Charlevoix county herald., 1915-05-22
SATURDAY. MAY %. 1915.
Commission Proceedings.

Regular meeting Vi the lily CoHiiiiis-
sion held at the commission rooms
Monday evening May II, 1915.
Meeting was called to order by Mayor
Cross. Present Cross, Graft and
Gidley. Absent-none.
Minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved.
On motion by Gidley, the following
bills were allowed:
E. w. Giles, cleaning streets. -. $24. 90
Hersey Mfg. Co., water meters. 1896
j. H. Graft, salary $50. ....... $500
H. c. Blount, Justice fees :. :. 6.45
E. Hammond, selling cemetery
lots and labor =. 80. 80. 600
HI. Winters, sewer specifications 9.25
A. j. Hammond, patching pave
ment .......... 4.0U
Enterprise Pub. Co., printing -. 40
Richard Barnett, team work 80. 400
East Jordan Hose Co., Harrington
and Taylor's Inn fires 80. :. $500
Eugene Adams, salary as fire
chief (6 mos.) .......,........ $500
Josiah st. John, street labor $50. 500
Moved by Graft, supported by Gidley
that the street commissioner be in
structed to serve the proper notice on
the property owners in Block B, Isa-
mans second addition, to open the
alley in said block. Carried.
The City Commission having under
consideration the matter of establishing
and constructing OF sewer on Mill-st
and Block 20 of Nichols Second Addi-
ton, Commissioner Graft offered the
following resolution and moved its
adoption. Seconded by Commissioner
Gidley.
Whereas petition for the establish
ing and constructing OF sewer from
the eastern termination of the present
sewer on Mill street, thence east to the
alley in Block 20 of Nichols Second
Addition to the Village of South Lake,
now City of East Jordan, distance of
500 feet, thence north in said alley a
distance of 1861 feet, which petition
is duly signed by the owners of ma
jority of the land liable to be assessed
for the proposed Improvement; and
Whereas Henry Winters, as City
Engineer, has duly filed with the City
Clerk the plans, plats, diagrams and
specifications for such proposed i'm
provement, together with an estimate
of the cost thereof, therefore
Resolved, that this commission deems
the establishing and construction of
said sewer, together with the necessary
and proper ventilations, cutters, man.
holes, catch-basins, cess-pools, flush
tanks, and all necessary attachments,
to be a necessary public improvement;
Further
Resolved that notice be given that
this commission intends to make the
said public Improvement, according to
said plans, plats, diagrams and speci-
fications as now on file with the city
clerk, and intends to establish a special
assessment district therefore as shown
by said plans, plats, diagrams and
specifications, and that said special
assessment district be assessed and pay
sixty-six and two-thirds per cent of the
cost of such Improvement, together
with its just proportion of the cost of
the intersections of streets and alleys
and the benefits to be derived to public
parks and public places. Further
Resolved, that this commission meet
on the seventh day of June, A. d. 1915,
at its regular place of meeting in the
Post Office building in said city, at
eight o'clock p. M, for the purpose of
hearing objections to said proposed
public Improvement, the several
amounts to be paid and the establish
ment of said special assessment dis
trict. Said notice shall be given by
publication in the CharlevoiX County
Herald, a newspaper published and
circulating in said city, for two weeks
prior to said time of meeting.
Adopted. by the city commission of
the City of East Jordan on the seven
teenth day of May, A. D. 1915, by an
aye and nay vote as follows:
Ayes-Cross, Graft, Gidley.
Nays-None.