The Punta Gorda herald., 1922-04-21
commissioners RECEIVED
BIDS FOR ENGINEERING
OH THE TAMIAMI TRAIL
Number of Well Known Firm sub
pat Proposals 10 Do Work; Bids
Referred to Committee

The county commissioners met il
adjourned session, Saturday after
noon, / 5th inst. Chairman Windhan
and Hessrs. Whitten, Knight, Hobsor
and Gottfried were present.
After the minutes of the previous
meeting had been read and approved
he question arose as to whether the
bids for making surveys, plans and
estimates for finishing the Tamiami
trail should be opened and read with
out g0ing into executive session
Representative of the engineering
companies who We're present, stated
that they had no objections to open
ing and reading their bids in public;
accordingly, the clerk was directed to
read them. In all, four bids were
filed anG read, one each from Kirby
x MyIer. Bradentown; E. V. Camp,
Atlanta; H. S, Jaudon Engineering
Company, Elberton, Georgia, ana
CrayenE d Kimmel, Arcadia. The
McElros Engineering Company of
Tampa, who had been invited to file
a bid, neglected to do so. After the
bids were read, the board went into
executive session to consider them;
and, during the consideration, rep
resentative of each bidder was called
in separately and successfully to fully
explain his bid. Finally, all the bids
were referred to the road committee
Of the board to examine them and re-
port at the regular meeting in May
The chairman called attention to
complaints being made about people
clearing land on Alligator creek, who
were telling trees into that stream,
destroying its beauty, obstructing its
navigation by small boats and, in
case Cf floods, endangering the
bridges over the creek The matter
was referred to the county attorney
for investigation and recommended
ton
After the reading Of a letter from
{. A. Crews. assessor of DeSOto COun-
ty. explaining that the doubling of
the cattle assessment of w. l.. KoOn
was done in his office without his
knowledge and apparently by some
unauthorized person, the board adopt
ed a resolution recommending the
comptroller to permit the excessive
assessment to be corrected.
County Judge Trabue appeared be
fore the board and urged that uni
form Rling fee for candidates be fixed
by the board He stated that he had
paid q filing fee of $4,000, but that
other candidates for the same office
had paid only $500 The board 5
attorney was asked to investigate the
boards duties in this matter and re-
port al the next meeting, The same
request was made of him in regard
to the bill OF Judge Brown for $500
incidental fees in the suit against
the c. Il. d ~ Railway Company,
Considerable discussion arose over
the matter of sending representatives
to the meeting in Tallahassee of the
state road commission on April 2lst
inst and the meeting of that body to
be held in Tampa on the 25th. II
WAS finally decided that one member
of the board and one member of the
Commercial Club should attend the
meeting and that the
whole board should attend the Tampa
meeting. The board recommends
that as many representative citizens
as possible should attend the Tampa
meeting.
An invitation from the Tampa
board OF trade to attend a meeting OF
all the county commissioners of the
state, which will be held in Tampa
on May eth, 10th and 11th, was read
and tentatively accepted.
It was decided to appoint managers
for the June primary at the regular
meeting next month.
During these last proceedings, the
board adjourned twice, and, Tor
third time, was called back in ses-
sion. this time to decide whether a
truck that was bought with the funds
of the Charlotte Harbor Road and
Bridge District could be legally lent
to Commissioner Gottfried for use on
the roads in hs district. During the
discussion of this question, the board
dispersed.
Watch Your Fires.