The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-12-10
FOUR PROJECTS
 MARKED PRIORITY BY CITY COUNCIL

 priority as the City Council, meet ing in special session last night prepared a list of municipal needs
 to be submitted to the Community
 Facilities Service.
 The priority projects were: ex- tension of sewers, street paving and improvement, library building, and 6 safety building, which would house city offices, police headquar- ters and jail and fire hall. City councilmen indicated they hoped financial backing for all four projects would be given within a year under the Alaska Public Works bill.
 Listed below the priority projects
 were Gold Creek Flood Control. re- wiring of the city fire alarm sys- tenn, and development of a new cemetery.
 Lions Club members at the meet
 ing requested that their pgoject-a
 heating system for the swimming pool-be put on the city's list. The club offered to donate the $2,000 it has collected for the project to the city so that Public Works funds could be ob- tained through the city to make up the balance of the coSt-eStimated
 at over $6.000
 The city council agreed to in- clude the swimming-pool heating plant on the list of non-priority projects to he submitted to the Service.
 It was pointed out that the city
 must pay 50 percent of the cost of
 the projects undertaken, and Mayor
 Hendrickson said that the city can
 not afford to be overloaded. Some
 definite program must be set up for
 repayment of the 50 percent to the
 government, he said.
 He said a bond issue to finance
 construction of the safety building
 has already been approved.
 Truck operators were on hand at the meeting as the council consid-
 cred reyisions to the city traffic
 ordinance.
 After listening to the opinions oi the truck owners, the council moved to revise the ordinance to require all trucks over one-half ton or 4,000 pound gross size to obtain
 city permit before driving on any
 but designated concrete-paved streets.
 The permit would be granted to
 truckers who show they carry ha-
 hility insurance or post a $l,0O0
 bond
 Purpose of the measure would be
 to prevent damage to new asphalt |, paving and needless and noisy driv- ing through residential districts
 councilmen said.
 The ordinance calling for a city election to decide on the matter of turning over lots three and four block seven, on which the Arctic Brotherhood Hall stands, to the Territory as a site for the proposed Territorial Building was passed III it's second reading.
 The ordinance also calls for de-
 cision on granting an option to the Territory on lots five and six, tlocR seven, on which the City Hal stands. for an addition to the Ter ritorial Building.
 The Territorial Board of Ad' ministration, in message to the council, suggested several amend nlents to the ordinance. One deal with the profits from salvage O. materials and equipment from tht A.B. Hall and City Hall when they are demolished.
 ] The council will meet with tht l Territorial Board of Admlnistra- i ton to discuss the proposed amend ments. Any amendments will have to be made before the third anc i final reading, Mayor Hendricksof
 said
 l A property-owner whose home II 1 on Dixon Street requested more strict enforcement of parking reg
 ulations by city police. He pointed out that parking regulations art
 being broken in dangerous man ner on Dixon Street from Eightl
 Street to the bottom of the hill