The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1906-10-05
HARD PROBLEM FOR
COMMITTEE TO
DECIDE
OniOnStreetPa Paving Ordinance
is PuzzIing Members of
Council
ORDINANCE NOT ENFORCED
Committees Don't Know Exactly What
Kind of a Report to Render to
Council at Their Meeting
Thursday Night.

Two committees of city council, the
one on finance and the other the
public works, are battling with a ques
tion Just now which is puzzling the
members and just how they will agree
upon report to be rendered to coun-
Gil at its meeting on next Thursday
night has not yet been decided
1t will be remembered that at the
last meeting of council a communica
ton was received from City Engineer
WyllY with reference to the paving OF
Union street, in which he stated that
only two or three of the property
owners had complied with the ordi-
nance passed some time ago, compel
ing everybody On the street to pave i'll
front Oh their respective places. The
city engineer reported that several Of
the owners had instructed him to
proceed with the work and then let
the city send in the LII for same.
while others had refused to give him
they lid not intend to comply with
the ordinance. Under these circum-
stances the officer wanted some infor
nation from council on the subject,
and therefore sent the communica-
tion.
The matter was discussed for about
half an hour and many remedies wer9
suggested. Mayor Hopkins thought
the best plan would be for the city ID
go ahead with the WORK and as it
finished each mans property to SEND
him bill for same. In this way ne
thought the city could do all the work,
and, collecting as the work was done,
only a small amount of money from
the cltys treasury would be used.
Some of the aldermen opposed this
scheme, and thought that some relia-
BILE contractor should be secured and
awarded contract for the paving OIL
The entire street on both sides, the
city to issue executions against the
owners when they refused to pay.
Others suggested plans of different
kinds, but no decision was reached
and the matter was referred to the
two committees above named. with IN
structions that report be rendere /
at the next meeting of council
1t now seems that these two com
mittees are unable to arrive at any
plan. and the matter is far from a
settlement. But little paving work is
going on at present along Union
street. and it seems that many of the
property owners are paying but little
attention to the ordinance. Some of
them claim that they can not secure
the material for the sidewalks. others
say il is impossible to get laborers
to do the work, while many say they
don intend to do the work and will
let the city proceed and then issue
executions against them.
1t has been argued in council by
those VINO wer', originally opposed -
the ordinance, that many of the Union
street prorertJ' owners are not finan-
cially able to pave in front of their
places Just at this time, and that the
ordinance is going to work hardship
on them. Ii they can't afford to have
the work done, and the city proceeds
as the ordinanc provides, to do the
work and then issue executions against
the owners, it is going to cause con
siderable trouble, as the people will
not be in any better position to take
up the executions than they are tC
have the paving done, and the next
procedure would be to sell their prop
erty to satisfy the executions.
Under these conditions the commit
tee does not know exactly what kind
of a report to render. in the mean
time the property owners are await
ing developments and very little paw
ing is being done.
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