The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-04-05

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MANAGER IN FAVOR OF THE
FORMER-AN ENGINEER WILL
BE EMPLOYED TO MAKE A
SURVEY OF TIE LIGHT PLANT.
Tuesday night there were only the
five members of the council present,
but before business had proceeded
very far visitors had struggled in un-
til the council chamber was well filled
with interested spectators. All men,
bers of the council, the mayor, the
city manager and the city attorney
were present. President Martin call
ed the meeting to order promptly at
7:30 and after the reading and ap-
proval of the minutes of the last
meeting the meeting was thrown open
for personal communication, but at
that early hour there were few visi-
tors and no one addressed the council.
Under the head of written commu-
nications Mr.. Sistrunk read a letter
from l.. n. Green, attorney for the
Seaboard Air Inc, calling attention
to the fact thal the city promised to
pay the railroad 500 towards the ex-
pense of changing the union station
from the north to the south side of
the tracks. Mr. Green said that his
clients had been waiting all these
years before taking any action be-
cause there was a similar case being
fought in the courts. This case was
recently decided in favor of the rail-
road and now his clients wanted
Ocala to pay the $700 and interest.
This matter was referred to the city
attorney.
Mr.. H. M. Hampton, representing
the Commercial Bank, wrote a letter
requesting the lowering of the taxes
on the former J. F. Jenkins property,
because of too high valuation, CIV
ing as the reason for the delay in
this matter the fact that the property
had been in litigation and was only
recently the property of the bank.
This was referred to a committee con-
sisting of Messrs. Henry and Pedrick.
A letter was read from the Eureka
Fire Hose Company requesting pay
ment of small bill outstanding since
1919. Mr. Bruniby was instructed to
investigate the claim and pay it if
valid.
Burford, Hall & Smith requested
payment of $29.72 interest, omitted
from the last payment made them and
requested payment of $748.10 fol
some spare parts for the turbine, fur
nished last fall. These bills were re-
ferred to the city manager.
Bertram Ibbetson & Co. submitted
report of the audit of the city's books
and presented their bill for the final
5000 due them on the job. The report
was accepted and the bill ordered
paid.
DR.. H. F. Watts report as city
health officer was read. The milk
from the Close dairy was the richest
and that from the creamery the clean
est as shown on this report. DR.. Henry
moved the acceptance of this report
and suggested that DR.. Watt be 1e.
quested to present his report in per
son whenever possible so that the
council might question him about any
points in the report that might come
under discussion.
Under the head of ordinances sew
eral street paving ordinances were
read The first of these provides fol
the paving of certain streets, gives
the council power to go about all the
regular procedure of advertising fol
bids, selecting the plan of paving ane
the type of paving to be used ant
takes care of all legal steps neces
sary before the actual work of paving
This ordinance is for any and al
streets to be paved. 1t also gives tn
council power to do it's own paving
and to buy material, machinery ant
tools for such work, if the council see'
fit to do so instead of letting contracts
Two other paving ordinances fo
specific streets were read. These ordi
nances give the council power to paw
these streets main street from th
express office to the union station
plaza and South Second street from
Osceola street to Main) with it owl
men and not by letting contracts
These ordinances brought on furthe
talk which will be mentioned later i
the proceedings. These ordinance
provide for liens to be issued by tn
city against the property along tn
streets to cover two-thirds of the ex
pense. These liens are to bear eigh
per cent interest.