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El Segundo, California.
July 7, 1937.
A regular meeting of the City Council of the City of El 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, Mayor.
ROLL CALL.
Councilmen Present: Gerow, Hesser, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder.
Councilmen Absent: None.
READING OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING.
The minutes of the regular meeting held on the 30th day of June, 1937,
were read. No'errors or omissions appearing, it was moved by Councilman
Lave, seconded by Councilman Gerow, the minutes be approved as read. Carried.
WRITTEN COI-- STUNICATIONS.
The following communications, which were read to the Council, were
disposed of in the manner indicated following the reference to each hereinafter:
LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA MUNICIPALITIES, its Bulletin No. 17, dated July 3,
1937, advising of the final disposition of several bills sponsored by the
League of California Municipalities, before'the recently adjourned State
Legislature. Ordered filed.
CALIFORNIA ?ARTICIPAL UTILITIES ASSOCIATION, its Legislative Bulletin No.
11, dated June 30th, 1937, referring to the Federal Social Security Act and
its relation to employees of municipal utilities. Ordered filed.
RAMSEY & WALLACE, dated July 2, 1957, applying for an extension of time
in which to comply with the terms of the permit issued to them May 5th,
1957, to erect one derrick for the purpose of drilling for oil, gas and other
hydrocarbon substances and to install and operate the necessary drilling
equipment and machinery on Lot 544 of Block 125, E1 Segundo Sheet No. 8, in
the City of E1 Segundo, which said permit, by its terms, expired July 4th,
1957, at midnight.
It appearing from reports made to the Council that the said Company is
acting in good faith and has actually commenced operations for the erection
of the derrick contemplated under the said permit, it was moved by Councilman
Hesser, seconded by Councilman Zelby, that Ramsey & Wallace, permittees under
that certain permit granted to them under date of May 5th, 1937, to erect
one derrick on Lot.544 of Block 125, E1 Segundo Sheet No. 8 in the City of
El Segundo, for the purpose of drilling for oil, gas and /or other hydrocarbon
substances, be and they are hereby granted an extension of time up to the hour
of 12 :00 o'clock midnight, July 15th, 1957, within which to complete the
erection of said derrick as provided in the Fifteenth subdivision of said permit;
provided, however, that the granting of this extension of time within which to
erect said derrick shall not operate to amend, alter or cancel any other
provisions, terms, or conditions of said permit, and shall in..no way be con-
strued as so doing; provided, further that if said derrick is not fully erected
on or before the date and time herein mentioned,• the original permit and
this Extension of time shall automatically become void. Carried by the
following vote: -
Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder.
Noes: Councilmen None.
Absent: Councilmen None.
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W. P. PAYNE, Chief, Fire Department, City of Spokane, Washington, inviting
one or more representatives of the City of El Segundo to attend a fire college
to be conducted in said City, August 11th to 14th inclusive, 1937, by the
Pacific Coast Association of Fire Chiefs, under the direction of the Spokane
Fire Department. Ordered filed.
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS.
Refer to later part of Minutes for Oral Communications.
REPORTS OF OFFICERS AND SPECIAL COlaIfITTEES.
The City Clerk reported that it is necessary to transfer certain moneys
from the General Fund to Works Progress Administration Project No. 4 Fund,
inasmuch as the job is now completed and the said Fund is short $702.53. He
explained also that an amount greater than the amount now asked to be
transferred would be returned to the General Fund in reimbursement for the
rental vilue,of municipal equipment used on the job, whereupon it was moved
by Councilman Love, seconded by Councilman Hesser, that the transfer of
$702.53 from the General Fund to Works Progress Administration Project.No. 4
Fund be and the same is hereby authorized and directed and the City Clerk
and the City Treasurer are hereby instructed to make the necessary entries
upon their respective books of record. Carried by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder.
Noes: Councilmen None.
Absent: Councilmen None.
K. E. Campbell, City Forester, reported that a carob tree in the
parking in the North side of Oak Avenue between Main Street and Eucalyptus
Drive had been killed by gas From a leaking gas main in said street; also
that a tree in Whiting street and one in Virginia Street had been destroyed
by trucks which had been driven over the curbs.
Following discussion, which brought out the fact that the carob tree
destroyed in Oak Avenue had attained a large growth, was at least ten
years old and of considerable value, it was moved by Councilman Selby,
seconded by Councilman Hesser, that the City Clerk be instructed to write
Southern California Gas Company, advising it of the leak in gas lines which
had caused the destruction of a valuable ornamental tree in the public
street in Oak Avenue, and requesting said Company to make another leak test
of its lines within the City of E1 Segundo to obviate further destruction of
street trees. Carried.
Fire. Chief McConnell advised the Council that few, if any, gas service
lines running from the Gas Company's mains to buildings within the City of
El Segundo have shutoff valves at their entrance into private property,
and that in event.of fire a distinct hazard occurs, owing to the inability of
the Fire Department to shut off the gas supply. He requested that this
matter be brought to the Gas Company's attention and by general consent the
City Clerk was so instructed.
