The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-17
BOARD or STREET AND wa
COMMISSIONERS.
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS.

Regular meeting of the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners. held on Monday,
August Z, 1893, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ,
Prescnt-All the members of the Board,
five in number.
Reading of the minutes of regular meet
ing, held on Monday, July 81, 1893, was
dispensed with, and on motion were APP
proved as engrossed.
The privilege of the floor was accorded to
Mr.. Leslie, who addressed the Board in
matter of the obstruction in Pearl street.
The Board on motion took a recess for ten
minutes.
On reassembling all the members of the
Board were present.
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS N CoMUNI-
CATIONS.
From National Docks and N. j. Junction
Connecting Railway Co.:
Presenting supplemental offer in matter of
vacation of portion of Railroad avenue and
establishment of grades OF portion of Wayne
street and Railroad avenue.
From John Muller and others:
For the requirement. of First street between
Brunswick and Colgate streets.
Three ~ petitions for signs, etc.
Received and referred to the Committee
on Streets and Sewers.
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS
JERSEY Cry, Aug. 2, 1893.
From His Honor the Acting Mayor.
To the Honorable Board of Street and
Water Commissioners
GENTLEMEN-I herewith return without
my approval the resolution of your Board
passed July "a. 1893, to wit: Resolved,
That Frank w. Decker be and is hereby APP
pointed general clerk in the Water Depart
ment." am opposed to the employment of
any more clerks in the Water Department of
your Board, especially at the present time,
judging from the amount of leisure time
during the working hours of the day that
some of the clerks employed in that depart
ment have to enjoy and which they devote to
attending to their own pleasure or to private
business, there are more clerks. there now
than are really needed. I beg to give due
notice to those parties that if they do not
make some returns to the city for the CON-
pensation they receive. either by the expendi-
tufe of their time or labor during
the working hours of the day, l will re-
fuse to sanction any longer the payment of
salaries which they have not earned anG to
which they are not entitled.
Very Respectfully.
REUBEN SIMPSON,
Acting Mayor.
JERSEY Cry, August 3, 1898.
To the Honorable Board of Street and
Water Commissioners
GENTLEMEN-I herewith return without
+! approval the resolution passed by your Board
July "A, 1893, to wit: Resolved, That
the work under Contract No. $50, for the i'm
proVement of Sherman avenue from Hutton
street to Griffith street, by Albert Minardow,
contractor, be and the same is hereby ac-
cepted as completed and that the cost and
expense of the said improvement, together
with all maps, specifications and other data
pertaining to the same, be and are hereby re-
ferred to the Commissioners of Assessment
for procedure according to law also,
Resolved, That $500. 65 be paid to Al
bert Minardow, being ANAL on Contract No.
652 for improvement of Sherman avenue
from Hutton street to Griffith street" In
my opinion it would be better for your Board
to delay the acceptance of this improvement
until the contractor puts it into better shape.
This can be accomplished in a very few days
if Mr.. Minardow would send a few rammers
over it. On the Griffith street end of the
block the paving is not as good as it night
be. Very Respectfully,
REUBEN SIMPSON,
Acting Mayor.
Received and laid over for one week under
the rules.
From the Board of Finance:
Transmitting resolution passed by said
Board at its meeting July 81. 1893, and was
approved by the Mayor July 81. 1898, fixing
the following named amounts as the appro-
priations and limit of expenditures to your
Board during the fiscal year beginning De
cember l, 1893, and ending November 80,
1894.
For payment of such contractor or con-
tractors as shall be awarded contracts for
cleaning the streets and removing the garb-
age OF Jersey City during the fiscal year
commencing December 1. 1898, this appro-
priation IS made Tor payments under such
contracts as shall be approved by the Mayor
and Board of Finance and no portion thereof
shall be used or expended for any other pur-
pose whatever, nor shall any charge be cred
tied against this item for work lone or ma
terials furnished unless the same shall be done
or furnished in accordance with specihca-
tons prepared by the Chief Engineer and ap-
proved by the Mayor and Board of Finance.
including the salary $4,000. 00) of the Su-
perintendent of Streets and Roads, $4,000. 90.
For cleaning sewer and receiving basins,
the Board of Finance reserving the right at
any time to have the sewers and receiving
basins of the city cleaned by contract or con-
tracts, to be approved by the Mayor and
Board of Finance, in which event no por-
ton of this appropriation shall be used or
expended for any other purpose whatever,
nor shall any charge be created thereafter
against this item for work thereafter done
unless the same shall be done or furnished
in accordance with the specification prepared
by the Chief Engineer and approved by the
Mayor and Board of Finance, including the
salary $1200. 00) of the Inspectors of Sew
ers, $12, 900. 90.
Public grounds and buildings, $4,000. 90;
salaries as per schedule, $14, 500. 90; print
ing and stationery, $1,000. 90; repairs to un-
paved streets, 100000; reconstruction of
sewers, $4,000. 90; street lighting, $685.
600. 90; District Court rentals, $21, 900. 90;
rent of armories, $500. 90; Engineering
bureau, $12. 600. 90; insurance, $500. 90;
total, $193, 400.0 90.
Schedule salaries:
Five (5) Commissioners at So, 900. /. $40, GOO
One ~ CLERK. ..:..........- 5000
One ~ Assistant Clerk. 1900
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The following resolution was adopted by
the Board of Finance at its meeting July 81,
1893, and was approved by the Mayor
August Q, 1898:
Whereas, The Board of Street and Water
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