The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1919-05-10
COUNCIL TO TAKE UP
SEWER MATTER MONDAY
Calls Special Meeting for This Purpose
at Which Engineers Are to be Pres
ent-congested Districts Come First.
MAY START THE WORK SOON.

Regular meeting of City Council of
~Pleasantyille was called to order at 3
O'Clock Monday evening, President
James in the chair, and Councilmen
Adams, Anderson, Lutz and Meloney
present.
The City Clerk was instructed to
communicate with the Secretary of the
Atlantic County Board OF Taxation rel
atiye to the lowest bidder for the tax
duplicates and field books.
The matter OF suitable drainage on
Broad Street and also on Doughty
Road was taken up and referred to
the Street Committee.
The attention OF Council was called
to a property at Glendale Ave. &
Shore Road that has no been properly
paved. This property no having been
covered in any ordinance or resolution,
it was decided to prepare a resolution
at the next meeting covering same.
Several other properties that are
within the zones covered by ordinance
that have not as yet been paved and
curbed were brought up for discussion,
and through the City Engineer it was
learned that he had just been instruct
ed to mail notices TO the oWner notify
ing them to make the required i'm
provements.
Japhet Price, County Road Super
visor, was before Council. upon the in
vitation of some of the Councilmen,
advising that the City order the prop
erty owners along Franklin Avenue,
from the Boulevard to Washington
Avenue, TO curb their properties in an
ticipation of the new hard-surfaced
road TO be built by the County. Mr..
Price also urged that Council order
the sewer pipes laid on Washington
Ave, before the paving is started. He
stated that the contract would proba-
bly, be awarded on Wednesday. May
14th, and that it called for the com
pletion of the improvement by August
LIST. He stated that the Water Co.
and the Gas Co. had been notified to
make any repairs to their mains that
were necessary and he thought that
the Water Co. contemplated lowering
their mains along Washington Ave,
and that the sewer pipes could be laid
at the same time. He impressed upon
Council the vast saving this would
mean to the taxpayers TO lay the pipes
before the street was completed, as
to make openings in it after compile
ton would be a very expensive oper-
alton. and he doubted very much if
the State Highway Commission would
permit it at all. He said he had no
personal interest at stake and spoke
only in the interest of the property
owners in general. Nh. Price received
the thanks of Council for his talk and
the spectators in the Council room
seemed to heartily approve of his
plans.
This opened up anew the sewer
proposition for the city. with the re-
suit that a special meeting of Council
was called for next Monday evening.
when the subject will be taken up in
all its details. From reliable informa-
ton it is believed that the City will
begin the installation of the sewer
system, taking in only the contested
districts at present, at once. By do
ing this. the main objection of some
property owners when the project was
up before, will be overcome, in that
the outlying districts will not be sew
cred until they are sufficiently built
I'D, or until a majority of the pronerty
owners in those localities petition
Council for same.
A motion prevailed that the chair
appoint a Special Sewer Committee
and that the City Solicitor notify the
Sewer Engineers to be present at the
special meeting of Council next Mon
day evening. when the sewerage ques-
ton will be taken uD. The chair nam
ed OF this committee C~ouncilmen Ne
lonev. Anderson. Lutz. Chattle and
Adams and Messrs. Clark Adams and
John P. Ashmead.
The City Engineer reported that the
California avenue matter was pro-
crossing nicely.