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1948 DEC 08 CC MINS 4'7© El Segundo, California. December 8, 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 700 o'clock P. M. by William R. Selby, Mayor. ROLL CALL. Councilmen Present.- Baker, Peterson, Swanson and Mayor Selby, Councilmen Absents Thompson. READING OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING. The minutes of the regular meeting held on the 1st day of December, 19489 having been read, and no errors or omissions having been noted, it was moved by Councilman Peterson9 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 Cetuzcil and were disposed of in the manner indicated, following reference to each as hereinafter indicated.- CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, CITY OF HAWTHORNE, dated December 2, 1948, expressing appreciation of the manner in which Fire Chief Farrar of the City of E1 Segundo assisted said Commission in conducting examinations for Fire Captain and Fireman- Engineer for the City of Hawthorne. Ordered filed. PLANNING COMMISSION, CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, postal card notice of public hearing to be held December 13, 1948, at 7:45 P. M. in the Council Chamber of the City Hall, E1 Segundo, to consider a proposed variance for the Northerly 851 of Lct 6, Block 106, El Segundo. Ordered filed. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PLANNING CONGRESS, postal card notice of election of 1949 officers and Executive Board, which election will be had at the next regular meeting of said Congress, December 9, 1948, at Pasadena, California. Ordered filed. BUREAU OF SANITARY ENGINEERING, U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, undated, stamped ttReceived Dec. 6, 19481t, being titled "Report of Water Supply Examined for Use in Interstate Traffic ", setting forth certain field inspection data respecting water wells of the City of E1 Segundo. By general consent the communication was referred to Public Works Commissioner Peterson, for study and report on the subject matter thereof to this Council. CALIFORNIA STATE DISASTER COUNCIL, dated December 3, 1948, subject: "Civil Defense for National Security", stating there was being forwarded under separate cover official copy of final recomiendation by the Office of Civil Defense Planning to Secretary of Defense, ;,:*nay Forrestal. S - 471 Mayor Selby reported he had received such report and by general consent same was referred to the Fire Chief for his study and report thereon to this Council at a future date. THE METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT, by Charles D. Cooper, Jr. Assistant General Counsel, dated December 2, 1948, advising that under the provisions of Section 8.2 of the Metropolitan Water District Act, as amended in 1947, the governing body of the City on or before the tenth day of December, 1948, may declare its intention to pay out of its municipal funds the whole or a stated percentage of the amount of taxes to be derived from the area of The Metropolitan Water District lying within the City of El Segundo, which amount of taxes shall be fixed in August, 1949, by resolution of the Board of Directors of the District in levying taxes for the fiscal year 1949 -19500 City Attorney Woodworth stated that if the City had money on hand which it could set aside to meet the obligations of the City to the Metroplitan Water District, it could elect to do so, and thereby obviate the necessity of levying taxes to meet such obligations. In view of the City Attorney's explanation, and it appearing that the City does not have any funds.it might set aside for the purpose indicated, it was moved by Councilman Peterson, seconded by Councilman Swanson, and unanimously carried, that said communication be received and ordered placed on file in the office of the City Clerk. ROBERT J. McCARTHY, dated December 7, 1948, quoting rate for earthquake insurance on municipal buildings and contents for a five -year period. Ordered filed. None. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS. REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES. Public Works Commissioner Petersor reported that he and Street Superintendent Gunn had met with Mr. Fowkes, representing Santa Fe Land Improvement Company; Mr. Myers, representing Douglas Aircraft Corporation and Messrs. McGray and Lassig, representing the United States Navy, on the site of the property which Santa Fe Land Improvement Company desires to deed to the City of El Segundo as an extension of Douglas Street; that at such conference he had had an opportunity to make inquiry as to the future necessity of a 150 -foot street dedication, and was entirely satisfied that such street width would be necessary in view of present plans of the Douglas Aircraft Corporation and the United States Navy. He thereupon recommended that the deed of easement presented by Santa Fe Land Improvement Company be accepted, subject, however, to provision that present property owners or future owners will agree to stand any cost of future improvement or maintenance. Lengthy discussion ensued, which resulted in decision by the Council that any requests for future improvements in the dedicated portion of Douglas Street could be handled in the same manner in which other requests for street improvements are being