The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-06-22
GIVE MAYOR VETO POWER,
ABOLISH WARD SYSTEM.
SOME OTHER CHANGES


regular meeting of sad mayor and
council after the day of annuh nr-
ganization, or as soon thereafter as
practicable, and the person or persons
so elected to sad Office or Offices.
shall serve during the year of his cleo
tion and until his successor has beru
in like manner elected and qualified
II any vacancy shall occur in either
of said offices at any time during the
year, said vacancy shall be filed BY
the election of a successor by said
mayor and council as soon thereafter
as practicable
Section ,. Be it, and it is hereby
further enacted that any and all laws
and parts of laws in conflict with, or
initiating against this act. or any part
thereof, be, and the same are hereby
repealed
These amendments were discussed
and finally, by unanimous consent,
their passage was declared to be the
sense of the meeting.
Col C. P. Goodyear introduced The
following in the shape of suggestions
which were likewise adopted by the
meeting:
CD That the board of health of
the city of Brunswick be appointed
by the board of health of the state of
Georgia, Of which the mayor shall be
ex-oflicio and governed by rules of
The state board of health that the
mayor and council shall in the bud
get set apart a sum for its support to
be expended by the board of health
in its discretion free from all control
of the mayor and council of the city
of Brunswick
Cd The mayor of said city shall
appoint as nearly as practicable an
nualy, at the first regular meeting
of said mayor and council in each
year, from the members of said coun
Gil committees consisting of three
members each. as follows:
Finance and Auditing,
Taxes and Revenues,
Railroads and Harbor,
Public Works, Buildings, Ccmeter- /
les, Parks and Squares,
Police,
Fire and Binding Permits.
Sanitation, Light and Water
Purchasing,
Hospital and Charity,
Ordinances.
Said committees when thus ap-
pointed shall serve for the calendar
year Of their appointment and shall
have such duties and powers as may
be conferred upon them by said
mayor and council from time to time.
respectively and if from any cause
a vacancy shall occur during the year,
In either Of said committees, the
same shall be filled by appointment
by the mayor from the members OF (
said council All committees shall be
appointed by the mayor, and he shall
be eX-officio member of each com
mittee
Ed The veto power shall be given
to the mayor of the city and no ordl-
nance or resolution Of the mayor and
council shall have force and effect I'M
less approved by the mayor or unless
after passage ne fails to exercise the
veto power for ten days or unless it |
is passed by a two-thirds vote over
his veto. He shall state his reasons ,
for exercise of the veto power in
each instance in a message t. coun- I
Gil.
The next resolution to be suggested
to the meeting, which was also unan-
fpaoucIv adopfod xuoc cant to tho dash !
by G. H. Leayy and read as follows: !
Be it and it is hereby resolved that
it is the sense of this meeting that
Brunswick do away with the ward (
system of electing its aldermen and
that we return to the old plan in |
vogue previous to the year 1909"
Austin Holcomb submitted the fol- /
lowing, which was agreed to and was
passed without dissenting vote:
Resolved that the charter of the
city be amended so that in future all I
proper amendments shall be published I
for thirty days previous to the meet !
ing of the legislature.
Shot addresses were made by
Chairman Wood, who was especially |.
impressed with the movement to give |
the board of health independent an
thority and to enlarge it's powers; Col !
F. E. Twitty, who suggested that the
meeting go on record as favoring the {
creation of a park and tree commits
sion (Which was Immediately done); ,
DIR. J. A. Butts, who devoted some
time to the board of health matters,
and Col. G. P Goodyear, who depre-
Gated the fact that under present con
dition the mayor of the city had been
deprived OF the functions of his Of
fee.
Col F. E. Twitty here moved that
the chair name a committee of six
to include the chair as chairman, to
draft the amendments and submit
them for passage to the representa-
tives of Glynn county in the legisla-
ture.
The committee as appointed is as