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Home My WebLink About00413164 I. I I l 1 , 1 I .. I i i i i 1 I OTHER COMMUNICATIONS From Department of Labor and Industries re Roy S. l;'eppner Order and Notice and Advice of Payment from the Department of Labor and Industries a' the State of Washington concerning the case of former City Patrolman Hoy S. Weppner was read and ordered filed. A.FG'Brooks, re old YM.C.A. -i+ Corner Washington & Taylor City 3-17-36 Brooks and Waldrop Honorable Mayor and City Council, Gentlemen: ,lie wish prmission to modernize the store front of the 5-19 and 15¢ store at above address. In doing so it will be necessary to take out the stairway in the center of the building which will close that entrance. It is unnecessary for us to mention the improvement will help the city generally as all visitors who go up the terrace will notice a modern front building. You gentlemen 'of great foresight and intelligence will see the advantage at once. Would mention the more we can improve the city and the more spent in town is that much advantage to the city and modern buildings help considerable in that direction. In closing the front entrance it will be necessary to make a side entrance to second floor and would appreciate your permission to place an iron grating with side rails from the building to the terrane on the first landing running a walk from the center to connect. Later undoubtedly a seat could be placed there so that visitors could sit down on the side to rest out of the way of main traffic which would be a benefit as I have heard people remark I do not care to sit by the flag staff with everybody going up and down. Trusting your decision will be favorable regarding grating and walk. Yours truly, A.H. Brooks The foregoing communication was thereupon, by the 1oiayor, referred to the Building and Street Committees, for investigation and report. Woodmen of the World - re defaulted bonds The follovd ng communication received by the City Clerk March 6th, 1936, was read as follows: Denver Colorado March 3, 1936. id C.F. Christian, City Clerk, Port Townsend, 'flash. He: $20,000.00 City of Port Townsend Refunding bonds due July 1, 1931. Dear Sir: Having received no further word from you on this matter for several months, the Board of Head Managers at its last meeting directed me to proceed to bring it to some satisfactory conclusion. 71e appreciate your continued payment of interest on thb past due obligation, but the principal appears in the default libbs of our records and it will not be long now until the six -year limitation for action on the bonds will be dangerously near, as they fell due July 1, 1931. In view of continued payment of interest after maturity andother matters I very much doubt if any limitation fm action would atiply, but I cannot see my way clear to take the slightest chance on that, and if the debt is not paid or refunded in the reasonably near future, I shall be constrained to advise that it be put in judgment under statutory rate of interest to fully protect the rights of our association. '.Ie certainly do not want to be placed in this position, especially in view of your an•;arent willingness to care for it if possible. It is understood that there visa no bid on the refunding bonds recently offered by the City. ':'That is the present course of procedure or plan? It would be more desirable to us for the city to pay us in cash, but if that can be worked out so as to take this tiam out of our default list. This must be done in some way as soon as possible, because it has obviously been in that status too long for good accounting purposes. Therefore, please present this matter to the officers of your city and advise me at an early day just what we can depend upon concerning it. Your continued co:rtesy and consideration in so doing will be duly appreciated. Very truly yours, John L. Schweigert General Attorney The foregoing communication was referred to the Finance Committee of the City Council m dthe City Attorney. _-,, ....r..._-.,..;-gin- --•- •_- ." _ .. < u, Ll IL aa rsg iard surfacing of street to Fort Warden. 165 The City Clerk announced that in response to the order of the City Council at the meeting of Iarch 3rd, he had written the Director of Highways concerning the foregoing subject, and that the following communication had been received in answer thereto: Olympia, March 11, 1936. Mr. C.F. Christian, City Clark, PORT TO'WNSEND, WASHINGTON. Dear Mr. Christian: We have just received your letter of March 5 in which you request. information regarding the availability of federal funds fro the improvement of the road from Port Townsend to Fort '1'orden. All federal funds at the disposal of this department has been programmed for the past six months. The latest information we have received from Washington, D.C. indicates that the only additional federal funds which will be available to this department during thepresent year r ' million dollars. bPhisthe fundregular requiresfederal fiftyaid perallotment matching�+onithetotal partapproximately stattwo ej{ and is only available for construction work on the federal aid system. Tin road in which you are interested is not a part cf the federal aid system and it our opinion therefore that no funds will be available to this department which are eligible for expenditure on the road from Port Townsend to Fort ;'lorden. Yours very truly, L.V. MUrrow Director of Highways. The communication was by the Mayor ordered referred to the Street Committee. It was thereupon moved by Councilman Sather, seconded by Councilman Larmsers, that a copy of the foregoing communication be sent to the Chamber of Commerce. Motion carried. Pole line to Station Prairier Air Field n A communication from the Commanding officer, 14th C.A., Fort ';lorden, was then read as follows: Fobt Warden, Washington March 13, 1936. The City Council of the City of Port Townsend, Washington. Gentlemen: It is the desire of this headquarters to build a pole line for the transmiss: of electricity from the Four Corners sub -station of the Puget Sound Power m d Light Company to the Army's Station Prairie Air Field. The proposed line woi ld parallel the Power Companyls 68,000 volt line from ti south boundary of our reservation to Four Corners, the distance of approximately 1700 feet. A right of way is therefore requested along your water pipe line from the som boundary of the Fort Townsend Military Reservation to the location of the Puget Sound Power and Light Company's sub -station at Four Corners for the purpose of erecting, operating, m d maintaining a pole line for the transmission of electrical energy. Yours, R.M. MITCHELL Colonel, 14th C.A., Common ding The foregoing communication was referred to the llater Committee and City Attorney, with the admonition that before any recommendation is made to the City Counc that the National Paper Products Company be fully informed in the premises. Guilford Packing Company - re tap Port Townsend, Wash. March 16, 1936. To the Honorable Mayor and Council. 'fie request that you increase the size of the pipe leading to our cannery to 1-i inches. Yours truly, Guildford Pkg. Co., by P.S. Guilford