The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-02-09
County Board Approves
Resolution For Grading
Work AT Service Station
Report Received Relative
To Road Work Carried
On Recently AT Key
Largo

A. B. SuchY. addressed the
board of County Commissioners
last night. at the regular meet
ing. relative to the sale of an
deliberately laid out map in colors
of the City of Key West. which
he was offering for sale but the
proposition was refused by the
board because of insufficient
funds.
Present at the meeting were:
Chairman BervaIdI, Commission
erS Warren, Thompson, Monsal-
vatge and Curry; Attornes Har-
ris, Clerk Sawyer, Chief Deputy
Sheriff Waite, Mayor w. M. AL
bury, City Councilman Dough-
try and Earl Wolfe of the Pan
coast interests.
Map Very Interesting
Mr.. Suchy's talk was very in
tereSting and his map attracted a
great deal of attention because of
the coloring and the descriptive
information. Care in its execution
was clearly seen.
Mr.. Thompson explained in de
tail the situation in which the
county was placed and said that
it would be almost two years be-
fore the county would be in a
financial position to undertake
the purchase of anything OF the
kind.
Mayor Albury Heard
Mayor Albury was accorded
the floor and said that he had
some business to bring before the
board, but had left the matter in
the hands of Attorney Harris,
who would make the necessary
talk.
Mr. Harris said that the matter
was in connection with certain
grading. and kindred work which
was to be done at the Sinclaif
Oil and Gasoline supply Station,
of which company Mr.. Albury
is local manager, was making at
the corner of the boulevard at the
of Division street
and North Beach.
The work to be done was Speci-
fled in the resolution which had
been prepared by Mr.. Harris,
who read the resolution in detail
and at the conclusion it was APP
proved by the board.
Checks Prepared
Clerk Sawyer advised, the.
board that three checks had been
prepared to be paid. One for the
Davis Construction Co. for 3d.
773.08 on the contract for work
being done on the addition to the
court house and the other two
for Russell Pancoast, architect,
$3.06, for miscellaneous expenses
not covered by the contract, and
Sl4386 for architectural services
in connection with the contract
also to Russell Pancoast.
Mr.. Bervaldi called attention to
the bad condition of the northeast
corner of the courth house, which
should be repaired. He was adj
vised that the matter had been
looked into and provisions for do
ing the necessary repair work
had been made.
To Make Payroll
Mr.. Sawyer advised that two
checks had been received from
Tallahassee, one for $1,000 and
another for $1,000, which would
be sufficient for making up a
payroll for the General Revenue
and Fine and Forfeiture Funds.
They would clear by Monday of
next week and announcement
would be made when the checks
were available.
Commissioner Curry reported
that certain work had been done
on the road leading to the Year
Round Club at Key Largo, and
that two of the curves had been
and the road cleared
and placed in good condition, and
that the cost had been $50, which
had been paid by Mr.. Curry.
He explained that there were
three more curves in the road
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