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1934 JAN 03 CC MIN3203 L , El Segundo, California. January 3rd, 1936. A regular meeting of the City Council of the City of E1 Segundo, California, was called to order at 7:00 o'clock P. M. on the above date, in the Council Chamber of the City Hall of said City, by Peter E. Binder, MWor. ROLL CALL. Councilmen Present: Gerow, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder. Councilmen Absent: None. READING OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING. The minutes of the regular meeting held on the 27th day of December, 1933, were read. No errors or omissions appearing, it was moved by Councilman Love, seconded by Councilman Selby, that the minutes be approved as read. Carried. WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS. The following communications were read and disposed of as indicated: HUBIM EARL SL=, Chairman, City Planning Section, League of California Municipalities, dated December 30th, 1933, requesting cooperation in the movement to have the States of California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah selected as the territory to be used for demonstration planning of a region, by the National Planning Board created by President Roosevelt, to which Board has been allocated $250,000.00 from P. W. B.. funds to be used in stimulating regional, state and local planning. Ordered filed. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, Department of Health, dated December 26th, 1933, being a report of the activities of said Department within the City of E1 Segundo during the month of November, 1933. Ordered filed. None. None. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS. REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES. REPORTS OF OFFICERS AND SPECIAL COWT'►"i &S- The City Clerk reported that Mayor Clarke of Redondo Beach had extended an invitation to officials of this City to attend a dinner in honor of Governor Rolph, Supervisor Quinn and Mayor Shaw of Los Angeles, which will be held January 10th at Redondo Beach. It was agreed that as many of the officials as could would attend this dinner. The City Engineer reported that-the District Engineer of the Division of Highways of the State of California had requested the immediate relocation of approximately 1600 feet of pipe line of Southern California Gas Company, in Arizona Drive within the City of E1 Segundo, so that said pipe line will not be under the pavement when the work of improving said Arizona Drive, now under way, has.been completed. The City Engineer thereupon presented'to the Council a communication from the District Engineer, S. V. Cortelyou, dated December 28th, 1933, and addressed to said City Engineer and read the same in full to the Council. This communication authorized the payment from state funds, through the City of E1 Segundo, of the expenditures required in order to remove said pipe line in accordance with the suggestion above - noted, so that same would not be under the pavement when the Arizona Drive improvement had been completed. The City Engineer further, at this time, presented and read in full to the Council a communication which he had directed to the Southern California l.. -327 Gas Company, under date of December 28th, 1933, with reference to the re- location of said pipe lines and further stated to the Council that he had been notified by °. J. o uleland, Hight of Nay Agent for the Southern California Gas Company that the work would commence immediately, and that the said Engineer had visited the project in course and had observed that the work of relocating said lines is now in-progress and could perhaps be completed in about two days from this date. Upon hearing the report of the said City Engineer and the reading of the various communications above referred to and discussion had by the Council, it was moved by Councilman Gerow, seconded by Councilman Selby, that the following resolution be adopted: , since the last meeting of this Council an emergency in connection with the improvement of Arizona Drive within the City Of El Segundo arose in this, it was discovered that it would be immediately necessary to relocate various pipe lines of the Southern California Gas Company lying within the right of way of said