The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-10-20
CITY COUNCIL NOTES
The city council met in regular
session last Monday


nance for a bond issue of $350,OOO
for new high school.
The attorney explained that the
council can pass the bond ordinance
and then within 80 days 10 per cent
of the electors can petition for
referendum. 1t was also suggested
that under the direct legislation stat
ute the people by Is per cent petit
ton can direct a vote by the people
on the question before passage of the
ordinance.
The council seems to be deter
mined not to act Independently of a
demand from the electors of the city.
There seems to be belief that the
council cannot of it's own motion law
fully incur the expense of a special
election on this question. The school
board is said to be ready to go out
and get the necessary 10 per cent if
the council will pass the ordinance
but the council seems to be shy. The
bond ordinance was introduced by
Thorison. 1t was referred and will
come up three weeks later with the
understanding that the 10 per cent
petition under the direct legislation
statute will then be filed. Under this
law, if it applies to bond ordinance,
the people will adopt the ordinance
and the council will not act on it at
all.
The Mayor was authorized to rep
resent the city at the deep waterways
conference to be held at Duluth Oc-
tober "a and 25. He was also au-
thorized to have two or three citizens
represent the city at their own ex-
pense, it being understood that Mr..
c. C. West at least will go. He is
thoroughly prepared to meet with the
best informed men of the country on
the St. Lawrence project.
An ordinance authorizing the is
sue of the $4,000 of viaduct bonds
was introduced They will be serial
bonds, the longest ten years at 5.5
per cent interest. This will make the
outstanding bonds $781,000. The
three south side banks have taken the
unsold part of the street and bridge
five per cents off the city's hands.
The intimation was made that the
city may adopt the La Crosse plan of
publishing the name and amount of
taxes of every tax payer. This was
one of the few results of the S217
which it cost the city to send dele
gates to the state municipality con-
vention at Janesville.
The Mayor said that too much time
is spent at these conventions in the
entertainment features, which is not
what the cities spend taxpayers mon
ey for in sending the delegates.
Among the Things discussed that
made impressions on the local repre-
sentatives were ornamental lighting,
new taxation for automobiles con-
crete paving, policewomen, taxicab
regulation. The city's spokesman
was not present when our late la
mented Peterson bill was viciously
jumped upon and vigorously kicked
by Mayor Bentley of La Crosse and
Others
City Sealer Mulholland was author
lied to attend conference of seal
ers of the state to be held at Madison
next month.
The bridge called Twenty-frst
street bridge probably because it is
not on Tewtny-frst street will be
replanked at an estimated cost of
$4,000. 1t will be done at once so as
not to delay the opening of the new
up-river route across the river soon
to be in use.
The old question of the proper
width of residence streets from curb
to curb was discussed, the matter
coming up on proposal to narrow
Phillipen street to thirty feet. 1t
carried with the two first warders
voting mo"
The council stopped SIS allow
ance to Joseph Zigmund Jr., for the
maintenance of his father upon the
alleged discovery that another son is
amply able to care for the father.
There was spirited discussion
over many things such as fire wood
for poor charges, the unemployment
situation, and finances of the city,
which discussions so far from demon
strating incapacity as appears to be
sometimes intimated on the contrary
show that the members have a sense
of responsibility and ideas which
they are able and ready to express, a
far better situation than the docile
acquiescene or inattention that is
sometimes called harmony.
The Mayor seems to be peeved over
the manner in which the CITY fire and