The City Clerk advised that Mr. D. B. Hancher had called his attention
to an error in the minutes of. June 23rd, 1937, at Page 0-51 thereof, wherein
D. B. Hancher, as representative of the Oil Workers Union, wos granted
permission to use th4 City Hall Auditorium on the evening of Monday.. June 28th,
1937..-for the purpose.of holding, -a "closed meeting,,the "rental- charge for such
use to be $5.75; whereas, Mr. Hancher represented the Boilermakers and Welders
Union, Local 351 and the meeting held June 28th was an open meeting and not
a closed meeting.
Thereupon, it was moved by Councilman Selby, seconded by Councilman
Hesser, that that certain paragraph in the minutes of the proceedings of this
Council for the meeting held June 23rd, 1937, of record at Page 0 -51, which
reads as follows:
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"Moved by Councilman Hesser, seconded by Councilman Love,
that D. B. Hancher as representative of the Oil Workers Union
be granted permission to use the City hail Auditorium on the
evening of June 28th, 1937, for the purpose of holding a closed
meeting, the rental charge for such use to be $3.75. Carried. ",
be and the same is hereby corrected to read as follows:
"Moved by Councilman Hesser, seconded by Councilman Love,
that D. B. Hancher, as representative of the Boilermakers and
Welders Union, Local 351, be granted permission to use the City
Hall Auditorium on the evening of Monday, June 28th, 1937, for
the purpose of holding an open meeting, the rental charge for
such use to be $2.50. Carried."
The foregoing motion was unani&ously carried.
PAYING BILLS.
The following demands, having had the approval of the Committee on
Finance and Records, were read:
Moved by Councilman Hesser, seconded by Councilman Love, the demands be
allowed and warrants ordered dravnn on and paid out of the respective funds
covering the same. Carried by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder.
Noes: Councilmen None.
Absent: Councilmen None.
NEW BUSINESS.
Moved by Councilman Selby, seconded by Councilman Love, that Neva M.
Elsey be and she is hereby granted permission to take her customary annual
two weeks vacation beginning July 19th, 1937. Carried by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder.
Noes: Councilmen None.
Absent: Councilmen None.
• Moved by Councilman Hesser, seconded by Councilman Love, that the installation
of a.teiephone and signal light for use of the Police Department of the City of
El-Segundo; at a point in Sepulveda Boulevard to be determined.by - the Chief of
Police, be and the same is hereby authorized and directed, the cost of such
telephone service to be approximately $5.60 per month. Carried by the following
vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder.
Noes: Councilmen None.
Absent: Councilmen None.
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Pater Works
Fund General Fund
Builders Material Co.
$497.69
Brown —Bevis Equipment Co.
$2.93
Chemical Equipment Corp.
15.45
Griffith Hardware Co.
197.94
Griffith Hardware Co.
7.08
Consolidated Rock Products
Grimes — Stassforth Stat. Co.
2.27
Company
106.98
Phoenix Meter Corp.
221.07
Gibson Motor Parts, Inc.
3.87
TOTAL
$743.56
Los Angeles Stamp & Stat.
Co. 2.06
Inglewood Book & Stat. Co.
3.24
General Fund
Air Reduction Sales Co.
.68
Ifission Bell Radio Mfg. Co.
Inc. $3.80
Chemical Equipment Corp.
36.05
Shepherd Tractor & Equipment
Co. 4.53
K. E. Campbell
8.50
Standard Oil Co. of Calif.
142.84
Jim Alger
17.60
Southern Cal. Gas Co.
1.82
Builders Material Co.
189.68
Sam Chavez
2.00
TOTAL
$724.52
Moved by Councilman Hesser, seconded by Councilman Love, the demands be
allowed and warrants ordered dravnn on and paid out of the respective funds
covering the same. Carried by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder.
Noes: Councilmen None.
Absent: Councilmen None.
NEW BUSINESS.
Moved by Councilman Selby, seconded by Councilman Love, that Neva M.
Elsey be and she is hereby granted permission to take her customary annual
two weeks vacation beginning July 19th, 1937. Carried by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder.
Noes: Councilmen None.
Absent: Councilmen None.
• Moved by Councilman Hesser, seconded by Councilman Love, that the installation
of a.teiephone and signal light for use of the Police Department of the City of
El-Segundo; at a point in Sepulveda Boulevard to be determined.by - the Chief of
Police, be and the same is hereby authorized and directed, the cost of such
telephone service to be approximately $5.60 per month. Carried by the following
vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder.
Noes: Councilmen None.
Absent: Councilmen None.
