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Home My WebLink About1939-01-30city council minutesThis matter was referred to the City Engineer. Mr. Odle entered and was marked present. Applications for Card Room License were read from I. H. Waters, S.F. Bgw,.Rumm9 House pnd Pastime Lunch, the fee accompanying the application. Applications for Pool Hall License were read from I. H. Waters and S.F. Bow, the fep accompanying the application. Moved by Oakes, seconded by Babcock that these Licenses be granted. Motion carried. There being no further business to come before the Council it was moved by Hinds seconded by Fenrich that Council adjourn to meet January 27th.,1939 at 8:00 P. M. Motion carried. City Clerk. Mayo3w. COUNCIL CHAMBERS, JANUARY 27th., 1939, B;00 P.M. Pursuant. to adjournment of January 23rd., the Council met in the Council Room of the City H with the Mayor, W.R. Hollingsworth, presiding. On Roll Call the following Councilmen answered present; Edgar L. Oakes, W. E. Babcock, W. H. Odle and Norvil T. Hinds. Absent; F.D. Mumford. Mr. R. H. McNeill, representing the purchaser of the Idaho Meat Producers,, ap- peared before the Mayor and Council and asked that the water bill contracted by the Idaho Meat Producers be cancelled. The Mayor informed Mr. McNeill if his Company would enter into a 2 176 78A contract with the City for water the bill would be cancelled. Mr. Fred Evans of the Pioneer Irrigation District appeared before the Council and discussed the question of the position of the Pioneer Irrigation relative to the Mut- �icipal Irrigation District. Mr, Chas Laurenson, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce appeared and requested the Mayor and Council to grant a beer license to the Saratoga Club operated by Dick Graves This matter was left on the table until the next Council Meeting. There being no further business to come before the Council it was moved by Baboo (seconded by Odle that Council adjourn. Motion carried. u:•I City Clerk. COUNCIL CHAMBERS, JANUARY 30th., 1939. 8;00 P. M. A Special Meeting of the City Council met in the Council Room with the Mayom, 17. Hollingsworth, presiding, On Roll Call the following Sounoilmen answered present; Edgar L. Oakes, W. E. Babcock, G. M. Fenrich and Norvil T. Hinds. Absent; F. D. Mumford and W. H. Odle. This Meeting w as called to take up new and unfinished business. Mrs. M. E.Gilgan appeared relative to the amount due her byrthe City for the use of a vacant lot near the City Hall, the bill heretofor filed with the City Clerk. I � i I Moved by Oakes, seconded by BabcocIC, that the Mayor select a suitable person and that Mrs. Oilgan select a suitable person and the two shall select a third person and the thves shall act as 9W, abbitratiotboard to arbitr^te the matter and the Mayor of the City of Caldwell is hereby authorized to execute any abbitration contract that may be necessar in connection with the matter. A Yea and Nay vote was had thereon with the following results- Yea: Oakes, Babcock, Fenrich and Hinds. Nay. None. Absent and not voting: Mumford and Odle. Thereupon the Mayor declared the motion carried and the Resolution duly adopted. A number of citizens appeared b efore the Council and protested the opening of the Saratoga Club. Mr. Mumford entered and w as marked present. Mr. Odle entered and was marked present. Massaro Tom LaFOnd, Floyd Southward, Emery Vassar and Dr. Westfall, representing the Business Men of Caldwell, appeared before the Mayor and Council and recommended that the following streets be widened : Main ,9th to 5th., Arthur,12th to 5th,, 9th,Railroad to Cleveland, 7th, Railroad to Arthur 6th,Railroad to Arthur 11th,Arthur to Cleveland They also recommended that 11th., Street be opened at the O. S. L. Railway and that the crossing at 9th and Railway be improved. The Clerk read a petition from the Church of Christ requesting the cancellation of taxes on Lots 13 and 14 of Block 25, Washington Reights, Steunenberg & Hand's Addition to the City of Caldwell. After due consideration the following preamble and resolution was presented to the Mayor and Council by CouncilmanOdle who moved the adoption thereof which motion was duly seconded by Councilman Oakes. RESOLATION. By Odle. WHEREAS, The Church of God petitioned for cancellation of Sewer #3, and Sprink- ling taxes both for the year 1919, on Lots 13 -14 of Block 25, Washington Heights-Steunen- berg -Hand Addition to the City of Caldwell, and, 8 WHEREAS, the total of said interest on said assessments is 119.20 and that the total of said assessment, interest and penalty is $28.80, and it appearing to the Mayor and Council that it is proper to relieve said Church Organization of a portion of said tax, interest and penalty. NOW T= - FORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor and Council do hereby remit one - half of said tax, interest and penalty provided that the other half of,said tax, interest and penalty be paid to the County Treasurer within sixty days after the passage of this i REsolution and that the Treasurer of Canyon County be and she is hereby authorized and directed to a ccept payment within sixty days thereafter fifty percent of said tax, interes and penalty andcancel the remainder thereof and that a certified copy of this Resolution be sent to the County Treasurer as her authority in making said cancellation and accep ing in payment thereafter a lesser amount than the total tax, interest and penalty. A Yea and Nay vote was hdd thereon with the following result: "Yea ": Oakes, Mumford, Fenrich, Babcock, Odle a nd Hinds. "Nay"- None. Absent and not voting: None. Thereupon the Mayor declared the motion carried and the preamble and, resolution adopted, I� I Application for Beer License was read from the Saratogn.Club, the fee accompang- ing the application. Moved by Fenrich, s econded by Babcock that this License be granted. Motion carried. Thereupon the following preamble and resolution wag presented to the Mayor and Council by Councilman Odle who moved its adoption which motion was duly seconded by Coln &i - man Babcock. RSB9LIITION. , By Odle. WHEREAS, it appears that in the near future the City of Caldwell will have to have a greater supply of domestic water and it further appears that numerous persans are drill - ing wells forartesian water and intend to drill for water in the near future near the City i of Caldwell and will thereby effect the Pity water supply, NOW THEPEFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Attorney and the City Enginner are hereby authorized to prepare the proper papers for making the proper filings with the State Engineer and the Reclamation Department to the extent of 10,000 gallons of water per minute said papers to be thereafter executed by the Mayor and the City Clerk on behalf of the City of Caldwell and be filed with the State Engineer and the Reclamation Department of the State of Idaho. A Yea and Nay Yotp.wan had thereon with the following result; Yea: Oakes, Mumford, Fenrich, Babcock, Odle and winds. Nay: None. Absent and not voting: None. Thereupon the Mayor declared the motion carried and the Resolution duly adopted. There being no further business to come before the Council it was moved by Binds seconded by Fenrich that Counil adjourn. Motion carried. City Clerk COUNCIL CHAMBERS, FEBRUARY 4th., 1939, 3:00 P.M. A Special Meeting of the City Council met in the Council Room with the Mayor, N.R. Hollingsworth, presiding. On Roll Call the following Councilmen answered present; Edgar L. Oakes, F.D. Mumford, W. E.Babcook, G. M. Fenrich, W. H. Odle and Norvil T. Hinds. The Mayor informed the Council the Meeting was called to discuss the matter of organizing Local I- provement Districts and sale of Bonds, one for oiling streets near the Dity park in the residential district and the other for widening of streets in the husiness iistrict. Mr. Dahlstrom was present and stated he would be interested in the purchase of uo. No further business OoLing before the Council it was moved by Fenrich, seconded Hinds that Council adjourn. Motioncarried. City Clerk. rA JA i i