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E1 Segundo, California.
August 11, 1948.
A regular meeting of the City Council of the City of E1 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 o'clock P. M.
by William R. Selby, Mayor.
ROLL CALL.
Councilmen Present: Baker, Swanson, Thompson and Mayor Selby.
Councilmen Absent: Peterson.
READING OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MATING.
The minutes of the regular meeting held on the 4th day of August,
1948, having been read, without error or omission having been noted, it
was moved by Councilman Thompson, seconded by Councilman Baker, the minutes
of said meeting be approved as recorded. Carried.
WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS.
Written communications, received from the persons, firms or corporations
hereinafter named, were read to the Council and were disposed of in the manner
indicated, following reference to each hereinafter:
DAVID B. BEAD, Referee in Bankruptcy, postcard, postmarked August 6,
1948, being notification that Southern Rockvool Company, a copartnership
and the copartners thereof, named in said postcard, have been adjudged
bankrupts and notifying all creditors thereof that the first meeting of
creditors of said bankrupts will be held at 340 Federal Building, Los
Angeles, August 18, 1948, at 10:00 A. M.; also that all claims must be filed
within six months from the before mentioned date of said first meeting.
Ordered filed.
THE ATCHISON.. TOPEKA AND SANTA FS RAILWAY COMPANY, dated August 9,
1948, requesting authorization for the Engineering or Street Department
of the City of El Segundo to issue said Company a permit to build railway
tracks across Douglas Street at the points indicated on the print attached
to its said letter.
Moved by Councilman Baker, seconded by Councilman Swanson, the
following resolution be adopted:
RESOLVED, that that certain communication dated
August 9th, 1948, received from The Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railway Company, in words and figures as follows,
to wit:
"THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY
August 9th, 1948
City Council
City of E1 Segundo
E1 Segundo
California
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Gentlemen:
By Deed of Basements dated February 13, 1934,
and June 211 1939, the Santa Fe Land Improvement Company,
a California Corporation, conveyed to the City of El
Segundo certain property in the Northeast quarter (NE/4)
of Section 7, Township 3 South, Range 14 West, in Los
Angeles County, for public highway purposes, reserving
to itself, its successors and assigns the right to con-
struct, maintain and operate upon, aorass and over the
land such railway tracks and other utilities as shall be
required for industrial or other development.
The street, as established, bears the name
of Douglas Street.
The Nash- gelvinator Corporation and North
American Aviation have purchased property lying to the
west of Douglas Street and we are called upon to pro-
vide tracks to the plants of those industries. Will
you please authorize your Engineering or Street Depart-
ment to issue this company a permit to build the track
across the street at point indicated on the print
attached, it being understood the asphaltic concrete
pavement will be replaced and the street left in good
condition upon completion of the work.
Our application to the Public utilities
Commission of the State of California for this crossing
was granted at their meeting at San Francisco on August
3, 1948.
Yours very truly,
E. E. MSC Carthy"
together with the print therein referred to, be received and
placed on file in the office of the City Clerk for the pur-
poses of identification and reference;
AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council
of the City of El Segundo, on behalf of said City and of
said Council, does hereby grant to said applicant, The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, and does
hereby authorize the City Engineer and Street Superintendent
of said City to also grant and authorize, any and all
authority and permission necessary from said City, said
Council and said officials, in order to permit said The
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, to install
and maintain the said track in said Douglas Street, at
the location, of the dimensions and in the manner as
indicated and requested -in said communication and print; �r
provided that all of such work and installation and all -
such maintenance and use thereof, shall be done and per-
formed to the satisfaction and approval of the said City
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Engineer and Street Superintendent of said City; that
construction work shall at all times be protected by
suitable lights and barriers so as to prevent ln;,.o,:
the public so far as reasonably possible; thert'AB
warning devices (if any) required -, order t s ru
regulations of the Public Utilities,- .Ccami :tom x-1.1 Wi
State of California shall be prodidedid:�`
that all work of installation, mal"taeait sbae ado
must be done at the sole cost and .expenao- ;aD ,- .*ed`p
and that any street surfaces or eebaurfades `d iBt ti'1 g
reason of the installation or maintenance
facilities shall be restored at permittgb'•e:#
expense to the same condition, as far as reasoaab 6Ib1e,
in which the same existed immediately prior to the-:ca
mencement of such work or maintenance;
AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City`Clerk be
and he is hereby authorized and instructed to ferxard a
certified copy of this resolution to said permittee, which
said certified copy shall be and constitute the Witten
permit and authority to said permittee contemplated by
this resolution and for its information and files In
the premises.
On roll call, the foregoing resolution was adopted by the :lo].iowing vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Baker, Swanson, Thompson and Mayor Selby.
Noes: Councilmen None.