thoroughfare as proposed, so as to provide that same should be outside of the pavement to be laicl in the roadway of said street; AND WHEREAS, the City Engineer has reported the details with reference to the solution of said emergency to this Council and has presented and read to this Council the various communications hereinafter referred to and this Council is now fully advised in the premises; NOW, MEREFORE, the City Council of the City of El Segundo does resolve, declare, determine and order as follows: That the communication from S. V. Cortelyou District Engineer, dated December 28th, 1933 , , addressed to R. T. Hutchins, City Engineer of the City of E1 Segundo, and the copy of the communication from said City Engineer addressed to Southern Cal- ifornia Gas Company under date of December 28th, 1933, be and the Be me are hereby ordered placed on file in the office of the City Clerk of the said City-for the purposes of identification and reference. Said Council hereby further in this connection finds and determines that the Southern California Gas Company is pro- ceeding with the work of relocating said pipe lines under the terms, the conditions and provisions as indicated in said above mentioned communications. 2. - That said Council, on behalf of said City, does hereby approve, ratify and confirm each and all of the acts of said City Engineer with reference to the relocating of said pipe lines in said emergency and to the despatching of the communication signed and forwarded by him above referred to; and it does hereby further approve, ratify and confirm the arrangement or agreement for the relocation of said pipe lines referred to in said communications upon the basis and for the consideration therein expressed to the extent therein limited; 3. - That said Council does hereby further find and declare -that an emergency affecting the public peace, health and safety of said City with reference to the relocation of said pipe lines existed in this - that unless the said pipe lines were immediately removed, the work of improvement upon said thoroughfare would have • been unnecessarily and dangerously delayed and in the event said pipe lines had been permitted to remain under said thoroughfare, the same would have, from time to time, occasioned great - Inconvenience to the traveling public at times•when same were in need of repair and would further have constituted, in a measure, a hazard to the public during such times, and that therefore, the correction of said condition and the placing of said lines outside of the pavement area was required in order to preserve the public peace, health and safety and-guard against unnecessary and unreasonable• expense and damages, which might have otherwise resulted. Its motion to adopt the foregoing resolution was carried by the following vote: 328 t, Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder. Noes: Councilmen None, Absent: Councilmen None. The City Attorney reported that the printing of the Complaint$ and Summons in connection with the Sepulveda Boulevard Condemnation proceeding is now com- pleted and that he is ready to employ a process server for the purpose of serving each of the defendants with a copy of the complaint and a summons.. following consideration, it was moved by Councilman Gerow, seconded by Councilman Love, that the City Attorney of the City of El Segundo be and he is hereby authorized and directed to employ a process server for the purpose of serving complaints and summons in connection with the Arizona Drive (Sepulveda Boulevard) condemnation proceeding; that the person so employed be compensated at the rate of $5.00 per day of 8 hours each for each day actually engaged in the service herein referred to for said City, and that said person also be compensated for the use of his personal automobile at the rate of 70 per mile for each mile actually and necessarily traveled in the performance of his duties. Carried by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder. Noes: Councilmen None. Absent: Councilmen None. the City Attorney thereupon announced that he had appointed Er. John J. Spargo as process server for the City of E1 Segundo and that Yr. Spargo would enter upon his duties at 9:00 A. M. January 4th, 1934. The Clerk reported that Mr. 0, L. Fleming