The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-11-21
COUNCIL ACTS
ON FINANCES
Two Sewerage Bond Ordinances
Passed First and Second
Reading Monday Night
WANT WATCHMAN RETURNED

At the meeting of City Council on
Monday evening two sewerage bond
ordinances were passed on first and
second reading and will be advanced
to final passage at the meeting to be
held on Monday evening, December
third. These ordinances are to create
permanent bonds to relieve the tenn
porary bonds and notes now outstand-
ing for payment of sewerage installa-
ton. One ordinance creates $42,0 900
worth of bonds to take care of the
amount still due from property own
ers on the special sewerage assess
ment levied by the Sewerage Com
m~fssioners. These bonds are to run
four years. The other ordinance takes
carae of the sum of S201,00 due on
the amount to be raised by general
taxation. The latter bonds will be of
forty years duration.
In computing the bond amounts it
was ascertained that the present valu-
alton of city property for taxing pur-
poses is 1881, 1853. The present net
Indebtedness of the city is $245 .971.43.
Councilman Stephenson introduced
a motion that the City Clerk communi-
cate with the Public Utilities Commits
sion relative to the removal of the
crossing Waterman by the Reading
Railroad at Franklin ayenu He ask
ed that the Commission be requested
to inform Council whether or not the
railroad had obtained permission ito
remove the Waterman and tosask that
the Commission order the railroad to
re-instate the Waterman.
The City Clerk was also instructed
- a1Dop,rrfoofa with tho SunnrinfQnd
ent of the Suburban Trolley Company
and state that Council protests against
the operation of any one man trolley
cars within the city limits; also that
regular trolley service be resumed at
once, and unless this is done, court
action would be taken to have regular
service maintained by the company.
By resolution twelve temporary
bonds were ordered executed to take
care of moneys due at this time on
sewerage Indebtedness, in the amount
of 1855, 96S.5S. This amount will be
taken care of when the permanent
bonds are issued and sold.
The City Solicitor notified Council
that In the court action Of Edwin g.
Britt against the city for money claim
ed by Britt to be due him for sewer
age installation, the venue had been
laid in Monmouth County originally,
the home county of Britt. The Solic-
itor, on application to Supreme Court
Justice Kalisch, has had the venue
changed to Atlantic County, and the
case will be RENTED from Freehold,
Monmouth County, to Mays Landing,
this county, for trial at the January
Term.
BY resolution the sum of $4,000
was made available for payments due
on the construction of the Leeds ave
nue. school. Another resolution pro-
vided for the payment of $1273.25 to
Edward Goehler, for sidewalk and cur
bling work done to date and approved
by the City Engineer.
The map of Chatham Lawns, for SO
much of the property as lay in the
city limits, was accepted by Council.
A part of this property is in Egg Har-
Dor Township.
The Junior Mechanics asked the city
to build a portion of East Decatur ave
nue.. so that the Council could lay its
sidewalk and curb along it's property.
The representatives were informed
that nothing could be done in the mat
ter this year, as the street a~pproprla-
ton would not admit of this work.
The grade of the street would make a
sidewalk, laid now, below the level OF
the highway. 1t was also stated that
Decatur avenue, East, had never been
turned over to the city, and before
work could be done it would be neces-
sary for a majority of the property
owners to petition Council to have the
work done.
Elwood Weeks asked for a reduction
of the sewerage charge for the laundry
owned by him on Main street and rent
ed to a tenant. This was referred to
the Sewerage Committee.