The Wrangell sentinel., 1947-07-18
NEW LIGHT PLANT ADDITION
 TO BE COMPLETED SOON

the addition to the City Light Plant. appeared at City Council meeting last night and among other things, reported that the l neN addition to the plant which he has been building would be completed within the next 10 days A payment of $1S00 was or dered paid Stutte which makes a total Of S79SO.20 which has been l paid on his contract.
 Stutte appeared before the Couu- l cil to protest his having to pay l the performance bond, as he read l in The Sentinel two weeks ago. At a special meeting of the Council June (which The Sen tinel was not invited to attend) the contract for the light plant ad- ditiou was signed. The original i contract. as understood by The l Sentinel reporter last night, was l based and written up on Suites original estimate of $17,8OO for the completed job and was sent to l Juneau to the Citys attorney, H. lC. Stabler, for approval MT. Stab l Ter revised the contract to $14.- 1 3PN he tAAAAAAAS tl hHA A0l AlAaAAAE b9AAH usually paid by the contractor ud
 which had been omitted from the l original contract, and also sub l tracted S37OO for Ium b CT purchased by the City for the j1b. IStutte's figure of $17.8OO was for cost of the completed job, includ- l ing the eity's material, but he ex- l plained that if the City would llather have the $14.O0O figure and take over the sale of salvage mat erial it was all right with him. According to the present agree ment, Stutte, who pays for the S3700 worth of material retains
 the salvage.
 As to the performance bond, Stutte said it was his understand ing the city had agreed to pay Il. Originally, $5OOO had been agreed upon to be withheld from his con- 1 tract as a surety until the job was completed and he said that if he had understood he was to furnish the performance bond, his estimate would have been $17S.O0 higher L. cover cost of the bond After discussion and reference to the minutes of the June meeting, it was found the City had agreed to pay the bond charge so Council man Andy Barlow, seconded by Councilman Peter Mccormack, moved the bond be paid by the 1 City.
 Asked how he was coming out on the job financially Stutte said his estimate of $l7.S00 had not 1 been far off He said he had run .nto a little higher labor costs
 than he had figured on and, due tc an error in the Fairbanks-M Morse specifications had had to rebuild
 one of the engine bases, but that le was satisfied.
 Police Chief Jerry Marshall gave a police report. He also reported that many business men around town had expressed the opinion that the Chief of Police needed a ear and had signified their will ingness to donate toward it if he would take up a pubic subscrip-
 tion. Marshall explained that since
 he has been on duty he has not
 been able once to get around to
 the head of the bay, as something
 might happen at this end of town
 in his absence, and is able to get
 down to the crab cannery "only
 once or twice a week due to lack
 of transportation. Marshall sa1d
 the car would pay for itself in ser
 vice derived from it and added it
 could be parked in fornt of the Fire
 Hall, anu equipped with dashboard
 starter instead Q keys, would be
 available to anyone in case of ein- sergency. Councilman Barlow su-
 ported Marshall's request for a car
 and it was decided to wait untl
 the budget was made up to see if funds would be available Mean. while Marshall could get the names of the business people who had expressed their willingness to donate toward 1t.
 Following Chief Marshall. Light Superintendent Ralph Devenny said that speaking of cars, the | Light Plant would soon need a new service car. He pointed out that the present service car is old and requires frequent repair. He said
 valve grind and new rings now
 would probably put 1t in running
 order for the next six months but
 that it was something to think a.
 bout He said that the telephones ordered by the City last winter when Wrangell was threatened to be without a telephone system, had arrived and that the present owners of the Wrangell Telephone
 Company had offered to take them
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