The herald., 1895-02-17
FOR THE COUNCIL TO SAY
Results of the Weeks Work by
Committees
MERELY RECOMMENDATIONS
Report of the Board of Public Works
on Street Improvement
The Building Committees Report on Engine
Houses Statement From the
City Clerk
MERELY RECOMMENDATIONS

| ms mas Deen DuSN week loT but va
rious committees of the City Council ano
thes.city officials who have reports tC
make to the Council each week.
| The board of public works made the
| rounds of the city on Thursday and wa;
in session on Friday. A lengthy report tc
the Council was prepared with recon-
| dations as follows:
| That the city engineer be instructed to
present ordinance of intention to establish
the grade OF Cortes street between Lake
| Shore avenue and Belmont avenue.
That the petition from Mrs. Fl. J. Frink
and others in reference to the grade on
the south side of Court street east of
Grand avenue, be referred to the City En-
gineer to report if the grade asked for is
proper to be established at that point, and
if so, to present the ordinance of inten-
ton.
That the City Engineer be instructed to
present the necessary ordinance of inten-
ton to establish the grade of West Lake
avenue between Eleventh and Twelfth
streets.
That the petition from A. J. Lennox
asking that the distractions be removed
from the alley along the east line OF lot
81, block 4, of the Orchard Tract be granted
and the Street Superintendent be in
structed to have said distractions re-
moved.
That the City Engineer be instructed to
walk the east side of Croker street from
Sixth to Seventh streets with a cement
sidewalk five feet wide the same to be
held for two weeks to give property own
ers an opportunity to do the work by pri-
vate contract.
That the petition from George f. Coffin
and others, asking to have the grade of
Temple street, between Edgeware road and
Figueroa street. changed and established
be filed, the engineer having already re-
ported that the same represents a major
ity of the frontage, and the ordinance of
intention therefor having been passed.
That the City Engineer be instructed to
present ordinance of intention to sidewalk
with cement sidewalk eight feet wide the
east side of Flower street, between Sew
enth and Eighth streets; said ordinance
to be held for two weeks thereafter, to
give the property owners an opportunity
to do the work by private contract.
That the petition from Mrs. d. w.
Heath in reference to the accumulation of
storm water in the vicinity of No. 1888
Brooklyn avenue be referred to the Street
superintendent.
That the petition from A. J. Burnet
and others in reference to the condition
of Mission road be referred to the Street
Superintendent with instructions to re-
pair portions of the street designated.
That the City Engineer be instructed to
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sary data which will enable him to put in
culverts or cutters across Pico street in
such manner as to divert the storm
water in proper proportion to the various
streets between Sentous and Bush streets.
That the City Engineer be directed to
drain the pool of stagnant water at the
corner of Sixth street and Park View
avenue.
That the protests against the establish
ment of the grade OF Whittier street be
denied, and the City Engineer instructed
to present the final ordinance ordering the
grade as set forth in the ordinance of in
tention.
opening and extending of Bryan street,
as presented by the City Attorney, be
placed upon its passage.
In the matter of ordinance 2179 (new
seres) for the work of opening and wild
ening of Fireman street the board re-
commends the proceedings be abandoned.
In the matter of the ordinance giving
property owners authority to grade DAWN
street, between First and Fourth streets,
and Second street from a point 100 feet
west of DAWN street to a point 134 feet
east of DAWN street, by private contract,
with the natural soil, the board recon-
mends the ordinance be filed and that the
Street Superintendent be authorized to
give property owners permit to road up
said streets at their own expense.
That the gutter on Los Angeles street,
on the north side of East Ninth street, be
repaired
That the Street Superintendent be in
structed to repair crosswalks across Los An
geles street from Arcadia place crosswalk
across Albion street on the west side of
Water street; build crosswalk on the
west side of Iona drive across Arnold
street; repair the crossing on Fremont
avenue and Temple street; also at Tenn
pie street and Bunker Hill avenue, and to
place culvert across the zanja near the
old Lacy carpet cleaning mill on Pasa-
dena boulevard the same having been
washed away by the recent rain.