Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
ORDINANCES ARE
NOW RELEASED
CITY HALL OFFICIALS ARE
GLAD OF IT
End Of Legal Holidays Period Piles
New Measures on Mayors Desk
and Makes Many Con-
tractors Happy

taken from the wheels of activity at
the city hall and tomorrow the merry
buzz Of municipal affairs will begin
anew and with more than redoubled
vigor, for there are hundreds of or
dinances that have been held up by the
continuous legal holidays declared by
the governor.
Since April 1s the municipal routine
has been badly disarranged for on that
date Governor Pardee began to pro-
claim legal holidays In the interests of
the san francisco banks and no work
that must be passed on by the courts or
that In the course of events is liable
to be put to a legal test can be trans
acted on legal holidays.
With their limited forces the city
engineer city attorney and city clerk
are scarcely able to keep abreast of the
tremendous amount of work necessl-
tated by the rapid growth of Los An
geles in piping times of peace. and
when delayed by month and a half of
legal holidays one not intimately asso-
clated with the city officials has any
idea of how hard and fast they must
work to make up for the lost time.
Piles of Ordinances
The city engineer. has seventy or
dinances either ready to present to the
city council for adoption or in some
state Of preparation. He has about as
many more demands for ordinances
that he must prepare and present to the
council.
The board of works has ninety-four
ordinances ready for action by the citv
council and is awaiting an opportunity
to open bids and let contracts.
The city clerk has more than sixty
ordinances ready for action by the
council for street work to be done by
private contract
Altogether more than 200 ordinances
are awaiting the action of the city
council and every ordinance is for q
street Improvement. After the council
passes on the documents they must 20
the regular course Of red tape before
they can become laws.
Mayor Has Ten Days
The mayor has ten days in which to
sign these ordinances, and while II is
improbable that he will take his full
allowance of time still It is certain to
be several days before they can become
laws and contractors get to work.
street contractors are happy at the
cessation of the legal holidays. For
the last month and a half most of them
have been compelled to pay their en-
ployes full time for doing nothing at
all, while others have kept their labor
ers partially busy in finishing I'D old
contracts begun long ago and for which
many extensions of time have been
granted by the council.
10 several of the contractors these
legal holidays have been Godsend.
Greedily assuming more contracts for
street improvements than they could
handle, they have been compelled TO
appear before the council and ask for
many extensions of the time limit for
| finishing the work. Several of them
had been warned that no further time
extensions would be granted and that
II the work was not completed at the
expiration of the time their bonds
would be forfeited.
Holidays Extended Time
AS legal holidays extended the time
on contracts many Of them have been
able to finish this old work and save
their bonds.
One of the most important of the de-
layed ordinances that the council will
be asked to pass on Monday is the bond
issue of $2S7, 500 for main and lateral
sewers. This issue was favorably voted
on by the people at the recent bond
election, but the passage of the or
dinance providing for the issuance and
sale Of the bonds has been held up by
the legal holidays.
Among the ordinances in the hands of
the city engineer the most important
are two paving contracts. One of these
is for Pico street from Arapahoe to the
western limits of the city and the other
for San Pedro street from Fifth to JEFF
ferson.
Board of Works
Following are the street ordinances
in the hands of the board of public
council:
Streets advertised June 4, 1906. In
Viting bids to be received June II, 1906:
Avenue 56, from Pasadena avenue
6SO19 feet southeasterly, sewering; Tenn
pie street, from Henderson street to
Alvarado street, and along other streets,
sewering; Pico streets, and other
streets, sewering; Spence street, Steph-
enson avenue to Percy street, improve;
Sixth street, Lorena street to the
Schmtt tract, improve; alley north of
Adams street, from San Pedro street to
Stanford, sewering; Yale street, from
Bernardo street $50 feet northerly,
sewering; Magnolia avenue, from 700
feet north of Tenth street to San
Marlno street, improve; Percy street,
from Lorena street to the Schmitt
tract, improve; Esperanza street,
from Stephenson avenue to Sixth street,
improve; Sabina street, from Lorena
street to the Schmitt tract, improve;
Ninth street, from 1900 feet west of
Hoover street to Vermont avenue, i'm
prove; Avenue 2S, and other streets,
sewering: Bernardo and other streets, |
sewering; First street, from Evergreen
avenue to Velasco street, improve; |
Rose street, First street to Second
street, curb and sidewalk; Pecan street, |
from First street to the Salt Lake
Station tract, improve; Sixth street,
from Soto to Mott street, improve;
Rosemont avenue, from First street
to Keys street, improve; Soto street, |
from Fairmount street to Wabash ave- |
nue, improve; Boyle avenue, from
Hollenbeck arroyo to Seventh street, |
sewering; Gates street, from Main
street to Barbee street, sewering; San
Benlto street, from Brooklyn avenue
to Bailey street, sewering.
Contracts Awarded
Streets for which contracts have
been awarded, but not published
Central avenue, and other streets,
sewering; Arapahoe street. from
Sixteenth street to the Reeve tract, |