The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-04-05

sion.
The appointment OF L. p. Stewart as
dog tax collector by the mayor was
confirmed by the council unanimous
ly
The mayor. In communication to
the council, recommended that the
contractors who laid the pavement
in the streets. be required TO patch
the holes now existing in the asphalt
and that II the contractor can not
be made 10 do SO. the city order II
done IN some other way. The recon-
mendatlon was adopted and the mat.
ter was referred to the street commit.
tee. With power TO act
A communication from the mayor
stated that IL had been the custom
heretofore 10 have the accounts OF
preceding administrations audited by
competent and disintcrested audi
tor. and TO this end he recommended
that some one be appointed 10 audit
the affairs of the Brewer administra-
ton. A motion to adopt tho mayors
recommendation was lost by tie
vote, the vote being as follows:
Ayes-Austin. Dana. Larson. Peery.
Wilson.
Nays-Browning, Barker. Flygare,
Humphris. Dickson.
Audit the Books.
Tho communication is as follows:
ITO the Honorable President and
Members of the City Council. gen
tlemcn EARLY in January ] asked
your honorable body TO authorize a
disinterested auditor 10 audit tho
books for the past two years. and so
far as | know. the matter has been
referred TO the committee with no
further action. The retiring mayor
requested that the books be audited
and I'm justice to him an audit should
be made.
Again. there is a floating debt left
for the present administration tn pay
which is variously estimated by diff
ferent people and the actual amount
should be determined | believe the
city's business should he audited each
year by 4 disinterested auditor. and
as the new Utah Auditing company
has offered 10 audit the past two years
business for $780, | recommend that
they be granted the contract to audit
the books OF Ogden City for the past
two years, Very respectfully submit
ted - WM GLASMANN. Mayor"
The contention OF those voting
against the proposition was that the
official auditor was competent TO audit
the books of the city and that II
would be a useless expenditure of
money to hire another person TO do
IT,
The sum of s1150 as remittance
OF an employment agency license was
ordered paid. the same having been
RENTED by the mayor
The contract for the concrctinC Of
the new city reservoir was awarded
the Wheelwright Construction COM
pany for $1S,25692; the work To be-
gin as soon as the waterworkS COM
mittee turns the matter over TO the
company. and to be finished in 60 days
from that time. The only other bid
der for the contract was the Moran
Construction company of Salt Lake,
their bid being S2l .137.
The committee of the whole report
cd that the matter of granting Il fran
chisc for the construction and operat-
ion OF telephone and electric light
system In Ogden to the Davis County
been considered and the committee
recommended that the franchise be
not granted The committee report
was adopted by vote of TO l. Pres
ident Browning voting in favor Of the
franchise. 10 the extent that he
thought IL should be referred 10 the
law committee for further consider
alton.
The waterworks committee desired
10 purchase 5000 feet of pipe for cX-
tensions in the water mains. and they
were given the authority TO do So.
The committee also recommended that
a drinking fountain be erected on
Washington avenue and Second street,
and the recommendation was adopt.
cd The fountain will he known as
Dana's fountain II was also deter
mined that the waterworks commit.
tee should accept the drinking foun-
tain donated TO the city by John S.
Lewis and erect the same at an early
date IL was stated that # is prac.
tically understood that the fountain
will be placed in Lester Park and will
cost $3.50.
In the matter OF the proposed curb.
between Twenty-ffth and Twenty
seventh streets. in which action had
already been taken by the council,
c. W. Hadley, claiming TO represent
two-thirds OF the property owners in
the district. appeared before the coun-
ell. protesting against the establish
ment OF the district at this time. He
asked the council 10 reconsider the
matter and give the property owners
an opportunity 10 file a written pro
test The matter was referred back
TO the COMMITTEES on streets and the
city engineer
Mr. Hadley stated that the proper
" owners OF the district were not
aware of the intentions OF the couu.
Gil. until after action had been taken
or a protest would have been filed at
the proper time. The main reason
Tor the objections raised by the peo-
pic on Quincy avenue was that they
had just paid for sidewalk paving
and felt the tax burden Of the curb
ing and Guttering coming at this time
would be more than they could carry
William Critchlow addressed the
council. stating that the Bench canal
which runs across Quincy avenue al
this point. IS in q stagnanJ condition
endangering the health Of the lnhabi
tants, and be considered the only feas
iblc way 10 overcome II would be
through the curbinC and Suttering OF
tho street -t-.
The beard of equalization for sew.
or district I01 reported that. there be-
| inc NO r,r,tcate ff1cd against Tho ce