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1939 DEC 20 CC MINP -480 E1 Segundo, California. r December 20th, 1939. A regular meeting of the City Council of the City of El Segundo, California, was held in the Council Chamber of the City Hall of said City on the above date, having been called to order at 7:00 P. M. by Peter E. Binder, Mayor. ROLL CALL. Councilmen Present: Gerow, Hesser, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder. Councilmen Absent: None. Other Officers Present: Clyde Woodworth - City Attorney. R. T. Hutchins' - City Engineer. A. R. Gunn - Street Superintendent. Victor D. McCarthy --City Clerk. READING OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING. The minutes of the regular meeting held on the 13th day of December, 1939, were read. No errors or omissions appearing, it was moved by Councilman Love, seconded by Councilman Gerow, the minutes be approved as read. Carried. WRITTEN.COMMUNICATIONS. The following communications, which were read to the Council, were disposed of in the manner indicated following the reference to each herein- after: FRANIK F. BERKLINE, dated December 18th, 1939, being an application for employment by the City of El Segundo. Ordered filed. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TELEPHONE COMPANY, dated.December 12th, 19399 being an application to excavate in the West side of Lapham Street, as shown upon sketch attached to said application, for the purpose of placing telephone line conduit and constructing one manhole. Following consideration, it was moved by Councilman Gerow, seconded by Councilman Love, that the matter be taken under advisement until the next regular meeting of this Council, for the purpose of allowing time for the City Engineer of the City of E1 Segundo to make an engineering study of the proposed construction and its effect upon existing or probable future public utility services in said Street. Carried. Written Communications continued after Special Order of Business. SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS. The hour of 7:15 o'clock P. M. at this meeting, having heretofore been fixed as the hour and date for further considering bids heretofore received for furnishing the City of E1 Segundo one 1940 model sedan type police automobile, the Mayor announced that said hour had arrived. The Council thereupon considered said bids and it appearing that the Chief of_Police desired further time to consider the matter and the experiences of other cities in the use of certain types of the automobiles bid upon, and it appearing also to be the desire of Councilman Selby of the Public Safety Committee, that the Police Officers of the City of E1 Segundo, who will be required to drive the new automobile when purchased, be afforded an opportunity to drive the two types of automobiles upon which low bids were received, it was moved by Councilman Gerow, seconded by Councilman Selby, that consideration of the bids heretofore received for furnishing the City of El Segundo one 1940 P .481L 4 model sedan type police automobile be taken under further advisement until the hour of 7:30 o'clock P. M., Wednesday, December 27th, 1939. Carried. WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS - CONTINUED. SOUTHWEST DISTRICT HIGHWAYS ASSOCIATION, dated December 19th, 1939, being a notice of a meeting with the State Highway Commission, December 30th, 19390 in the State Building, Los Angeles, to discuss inclusion in the present highway system, the following highways: A - Hawthorne -La Brea via Highland Avenue to Route 160. B - Crenshaw Boulevard southerly from Manhhester to Route 60. C - Sepulveda'Boulevard link between Jefferson St. to Centinela Avenue. Moved by Councilman Selby, seconded by Councilman Hesser, that Councilman Gerow and City Engineer Hutchins be and they are hereby delegated to attend the meeting of the Southwest District Highways Association, with the State Highway Commission,. at 10:45 A. M., December 30th, 1939, in the State Building, Los Angeles, in connection with the matters referred to in the letter -of Southwest District Highways Association, dated December 19th, and filed with this Council this date, it being understood that said officers may file their demand with the City of E1 Segundo for their actual and necessary expenses in connection with attendance at said meeting. Carried by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder. Noes: Councilmen None. Absent: Councilmen None. PETITION OF V. RANTZOW and 19 others, requesting action in the matter of repainting and repairing the advertising sign located at the Southwest corner of Imperial Highway and Inglewood - Redondo Road. Mr. C. E. Kenney, who was present at the Council meeting, addressed the Council, urging the importance of the matter, following which, by order of the Mayor, the matter was referred to the City Council as a committee of the whole, and to City Engineer Hutchins and his Assistant, Frank Chilson, as consultants, for the purpose of studying the practicability of renovating the sign referred to or of suggesting.an alternate proposal respecting advertising the City. None. None. