The record-union., 1896-09-15
SEWER CONTRACT AWARDED.
The City Street Improvement Company
Gets Il.
Contract for the Sewage Pumping
Plant Amended and Then
Approved.

Approved.
A regular meeting of the Board or
City Trustees was held last evening,
there being present President Leonard
trustees Tozer, Pennish, Devlne' NC
Kay, Wachhorst, Kent and Davis.
William Land appeared before the
Doard at the instance of the state BOARD
OF Agriculture to request that the war
rant for that part of the immigration
fund usually given to the Agricultural
Association be drawn, as the Agrl-
cultural Directors wished TO settle thelr
bills on Monday next.
Trustee Devine stated that the attend
ance at the Pavilion had been so small
or certain evenings as to scarcely pay
for the lights used, and moved that the
sum of S4OO be granted from the fund
for the use of the association.
Pennish said the city had nothing to
do with the fair. and that it had enough
to do to help itself. If such state OF
things went on, every fund would soon
be exhausted and he would on no con-
sideration vote for the expenditure.
1t was found upon investigation that
the money remaining in the fund
amounted to only $407 73, and Devine
changed his motion to "sweep it clean.
The motion was put in the form of a
resolution and adopted, PenniSh not
voting.
Bids for constructing an S-street sew
er were opened. The bids were computed
upon the amount of earth to be removed
and upon specified pipes to be furnished.
masonry, brick, etc, and were made by
the City Street Improvement Company,
Williams, Belcher & Co, Rosa & Silva,
and KreuZberger & Harvey.
Bids for the Improvement of Twelfth
street from o to r streets We're read
from William F. Bryan, Henry Deane,
p Labs, James Touhey, and City Street
Improvement Company. The bids We're
referred to the City Engineer In order
to allow him to figure out the amount
for each.
MAYORS MESSAGES.
The following communications were
received from the Mayor and referred to
the proper committees or placed on file:
To the Honorable Board of Trustees:
In constructing the pumping plant at
Front and S streets, it will be neces-
sary to provide for the placing of a
water pipe from the main on Front
street to the plant for the purpose of
four-inch pipe will be large enough to
supply this demand: and, as the city
is placing no new pipe less than six
inches in diameter, L recommend that
the city purchase 400 feet of six-inch
pipe, and that the City Taper be di-
rected to take up an equal number Of
feet of four-inch pipe and replace it
with siX-inch pipe, and to make the
lrct
Subserve the interests of the property
owners. Respectfully submitted,
c. H. HUBBARD, Mayor.
To the Honorable Board of Trustees;
For the purpose of securing ground on
which to place the pumping plant for
the new sewer, it will be necessary for
your board to pass resolution author
izing the Mayor, or the Mayor and
President of your board, to purchase the
extension CT street, eighty feet in
width from the west line Of Front
street westerly about 800 feet to the
Sacramento River The price agreed
upon with the parties claiming to own
this property is s., 800. Respectfully
submitted. c. II. HUBBARD, Mayor.
To the Honorable Board of Trustees:
I herewith return to you, with my ap-
pfDNal 1nOCrSeQ thereon, ordinance y o.
-, entitled '.An ordinance establish
ing special and separate funds repre-
senting the several funded obligations
of the city and the several departments
requiring municipal expenditures fol
the fiscal year of 1897. approved Sep
tember Z, 1896" Respectfully submit
ted @. H. HUBBARD, Mayor.
To the Honorable Board of Trustees
i herewith return to you, with my ap-
proval indorsed thereon, Ordinance No
- entitled IAN ordinance fixing the
rates of taxes to he levied, and levyins
the same for the fiscal year 1897, ap.
proved September z, 1885, Respectful
ly submitted,
C. H. HUBBARD, Mayor.
AUTHORIZED TO BUY.
A resolution by Devine was adopted
authorizing the Mayor President of th
Board OF Trustees and Chairman of th'
Street Committee to purchase certain
portion Of land from w. r. Knights &
Co, to be used for the filling in Of eartl
for sewage purposes, the sum to b.
paid amounting to 81, 800.
The usual number Of bills were read
but before being acted upon resolutions
were offered by Devine and adopted
transferring 800 form the general funS