Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-02-03
council IN
REGULAR
SESSION
VIII Complete 18th Avenue Ditch. APP
points Election Boards Fixes Sal
aries and Orders Paving Done On
Three Streets.
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
All the members of the city council
were present at the regular monthly
meeting held last evening.
A report was read by E. l. Philleo,
City Egineer on the dredging propo-
sition of the 18th avenue ditch. The
Rood Construction company had the
contract for this work on a loose dirt
contract When the work got as far
as the Mosher bluff, they encountered
solid rock and as their contract did
not call for the excavation of rock,
the hill was skipped. The Engineers
report said that he had drilled holes
every SO feet over the Mosher bluff
and did not find any rock. About 200
feet of the ditch has rock in the bot
tom and is not down to grade. The
Engineer estimated the cost of COM
pleting the ditch at 5000. He said we
have already spent $500, and have
not completed the job. The Board of
Public Works reported favorably on
the Rood Construction Company's pro-
position to put dredge on this job
and charge the city $40 day for the
dredge the city to pay the labor and
cost of gasoline and the Rood people
to keep the dredge in repair.
The reports of the Board were adop-
ted on the paving of 3rd street south
from Oak to beyond the hospital The
street will be paved with concrete
and the road way will be "a feet wide
| except between Oak and Vine streets
where it will remain as wide as it is
now.
Third Avenue south will be paved
from Grand Avenue to Johnson street
with brick and from Johnson street to
the W. J. Conway corner with cement
Baker street will also be paved. The
paving to be brick from the library
to 5th street and concrete from Fifth
to Eighth street.
Alderman Whitrock objected to
| bonding the city for the street work
| Mayor Cohen said that the citizens
would have five years to pay at six
per cent interest Mayor Cohen said
| that when he took office there was
$4,000 in the treasury and when he
| leaves, his successor will have bal
ance of S125,OOO. Alderman Jackson
asked how that could be when the tax
| levey was slightly less than 100000.
| The Mayor admitted there would not
be quite so much when the school
moneys had been taken out. This
would leave a balance Of something
like 100000
The Sewer and Water Commission
reported that there was not majority
of signers on the proposed 18th Aven-
lie extension and recommended that
! the council act as it see fit.
The same committee made the same
report regarding to the 14th Avenue
extension. The council ordered the
extensions made with the exception
| of the additional extension on the 18th
Avenue. This latter was laid on the
| table.
| M. N. Weeks report of the Electric
and Water department showed that
there was a net gain of Sc, 408.46 made
by the department in the eleven
months under the city ownership.
| An ordinance was adopted which as
sures that the light schedule of prices
will be practically the same as in the
past for domestic and business uses.
The street lights will be charged at
$47.62-s60, and $40 a year according
to the size of the lights This was
adopted by the council
An ordinance that the city pay $3.50
a month hydrant rental instead of S.
was also adopted.
It was shown that the city owes the
water department $4,000 for hyd-
rants
The Report of Chief of Police James
| Gibson for the fiscal year ending Sept
ember 1, 1915 showed that there had
been JAP cases taken to court and that
$136.50 had been collected as fines.
Night dodgers during the fiscal year
numbered 442. The other details of
this report was published in the Re-
| porter early in January.
D. D. Conway communicated with the
council asking for $153 for 153 loads
| of dirt removed as tresspass. This
matter was referred to the city attorn-
ey and finance committee.
The salaries of the city officials was
| fixed at the same figure as prevailed
| last year.
A resolution was adopted giving the
Electric and Water Commission power
to engage new manager and to pay
a salary of not more than 81 800.
Under a new law which provides
that the council shall set the pay of
any member of the board of review
who is already drawing a salary from
the city the council set the pay at So
day.
The Electric and Water Commission
were authorized to engage an auditor