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HomeMy WebLinkAbout00161 MINUTES OF REGULAR SESSION OF JULY 26/32 continued.0 310 E v I MINUTES OF REGULAR SESSION OF JULY 26/32 continued. (Communications continued) rom C F Christian City Clerk re: Salary Agreement. A communication from City Clerk C. F. Christian, relative to voluntary salary reductio as also presented and read, as follows: Port Townsend, Wash., July 26, 1932. 'o the Honorable Mayor and City Council, Port Townsend, Wash. ientlemen:- Re: Salary Agsee:nent. With reference to your eequest that the elective city officers accept a lower monthly salary for the remainder of 1932, than provided by„City Ordinance, I, C. F. Christian, as ;ity Clerk of the City of Port Townsend, State of ashington, do hereby accept the sum of ;y120.00 per month as full compensation for all services thatelamay render as such officer to said city, beginning with and on the let day of July, 1932 and ending on the 31st day of December, 1932, in lieu of the $135.00 per month compensation as provided by City Ordinance and hereby full authorize and direct the Mayor and City Clerk to draw warrants from month l to month for said period of time for the said sum of $120.00 per month and hereby waive any further claim or demand for any further compensation for said period of time. This agree- ment is freely made because I deem it an absolute necessity to reduce all city expenses to the minimum in order to keep within actual estimated receipts and so balance the budget, notnithstanding that the City Council recognized the fact that I was entitled to extra Com- pensation for this term to equalize the low salary received for two years after salaries in nearly all other departments had been materially increased. Respectfully submitted, C. F. Christian, City Clerk. It was ordered that said salary agreement communications should be duly filed. Assessors Valuations. The City Clerk informed the Council that the advance statement of the County Assessor, of assessed valuations for 1932, had been received and that an exami- nation of same showed that the city valuation would be about the same as for 1931 with the possibility of a slight increase. Said copy was ordered filed. REQUISITIONS. YYater department. The follovring communication from City Engineer Sadler was attached to a requisition for supplies for the Water Department, to -wit: Port Townsend, Washington, July 25th, 1932. To the Mayor and City Council, Gentlea:en: - Attached is a requisition for some wood pipe, capper pipe, corporation and curb cocks for wood and cast iron pipe, etc. This material was left over frim this con- tract and can all be used to a good advangage by the Water Department. It is quoted at a price that the City could not buy it for in the market today The price quoted on the wood pipe being . $ 130.86 The price quoted on copper pipe, fittings, etc., .... ......... 37.16 Total ......... -M.02 Yours very truly, Y1. J. Sadler, City Engineer. The said requisition is as follows: 275' - 6" - 250 Hd. lY.Y1.'.Y. Pipe C.C. 21' - 6" - 300 Hd. W.W.W. Pipe C.C. 6.5' - 8" - 350 ad. W.W.W. Pipe C.C. 68' - 3/4" copper tubing 30' - 1" copper tubing 2 - 3/4" Mueller Corp. cocks, C.I.P. 4 - 3/4" Mueller curb cocks, C.I:P. 1 - 3/4" Mueller Corp. cock, W.P. 4 - 8" wood plugs 3 - 6" wood plugs 2 - 4" wood plugs 1 - 4" I.B. collar It was moved by Councilman Lammers and seconded by Councilman Smith that the said re- quisition be granted. Upon roll call, all five councilmen present voted in the affirma- tive and motion was declared carried. Requisitions were further presented, as follows: For City Clerk's department, to -wit: 500 sheets - 8k x 13 blank typewriter paper. For the Mayor's Lepartment, to -wit: Correspondence stationery for office of Mayor - To be printed. It was moved by Councilman Lafferty and seconded by Councilman Miller that the said r quisitions be granted. Motion declared carried. II RECESS VOTED. It was moved by Councilman Starrett and seconded by Councilman Lammers that the Coun- cil recess for 10 minutes. Motion carried and recess declarod. COUNCIL RECONVENED AND ROLL CALL. (continued on succeeding page) e- I n I E MINUTES OF REGULAR SESSION OF JULY 26/32 continued. COUNCIL RE -CONVENED at 9:30 o'clock P.M., and upon ROLL CALL there were present iJa George Bangerter, City Attorney Jas. Y1. B. Scott, City Clerk C. F. Christian, and Counc Jacob tiller, E. M. Starrett, :Y. B. Smith, '11. S. Lafferty and }•;m. Lnmmers,Sr. ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS. AMENDMENT TO LICENSE ORDINANCE PRESENTED AND PASSED. First stating that he submitted same on behalf of the Finance Committee, it was moved by Councilman Starrett and seconded by Councilman Lammers that Section Three of the Ordi- nance under consideration be amended to read as follows: "Section 3. That the following named and described occupations, trades, businesses, professions, private insitutions of learning, auto Trucks, and amusements shall be required to pay the City, annually or per diem, the following license fees and tax, as revenue to support and maintain the government of said City, to -wit: 'Banks, Telegraph Stations, Telephone Stations, Electric Service Stations, Gas. Service Stations, Navigation Companies; at the rate of Twenty-fice Dollars ($25.00) per year. Attorneys canneries, clothing. stores, contractors, construction companies, dairies, dentists, doctors, docks, department stores, dry goods stores, drug stores, dry cleaners, furniture stores, general merchandise stores, gas supplies stores, hardware stores, haber- dasheries; hotels, hospitals, ice cream factories, jeweler stores, laundries, meat markets, fruit markets, fruit stores, mortuaries, milk dealers, machine shops, sheet metal shops; notion stores, physicians, publishers, rooming houses, sanitariums, savings and loan asso- ciations, shipways, shipyards, surgeons, wholesale gasoline and oil stations; at the rate of Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) per year. AbstPactOrp, architects, auto agencies, auto supply stores, auto camps, auto garages, auto repair shops, auto.gas stations, auto wreckers, apartment houses, blacksmith shops, bakeries, bottling works, beauty shops, cafes, coal dealers, confectionaries, candy facto- ries, cigar stores, chiropodists, chiropractors, electrical stores or shops, fish markets, fruit stands, florists, feed and grain stores, insurance agents, ice dealers, ice factories lumber yards, music stores, novelty shops, nurseries, photograph studios, public accountant decorators, real estate agents, radio supply stores, radio service shops, shoe repair shops shoe stores, wood dealers, vendor wagons; at the rate of Ten Dollars ($10.00) per year. Art and art supply stores, auto pitint shops barber shops, colleges, sign writing shops kindergardene, lunch rooms, lunch counters, lunch wagons, tailor shops, teachers, milliner Shope, upholsterer shops; at the rate of Five Dollars ($5.00) per year. Auto trucks, not for hire, making delivery of goods, wares and merchandise, at the fol lowing rates: For each and every vehicle with a carrying capacity of one ton or less, $3.00 over one ton and including two tons, $5.00; over two tone, $10.00 per year. AMUSEMENTS: Public card rooms, $2.50 per table per year, each athletic exhibition, Five Dol laps ($5.00); Circuses, One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per day, each sideshow in connection with the circus, Ten Dollars ($10.00) per day; each carnival, an aggregation of two or a- musements or attractions, Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) per day; each sideshow in connection with the carnival, Five Dollars ($5.00) per day; dances where admission is charged, Five Dollars ($5.00) per dance; each dance given by a church or public school where admission is charged the license may be waived by the propernauthority of any church or public school by filing a statement with the City Clerk asking for such waiver of license fee, which must be approved by the mayor, chief of police, and two members of the police, revenue and li- cense committee of the City Council, thereupon the city clerk shall issue a license charg- ing the sum of fifty cents (50�) for such issuance. The foregoing paragraph shall apply to all athletic exhibitions or amusements given by any church or public school where an admission fee is charged. lyhere a person is engaged in two or more classifications of business enumerated in thi ordinance, the highest license classification shall be assessed. The City Clerk shall make a report every six months, or upon request of the City Coun- cil, for publication, a list of all licenses issued and the classifications thereof.' Motion passes. Upon roll call, all five councilmen present voted in the affirmative ar mot Jo-n-w-a-s-Te-c-1-a-r-eff carried. Consideration of complete Ordinance as amended. It was then moved by Councilman Starrett and seconded by Councilman Smith that the 1st reading be considered the second reading and that the third reading be by title only. Mayor Bangerter Leaves. At this time, Mayor Bangerter stated that he was obliged to leave tEis council, an ereupon Councilman 71m. Lammers Sr., Mayor Pro Tem. took the chair and thereafter presided. Upon a call for the question, a roll call vote was taken, all five councilmen present voting in the affirmative and motion was declared carried. Third 'leading. The City Clerk read the said ordinance by title only for the 3rd readin Ordinance passed. It was then moved by Councilman Starrett and seconded by Councilman Miller that said orainance do now pass. Upon roll call, all five Councilmen present voted In the affirmative and motion was declared carried. Copy of Ordinance. The following is a full, true, and correct copy of the said ordi- nance as passed by the city council this date and presented to the Mayor for his considera- tion, to -wit: ORDINANCE NO. An Ordinance of the City of Port Townsend, licensing and taxing certain occupatim s, r.. r'