereby authorized to purchase two Solar Receptacles at a cost not to exceed $31.00. Carried by the following vote: Ayes: Trustees Anderson, Cannon, Gerow, Love and Binder. Noes: None. Absent: None. Moved by Trustee Love, seconded by Trustee Gerow, that the following resolution be adopted: "WH:`'REAS, there was submitted to this Board of Trustees on the 6th day of February, 1925, an agreement, which might be entered into between the County of Los Angeles and the in- corporated cities thereof respecting the support and maintenance of prisoners committed to the County Jail by city Magistrates for violations of city ordinances; AND WHEREAS, this Board of Trustees feels that any persons who might be given jail sentences for violations of ordinances of the City of E1 Segundo could be kept more economically at the County Jail than in the city jail of the City of E1 Segundo; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the President of the Board of trustees be and he is hereby authorized to execute said agreement on behalf of the City of l Segundo and the City Clerk is hereby authorized to attest the same and to forward it to the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County for execution by its proper officer ". Carried by the following; vote: Ayes: Trustees Anderson, Cannon, Gerow, Love and Binder. Noes: None. Absent: None. PAYING BILLS. The following demands, having had the approval.of the Committee on Finance and Records, were read: Skater Works Fund J. W. Arnold 84975 G. 3. Smith 39.68 Crane Company 35.10 Grimes - Stassforth Stat. Co. 1.92 Pacific Pipe & Supply Co. 15.45 Southern Cal. 3dison Co. 179.35 Standard Oil Company 60.00 R. T. Hutchins 15.51 ;`431.76 Victor D. McCarthy, A. R. Groger "-Anig E. Harlan Ldna E. Davis R. Bo Croft Davis & Escobar William Be Wilson F. G. Davis Davis & ';scobar General Fund Co Clerk 20.95 10.63 7.62 5.00 4.50 124.24 50.00 83.63 6.39 r ."ir Street_ Improvement Fund F. Smith 8.78 Co Woodyard Gilmore Oil Company 35.00 We D. Sickler Co T. Ainsworth 85.00 J. We Powers A. T. Miller 71910 W. G. Henry C. Woodyard 57.20 P. McNally W. D. Sickler 22.32 A. H. Green J. N. Powers 29.76 A. L. Ainsworth We G. Henry 63.24 A. A. Robertson P. McNally 58.28 3dna E. Harlan A. H. Green 60.76 The Bernstein Co. A. L. Ainsworth 3.72 A. W. Robertson 3.72 4498.88 General fnd Cont'd 16.00 42.16 34.72 1.24 1.24 3.72 63.86 63.86 23.12 30.38 $593.26 Moved by Trustee Love, seconded by Trustee Anderson, that the demands be allowed and warrants drawn on the respective funds covering the same. Carried by the following vote: Ayes: Trustees Anderson, Cannon, Gerow, Love and Binder. Noes, None. Absent: None. !Mw BUSINESS. Trustee Binder advised that during the prior week, the Street Superintendent had come to him for permission to cause repairs amounting approximately to 4130.00 to be made to one of the municipal dump trucks and that, being reluctant to assume responsibility for authorizing such expenditure, he had requested the consent of Trustee Gerow of the Public Works Committee, and that he and Trustee Gerow, having agreed that the matter was one which should have attention prior to a regular meeting of the Board, they had authorized the expenditure. It was thereupon moved by Trustee Anderson, seconded by Trustee Love, that the action of Trustees Binder and Gerow in authorizing an expenditure of not to exceed :#'130.00 for repairs to the City of -%1 Segundo Ford Dump Truck be and the same is hereby ratified and approved. Carried by the following vote: Ayes: Trustees Anderson, Cannon, Gerow, Love and Binder. Does: None. Absent; None. The attention of the Board of Trustees having been drawn to the fact that certain sewer construction work is being prosecuted along the beach within the City of Z1 Segundo without application for a permit to do such work having been filed with this Board of 2'rustees, by general consent the City Clerk was instructed to write the Bay Cities Sanitation District concerning the matter. No further business appearing to be transadted at this meeting, it was moved by Trustee Gerow, seconded by Trustee Cannon, that the meeting adjourn. Carried. Respectfully submitted, Approved: -21 i C le President, Board of Trustees.