Absent: Councilman Peterson.
BERNARD LAWLER, Attorney at Law, dated August 5, 1948, captioned:
"Be: Application of Emanuel and Alma Jensen for Zone Change ", in which
letter the writer submits arguments in favor of granting applicants'
request, which he feels the Council should take into consideration in
deciding the matter, which it has heretofore taken under submission,
but has not decided to date.
Since all hearings in the matter have heretofore been terminated,
the communication was ordered received and placed on file in the office
of the City Clerk, but not as a part of the official file in the said
Jensen matter.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY DIVISION, LEAGUE CIF CALIFORNIA CITIES, dated
August 4, 1948, announcing its regular monthly meeting to be held at
Santa Monica, August 19, 1948, and requesting that reservations be
made on or before August 16, 1948. Ordered filed.
NATIONAL TITANIUM COMPANY, dated August 10, 1948, soliciting
the sale of genuine outside white paint at a special price of $2.40
per gallon delivered E1 Segundo. Ordered filed.
EDWARD WILLIAM RIlS, dated August 9, 1948;
EDMUND BALLS, dated Aug. 6, 1948;
RICHARD M. BOWLES, dated Aug. 6, 1948;
SAMUEL HALE SMITH, dated Aug. 9, 194,8;
CLAUDE WILLIS, JR., dated Aug. 10, 1948;
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pLACnx RICHARD, dated August 10, 1948; each being application
for employment by the City-of E1 Segundo. Ordered filed.
None.
None.
ORAL COIrIlr MCATIONS.
REPORTS OF STANDING COQ.
REPORTS OF OFFICERS AND SPECIAL CaW?T=-
City Engineer Lortz reported receipt of a letter from the Department
of Water and Power of the City of Los Angeles, dated Augnet 9, 1948,
addressed to the City Engineer, with which letter said Department of
Water and Power of the City of Los Angeles transmitted copies of letters
the said Department had addressed to North American Aviation, Inc.,
Nash- geivinator Corporation and Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., all
of El Segundo, California, advising each of said Compsul.es that water
service now being supplied each by said Department will be continued
only until the Metropolitan pater District of Southern California, of
which E1 Segundo is now a part, extends its mains, at which time said
Companies will have use of Metropolitan water.
The communication and its attachments were ordered filed in the
office of the City Engineer and copies thereof ordered furnished
Lippincott and Rowe, Consulting Engineers, now preparing a report,
with preliminary plans and cost estimates in conzootion with the
proposed connection of the City of E1 Segundo with said Metropolitan
Water District.
City Clerk McCarthy inquired Whether or not the Council deemed
this an appropriate time to advertise for was tax deeded properties
presently owned by the City but not heretofore advertised for sale,
as well as to readvertise the unsold properties heretofore advertised
for sale.
Following discuss
by Councilman Thompson,
Attorney John F. Bender
Council with respect to
heretofore acquired by
properties subsequently
ion, it was moved by Co
and unanimously Rani sd
be requested to make h
readvertising for sale
the City of El Segundo, ma
acquired which y be
um►cilwo Swanson, seconded
, that special City
is reommmdation to this
tax. do"od. properties
as well as any of such
ready for sale.
In the matter of the disposition of the application of Emanuel
Jensen for a zone reclassification, which had heretofore been taken
under submission by this Council, it was moved by Cotmoilmen Thompson,
seconded by Councilman Baker, the following resolution be adopted:
WEOMMS, the City Planning Commission of the City
of E1 Segundo did heretofore process and hold hearings
upon, as required by law, the application of 206=e1 Jensen
for the rezoning of the real property hereinafter described;
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AND, WHEREAS, after such processing, said City
Planning Commission did duly and regularly make its re-
commendations to the City Council in writing with re-
ference thereto;
AND, WHEREAS, said City Council has duly and regularly
processed and held a public hearing upon. the said applica-
tion and the said recommendations of said Commission with
reference thereto;
AND, WHEREAS, said City Council, after having so
processed said application and recomm,andations, did duly
and regularly submit the said matter and take it under
advisement for decision;
AND, WHEREAS, said Council, before making its final
deciston in said matter, desires to submit to the said
Planning Commission, for a report thereon, the matters
hereinafter set forth in this resolution with reference to
such proposed rezoning;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council
of the City of El Segundo, California.. as follows:
First: That said Council does hereby submit and
refer to the Planning Commission of said City, for a report
thereon by said Commission to said Council, the following
proposed rezoning of the real property covered in said
application of said Emanuel Jensen, to -wit:
(a) That that portion of the property covered
in said application, which is more parti-
cularly described as follows, to -wit:
Beginning at a point in the westerly line
of Lot 16, C. C. Hunt's Subdivision, dis-
tant 480.00 feet southerly from the north-
westerly corner thereof, as recorded in
Book 36, Page 36, of Miscellaneous Records,
retards of Los Angeles County, California,
and on file in the office of the County
Recorder of said county, said point being
also the northwesterly corner of Lot 1,
Tract 15115, recorded in Book 324, Page 1,
of Maps, records of Los Angeles County, Cal-
ifornia, and on file as aforesaid; thence
northerly along the westerly line of said
T,ot 16. C. C. Hunt's Subdivision, recorded
:;nel on f' le nu aforesaid, a distance of
?00.00 feet to a point; thence easterly along
line parallel with end distant 130.00 feet
southerly, measured at right angles, from the
northerly line of Lot 16, C. C. Hunt's oub-
division, recorded and on file as aforesaid,
a distance of 679.00 feet to a point; thence
southerly in a straight line the bearing of
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which is South 0 degrees, 0 minutes, 45 seconds
West, a distance of 150.00 feet to a point;
thence southwesterly in a straight line the
bearing of which is South 11 degrees, 24 minutes,
10 seconds West to the intersection of said line
with the northerly line of Tract 151150 recorded
and on file as aforesaid; thence westerly along
the northerly line of said tract to the point of
beginning, remain unchanged as a district of Zone
R -1 under the provisions of Ordinance No. 306
(the Zoning Ordinance - Land Use Plan of said City);
(b) That the following described portion of the pro-
perty covered in said application, to -wit:
Beginning at a point in the northerly line of
Tract 15115, distant 848.78 feet easterly from
the westerly line thereof, as recorded in Book 324,
Page 1, of Maps, records of Los Angeles County,
California, and on file in the office of the County
Recorder of said county; thence northeasterly in a
straight line the bearing of which is North 11 de-
grees, 24 minutes, 10 seconds Bast to its point of
intersection with a line parallel with and 879.00
feet easterly, measured at right angles, from the
westerly line of Lot 16, C. C. Hunt's Subdivision,
as recorded in Book 36, Page 36, of Miscellaneous
Records, records of Los Angeles County, California,
and on file as aforesaid; thence northerly along
said parallel line a distance of 150.00 feet to a
point; thence easterly along a line parallel with
and 180.00 feet southerly, measured at right angles,
from the northerly line of Lots 16-and 1, C. C. Hunt's
Subdivision, recorded and on file as aforesaid, to
its intersection with the northerly prolongation of
the easterly line of Lot 30, Tract 15115, recorded
and on file as aforesaid; thence southerly along said
northerly prolongation of said easterly line to the
northeasterly corner of said Lot 30, recorded and
on file as aforesaid; thence westerly along the
northerly line of said Tract 15115 to the point of
beginning, be changed from a district of Zone R -1
to a district of Zone R -2, as provided for under
the provisions of said Ordinance lie. 306.
Second: That the City Clerk is hereby authorized and
instructed to forward a certified copy of thin resolution to
said City Planning Commission as the request of the City Council
for a report from said Commission to said Council on the pro-
posed zoning of said properties as hereinabove not forth, and
as the reference of said matter to said Cemission by said
Council for such purpose.
Third: That said Commission is hereby respectfully
requested to consider the said matter of such zoning and to
make its report thereon to said Council at its earliest
convenience.
On roll call, the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Baker, Swanson, ThoMmon and Mayor Selby.
Noea: Councilmen None.
Absent: Councilman Peterson.
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In the matter of the complaint of W. Floyd Vallace, made at the
last regular meeting of this Council respecting the.alleged imprudent
use of the traffic control devices on Imperial Highway adjae"t— t .4be
entrances into North American Aviation, Inc.'s plants on the north and
south sides respectively of IWerial Highway, Chief of Pallas Hutchins
reported having conferred with the Chief of Plant Protectim of Borth
American Aviation, Inc., who informed him that all personnel assigned to
the operation of these traffic control signals had been instructed to
operate the same in favor of traffic on Imperial Highvey rather than a
lone employee desiring to cross said highway, but that the matter will
again be called to their attention.
PAYING BILLS.
The-following demands, having had the approval of the Cmmittee
on Finance and Records, were read:
General Fund
General Fund
Pacific Area Lumber Co.
Blake Electric Co. 2.7
John F. Bender
166.00
Calling Publishing Co. 4.10
City of E1 Segundo Mater
F & F Radio & Appl. Co. 16.59
Dept.
179.43
Calif. Electric Can. Co.4365.00
City of E1 Segundo " "
06.62
Pacific Electric Ry. Co. 6.99
South Bay Venetian Blind Co.
16.35
So. Calif. Edison Co. 24.65
Union nil Co. of Calif.
340.87
Automobile Club of So.
The Todd Company, Inc.
184.40
California 86.5 .._
The Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co.
