The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-05-17
Public Buildings.

one Honorable the Common Council:
y SoOtIemen:--Your Committee on
k1lc Buildings beg leave TO report
pour Honorable BODY that we ha n5
vtoomont q resolution introduced
~ the Common Council and 1Ppt-
July Is. 1919. q. L. G. y. lvloV re-
ofve 20 the construction OF auuI-
1nol stories TO the City Hall. or the
je1ion OF Z modern structure. your
oGDmittee are deeply sensible OF the
Sote condition that obtains pecause
lack OF room to properly pefIoIn.
= duties deyolving upon the olneia,
- clerical forces and the eniorceu
S1sainr of commissions and depart
Gnts In expensive buildings far re-
wed from our antiQuated unsnl-
oeas Judgment of your Committee
>Ae immediate steps be instltutsS
nking TO the erection or new ana
ommOdious City Hall on the present
~ Our city has prospered marvel
CIV In wealth and population. our
SSrDoratc boundary lines nave pesn
kaSnded and the additional terri,oIy
1nexed from time To time mas tre-
3ndousIy added TO the volume OF
- Increasing public duties. These
SSfa are evidenced In the contem-
sea addition Of three stories 70 the
oNstty Buildings, and the posi.lwygi
81tnees the erection OF new post
~ ali Of which conVinces your
Sumittee OF the necessity or ln-
E6diate action. In connection WIN
- recent action OF the Board OF
anervisors OF Wayne County. dele
|3klng certain powers To It's Buildlng
X0nU1ittee together with the Board
Xuditors, 10 consider the advisable
r. 81 materially increasing the size |
"a the County Building, your Com
No.. several or whom are members
the County Building Committee,
o unanimously Of the opinion. that
Iiou Of expanding million or DOL
- on the County Building as pro-
E1o1 that concerted action be taken
1T erect : new joint structure for the
SoomWodati OF all the ofncials, de-
ESS4meuts and commissions OF the
~ and county. with the exception
v the County Clerk and the various
NTH This arrangement would pro-
)3lo ample room I'm the County Build
- for several decades and would
|&DDoltdate all other city and county
X0o0O OF every nature under one
I30f. thereby rendering the highest
11n1oncy In service to the people,
~ reducing to 4 minimum the IN
0GnGnt annoyance the public Us now
Sk1ected TO In the transaction OF
1Ineos- The City OF Detroits pro-
&9tlon Of county taxation aggre-
80 % per cent Of the t ;mar lsvyd
any proposition that Involves its
[noH0nn' welfare. Therefore In view
u The foregoing your Committee Of
k The following resolution.
" AoDp0ctfully submitted.
JACOB GUTHARD,
EDWARD BARNETT.
81 JOHN G.. BLElL,
We CHAS. A. KOCHER.
n. o. STARKEY.
Accepted. and on leave. the follow
resolution was offered:
Ala. Guthard and Bell:
EDoo0lved. That the Corporation
yl{1nsel be. and he Is hereby instruct
"a confer with the Prosecuting At
rUoy. and said officials in contunc-
n with the Building Committees
The city and county and the County
|n1itoya, to Institute the proper legal
oceodings o submit q proposition TO
~ electors to bond Wayne County
y N amount sufficient TO conformity
<ock & building on the City Hall site
Ut Will bo q modern structure from
lily standpoint and OF sufficient
00Dortjons to adequately serve the
|nonlo for . generation hence.
Adopted ~ follows:
n xoaS-Ald. Allan. Afhe, Barnett,
ELL Burton. Cranshaw. Dill, Ellis.
16Id. Freiwald. Gilman. Guthard.
Y1udie. Jakel. Koci er. krimmel, !
trunk. Kunz, Iempke, Littlefield. I
Ire. Ncwc, Richert, Robinson, !
|6IIo. Schemansky. Schultz, Starkey. /
1efano wski, Thompson. Vernon. |
fartsii. Wenxel. A. r. Wilson. Wing. !
MI. zoei.er and the President Pro |
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