presently handled. Thereafter, it was moved by Councilman Baker, seconded by Councilman Swanson, the following resolution be adopted: -2- S 472 RESOLVED, that that certain Deed of Easement, dated the 17th day of November, 1948, executed by Santa Fe Land Improvement Company, a California Corporation, granting to the City of El Segundo, a Municipal Corporation of the State of California, an easement for public street and highway purposes, in, over and along that certain real property situated in the City of E1 Segundo, County of Los Angeles, State of California, particularly described as follows: A strip of land 150 feet in width by approximately 1201.76 feet in length, being a portion of the northeast quarter of Section 7, Township 3 South, Range 14 West, S.B.B. & M., as said quarter section is shown on map recorded in Book 70 at Page 97, of Miscellaneous Records in the office of the Recorder of said County, more particularly described as follows. Beginning at the most southwesterly corner of that certain land described in deed of easement to City of El Segundo, dated December U. 1940, and recorded January 7, 1941, in Book 18080, at page 278, of Official Records in the office of the Recorder of said County; Thence southerly along the southerly prolonga- tion of the western line of Douglas Street, being along a line which is parallel with and distant 1415.2 feet westerly at right angles from the east line of said g7aarter section, a distance of 1201.76 feet to the south line of said quarter section; thence easterly along said south line 150 feet; thence northerly, along the southerly prolongation of the eastern line of said Douglas Street, being along a line which is parallel with and distant 1265.2 feet westerly at right angles from the east line of said quarter section, a distance of 1201.76 feet to the south line of said land described in deed recorded in Book 180800 at page 278, said Official Records; thence westerly along last said south line, 150 feet to the point of beginning. The easterly half (the easterly 75 feet) of the above described 150 foot wide strip of land being the same parcel of land that was reserved for conveyance to the City of E1 Segundo for street purposes and described in reservation (b) of a grant deed dated June 1, 1942, from the Santa Fe Land Improvement Company to the Defense Plant Corporation, recorded July 23, 1942, in Book 19414 at pag.- 347, said Official Records, be and the same is hereby accepted by and on behalf of the City of E1 Segundo; AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk be and he 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, California. -3- S 473 On roll call, the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmen Baker, Peterson, Swanson and Mayor Selby. Noes: Councilmen None. Absent: Councilman Thompson. Public Safety Commissioner Baker reported that the Fire Department is in need of 10 feet of 41 inch soft suction hose, with coupling, and he recommended the purchase thereof. Moved by Councilman Swanson, seconded by Councilman Peterson, that the purchase of 10 feet of 4J inch soft suction hose, with coupling, for use of the Fire Department, at a cost of not to exceed $125.00, plus California State Sales Tax, be and the same is hereby authorized. Carried by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmen Baker, Peterson, Swanson and Mayor Selby. Noes: Councilmen None. Absent: Councilman Thompson. Public Safety Commissioner Baker reported that certain employees in the Fire Department of the City have earned overtime to their credit, which they desire to take off during the Christmas vacation and he recommended that Mr. Arthur Thomas, who has heretofore worked in said Department, be employed for a period of two weeks to enable said employees to take such overtime off. It was thereupon moved by Councilman Peterson, seconded by Councilman Swanson, that Arthur Thomas be employed as Engineer in the Fire Department of the City of E1 Segundo, for the period commencing December 18th, 1948 and ending January 2nd, 1949, and that during the period of such employment the Fire Chief be and he is hereby authorized to allow, in his discretion, those employees of said Fire Department who wish to do so, to take off earned overtime. Carried by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmen Baker, Peterson, Swanson and Mayor Selby. Noes: Councilmen None. Absent: Councilman Thompson. REPORTS OF OFFICERS AND SPECIAL CONNITTEES. Mr. C. E. Lortz, Assistant to the City Engineer, reported he had conferred with Mr. 0. A. Gierlich, City Engineer of the City of Manhattan Beach; Mr. Alan Rowe, Consulting Engineer; Mr. Clyde Woodworthp City City Engineer R. T. Hutchins and Commissioner of Public orks Peterson, respecting the request of the City of Manhattan Beach that the City of E1 Segundo make an 8" connection to its feeder line, to service the northerly 20 acres of Lot 1, Rancho Sausal Redondo, in said City of Manhattan Beach, when the City of E1 Segundo makes its connections to the Metropolitan Water District; that as a result of said conference, he was making the following recommendations: That said connection be made for the City of Manhattan Beach, subject to the following terms and conditions: (1) The City of Manhattan Beach to pay the cost of purchase and installation of meter; the cost