Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-06
Ordinance NO. 1906

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Street Maintenance ana Inspection and
the Bureau OF Assessments, In the De-
partment of Public w orks of the city of
Los Angeles, providing for the number
! of persons to be employed therein ana for
their appointment, ana fixing their several
compensations
The Mayor and Council of the City of
Los Angeles do ordain as follows
Section !. That there Is hereby created
a bureau In the Department of Public
Works of the City OF Los Angeles, to be
designated as the Bureau of street Main
tenanCe and Inspection, and that there
shall be employed in said bureau, begin
ming with the -Oth day OF June, 1906, the
following persons. one chief field deputy
inspector of public works Qormerly uesig
mated chief outside deputy In the street
department, at salary of Sl5O per
month; one secretary to the inspector of
pubic works formerly designated sec
retary of the street department., }, at a
salary of $40 per month; four inspectors
at a salary of 800 per month each, and
each OF whom shall furnish horse and
buggy at his own expense; one book
keeper at a salary of Slzo per month; two
desk clerks at a salary OF $40 per month
each; one corral foreman and storekeeper
at a salary of $50 per month; two street
sweeping inspectors at a salary of $95 per
month each; 1our inspectors of street
sprinkling at a salary of SyO per month
each, eacn of whom shall furnish horse
and buggy at his own expense; nine gang
foremen at a salary OF $50 per month
each; one inspector of street sweeping
machines at salary of $50 per month; :;
two engineers of street sweeping machines
at a salary of $l10 per month each; one
steam rolling engineer at a salary of $500
per day; one repairer of street signs. with
horse and wagon, at a salary of 50 per
day; two drivers of street cleaning ma
chimes, each with three horses, al salary
of $500 per day each; fifty hand sweepers
at a salary of s. per day each; four
drivers with teams for street sweeping at
salary of 81 per day each; one hundred
five drivers of two-horse sprinkling
wagons at salary of 81 per day each;
ten drivers of four-horse sprnklins
wagons a a salary of 81 % per day each; ;
one chief sewer flusher al a salary of $50
per month; nine sewer flushers al a salary
of So per day each; three gutter layers at
a salary of 50 per day each; one boss
two carpenters at a salary of 50 per day
s>ch; one asphalt foreman at a salary of
$50 per month; seven asphalt workers at
salary of SO per day each; three culvert
flushers and alley cleaners at salary of
$3.50 per day each; one man with horse
and cart at a salary of So per day; fifty
five drivers with teams at salary of 81
per day each; three cart drivers at
salary of $2.25 per day each; one superin-
tendent of garbage collection at a salary
of $ll5 per month; thirty drivers of two
horse teams at salary of s. per day
each; one first class stationary engineer
at garbage incinerator at a salary of $12o
per month; eight stokers at a salary of
$3.50 per day each; four laborers at the
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per day each and one hundred and thirty
aborers at a salary of 81 per day each.
Sec. >. That there is hereby created a
bureau in the Department of Public
Works to be designated as the Bureau of
Assessments, and that there shall be em-
ployed in said Bureau of Assessments, be-
ginning with the goth day of June, 1906
the following persons: One assessment
clerk of street improvements at a salary
of $3.50 per month formerly designated 'aS-
sessment clerkl; one assessment clerk for
opening and widening streets at a salary
of $3.50 per month; one assistant assess
ment clerk for the opening and widening
of streets at salary of 800 per month; ;
one record and assistant assessment clerk
for street Improvements at salary of $50
per month one stenographer and assist
ant assessment clerk for street improve
ments at salary of sS5 per month
Sec; That all of the employees herein
mentioned shall be appointed by the
Board of Public Works of the City of Los
Angeles.
Sec. 4, 1nat all Ordinances and parts of
Ordinances in conflict herewith are here
by repealed; provided. however, that such
repeal shall not operate to terminate or
| interrupt any existing office, or discon-
tinue in office any of the persons hereto
fore provided for and now employed
thereins in the office of the Inspector of
Public Works, under Ordinances of said
city providing for the employment of per
sons in the Street Department of said
city; that as to all such offices and per-
sons, the intention of this Ordinance is
to continue such offices in existence and
| the incumbents thereof in office and to
! transfer all such offices and persons under
! the provisions hereof from the Street De-
| partment of said city, as the same for
merly existed, to the Bureau of Street
Maintenance and Inspection, and to the
| Bureau of Assessments, hereby created
in the Department of Public Works of
said city.
Sec. 8. This Ordinance is urgently
required for the immediate preserVa ton
of the public peace. health and safety;
and the City Clerk shall certify to its
passage by a two-thrds vote of the
| Council. and cause IL to be published
once in the Los Angeles Herald, and
thereupon and thereafter II shall take
effect and be in force,
/ hereby certify that the whole num-
Der of members of the City Council of
the City of Los Angeles Is nine, and
that the foregoing Ordinance was
passed by a two-thirds vote of said
Council, at its meeting of June IS, 1906
by the following vote, to wit:
| Ayes-Messrs Blanchard. Ford, Ham
mon, Hitler, Houghton, Kern, Smith and
| Summerland Q).
! Noes-None.
.. H. ]. LELANDE,
City Clerk.
Approved this Sd day of July, 1906
OWEN McALEER.
I'D II Mayor.