The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-09-09
The SUFFER- ISLAND LEVEE.
TRUSTEES WANT PAY FOR
MAKING A ROAD.
supervisors Will Help the City to
Clean Out the Y-Street
Canal.

When the Board of Supervisors con-
vened yesterday Grove l.. johnson adj
dressed it on the subject Of the Suffer
Island levee contract. The claim had
been deferred until now, he said, be-
cause there was no money in the fund
TO pay it. The board had been down
and examined the work done on the
road and was satisfied with it, and he
thought the claim should be paid. The
parties have done all that the board
asked them to do, and the members
have expressed themselves satisfied,
except Supervisor Mclaughlin, who
said that he would not vote for the
payment.
Chairman Morrison asked the mem
bers if a committee had visited the
work, and Supervisor Curtis said they
mad, and that he thought the work was
done properly, but no report had yet
peen made to the board.
supervisor Jenkins said that Super
visor Mclaughlin had stated in the
presence Of Mr.. Johnson that he was
not on the board when the work was
started, and would therefore not vote
Tor the claim. The work was done DUR
ing the last fiscal year and cannot be
paid for out of this years funds He
believed the people of the island should
be paid, but it could not be paid for
by his vote, the District Attorney hav-
ing pronounced against it.
Supervisor Curtis said he thought the
proposition should come up in a new
shape now. The board should go
down and look at the road and buy it,
If properly finished, from the people
that have made it,
supervisor Jenkins agreed with him.
Chairman Morrison said the board
had entered into an agreement with the
people of the island that they should do
the work and it would pay for it. The
road is completed now, and the board
should accept it and pay for the work.
as the contract is a continuing one, and
he did not think the end of the fiscal
year cuts any figure in the matter of
the appropriation.
Supervisor Jenkins said that the Dis
trict Attorneys opinion was adverse
to the payment land he would not vote.
to pay for it,
Mr.. johnson said that he had been
asked TO postpone asking for the claim
till September, and he had done So
Now he asked that some action should
be taken, one way or the other. either
accepting or rejecting the claim, so
that the parties know where they
stand. He agreed with the Chairman
that the bills should be paid in the
Year in which the road is accepted.
He asked the committee to make it's
report to the Chairman as he re-
Quested.
Messrs. Jenkins and Curtis stated
that the road was fourteen feet wide.
and Messrs. brennan and Mclaughlin
said that the road seemed in good
shape.
Supervisor Morrison moved, upon the
report Of the individual members of the
committee. that the road be accepted.
Supervisor brennan said the board
had nothing to do with the dredger
company, and he would never vote to
pay its claim. Mr.. Johnson said the
claim is presented by the trustees of
the district
Supervisor Curtis said he thought
that the board should go down and in
spect the road and purchase it from the
trustees at the price agreed on for
the work
After considerable G:>--,lssion. in
which Supervisor Jenkins said that the
claims, he thought were illegal. be-
cause the work was not done in the
fiscal year in which the contract was
made. and he did not want to vote for
anything that would subject him to
criticism or an accusation by the Grand
Jury, it was agreed TO concur in Su-
pervisor Curtis plan. and that when
the board goes to investigate the
change of the Benson's ferry bridge it
go across the next day and inspect the
Suffer Island road, with view to pur-
chasing it.
ORANGEFALE BRIDGES
Supervisor Curtis said he had dis
covered that some of the nuts on the
steel bridge at Folsom were loose and
the rods bent He had sent for a man
to fix them and he was at work. The
three bridges at Orangevale and Fair
Oaks are in very bad shape. and he
suggested that the man go over with
the County Surveyor and examine
them and report to the board He so
moved.
Chairman Morrison said that he was
aware of the condition of the bridges,
and that the county would have a bill
of damages to pay some day if they
were not fixed
The motion OF supervisor Curtis was
carried unanimously.
TO WIDEN THE ROAD.
Mrs. Moore Of Freeport stated to the
board that she wished to widen the
levee at her place, so that fence could
be put up TO render the road safe, and
would like to have the board help in
the work, as the road runs on the
levee.
Chairman Morrison and Supervisor
Jenkins said the board had agreed TO
help those who wished to widen the
levee and road, paying half the
cost, within proper limits. The levee
ought TO be widened all along there
The County Surveyor was requested
TO go down and make a survey of the
road. so that the work could be com
menced.
A number Of claims were allowed,
Supervisor Mclaughlin refusing to