The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-22

LOCAL LEGISLATION
City Council Had a Long and Busy
Meeting Tuesday Evening

1 bS every mculDST VI Inc CouHClIs Tie
mayor, city manager and city attor-
ney.
Under the head of written commu-
nications, the clerk read letter from
the Ocala Manufacturing Company in
reference to a boiler they offered the
city for $4,000 with a cash payment
of $1,000 and the balance in three
$1,000 payments in three months, with
eight per cent interest on deferred
payments.
An outside firm also offered the
council two boilers of the size requir-
ed for $500. These boilers are of
the marine type and were secured
from the U. S. shipping board. Mr..
Brumby,- city manager, called the at
tention of the council to the fact that
the marine type boiler had much
shorter tubes and did not get near as
much head from the fuel because Of
the short passage for the hot gases.
Mr.. Brumby said that the purchase of
a marine type boiler or boilers would
be great mistake because of the
future excess fuel bill whenever these
boilers were in USE Mr.. Brumby has
been made price on stationery boil
ers at substantially the same figure
as the marine boilers and has written
for detailed specifications of the boil
ers quoted. He has also written to
the firm making these quotations and
asked that it send a representative
here to confer with the manager and
icouncil on the question of boilers.
| Bertram & Ibbetson wrote the coun-
ell asking that they be paid $3.50 a
week for their work of auditing the
city books until the job was complet-
ed. The council refused this request
because it was brought out in the dis
cussion that should Bertram & Ibbet-
son not complete the work any other
auditor who should take the job would
have to begin all over again and the
money paid Bertram & Ibbetson
would be wasted.
H. John C. Thompson, the attorney
who attended to the validation of the
, street paving bonds, sent in a bill of
$10O for services rendered. This bill
/ was ordered paid.
II The A. c. L. r. R. sent in bill for
/ freight that had been undercharged in
September, 1918. Payment was refus-
i ed because the council had no way of
checking up on an error made SO
long ago.
i, All bills were ordered paid when
properly approved. 1t was agreed that
the cost of the Ford to be used by
, the city manager should be paid half
1 and half from the general fund and
the light and water fund.
Il Clerk Sistrunk presented each
4 member of the council with a copy Of
1 the budget and statement of the
3 funds already expended in his depart
), ment. There was minutes lull in
a the proceedings while each of the city
parents looked over his accounts anC
e figured roughly whether he woule
t be able to finish the year without 60
ing 10 CHc pOOE nOuSS.
3 The D. W. Davis Insurance Agency
v was requested to renew its policy fol
t employees and public liability.
e A bill presented by the Spencer
: Pedrick Motor Co. for lumber used il
i the past fall was referred to the city
= manager for payment. This bill wal
n presented in blank, leaving it to tn
e council to fix the price on the lumber
b used, and Mr.. Brumby was instructed
t to ascertain the market price of lum
t Der at that date and pay the bill a
that price.
Il The council then asked Mr.. Brumb,
= if he had any report to make. Mr.
e Brumby said that he had hardly beel
/, on the job long enough to make re
:, port but that he had some question
Il to ask and some suggestions to make
g money he was allowed to spend by tn
8 provisions of the charter. 1t wa
found that he was allowed to spen'
any amounts designated by the coun
ell. They told Mr.. Brumby to use hi
own discretion in this matter an
d spend any reasonable amounts b
y found it necessary to use.
q One of the first things that Ii
p Brumby wanted to do to systematiz
K the city work is to have simple sor
II of order book printed and give one b
n each department head or foreman
d Any purchase that is to be charge
"a to the city shall be accompanied b
one of these orders showing what
is for, who got it and duplieats
to be kept for the managers ofhcs
He can then tell at glance what ]
ID being expended in each departmen
N and he can transfer tools and equiv
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