The Coolidge examiner., 1946-06-28
City Council
Acts TO Secure
Street Lighting
Arizona Edison Co. instructed to
prepare lighting plan for ap-
provsl by council at no cost to
city.

provsl by council at no cost to
city.
Moving TO secure adequate light
ing for Coolidge streets. the city
council, at its second meeting
since election authorized Arizona
Edison Company to present a ten
tative system for approval at Its
next regular meeting.
Clement T. DIXON, manager OF
he electric company here, and
Judson Corbin. company engineer.
explained to the council that the
electric company would install a
system as approved by the coun-
ell at no cost The city would
pay the cost OF current used by
the lights.
The system as requested would
be set up on a basis of USING
approximately 800 worth of pow
er monthly
Mayor Paul B. Hannah raised
the question as to whether the
city would be obligated by CON
tract to use a definite amount OF
current each month, but was as
sured by the electric company
representatives that 1t would not.
Fixtures OF the newest type will
be proposed for approval by the
council. Dixson said, while Corbin
explained the electrical company
would install the system at its
own expense, more or less as a
good will gesture. He explained
good stfeet lighting system
would attract residents to Coolidge
which. in turn. would mean the
sale of more power by the COM
pany.
City Attorney Charles Stokes In
formed the council that under a
state statute city employees must
be paid no fewer times than twice
monthly and council ordered Min
or Simms. town clerk, to set up
payroll system with payday set
for every two weeks.
Council also accepted the resig-
nation of Guy It. Cook, as deputy
marshal of the city and author
led the town clerk to pay him
for the entire month of July, al
though his resignation takes eff
feet on July L. Cook has re-
enlisted in the army.
The matter of appointing a new
deputy marshal was turned over
70 a committee composed of DR..
Steward and Ben Arnold, who re-
fused to make the appointment,
but agreed to make recommenda-
tions to the entire councilmanic
body at its next meeting.
Louis Fiscel, county engineer.
explained to the council his de-
partment would clear a runway
into the county dumping grounds
in the ella river He said a run
way would permit trucks to back
into the dumping ground. Chief
of Police Dan Kinser was in
structed to make sure garbage
dump trucks went all the way to
the end of the runway instead of
depositing loads along the way
side
Fiscel said the garbage dump
may turn into a sort of minor
reclamation project because the
river has been cutting its way
into farm land. The dump Is
expected TO turn the flow away
from the farm land and let 1t
continue down its old channel.
During discussion OF what to do
To city streets, Fiscel informed
the council that Coolidge had 16
miles of city streets and 10 miles
OF alleys to care for. He ad-
vised the purchase of a motor
grader which would be adequate
to care for scraping the streets
and keeping them In better con-
dition. He said the county would
rent a scraper to the city for SO
an hour. The proposed grader
would cost $7.6S5.
Council unanimously voted to
rehire Charles w. Stokes as city
attorney after asking him If he
would consider reappointment. Mr..
Stokes had volunteered to resign
at the first meeting of the pew
council to "save embarrassment,
although his contract had a month
yet to run.
Councilmen Anderson and Arm
old were appointed a committee
of two to prepare a new city bud
get and present it to the council
at its next meeting.