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HomeMy WebLinkAbout00418r From MaelM. Plummer, to -wit: Port Townsend, Vdash.,Mar. 25, 1929 To the Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council, Port Townsend, Washington. Gentlemen: Herewith I request your permission to have repairs and improvements made on my residence at 436 Lincoln Street, to the amount of approximately $250.00. Thanking you in advance for this permission, I am Yours very truly, (Signed) Mae M. Plummer Mrs. Mae M. Plummer 436 Lincoln St. City It was moved by Councilman Lammers, seconded by Councilman Peach, that the fore- going five applications for.permits be granted, and the Motion carried. COMMUNICATIONS From Shell Oil CompanY: The following communication from the Shell Oil Company was presented and read, to -wit: Seattle, March 27, 1929 Honorable Mayor and City Council Port Townsend, Wash. Gentlemen: Via desire to make formal application for a permit from your honorable body to construct and maintain a distributing depot for the wholesale handling of bulk petroleum products, on the west half of Block 19, located between Walker and Scott Streets, and fronting on Water Street in your.city. We are attaching a blue print of our drawing N-1812, which shows in more detail the improvements we contemplate constructing. We agree to comply with all existing city and state regulations pertaining to the installation and maintenance of plants of this character. The tank will be equipped with improved type vacuum and pressure relief Valves, as well as improved type interior safety valves, and all of our electric work will be installed in conduit and in accordance with the National Electric code. We have an option on this piece of property which will expire in the near future, and we will appreciate favorable consideration of this request at the earliest possible date in order that we may exercise the option before it expires. Yours very truly, SHELL OIL COMPANY (Signed) N. E. McDermut, Supt., Construction do Maintenance. The blueprint mentioned was submitted for filing. Said communication was referred to the building committee, the Street Committee, the City Engineer and the City Attorney. From Ben Green, Water Su erintendenb: Communication from Ben Green, Water Superintendent, was presented and readas ollows: Port Townsend, March 26, 1929 To the Mayor and City Council. Gentlemen: I wish to call your attention to the Hadlock-Irondale line. The service on this line is very unsatisfactory, the supply being intermittent and the patrons do not like to pay the full service charges when they are not getting the water. It has not teen at all ao;,ief.ctorf einee the new liac was cut in, during; V e ::*nth of Januer„ 1529, t.:vy aar3 without water some 23 days. I.was over there Saturday, March 23, and Sunday, the 24th, and made a personal Examina- tion and found a good many who had no water at all and some that the faucets just dripped and all reported that at times they were getting no water at all. Somethigg should be done about the matter as it is hard to make collection under these conditions, either the rates will have to be adjusted or the service cut off, without something is done to eliminate this condition. �i is io of Very truly yours, (Signed) Ban Green., Water Supt. From Baar h Cunningham: Communication from Saar and Cunningham, Engineers, was presented and read as follows,to-wit: Port Townsend, Wash., Mar. 29, 1929 Honorable Mayor and City Council, Port Townsend, Washington Gentlemen: Some difficulty is being experienced with delivering water to Hadlook and Irondale. As you know, the main supply line was designed to deliver four.million gallons to the City and ten million gallons per day to the N ational Paper Products Company. The old supply line from the city .limits to the reservoirs is in such bad condition that your water sup- erintendent does not date to submit it to a pressure equal to the four million gallon per day flow. During the past week we have shut off the flow to City Lake and are delivering the entire pipe line capacity to the National Paper Products. Company and the City. Since we cannot subject the old line to the requisite pressures, the results of tests are inconclus- ive and we cannot determine where the proposed screen chamber is to be located. In order to create conditions approximating those when four million gallons are delivered to the City, we recommend that the 14" valve now located in the abandoned Snow Creek line near the Hadlook and Irondale connection be removed and placed in the 14" line near the City Limits between the connection with the new supply line and the check valve recently in- stalled. It is absolutely necessary to have a valve at this point and make further pres- sure tests before the location of the screen chamber is definitely fixed, so we request that this valve be installed without delay. With this valve in the line, it should -be pos- sible to supply Hadlook and Irondale without further difficulty. Very truly yours, BAAR AND CUNNINGHAM, By (Signed J. 0. Baar. Both of the foregoing communications were referred to the Water Committee. From Rev. John M. Hixon, to -wit: A Memorial, signed by the Rev. John M. Hixon, was presented and read as follows, to -wit: A Memorial Praying his Honor, the Mayor, and his Honorable City Council, of the City of Port Townsend, Wash. That they instruct the City Attorney to draft an ordinance governing dances, to this extent, at least, "That, all public dances held in the City of Port Townsend, be under direct super- vision of a police matron; the same to be appointed by his Honor, the Mayor, and that she be equipped and empowered with proper authority. That so called owner, proprietor, or manager of dances be obliged to pay the cost of said matron; same not to be less than $6.90. J. M. Hixon Signed by Rev. John M. Hixon, Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. This communication was referred to.the Mayor, as Head of the Police Department. From Olaf N. Berg: A communication from Olaf N. Berg was presented and read as follows, to -wit.: Port Townsend, Wash., Mar. 29, 1929 Honorable Mayor and City Council of the City of Port Townsend. Gentlemen: I, Olaf N. Berg, living on Block 17, 0. C. Hastings Addition, and on Landes Ave., re- quest you to order Henry Miller to remove the rail fence that is about 30 feet in the street. The street is 80 ft. wide and automobiles and trucks coming to my place cannot find room to turn around. Henry Miller owns a whole block but instead of clearing and farming his won land, he wants to farm the street. For the good of Port Townsend every one should keep their property in good order, but it will not give anyone a good impression to see a fence in the middle of the street. Respectfully yours, (Signed) Olaf N. Berg