had requested the installation of a street light at Loma ' Vi ' sta Street and West Imperial Highway. The matter was given consideration but o action taken. The Clerk announced that the Altar Society of Ste Anthony's Church requested permission to use the City Hall Auditorium for the holding of a benefit card party, whereupon it was moved by Councilman Selby, seconded by Councilman Gerow, that the Altar Society of St. Anthony's Church be granted permission to use the City Hall Auditorium on the evening of January 12th, 1934, for the purpose of holding a benefit card party, no charge to be made for such use. Carried. PAYING BILLS. By reason of the vacancy on the Finance and Records.Committee, created by the resignation of Councilman Brimael, the Mayor appointed Councilman Selby as member pro tem of said Committee* Vie following demands, having had the approval of the Committee on Finance and Records, were read: E. M. Richardson C. E. Smith Clifford Smith A. Siebken J. C. Osborne El Segundo Herald Griffith Hardware Co. Addressograph Sales Agency Standard Oil Co. of Calif. R. H. Baker & Co. Grinnell Co. R. T. Hutchins R. T. Hutchins Frances Lloyd I. N. Sumner TOTAL Water Works Fund General Fund 5.27 Wt A. Callahan T5-1. 82 26.66 X314W 24.18 So, Calif. Blue Print Co. 147.78 14.88 American Bitumuls Co. 96946 49.91 Consolidated Rock Products 73.83 22982 Grimea- Stassforth State Co. 6171 2.45 Los Angeles Rubber Stamp Co. 2.64 1.21 Industrial Ptg. & State Co. 10.81 9.30 2.41 20.61 5.00 37.00 60.00 144.78 426.48 Los Angeles County League of Municipalities League of Cal. Municipalities J. F. l+ontgomeery The Electric Shop George M. Green So. Calif. Gas Company Rater Works Supply Co. American Legion Auxiliary Act of 1927f M.I.D. #1 lr� C. MacLean J. L. McClain X548.43 J. G. Tucker & Son County Aid - Sepulveda Martin Bros. Machine Shop Blvd. Improvement Fund Featherstone's, Inc. J. L. McOlain $182.82 15.00 45.00 23.06 1.00 30.00 8.47 12.00 15.00 3.75 23.76 .50 14.39 L_329 Moved by Councilman Love, seconded by Councilman Selby, that the demands be allowed and warrants drawn on and paid out of the respective funds covering the same. Carried by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder. Noes: Councilmen None. Absent: Councilmen None, Nn BITSmSS. The City Clerk reported that the permit heretofore granted Foster•& Kleiser to maintain a billboard at the Northwest corner of E1 Segundo Boulevard and Main Street within the .City of.-El Segundo had expired and that said Company had made• application for renewal of same by tendering a check in payment of the annual license fee required for the maintenance of billboards within the City of E1 Segundo. It was thereupon moved by Councilman Gerow, seconded by Councilman Love, that the following resolution be adopted: RESOLVED, that Foster & Kleiser Compan7 be and it is hereby granted permission to maintain and operate a billboard or signboard at the Northwest corner of E1 Segundo Boulevard and Main Street within the City of El Segundo, said billboard being the same, and in the same location as that heretofore maintained and operated by said Foster & Kleiser Compeny under General Fund General Fund Ira E. Escobar 24.74 J. D. Campbell 10.50 Griffith Hardware Co. 29.28 F. A. Macdonald 10.50 Pacific Electric Railway Co. 1.00 A. Soeuto 10.50 Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk 14.16 T. B. Dinwiddie 10.50 E1 Segundo Herald 127.19 A. Shleuniger 10.50 Security -First National Bank 5.00 F. Dyer 10.50 R. F. Turd 173.00 L. W. Dessert 10.50 Gibson Motor Parts; Inc. 6.24 G. Neschke 10.50 W. Allee 37.51 C. G. Smith 10.50 D. Boyer 39.68 J. 4i, Miller 10.50 J. Burgner "60.00 H. C. Campbell 10.50 A. Bogen 29.76 A. Ro Gunn 10.50 K. Campbell 46.50 George McLauchlin 10.50 P. Campbell 49.60 li. A. Cosby 10.50 Y9 L. Gregory 54.75 D. B. Hancher 10.50 A. H. Green 34.72 W. H. Lennon 10.50 W, Henry 39.68 F. J. Hope 10950 J. Martin 24.80 J. C. Sixler 10.50 J. Powers 49.60 L. E. Loe 10.50 M, Rahan 49.60 W. R. Pierce 10.50 y. Raynor 47.12 E. R. Peterson 10.50 J. Schoening 44964 A. G. Blair 10050 G. Turney 39.68 0. H. barber 10.50 A. Siebken 44.95 G. A. Todd 10.50 J. Glark 90.00 C. K. McConnell 10.50 L. Moth 49.60 Peter E. binder 25.00 D. A. Morton 31.00 John A. Gerow 25.00 R* crow 4.96 