HomeMy WebLinkAboutMay 8, 1923 The 'regular monthly meeting
o~the
city council, o£ the City of Columbia
I-teights was held at the Columbia
school on Tuesday evening, May 8. ':
-Rieeting.~¢as called to order by May-
or ~V. ,C. -Gauvitt6' at. 8:20 .o'clock.
~otl Call--Bentzen, present, Burgoyne,
present, Ledwein; present, G.auvitte,
present and McKenna,. absent.
Motion made .by Bentzen and' sec-
onded by I~edwein that city pay cost
of bond of Hazel A; Trucker as Notary
Public and city to collect all moneys'
derived through her offmial services.
Carried ~nanimously.
~- Moved by Ledw.~in and seconded by'
]~urgoyne that all bills brought before
the council for audit and passage be
allowed as follows:
N. W; Bell Telephone ...... $4,6.50
A. H. Rodger Co ........... 50
L. H. Dean~...: ..... ~ .... 24.50
CoL Hts. Fire Dept...~... 68.00
C. Perrin ................ · 7.00
~1p~s General Electric Co.. 238.15
Jos. F. ~:uel Co ............ 46.50
.Kunz Oil 'Co ..... ......... 27.20
.Argus Publishing Co ....... 60
Record Publishing Co.., .2 33.40
Anoka Herald Pub. Co ..... 10.3~
Healy & Peterson,: ~ ...... 115.00
Walter S[ Booth .......... 7.00
Columbia Garage ........ 10.S0
~Vi111amson Stamp Co ..... 7.93
Gopher Stone Co,.; ....... 325.00
Dr. T. Torkleson ...... .... 197.00
Mfller-Davi, s Co..' .......... 4.35
5%cDonald &. Dahlsten Co., 491.20
Frank Fi Ittner, refunded
~ on sidewalk . ......... 14,57
~ayor Gauvitte appointed a com-
mittee to look into the matter o£ se-.
'curing suitable grounds for a' baseball!
])ark.. On this committee h~ named'
George Eckenroth~ Dan DeMars, James
Gust Anderson relative to 'requiring
all electricians to take out a journey-
man's license and pas.s and examina-
tion bef0re'a board of examiners be-
fore a license would be issued them.
This matter Was laid' over to another
meeting because it will be .necessary
to. pass ordinances covering the. pro-
visions reqnested. .-
~kppointment of .election judges ~as
'laid over to the next special meeting
o[ the council, Mayor Gauvitte called'
attention to the fact that applications
for these places have been received
from :many more than will be needed
~Iygaard and Harold Flor. aiid that judges, will .be allowed to
_A_ delegation o£ property owners ~ , , ..
lrom the vicinity of Silver Lake al~ ~ . . .- '- "
])eared before the council and, tl~rough Choose their own clerI~s as provided
· their attorney, protested against the
assessments mad6 against abutting
property on the water main laid on
41st avenue, £rom Reservior BoUle-
vard to Robbins avenue and on Rob-
..'bins avenue, [rom 42nd. ~- lengthy
discussion was entered into, V/ith the
])roperty' owners insistent that they
were 'asked to pay more than 'they
a~eed to. pay at the time the imDrove-
merit was petitioned for.' It. was final-
ly moved and:seconded knd carried
unanimously tlmt., the 'mattsr b8
~erred ~o the city attorney' and city
manager for further 'consideration.
Roll call~Bentzen yes, Bm'goyne yes
Ledwein yes, Gauvitte yes.
The committee appointed at the last
s~ecial meeting to investigate and re-
port on the matter of assessing front-
age oi triangular lots ~or improvement
costs'reported that to date nothing
had been done in that regard. Asses-
~ sor William'Leitch gave an interest-
j~ing illustration of how hardshi~ was
. worked on some prope~y owners who
received more benefi9 from improve-
ment than others because of the ir-
regular rennet in which lots were'laid
out in the city. Committee. was re-
. questp~ ~o have report ready' at next
.s~eclal. me~ng: ...........
by law.
Committee of the Parent-Teachers'
[~ssociation presented a request that
action be taken to protect school c.hiL
dren from speeders on Central avenue
and l~eservi0r Boulevard.
A letter from the factories asking for
the fixing up of 37th avenue was read
by City Rianager Corr, who was re-
quested to take up with the alderman
of the 9th ward, llinneapolis, the mat-
ter. of the neighboring city payi~.g for
the Tepair of this street from'Central
to N. E: 5th street. It wa~ mentioned
that Columbia Heights has spent many
hnndreds of dollars in repairing this
highway in other years and that tt was
time BlinneaPolis did its share. ·
Matter of finishing 40th avenue im-
provement by adding a covering 'of
gravel and Tarvia was brought up' and
discussed with the result that motion
was made by Burgoyne and seconded
by Ledwein that this work be done as
soon as the weather conditions
mit. Roll call--Bentzen yes, Burgoyne
yes, .hedwein yes, Gauvitte yes.
On motion of Ledwein, seconded by
t:~fw~, and carried unanimously
n~e~[~U'was adjourned at , 10:45i
-~ o'clock. "HAZEL A. TRUC]KER,
'i ' City' Clerk.