of connection and installation; and the cost of vault and installation; -4- S 4.'74 (2) That the City of Manhattan Beach shall pay to the City of E1 Segundo the cost of all water used by said City of Manhattan Beach, at the rate which will in future be fixed by West Basin Municipal Water District for water consumption; plus water trans- portation cost. (3) That upon reaching the capacity of the City of E1 Segundoes transmission lines, the City of Manhattan Beach, upon written notice (the length Of time of such notice to be fixed in contract) shall seek other methods of transporting water to said location. The above recommendations of Mr. Lortz meeting with the Councils approval, by general consent he was directed to communicate same to Mr. Gierli.ch, City Engineer of the City of Manhattan Beach, requesting that said City resubmit its request to the City of El Seg+ando, including therein the above mentioned recommendations; also submit therewith detailed drawing snowing location of said proposed 8" connection, together with detailed drawing showing proposed installation of meter, vault and appurtenances. Councilman Baker was excused from the meeting at this time, the hour being 8:05 o'clock P. M. and he immediately left the Council Chamber. City Clerk McCarthy stated there had been filed with him by Mr. Charles E. Lortz, Assistant to the City Engineer, reports respecting the qualified signatures to certain petitions for street openings through certain blocks in the City of El Segundo, as follows: Block 108 - 65.84% of total assessable area Block 109 - 80.66% tt it n n Block 110 - 80.29% tt tt tt n Thereafter, it was moved by Councilman Peterson, seconded by Councilman Swanson, and unanimously carried, that said peti +inns and reports be received and taken under.consideration pending receipt of petitions of like nature respecting other blocks in the same vicinity. City Attorney Woodworth reported receipt from the City of Glendale, of an invoice in amount of $7.91, covering City of E1 Segundo's portion of payment made to E. J. Forman, Attorney, in connection with hearings before the Public Utilities Commission in the matter of the petition of Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company for authority to increase its rates, which invoice he delivered to the City Clerk to be processed for payment in the usual manner. City Attorney Woodworth reported he had approved as to form, bond of Imperial Development Corporation in amount of $30,000.00 to secure certain improvements in Tract No. 15455, in the City of El Segundo. UNFINISHED BUSINESS. At this time the City Clerk presented Ordinance No. 3444 entitled: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, DECLARING VACANT FOR PUBLIC STREET PURPOSES ALL OF THAT PORTION OF THAT CERTAIN PUBLIC STREET NAMED PALM AVENUE LYING BETWEEN THE EASTERLY LINE OF CENTER STREET AND THE WESTERLY LINE OF CALIFORNIA STREET, WITHIN SAID CITY, -5- S which had been introduced at the regular meeting of the City Council held on the 24th day of November, 1948. Inquiry was made as to whether or not word had been received from the Pacific Telephone & Telep -aph Company, stating that it had made satisfactory arrangements for the relocation of its facilities effected by the proposed street abandonment. During the course of the discussion it developed that while apparently the Telephone Company and the El Segundo Unified School District had had negotiations and were apparently in agreement, no communication from the Telephone Company to that effect had been received. In view of these circumstances, it was moved by Councilman Peterson, seconded by Councilman Swanson, and unanimously carried, that the matter of the adoption of said Ordinance No. 344 be taken under advisement until the next regular meeting of the Council and that the City Clerk be requested to contact the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company with reference to its present attitude respecting the abandonment proceedings. At this time the Council proceeded to discuss the subject of the renewal of fire insurance and the possible procurement of earthquake insurance upon various City buildings and contents. Four bids for the furnishing of fire insurance, which had been previously furnished, were presented to the Council, being from the following bidders respectively: Seeley & Co., Robert J. McCarthy, representing McCarthy Insurance Agency; Jayne - Purdum & Company and C. E. Kenney, Agent. Each of said bids was for the furnishing of the necessary insurance through a "Board" carrier and the respective premiums quoted by the respective bidders were all the same. Discussion developed the fact that the City's public liability insurance policy had been written through the Jayne- Purdum & Company agency; that Seeley & Company presently have four fire insurance policies in effect for the City, the amounts of insurance therein set forth to be increased each by approximately the sum of $10,435.00 to bring present insurance values up to the latest appraisal values of the City's buildings and contents; that neither C. E. Kenney, Agent or the McCarthy Insurance Agency received any current insurance from the City nor has for the City any insurance in effect at this time. The Council therefore felt that since the first two agencies named had received