Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-07-23

see Read and referred to the COM
mttee on finance
The committee on streets and lights
10 whom was on the 10Th day OF JAY,
1920, referred the annexed petition for
opening Chestnut Street, beg leave 10
report the same back and recommend
that the same be submitted to the
board of public works.
The report and petition We're re-
ferred to the board of public works.
The committee on streets and lights
10 whom was on the 10Th day of July
referred the various communications
and petitions relating. to the compile
aon Of the paving of Grand Avenue.
beg leave 10 report the same back with
d resolution and recommend that the
resolution be- adopted.
Be 1T RESOLVED, BY the common
council OF the City of Wauwatosa that
the city clerk be and hereby is direct.
ed to notify jacobus & Winding to
proceed without delay to complete. the
paving OF Grand Ave. from the east
city limits to Fifty-Ninth Street under
their contract with the CITY of Wan
watosa dated May 10Th. 1919: and thar
IN case of their failure 10 commence
said work within twenty days from the
date hereof the City of Wauwatosa
viii take such steps under said CON
tract to enforce its rights as il NAV
deem necessary.
On roll ~ n fl,a
was adopted
Opinion of the city attorney on the
power of the city to repair the banks
of the Menomonee river Read and
referred to committee on judiciary.
Resolution providing for condemna-
ton of a strip of land for the purpose
of extending Vista Avenue Read and
referred to the board of public works.
Your committee on finance TO whom
was referred the bills and payrolls
herewith return same and recommend
that they be allowed and ordered paid
The committee on finance, to whom
was on the goth day of July, 1920. re-
ferred the resolution providing for pay.
ment of $2,5O650 to Hermann Hohen-
see beg leave to report back same, and
recommend that the resolution be
adopted Adopted
The committee on finance to whom
was on the 10th day of July, 1920, re
ferred the resolution providing for the |
transfer of $4,000 in Liberty Bonds
from the school building fund to the
Indebtedness fund beg leave to report |
the same back and recommend that
the resolution be adopted Adopted |
The committee on finance to whom
was on the Goth day of July, 1926, re-
ferred a resolution providing for pay
ment of $7,635.23 TO the Warren Land
Company for property purchased in
1918 for school site beg leave to re-
port the same back and recommend
that the resolution be adopted.
Adopted
Communication from S, B. Way, vice
president, the Milwaukee Electric Rail
way and Light Co, relative TO repairs
TO the Fifty-Ninth Street bridge, read
by chair.
BE 1T RESOLVED, BY the common
council of the City of Wauwatosa, Wis
consin, that the city authorize the Mill
waukee Electric Railway and Light
Company to repair the south abutment
of the bridge over the Menomonee
river on Fifty-ninth Street, the cost
thereof to be borne one-half by the
city and onehalf by said company,
the city council being of the opinion,
based on the judgment of the city engi-
neer that an emergency exists ard that
ii is necessary 10 cause such work to
be done at once without advertising
for bids, provided the city pay its por
ton not prior to January LIST, 1921.
On motion of Aid. Ragsdale the rules
were suspended and the foregoing
resolution adopted.
The chair recommended that the
board of public works meet with the
board of education as soon as possible
with view to securing a school site
in the northeast part OF the city
There being no further business, and
on motion of Aid Hayes the council
then adjourned