Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-08

An order that: The Mayor, the CITY
Auditor, the City Treasurer, and the
Chairman of the Board of Assessors
be asked to investigate the advantage
es to be derived from a percentage
offered taxpayers for payment of tax
es prior to the date when taxes are
due, and that this committee report
its recommendations at the next
meeting of the City Government.
Passed.
The matter of the creation of a
City Park Commission to care for and
develop such parks as the City now
owns, and is likely to own, be refer
red to the Mayor and the committee
on Parks, with the request that this
committee make report and recon-
mendations at the next meeting of the
City Government, was passed.
The matter of securing necessary
legislation to put the Police Depart
ment of the City under civil service
regulations be referred to the Mayor,
Aldermen Farwell and Page, Council
men Butler and Forth, with the re-
quest that this committee report at
the next meeting of the City Govern
ment, was passed.
The matter of purchasing a patrol
for use in the Police Department be
referred to the committee on Police,
with power, was. passed.
The Mayor and the committee on
Finance be empowered to contract
with a local printer for the printing
and binding of the annual City Re
port; and that the Mayor be given
authority to plan the contents of the
report, to notify the heads of the va
rious departments of the character OF
- IN in,
charge the general work of editing the
volume, was passed.
The Committee on Streets be re-
uuested to confer at once with the
A. F. Hutchinson Land Company in
regard to the maintenance of streets
on the Company's privately owned
land within the city limits, and to
make such recommendations as the
committee sees fit at the January
meeting, passed.
The Mayor, Chairman of the Board
of Aldermen, and the Committee on
Street Lights be empowered to dis
pose of the poles now owned by the
City and used by the Central Maine
Power Company to the Central
! Maine Power Company, or to enter
into a contract with the company
for the lease of the City's poles and
the lighting of the City's streets
was passed.
The sum of $1,000 be appropriated
for the support of the Boys club OF
Waterville: and that this actlon oe
taken as an evidence of the City
appreciation of the invaluable help
financial and otherwise. given the
Bows club by DIR George G. Averill
was passed.
The matter of the appointment OF
a. CITY Planning Board be referred
to the Mayor, Aldermen 'Whitcomb
and Page, Councilmen Barnes ano
George Maheu. with the request that
this committee report at the next
meeting of the City Government
, was passed.
The petition Of taxpayers asking
! for the acceptance of Elm Court as
,, a street be placed on file; and be 1t
| further ordered that Elm Court be
accepted as a street with the under
standing that it's acceptance shall
be conditioned upon securing such
additional land from AUDITING prop
! erty as shall satisfy the civil engi-
ness that the court can be made q
safe thoroughfare, to be referred to
! committee on new streets.
| Ordered that the Mayor, the CITY
Auditor, and the City Treasurer be
asked to make report at the mex,
meeting of the City Government Of
all facts in regard to the so-calieo
amortization plan of financing cities
and that this report contain recon-
mendations as a basis for future &C.
ton, was passed.
In answer to a request from the
| Mayor asking for q report on the
fire condition Of the buildings in the
business section of this city, w. w
Berry, chief of the Waterville fire
department reports that during the
| previous month he found no pre-
misses in the business section which
! in his judgment based on fire expert
ence of the city were unduly hazard
/ GUS.