The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-21
CITY WAITS ON NpRESENT
 10 LIBRARY
Council Sees Headath e Ahead in Proposal 10
 Publish Tax Roll

LAs AGIElit lllo lCliOW SiON Comcilmen by surprise at last nights regular Council meet, with move that the City allocate $30,000 to the Memorial Library, to be ear- marked for construction, not for purchase of the site.
 However, when his colleagues did get their breath back, they talked with enough vigor to push the mo- tion aside for while. Instead, they voted to help out the cause to some extent by opening negotiations im- mediately with the Library Board for purchase of the strip along Fourth Street which has been des- ignatea for street widening. Hope was expressed that that job could be | done this year.
 Nielsens proposal was to take the S30,000 from the $35,000 in govern ment bonds which the City is now holding as a special fund for con- struction of a new City Hall. He stated his feeling that such an addi- tion to the library fund would spur i interest in the public subscription drive now under way.
 Both Councilman George Jorgen- son and Mayor Waino Hendrickson expressed themselves averse to di- verting the funds from their City Hall purpose. A new civic admins tration building is a really prime need, the Mayor declared. He added the view that such a large contribu- ition by the City now might cut off chances for obtaining contributions from possible sources outside of Juneau
 Long Term Project The Mayors view that the Library l is long-term project and that the City will have plenty of time to come in if necessary was seconded by Councilman Stan Grummett. He counselled a waiting policy, then brought up the question of purchase of the street strip.
 Contract for writing the compre- hensive public liability and property damage insurance policy for the City for the 1946-47 period went to
 Grummett's Juneau Insurance l Agency on a low total bid of $1,- 072 13 including taxes. The bid of the Shattuck Agency, which wrote last years policy, was next in line, with Young, Mclean and Werner being high at $1,16497. Young, Me Lean and Werner submitted an al- ternate bid, based on population, which was lowest, but was ruled cut because bids based on payroll had been called for
 After Joe Mclean had explained for his company that Alaska cities suffered higher premiums on the payroll basis, because of higher wage rates, the Council gave its opinion that provision for bids other than on payroll should be made next year.
 In other Council action last right, authorization was voted for: 1-Rounding of street intersec- tions at Front and Franklin, at Harry Race Drug Store, and at Fourth and Franklin. by the North ern Light Presbyterian Church.
 2-Rental of the City's piledriver to the Sommers Construction Con-
 pany for work on the marine ways
 at charge of $50 per day. Work is to be completed on Floats Numbers One and Two at the Small Boat
 Harbor this week. The Sommers job will require approximately lC days, after which the driver would return to complete work in the Boat Harbor
 Widening of "E" Street neai
 the Home Grocery.
 4-Purchase of a new floor jack , for use in the City garage. 5-Reclaiming and opening the
 dead end of "A" Street on the south side of Ninth Street. Councilman } James Larsen pressed for this sec tion to end argument as to use oI the street area by adjacent resi-. 5 dents.
 : From the scant audience, Free
 Orme re-requested to buy the deac } end of Eighth Street next to hi! t residence on "B" Street. After dis. 5 cussion, the request was put over fol l consideration along with sale O.
 other City property.
 : Also discussed were: l Amend Building Code Q - Amendment of the Building g Code to- require an affidavit upor