114.34
TOTAL $6691.46
Donald J. Farrar
3.10
win. H. Reuther
So . Calif. Gas Co.
20.00
2.38
Recreation Fund
Collector of latsarmal ev. $11-76
Victor D. McCarthy, City Cl.
14.64
Victor D. McCarthy City
80SUMA C4, 111r04 Go,
2%119
7.68
Southern Cal Edison Co.
104.66
El Segundo Herald 21.27
Southern Cal. Edison Co.
344.01
Russo Leather & Findings Co.29.29
Southern Cal. Gas Co.
3.01
Ace Gift & Office Supply
Comany
_ _7.18
TOTAL $77—.19—
Moved by Councilman Swanson, seconded by Councilman Baker, the
demands be allowed and warrants ordered Brava on and paid out of the
respective funds covering the same. Carried by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Baker, Swanson, Thompson and Mayor Selby.
Noes: Councilmen None.
Absent: Councilman Peterson.
10W BUSIOSS.
Moved by Councilman Baker, seconded by Councilmen Thompson, that E. J.
Grow be and he is hereby granted permiesion to take`his earned a:musl
vacation and in addition thereto five days of earned overtime, between the
dates September 13th and October let, 1948, both dates inclusive. Carried
by the following vote:
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Ayes: Councilmen Baker, Swanson, TbaWoon and Mayor Selby.
Nees: Councilmen None.
Absent: Councilman Peterson.
City Engineer Lortz reported to the Council that Mr. Ralph Freeze,
Treatment Plant Operator in the Water Department of the City of E1 Segundo,
has resigned from said employment effective as of aidnight, August 21,
1948.
It was thereupon moved by Councilman Thompson, seconded by Councilman
Swanson, the following resolution be adopted:
RESOLVED, that the resignation of Ralph Freese, as
an employee of the City of E1 Segmdo, effective as of
midnight, August 21, 1948, be and the same is hereby accepted;
AND, BE IT FtEMM R MVED, that inasemoh as said
employee's 1948 earned vacation dates were heretefore fixed
by resolution of this Council adopted Jww 21, 190, as
from November 14th to November 28th, 1948, that sold order
heretofore made be amended by changing said dates to
August 9th to August 21st, 1948, both dates inclusive,
On roll call, the foregoing resolution was adopted by'tbe following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Baker, Swanson, Thoapsen and Mayor Selby.
Noes: Councilmen None.
Absent: Councilman Peterson.
Mr. R. T. Hutchins reported receipt of a oarunioatler► free 0. A.
Gierlich, City Engineer of the City of Manhattan Beach, Califlrala, dated
August 9, 1948, addressed to Mr. Woodworth, as well'as a copy of a
aemoraadum from City Attorney to City Saginesr, dated Angllst 4, 1948, with
reference to obtaining an easement for water pipe line purposes from Judge
Benjamin F. Brown over certain real property owned by sold Judge Brown and
situated in the City of Manhattan Beach.
Explaining the purport of the documents nest before referred to, Mr.
Hutchins stated that it is the purpose of the City of Manhattan Beach to
obtain the easement directly fro& Judge Brown and thereafter grant to the
City of E1 Segundo the right to lay its pipe lines within the right of way
it obtains frog Judge Brown.
Since Mr. Gierlich requested the approval of Mr. Hutchins an to the
fora of easement to be used in connection with the acquisition of said
right of way from Judge Brown, it was moved by Councilman Baker, seconded
by Councilman Thompson, that the following resolution be adopted:
RESOLVED, that the ca®mnication from 0. A. Gierlich,
City Engineer of the City of Manhattan Beach, dated August
9, 1948, and attached papers, having reference to a pro-
posed method of description and terms for a proposed easement
to be obtained by the City of Manhattan Beach train Judge.
Benjamin F. Brown, over and across certain real property
owned by said Judge Brown in the City of Manhattan Beach,
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be received and placed an file in the offioe of the
Water Superintendent of the City of n 8"pmdo, and
that this Council does hereby approve the method and
terms therein specified, on the ass»elption that tke-
City of Manhattan Beach will, after obta3aing the pre -
posed easement from Judge Benjoialn F. Bruin, grant to
the City of B1 Segundo the right to 4astall.in said
easement its water pipe lines from the Metropolitan
Water District termination in the Citr of Manhattan Beach
to the City of $1 Segundo.
On roll call, the foregoing resolution vas adopted b7 the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen , Svaneou, d wWaon and IfVw Selby.
Noes: Councilmen pone.
Absent: Councilman Peterson.
No further business appearing to be traneacted at this meting, it was
moved by Councilman Baker, seoanded by Connor Owanson, the rioting
adjourn. Carried.
Respeotfully submitted,
Approved:
Mayor .
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