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At this point the Mayor referred
regular order of business and Mr. Carl
following matters, which were disposed
reference:
back to "Oral Communications" in the
W. Eaton addressed the Council upon the
of in the manner indicated after each
1. Drew attention to the fact that in the minutes of the proceedings of
Council for the meeting held June 23rd, 1937, a record appeared in which D. B.
Hancher was named as representative of the Oil Workers Union, whije as a matter
of fact he represented another organization and Mr. Eaton requested that the
record be corrected. He was advised by the Mayor that this discrepancy had
previously been called to the Council's attention and that an action to correct
the same had been taken by this Council earlier at this meeting.
2. Mr. Eaton referred to a letter he had received from the City Clerk
under date of June 22, 1937, which was addressed to the International Association
of Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers of America, Local 299, E1 Segundo,
Calif., for the attention of Carl W. Eaton, Secretary — Treasurer, whereas the
letter should have been addressed to him as Secretary Treasurer of the City and
County porkers Union. It was thereupon explained to Mr. Eaton that his letter
of June 16th, 1937, addressed to the City Council, to which the City Clerk's
letter of June 22nd was a reply, was written upon stationery bearing the printed
heading: "International Association of Oil Field, Gas well and Refinery Workers .
of America — Affiliated with American Federation of Labor, Local 299, E1 Segundo,
Calif. ", and that under his signature in said letter are the words "Secretary —
Treasurer", hence no other reasonable conclusion could be reached than that the
reply should be directed to the organization whose name appeared upon his
letterhead.
3. Mr. Eaton then expressed displeasure over the publication in a recent
issue of E1 Segundo Herald of the letter sent to him by the City Clerk under date
of June 22, 1937, in accordance with instructions received from a majority of the
membership of the City Council, for the reason that the letter had not been made
official by any recorded act of the Council. It was thereupon moved by Councilman
Selby seconded by Councilman Love, that the action of the City Clerk in transmitting
a communicatich under date of June 22, 1937, to International Association of Oil
Field, Gas Pell and Refinery Workers of America, Local 299, El Segundo, Calif.,
attention Carl W. Eaton, Secretary — Treasurer, in response to the latter's
communication addressed to the City Council under date of June 16th, 1937,
informing Mr. Eaton that the said Council is not disposed to recognize his
association or himself as the representative of City employees in connection
with salaries, working schedules or other terms of employment of municipal
employees, which said letter of the City Clerk was written and transmitted in
pursuance of instructions from a majority of the membership of the City Council
of the City of E1 Segundo, be and the same is hereby confirmed, ratified and
approved.
The motion carried by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Hesser, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder.
Noes: Councilmen Gerow.
Absent: Councilmen None.
Thereafter in view of Mr. Eaton's statement that his before mentioned letter
dated June 16th, 1937, addressed to the City Council and which recited that he
is the representative of the City Employees of the City and County Workers Union,
and in which he presented requests for adjustments of salaries and working
schedules for certain-of the employees of the City of El Segundo, written upon
stationery of International Association bf Oil Field; Gas Well' and Refinery
Workers of America, Local 299, E1 Segundo, California, was in fact a letter of
City and County Workers Union, of which Carl W. Eaton is Secretary-Treasurer,, it
was moved by Councilman Hesser, seconded by Councilman Selby, that the following
resolution be adopted:
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WHEREAS, on June 16th, 1937, this.Council received a communication
on stationery of the International Association of Oil Field, Gas Well
and Refinery Workers of America, Local 299, over the signature of Carl
W. Eaton, Secretary — Treasurer, which said communication was interpreted
as emanating from the organization named at the top of the letter head
upon which the letter was written, while as a matter of fact as explained
to this Council by the writeen of said letter, Carl W. Eaton, the s
same emanated from the City and County Workers Union;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that without in any manner changing
its attitude respecting the subject matter thereof, this Council does
hereby take cognizance of the fact that that certain letter addressed
to it June 16th, 1937, by Carl W. Eaton, Secretary Treasurer, is a
letter from the City and County Workers Union and not one from the
International Association of Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers
of America, Local 299, and said Council does hereby order the minutes
of its proceedings of June 16th, 1937, with reference to the communica-
tion of Carl W. Eaton, of record at Page 0-44, minutes of the proceedings
of this Council, corrected accordingly.
Carried.
4. Mr. Eaton inquired if the Council recognized collective bargaining.
Various members of the Council engaged in discussion which ensued and which
was concluded by a statement from the City Attorney to the effect that in all
of his experience as City Attorney of the City of El Segundo, over a continuous
period exceeding 20 years, he did not know of a single instance wherein an
employee of the City or any number of them, could not address his or their
immediate superiors or the Council, individually or in a group, with reference
to any matter or matters pertaining to his or their employment or otherwise
and receive a fair and unprejudiced hearing.
No further business appearing to be transacted at this meeting, it was
moved by Councilman Love, seconded by Councilman Selby, the meeting adjourn.
Carried.
Respectfully submitted,
Approved:
City C1 rk.
Mayor.+ -o