The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-29
] STREET ASSESSMENTS,
Property Owners There Ask for a Re.
duCtiOn.
They Claim Business is Leaving
s. Them and Going Over to
K Street.


Leonard, Wachhorst, Kent, Mckay, To-
ger, Devine and Pennish being present
j. L. Maude addressed the board, say
ing that the State Board of Capitol
Commissioners have $500 for sewer
construction and wanted to know the
wishes of the board in relation to the
construction and connection of sewers
through the Capitol Park, which would
be part of the city's sewer system, al
though the park is under the control
of the Commissioners.
Devine moved that the Superinten-
dent of Streets and the City Engineer
be instructed to cooperate with the
Capitol Commissioners in the construc-
ton of the sewer. Carried.
Deputy Surveyor Phinney said it was
proposed tc make the Thirteenth street
sewer through the Capitol grounds
lower than the present sewer outside
the grounds and would be of no use
until the sewer is reconstructed from n
street to r on Thirteenth street, which
the Surveyor is preparing plans for.
In answer to question Auditor
Young stated that after some present
expenditures are paid, there will remain
in the sewer fund between 5000 and
500 out of the $50, 900 raised by bonds.
Auditor Young stated that street
property owners We're asking for re-
| auctions in the assessments on that
street, on the ground that business is
going over on K street and their prop
erty would not rent as it formerly did,
many stores being empty. He had
last year assessed j street as follows:
From Second to Fourth, $40 per
front foot, or $500 per 20-foot lot:
from Fourth to Sixth, $50 a foot or
$1,000 lot; from Sixth to Ninth, Sl6o
a foot, or $1,000 a lot; from Ninth to
Tenth. $50 a foot, or $4,000 lot
X street was assessed last year at the
same rates, except that from Eighth to
Tenth streets was assessed at 500 a
front foot.
He did not want to make reductions
or raises on the two streets if the
board, sitting as a Board of Equaliza-
ton. would place it back at the old
figures, making his books full of era
| sures and changes and making the
| City Clerks office much extra work.
He thought it might be we'll to reduce
the street assessment from Second to
Fourth from $40 to 1925 and from
Fourth to Sixth to $40 foot and raise
X street from Sixth to Eighth from
S165 to $40 and from Eighth to Tenth
from $50 to $3.50.
Mckay said if the street owners
wish to keep their property rented at
good figures, they should get a move
on and improve and put up new build
ing as was being done on K street.
Devine opposed the change. He be-
! no "a I
men should get a move on and improve
if they wanted to keep trade on their
street. For many years the trade and
all the stores had been on j street, but
the assessment on K street was equally
high and the owners paid their taxes
and made no kick. Now that some
public spirited men have made I'M
provements on K street and secured
some good tenants, the j street STU
rians were making kick. He ola not
think it would be just TO raise the as
! sessments of the few pubic spirited
men who had borrowed money ana
spent it in improving the city's appear
ance That was poor way 10 encour-
age progress. He denied that rents
were higher on K street than j ana
said that the blocks from Seventh TO
Tenth on the latter street were bringing
more rent for their old buildings than
the same blocks on K were. He thought
it was bad judgment for the street
men to ask a reduction.
/ The matter was taken under consld-
era tion by the board.
Devine said that the new sidewalk
of B. F. Pike, on H street, between
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
streets was laid with one end higher
than the other through an error of the
contractor. He moved that the grade
be allowed to stand and that Con-
tractor McGillivray be cited before the
board to explain why he made one end
higher than the other. Carried.
Mckay said Devine had paid SIG for
food for the men who came here from
Stockton in order to get them to leave
the city, and he thought that the board
should allow the bill and not leave
him to stand the brunt of it, He moved
that the bill be allowed.
| Devine explained that the Chief of
Police told him the men had sent an
estimate of the provisions they needed
and promised to leave town if they
were furnished TO them and that he
had intended to telephone to the board
in relation to it, but heard they had adj
| journed.
Davis, who had just come in, said he
could not vote away the peoples money
! in that manner as it would only bring
more such crowds here. Charity he
thought, began at home.
/ The bill was allowed, Davis not vot-
! ing and Tozer having gone home.
! Superintendent of Streets reported ia
vorably on the applications to connect
directly with sewers of +. j. Figg, be-
! tween ] and K. Second and Third:
Anita Para, Third street, between L
and NJ Mrs. Kelly, Fifth and Sixth l.
and NJ; Caroline Meyer, Fourth, L and
NJ, Mrs. Gray, Eighth and @; w. H.
Devlin. o. Thirteenth and Fourteenth.
The board granted the applications, as
| we'll as that of Mr.. Roth, I and j,
Sixth and Seventh.
| He also reported unfavorably on that
of l.. w. Nickel, 721 M street, and the
| board refused it, as also the request of
Mr.. Dodge to connect with the Seven
! teenth-street sewer.
| He also recommended that the fence
on the Y-street levee be continued To
Twenty sixth street and the board or
dered it done.
| E. Mariana was granted a license to
keep saloon at 106 X street.
Specifications and plans for the con-
struction of a cement sidewalk in front
of the Corporation House on Fifth
street and stairs in the building were
presented and action on them deferred
till Monday night
The board then adjourned, after de-
claring il the sense of the board that