consideration in the matter of municipal insurance, that the renewal policy should be written through either the C. E. Kenney agency or the McCarthy agency. Wishing to be entirely impartial in the matter, it was decided that the names of the two agencies would be deposited in a hat and one of them withdrawn by a disinterested citizen and that the award would be made to such agency. Slips were thereupon prepared and placed in a hat and Mr. Floyd Wallace, a disinterested citizen present, then withdrew one of the slips from the hat, which appeared to be the slip of the McCarthy Fire Insurance Agency. The said slip was then exhibited to persons present as being the slip of the McCarthy Fire Insurance Agency and other citizens present inspected the remaining slip in the hat to verify that the C. E. Kenney agency name had been written upon it•. It was thereupon moved by Councilman Peterson, seconded by Councilman Swanson, the following resolution be adopted: 475 S 476 RESOLVED, that the current policy amounts of fire insurance on municipal structures and contents be increased by the sum Of approximately $10,435.00 each, and that the City Clerk be and he is hereby authorized and in- structed to procure a renewal fire insura=e policy in the amount of $47,437.00 through the McCarthy Fire Insurance Agency; AND, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council takes the subject of possible earthquake insurance endorsement upon its various fire insurance policies under considera- tion until its further order, On roll call, the foregoing resolution was adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmen Pete son-, Swanson arid Mayor Selby. Noes: Councilmen None. Absent.- Councilmen Baker and Thompson. PAYING BILLS. The following demands, having had the approval of the Committee on Finance and Records, were read. Water Works Fund General Fund Pay Roll Demand No. 12984 to _ El Segundo Chamber of Commerce $100.00 12993, Incl. $951.73 Grimes- Stassforth Stat. Co. 4.71 Minta Curtzwiler, City Treas. 52.20 Milliken Chevrolet 12.81 Minta Curtzwiler, n it 6.25 Mecca- Freese, Inc. 11.27 Minta Curtzwiler, Secretary Master Pest Control, Incl. 9.50 E1 Segundo City Group 16.60 Fred L. Carter 313.40 State Employeest Ret. System 76-97 Ira E. Escobar 308.37 State Employeesf rr n 108.15 Boulevard Radiator Shop 50.50 Hersey Mfg. Co. 793.35 Schwabacher -Frey Co. 140.74 Hersey Mfg. Co. 801.55 The Electric Shop 203.00 Industrial Stat. & Prtg. Co. 10.50 Warnockfs Shoe Repair 1.44 Braun Corporation 40.29 Inglewood Blueprint & Supply .96 Crane Co. 755.33 L. N. Curtis & Sons 69.19 El Segundo Paint Center 16.30 Ducommun Metals & Supply Co. 25.46 Mefford Chemical Co. 247.91 Southwest Bldr. & Contractor 2.00 Kimball Elevator Co. Ltd. 13-70 Gordon Whitnall, Consultant 100.00 El Segundo Bldg. Materials 4.15 Eckdahl Auto Parts Co. 29.96 E1 Segundo Herald 58.43 Lloyd Denneets 72.02 James Jones Company 27.48 Culver Wholesale Elect. Co. 166.65 Addressograph Sales Agency 3.56 The Redondo Reflex 44.59 Carl Wilson 40.00 Pacific Area Lumber Co. 87.39 Gibson Motor Parts 5.54 MooreBs Western Stores .98 Howard Supply Co. 13.53 Pacific Radionics 83.99 City of El Segundo 205.42 E1 Segundo Paint Center 40.69 El Segundo Hardware 21.27 Thomas Parker 22.55 Charles E. Lortz, Petty Cash 2.20 Penny Profit Market 8.94 TOTAL $5264-14 Southern Calif. Edison Co. 391.55 Southern Calif. Edison Co. 20.00 Pacific Electric Ry. Co. 5.53 Douglass Automotive Supply 177.53 -7- General Fund Ira E. Escobar 2080089 South Bay Disposal Co. 135.00 Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk 14.08 TOTAL $4735.69 Recreation Fund Minta Curtzwiler, City Treas. $535.81 Minta Curtzwiler, City Treas. 2. TOTAL 588.2 Inglewood Blue Print & Supply G. B. Taylor City of El Segundo E1 Segundo Hardware City of E1 Segundo Water Dept. Pacific Area Lumber Co. TOTAL State Emplo7ees8 Retirement Sys. 477 V.E.H.P. Fund 1.29 3.00 82.85 7.15 146.72 2-LQ Pension Fiend 0.42 Moved by Councilman Swanson, seconded by Councilman Peterson, 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 Peterson, Swanson and Mayor Selby. Noes: Councilmen None. Absent: Councilmen Baker and Thompson. NEW BUSINESS. City Clerk McCarthy reported that telephones heretofore furnished by the City of E1 Segundo to C. K. McConnell and R. T. Hutchins, while such persons were employees of the said City, have never been changed as to listings and are still in the name of the City of El Segundo, whereupon, by general consent, the City Clerk was directed to request Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company to discontinue listing such telephones under the name of the City of E1 Segundo. City Clerk McCarthy reported difficulty was being encountered in the matter of the placement of.a signal light on the telephone box heretofore _ authorized installed on the West side of Main Street, opposite the High School building, for use of the Police Department, since no conduit is available for such purpose at that location. By general consent the matter was referred to Public Safety Commissioner Baker for investigation and recommendation with respect thereto. No further business appearing to be transacted at this meeting, it was moved by Councilman Swanson, seconded by Councilman Peterson, the meeting adjourn. Carried. Respectfully submitted. Approved: