The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-06-30
ANNUAL REPORTS SUBMITTED.
Council and City Officials Clos.
ing Up Work for the Year.
Successful Republicans in the Third Ward
Accorded Their Seats In Council to
FIJI tho Vacancies Caused by the Res
ignation of Their Predeoersors-hfanv
ofthe Reports 20 Over Until To night

| S""s'oh Oh Their Predececsors-many
OF the Reports 20 Over Until To night
An adjourned meeting of Council was
held last night and the session was q
lengthy one, lasting until after II
o'clock. Most OF the time was spent in
listening to the annual reports of citv
officials. This became monotonous.
however. and before the list had bean
gone through with the reading of fur
ther reports was postponed until to-
night.
All the members of Council except
mr. Andrews and Mr.. Stevenson were
present. The first business of the even
ing was the reading of message from
the mayor in which he said that review.
ing the condition of the country for rhe
last year Roanoke is to be congratulated
upon the showing it has made. The city
has promptly met the interest on its
bonded Indebtedness and the inter eat
due on the first OF July will be paid.
The various departments OF the CITY
government have been faithfully ad-
ministered.
The mayor stated that at the begin.
ming OF the year he had made a reduc-
ton OF 5000 in his salary and he had
now made q further reduction of 5000.
lie does this in the interest OF economy,
be transmitted the bond of G. c. Payne,
for 50, 600, as commissioner of revenue.
which he had approved. This bond was
referred to the finance com mittee for in
vestigation with instruc lions to report
to night.
The report was received, and, on mo-
n r Fon 1ynr hal
the people of Roanoke were rendered
the mayor for voluntarily reducing his
salary.
The city engineer submitted q report
In regard to the renting of the old pera
House and the use OF the courthouse for
public meetings with number OF sug-,
gestions. The first part of the report
was referred to the new Council and
tho second part to the public property
&C mmittee.
nAt this stage Of tho proceedings Clork
Thomas commenced to read the annual
reports. The first one wa, from the
city engineer. IL was lengthy docu-
ment, and contained complete history
OF sewer building in Roanoke.
The total amount expended last wear
for sewers and drains was SIS, los 90.
There was also So, 92O ~ worth OF maoa-
dam work done during the past wear.
There are at present fourteen miles of
boardwalk in the city. which cost orig
inally about S10,250. Half of these
walks are so damaged by ago that the
cost to repair the same would be very
expensive. He favored the laying of
orick sidewalks in q great many places
The report of the city solicitor came
next and was detailed statement of
the dispositions that have been made Of
tho cases in which the city is Interested
Clerk of Council Thomas Report.
Tho annual report Of the Clerk of
Council w. E. Thomas has been printed
in pamphlet form and elnbodies in q
concise manner the requisite amount OF
Information as to what Council has done
the past year. The following facts are
compiled from this report:
The tenth Council was organized July
|, 1898, and R. A. Buckner re- elected
president without opposition.
Three changes have been made in the
membership Of the body. Messrs. w.
X. Andrews, a. j. Loughery and j. e.
Hough having been selected to All va.
cancies caused by resignation OF w. p.
Dupuy. j. G. Johnson and j. r. Levy.
Council has held in all forty-four
meetings, OF which twelve have been
regular, twentY-one adjourned and
eleven special. The average attendance
OF members has been about fifteen.
Upon tho matter of Legislation the
report says:
During the year many important
resolutions and ordinances have been
passed. Most OF the ordinances passed
were tho enactment OF permanent laws.
while the ordering Of all work and the
conduct of tho several departments, SO
far as giving certain directions are con-
cerned, was carried out principally by
resolution. The number of ordinances
passed was 46, ana the total number
OF resolutions 100.
While the number o, meetings during
the past fiscal year has been about ono
fourth less than the year previous the
amount of actual and permanent legisla.
ton on the books OF the Council is con-
siderably greater and in much better
shape. The manner in which Council
handles its legislation has been greatly
i'm proved.
Only two bills, the report says, passed
by the Council during the year, have