i7m. A. Krimmel, Jr. 25.00 F. zs. Crandall 52.50 George Love 25.00 •r. Kincaid 4.96 ism. R. Selby 25.00 victor D. McCarthy 250.00 Neva Y. Elsey 150.00 Mints. Curtzwiler 100.00 Clyde Woodworth 114.00 Don C. rugitt 45.00 J. A. Cummings 142.03 T. n. DeBerry 132.84 M. H. McIntire 132.84 c:. Q. Havens 125.33 H. J. Sherphorn 125.33 George AlcLauchlin 125.33 C. K. I.:cConnell 13.00 A. K. Tennis 104.44 H: McMillan 97.48 R, Mrns 97.48 x. T. Hutchins 236.00 trances Lloyd 20.00 L. Morgan 104.44 J. A. Macdonald 142.03 Z. J. crow 125.33 A. 1. Miller 111.11 Alice nope ' 45.00 TOTAL $W14,71 Moved by Councilman Love, seconded by Councilman Selby, that the demands be allowed and warrants drawn on and paid out of the respective funds covering the same. Carried by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder. Noes: Councilmen None. Absent: Councilmen None, Nn BITSmSS. The City Clerk reported that the permit heretofore granted Foster•& Kleiser to maintain a billboard at the Northwest corner of E1 Segundo Boulevard and Main Street within the .City of.-El Segundo had expired and that said Company had made• application for renewal of same by tendering a check in payment of the annual license fee required for the maintenance of billboards within the City of E1 Segundo. It was thereupon moved by Councilman Gerow, seconded by Councilman Love, that the following resolution be adopted: RESOLVED, that Foster & Kleiser Compan7 be and it is hereby granted permission to maintain and operate a billboard or signboard at the Northwest corner of E1 Segundo Boulevard and Main Street within the City of El Segundo, said billboard being the same, and in the same location as that heretofore maintained and operated by said Foster & Kleiser Compeny under 334 1-�, previous permits granted by this Council; provided, however, that this Council reserves the right to revoke the within permit at any time upon refunding to the holder thereof a pro rata portion of'the fee paid therefor, whenever, in the discretion of said Council, the'public interest, necessity or safety of said City demands that said permit be revoked, and the said billboard*be removed; and provided further, that said billboard be maintained in'accordance with all of the provisions of Ordinance No. 45 of the City of E1,Segundo, and all other existing ordinances or ordinances which may hereafter" be adopted appertaining thereto: and BE IT FURS RI:SOLVE&D, that the draft of Foster and Kleiser Company, in'the sutra of $10.00, tendered by said Company in payment of the license fee for the year January 1st, 1934 to December 31st, 1934, be accepted by the City Clerk as payment of the fee for'the license herein granted. The-foregoing resolution was adopted'by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder. Noes: Councilmen None. Absent: Councilmen None. Consideration of the appointment of a successor to Councilman William A. Krimmel, Jr. resigned, was taken iip at this time and following consideration it was moved by Councilman Gerow,'sedonded b;;'Councilman Selby, that the following resolution be adopted: RFSOLVED, that Orest'0. Hesser be and he is hereby appointed to the office of member df the Council'of the City of E1 Segundo, California, Made vacant by the resignation of Bouncilman William A. Krimml, Jr.; to assume the duties of his office upon his subscribing and filing the required oath of office. Said Council- man shall hold office as'provided in Section 854 of Act 5233, General Laws of the State of C alifornid. CarxIied by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder. Noes: Councilmen None. Absent: Councilmen None.' At this time, the hour being 9:50 o'clock P. M., the Mayor declared a recess of 30 minutes. The Council reconvened at the hour of 8:20 o'clock P. M., Councilmen Gerow, Love, Selby and Binder answering roll call. Mr. John J. Spargo, who had been called to the Council Chamber during the recess, now being present, was instructed regarding his duties as process server for the'City of E1 Segundo. No further business appearing to be 'transacted at this session, it was moved by Councilman Selby, seconded by Councilman Gerow, that the meeting adjourn until Tuesday, January 9th, 1934, at the hour of 7:00 o'clock P. M. Carried. Respectfully submitted, Approved: i erk. Mayor.