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS. REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES. REPORTS OF OFFICERS AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES. Street Superintendent Gunn advised that he has received complaints respecting weeds and grass growing in an oiled walk on the North side of E1 Segundo Boulevard between Penn Street and Main Street, said walk having been constructed several years ago by the City, and requested an instruction with respect to repairing the same. The Mayor referred the matter to the Street Committee and the Street Superintendent with power to act. The City Clerk reported that a certain quitclaim deed executed by* Henry V. Lawton, et &I, dated November 30th, 1939, has been tendered the City' of E1 Segundo in order to clear the record title to certain property owned by the City of El Segundo, said title having been effected by inadvertence and mistake in the execution of another instrument by the grantors named in said quitclaim deed, all as explained in a letter addressed to the City Clerk by Bakersfield Abstract Company, under date of December 11th, 1939. P 482 The City Clerk stated also that the City Attorney had advised that acceptance of said Quit Claim Deed is in order, whereupon it was moved by Councilman Love, seconded by Councilman Gerow, that the following resolution be adopted: ' RESOLVED, that that certain Quit Claim Deed, dated November 30th, 1939, executed by Henry V. Lawton and Anna Lawton, his wife, and Alice F. Phillips, conveying to the City of El Segundo, a Municipal Corporation, all of the interests of said Grantors to Lot 6, in Block 85, E1 Segundo Sheet No. 3, as per map recorded in Book 20, Pages 22 and 23 of maps in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, California, and the interest conveyed thereby, be and the same are hereby accepted on behalf of the City of E1 Segundo; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk of the City of E1 Segundo is hereby authorized and directed to cause said instrument to be filed for record in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, Californnia. Carried by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Love, Selby and Mayor Binder. Noes: Councilmen None. Absent: Councilmen None. The City Attorney reported also that he had redrafted the form of ordinance heretofore prepared with-reference to altering the fire zones of the City of E1 Segundo -, as established by Ordinance No. 221, which he then delivered to the City Clerk for presentation to the Council at the proper time. The City Attorney reported having had returned to him from the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, the deed covering that certain real property within the City of E1 Segundo recently-acquired by the City in connection with the proposed widening and improvement of Grand Avenue from Concord Street to the Westerly City Limits, which said instrument he delivered to-the City Clerk for filing. UNFINISHED BUSINESS. Councilman Gerow, introduced Ordinance No. 227, entitled: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO* CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 221 OF SAID CITY, ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, FIXING AND ESTABLISHING FIRE ZONES, IN AND FOR SAID CITY, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES, IN SO FAR AS THEY CONFLICT THEREWITH. ", ADOPTED ON THE 17TH DAY OF MAY, A. D., 19379 BY AMENDING THE DESCRIPTION OF THE "FIRST BOUNDARY LINE" SET FORTH IN SECTION 3 THEREOF, which was read. PAYING BILLS. The following demands, having had the approval of the Committee on Finance and Records, were read: P 48;V Water Works Fund General Fund M. A.'Anthony 5.60 Pacific Electric Ry. Co. 3.48 A. Bleich 39.20 Calif. Corrugated Culvert Co. 102.10 A. T. Comstock 11.20 Edna'E. Leland 10.43 E. Elsen 21.00 Harper & Reynolds 29.18 Ralph Freese 61.20 Standard Oil Co. of Calif. 5.18 D. L. Johnson 5.60 Los Angeles Co. Health Dept. 1.19 0. A. LeBrun 33.60 Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk 22.09 J. Lind 65.00 City of E1 Segundo Water Dept. 10,255.48 J. C. Osborne 66.83 J. P. Hansen .50 M. Painter 10.63 0. G. Self 6.75 A. Siebken 65.00 W. A. Callahan 61.50 Clifford Smith 65.00 K. Campbell 55.00 0. Tidwell 56.38. L. Gregory 69.00 So. Calif. Edison Co. 415.27 E. J. Grow 82.00 So. Calif. Gas Co. 1.85 J. A. Macdonald 65.00 California Pencil Co. 3.03 C. L. McIlwaine 84.50 So. Calif. Telephone Co. 17.25 G. McLauchlin 61.50 R. T. Hutchins 30.00 M. Rahan 55.00 Frances G. Lloyd 45.00 D. Raynor 55.00 I. N. Sumner 84.50 J. Schoening 69.00 TOTAL 1106.14 J. A. Brock 28.00 A. Cendo 16.80 General Fund E. Cartland 11.20 A. R. Gunn 0101.20 F. L. Ford 22.40 D. Boyer 71.00 V. Lister 16.80 J. Burgner 57.84 J. F. Martin 50.05 P. Campbell 16.80 W. E. Morgan 16.80 C. Dinwiddie 80.00 S. Patterson 11.20 J. Goodman 50.40 F. Stuck 16.80 W. Hyde 11.20 J.Y. Wilson 60.80 T. Kincaid 11.20 Clarence Roncevich 28.00 D. L. Johnston 5.60 M. A. Anthony 4.90 F: E. Mack 28.00 Paul Goodrich 5.60 M. Painter •13.60 Monroe Painter 11.20 J. Randall 68.00 D. A. Phillips 5.60 C. Roncevich 11.20 Peter E.'Binder 12.50 W. Robinett 59.60 John A. Gerow 12.50 G. Turney 67.32 Orest 0. Hesser 12.50 L. Todd 33.60 George Love 12.50 R. Weller 11.20 William R. Selby 12.50 C. Russell 33.60 Victor D. McCarthy 125.00 W. W. Hancock 5.60 Neva M. Elsey 87.50 W. F. Allee 87.50 Mints. Curtzwiler 50.00 F. M. Barnes 76.50 Clyde Woodworth 62.50 H. Burns 76.50 Don C. Fugitt 25.00 E. Cartland 46.42 A. K. Tennis 66.00 J. B. Catalno 76.50 C. K. McConnell 6.50 J. A. Cummings 92.50 R. T. Hutchins 120.00 T. B. DeBerry 87.50 Frank Chilson 100.00 R. Dietrich 65.00 Frances Lloyd 15.00 Alex Haddock 76.50 E. Morgan 72.00 C. C. Havens 87.50 Alice Hope 30100 F. Ingram 65.00 TOTAL $149207.48 V. L. McCarthy 76.50 M. H. McIntire 87.50 L. Maxwell 65.' 00 Recreation Fund Wm. L. bwens 76.50 Ralph Jamiesson $24.00 K. S..Searl6s 76:50 Globe Ticket Company 21.63 0. Tidwell 27.0V TOTAL 45.63 H. F. Miller 2.00 Moved by Councilman Selby, seconded by Councilman Love, the demands be allowed and warrants ordered drawn 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. None. No further business appearing to be transacted at this meeting, it was moved by Councilman Love, seconded by Councilman Selby, the meeting adjourn: Carried. " Hespectfully'submitted, Approved ' - — Ci Mayor.