The age-herald., 1901-02-03
MAYOR DRENNEN'S PLAN WAS ADOPTED Charter Amendment Relating to Improvement Bonds SEVERAL MINOR CHANGES The Legislative Committee ol the City Council at Last Disposes of the
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The Legislative Committee of the Board of Aldermen which has been earnestly considering for several months past the question of the street improvement bond clause in the proposed amendment to the city charter agreed last night upon plan the plan evolved by Mayor Drennen.
 The committee met in the Mayors of- flee and the following members were pres ent: The Mayor, Aldermen Altman, Camp, Thach and Graham. sigfeld Steiner, the banker, was also present during part of the meeting a locker on
 The committee has held many meetings a dozen or more-without having been able to agree upon plan, and with the members assembled last evening each seemed deter mined that decision should be reached without further delay.
 Carefully prepared plans, submitted by the Steiner Bros, were read and after running discussion several points or these plans and free interviews between MT. Steiner and members of the committee Alderman Graham asked the Mayor to state the outlines of his plan, which had been read at previous sittings and which was published in full in the Age-Herald of last Thursday The main portions Of the plan were read and each member expressed himsefas ready to approve the scheme with two or three amendments. Some Amendments.
 Alderman Altman offered the following amendments: That instead of lat the rate z per cent" the plan read at a rate not to exceed 8 per cent; that within one year after maturity of the entire issue of bonds any person who shall have paid more than actual cost and interest shall have the amount refunded and on failure to claim the same within twelve months, he shall be forever disbarred, and the amount of his claim shall be converted into the street improvement fund; that in the event of the failure of any person assessed to pay his annual assessment then all the assess ments shall be declared due and shall be collected. These amendments were unani- mously agreed to.
 Then followed brief discussion, par ticipated in by all the members, and on motion of Alderman Camp the plan as amended was unanimously adopted and it tdl be submitted to the Board of Alder men next Wednesday night.
 A special committee composed of the city attorney, the Mayor and Aldermen Altman Thach and Kerr. will rewrite the sections of the bill relating to improve ment bonds in accordance with the plan approved.
 Greatly Relieved.
 When the judiciary committee adjourned the Mayor and his associates expressed themselves as much relieved that the street improvement question had been solved at last, for no one of them seemed to think that there would be any serious opposition in the board
 Mayor Drennen said to reporter that im- mediately upon the ratification of the plan by the board the necessary bill would be introduced in the Legislature and that be- fore spring the city would be well under way with street improvement work on an extensive scale. The new bonds, he said. would be popular from the start and would be largely bought here at home. He said that during the present year not less than $400,O00 would be spent on projected 1m- provements which would, of course, en- nance the value of city property in general.