The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-08-19
LOCAL LEGISLATION
An Extra Busy Meeting of the City
Council Tuesday Evening

! The city council met last HISAo
with the following members in at
tendance: Chairman c. W. Hunter
and Councilmen Roess, Bennett
knight. Fauset5 and Smith.
Minutes of last session were read
and approved.
Judge Warner was present and
addressed the council on the open
ing Of and extensions Of streets
through his subdivision. which is
now within the city limits. The
judges plans do not contemplate the
Extension Of the present streets, but |
he wishes to lay out streets without
regard to the city's streets, conform !
ling to the topography of his own
tract After some discussion the
chair requested the street commit !
tee to meet Judge Warner on the
ground and go over the situation
; with him and report to the council.
Judge D. S. Williams was present
and addressed the council on the
matter of supplying the fair asso-
! citation with free water to water
. one-haIf acre experimental garden
|. which it is proposed to plant there
: and which is to be irrigated by a
: system of irrigation now much in
use, said system to be allowed to
!: remain permanently on the fair
: ground. The light and water COM
!. mittee had recommended that the
!. association be allowed half rate,
I Emeter to be installed. Judge Will
!. Jams said the association could not
!: afford the experiment if it had to
: pay even a half rate. The council
!: told him the city was almost up to
I. capacity on it's water consumption
8 now, and feared to take on an open
|; and indefinite proposition Of this
I. magnitude without any pay. las
: much as it would like to help the
fair, the council felt that it must
decline to do better than offer the
water at half rate.
~ Bonds for New Electric Plant
Mr.. Hunter introduced an ordi-
\ nance providing for submitting to
I the voters a bond issue to provide
1 for the issuance of SIS, 900 of bonds
for the erection of new electric
/ light plant. extension of mains, ETC.,
to be operated in conjunction with
the water works plant. The ordi-
nance was read and referred to the
judiciary committee. 4
Mr.. Bullock for Assistant Recorder
Mr.. Hunter asked Mr.. Roess TO
take the chair and nominated Mr.. R
B. Bullock for the office of assistant
city recorder. Mr.. knight nominal
ed Judge Gober. A ballot was taken
Judge Gober two votes. Mr.. Bullock
was declared elected.
The ordinance providing for the
sale and transfer of city paving GER
htificates now outstanding and to be
issued in future was read for the
second and third times and adopted
on roll call.
The East Florida Telephone Com
pany's ordinance was reported or
unfavorably by the judiciary com
mittee.
Coast Line Situation i'm Statu Quo
An "A. C. L. railway ordinance
was reported ON unfavorably by th'
judiciary committee, was read by it
title and voted down. This ordinance
was one introduced by request"
An ordinance providing for stand
ard weights and measures was reaC
for the second time and laid on tn
reading at next meeting.
The ordinance disseminating tn
portion of North Third street be
- tween blocks 10 and so was reat
the second time by sections and lai
E on the table for its third and fina
read. at next meeting.
Quite a discussion ensued on side
walk and curb grades. Mr.. Drake
city engineer, submitted a sketch c
the proposed location of tracks an
depot of the A. c. L. railway, in tn
council is working on, with a view {
submitting it to the company.
A contract was ordered execute
with a coal firm for coal for the W;
ter works for a year at 90 cents De
ton, f. o. ID. the mines. ~
Add to Electric Machinery
Mr. Roess, chairman of the ligl
and water committee, read a portic
. of the very lengthy report the cor
mittee had prepared. The repo
advised the immediate purchase
a new or secondhand engine al
generator to supplement the prese
machinery for the next YEAR. or UNI