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Home My WebLink About00454 Session of the City Council, i',ay 20th, 1947 (continuedn �1 i1 i I i �I I �I 'i i G 252 P.. Y' 1 1 t, ( �Y as of the Regular Session of the City Council, i',ay 20th, 1947 (continued RE6'.UISIT IONS Requisitions by officers and department heads were presented and acted upon as follows: From City 'Treasurer. For new floor covering For new locks on the windows, These locks are broken. Requisition granted. It was moved by Councilman Mueller, and seconded by councilman Carroll, that the fore- ;oind requisition be allowed. Roll call vote all six councilmen voted in the affirmlative ind motion was declared carried. From Street Department. 4- 6.50 x 20 Tires and 'Pubes 440.00 w160.00 Street department, by S. T. Lockhart. Requisition allowed. It was moved by Councilman Mueller, and seconded by Councilman Steele, that the preceed- ing requisition be allowed. Upon roll call vote all six councilmen voted in the affirmlative and the motion was declared carried. ORDINANCES AND hESOLUTIONS, Petroleum Storage Ordinance. A proposed ordinance providing for ammendment of the city ordinance regulating the storage of petroleum and its products, which was ordered by the council at the last regular session, was presented and read in full for the first reading at this time as follows: ORDINANCE NO. /; /.5' AN ORDINANCE of the City of rort Townsend amending Section 2 of Ordinance No. 800, entitled "An Ordinance Regulating the Keeping and Storing of Crude Petroleum and its Products r:iti:in the Limits of the City of Port Townsend, 7ashington"; repealing said Section 2; and repealing Ordinance No. 813, entitled "An Ordinance amending Section 2 of Ordinance N1 800, entitled "An Ordinance regulating the keeping and storing of crude petroleum and its products 'within the limits of the City of Port 'T'o.,nsend, .'ashington',' and repealing said section 2". THL- CITY COUNCIL CF THE CITY OF POW 107.NSH-0, .7ASHING'TON, DO ORDAIN AS FOLLO".S: Section 1. That Section 2 of Ordinance No. 800, entitled "An Ordinance Regulating the Keeping and Storing of Crude Petroleum and its Products within the Limits of the City of Port '1'6r:nsend, :Sashington", be and the sane is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm or cornorat•ion to keep or store crude petroleum or any of its products in quantities exceeding one hundred gallons, unless such petroleum and its products be kept and stored in metal tanks located so as to leave a clew space of not less than one hundred feet between such tank or tanks and any combustible property, other than tanks for the storage of petroleum or any of its products, and be surrounded by an embankment or bulkhead capable of r.tuining one and on -third times the contents of such tank or tanks, which said embankment or bulkhead shall have no openings and shall be constructed of non combustible material and in good workman like manner and of such height and thickness as will reasonable answer the purpose for which it is built according to the judgement of the council granting the permit. erovided, however, that this section shall not apply to the storage of fuel oil in connection with fuel oil burning plant Section 3. '!'hat section two of said Ordinance No. 800 be and the same is hereby repealed. Section 4. 'That Ordinance No. 813, entitled "And Ordinance amending Section 2 of Ordinance No. 800, entitled "And Ordinance regulating the keeping and storing of crude petroleum and its products within the limits of the City of Port 'Townsend, Yfashington", and repealing said section 211, be and the same is hereby repealed in its entirety. Section 5. That this ordinance shall be published once in the Port Townsend Leader, to take effect and be in force from and after rive days of the date of such publication. PASSED by the City Council, '.Say 1947. A??=.OVED by the L:ayor, May , X47 ATTEST: City CierK. It was moved by Councilman iZueller, and seconded by Councilman Carroll, that the first reading be considered � the second rending and that the third rending be by title only. Upon roll call vote all six councilmen present voted in the affirmlative and motion was declared carried. r 6i II Citv Council, May 20th, 1947 (continued ' Third Reading and Passage. The ordinance under consideration was read by title only for the third reading where- upon it was moved by Councilman Carroll, and seconded by Councilman Gleason, that the ordinance do now pass. Upon roll call vote all six councilmen present voted in the affirmiative and motion visa declared carried. UNFINISHED ANL NE':' BUSINESS. Commemorative Resolution Ordered. It was moved by Councilman Gleason, and seconded by Councilman Carroll, that the City Attorney and City Clerk prepare and present a resolution commemorating the record of servic to the city of former Councilman 'William Lammers Sr., now deceased. Upon roll call vote all six councilmen present voted in the affirmative and motion was declared carried. Keith F. Jones Acpointed City Lngineer. Mayor Anderson, at this time, announced the appointment of Yr. Keith Y. Jones as City Engineer effective Yay 1st, 1947 at a monthly salary of fifty dollars ('$50.00) as paid - the prior appointee to this position. Hearing on Vacation of a Portion of 5th Street. This being the time and place set by the City Council for a public hearing on the proposed vacation of a portion of 5th Street, the City Clerk, at this time, read in full copv of notice and affidavit of posting of same as follows: NOTICE OF TIMZ, AND PLACE 05 W-:AF.ING IN THE MATTER Off THE VACATION OF A PART OF' A CEETAIN STREET. Dennis Sullivan, Mary G. Sullivan, Paul DeChamplain and Frances DeChamplain, having filed with the City uounell of the City of Port 'Townsend, Jefferson County, 71ashir-gton, a petition requesting the vacation of a part of a certain street within said City, to -wit: That Portion of 5th street in'the 1st Supplemental Plat of Efsenbeis Addition to the City of Port 'Townsend, lying between the westerly boundary of wcPherson street and the westerly boundary of the plat of said addition. j .. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That pursuant to a motion duly made, seconded and passed by the City Council of the City of Port Townsend on the 15th day of April, 1947, the said petition will be heard at the hour of 7:30 o'clock P..L'., or as soon thereafter as practicable, on Tuesday the 20th day of :.:ay, 1947, in the Council `'hambers of the City Hall of the City of Port Townsend, Jefferson County, 1.ashington, when and 'where any person or persons may appear and make exceptions or objections to the proposed vacation. IN "'ITNESS '':HEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Official Seal of my office, this 19th day of April,.1947. City l-ark o. e City of Port Townsend. i AF'YIDAVIT OF POS`i'ING STATE OF ".'Af1Tl.GTON ) COVNTY OF JEFn—RSCN ) as. CITY. Oi POhT TO7:IISEND ) C. F. CHRIS'TIAN, being first duly sworn on oath, deposes and says that he is the regularly elected, qualified and acting City Clerk of the City of Port 'T•oe:nsend, State of -ashirgton; that he posted notices, the annexed of which is a full, true and correct copy, in the following places in the said City of Port Townsend, 7"ashinpton, as follows: One at the front door of the City hall in the City of Port 'Townsend, One at the front door of the Jefferson County Court 'louse, One on the bulletin board at the corner of 'Taylor and 'Pater Streets in said City, and i Two on the part of street sought to be vacated; That such posting was made on the 19th day. of April, 1947. r h r 1 st an, ty C ark Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of April, 1947. DALY Notary Public in and for the State of i';ashington, residing at Port 'Townsend. r i 43L an v ,,. 't=SY 4a �iF+��r {i [:' `.G�'t �'u �.� �t 3"3vs� lv.i {! ,• 253