362 Regular meeting of HE City Council: Austin,Texas,October 24, 1912. The Council was called To ord r by the Mayor: Roll called: Present Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Hart, Haynes & Powell 5 Absent none. The minutes of the last and subsequent recessed meeting swere read and approvd Reports of City Officers: The Mayor laid before the Council the report of the Sexton for the month of Sept 1912, and That of THE Supt of the Wa er & Light Plant for the months of August & Sept 1912, which w re read and ORDERED FILED. Councilman Haynes offered the following resolution: Be it resolved by THE Ci y Council of THE City of Austin: Transfar funds That H L Haynes Supt, in charge of the Sanitary Dept, be and is h reby authorized To TRANSFER $ 133.52, from the approp iZation for EXTRa labor & cutting weeds in THE budget for 1912 in said Dept ,to the credit of "Tools" a account for said Dept. The resolution was adop ed by the following vo e : Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Hart, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. Councilman Powell offered the following esolution : Be i , resolved by The City Council of the City of Austin: Allo. for extra That $ 225.00 ,or so much as is necessa (not otherwise appropriated) street work for be appropriated out of the Permanen Street Improvem nt fund to pay Carl Brazos Knape for cutting down sid walk corn r of E 8th and Brazos streets ,putting in s eps and under-pinning Mrs Damskey's building on The corner of East 8th and Brazos streets, Mrs Damski to pay for the curbing and sidewalk. The resolution was adopted by the following voTE : Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Hart, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. Councilman Powell offered the following resolution : R Rasor placed Be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin,Texas, that the on monthly Roll Supt of Streets and Public Improvements bE authorized to put Romie Rasor on the monthly pay Roll of THE Sewer Dept as Rodman at a salary of $ 50.00 per month ,time to commencE Nov 1st 1912. The resolution was adopTED b THE following voTE : Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Hart, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. B B Crow Councilman Bartholomew presented the resignation of B B Crow as Inspector Resignation at the Dam ,which was accEp ed by the following vo tE : Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Hart, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. Councilman Bartholomew offered the following esolution : Be it resolv d by The City Council of Th City of Austin : That five thousand ($ 5,000.00) dollars out of the surplus funds of Th . Water, Light and Power dept of Th City of Austin,Texas, for THE eaR 1912 bKxandxTKExsxmRxRxb bE and THE samE aRE h reby appropRiat d To THE xp nse of cutting timbeR --- Page break --- Appropriation Cutting Timber on Lake .upon he lands and cERTAIN iNcId pTAl exponS y conneC d wITH Said woRk. Be it fUrThER ThAT Said fIv ThouSAnd ($5,000.00) dollars shall also apply o Th payment for a perpetual igHT and EasEMeNT o THE CiTy fOov rFflowing e pTain lands fRonting Th Colorado RiVver, wHICH mA y b ovErflowEd b y incR aSinG THE hEIgh of THE dam fRom SiXT y To SixT. fIvE FEEt abOvE low WATER maRK. The resoluTion was adop ed b y ThE following voTE : y Yeas MaYoR WOOLdRiDge, CouNcIlmen BArTHolom w, HART, hAyNES & POWEll 5 Nays none. The Mayor laid befo e the Council the following R soluTion : Be i resolv d by Th CiTy Council of Th CiTy of Austin: That the sum of six hundred sixTy s pEn and 1/100 dollars ($660.41) b o and THE samE is HEREb aPPROpRiATed out of THE gEneral coN tIn g nT fUNd Judgment Robt Noell to pay the Judgment obtained by Robert Noell against the City of Austin, Texas and approved by the City Attorney of said City to pay the same filled [illegible] and accompanying this resolution. The resolution was adopted by the following vote! Yeas Mayor Wooldredge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Hart, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. The Mayor laid before the Council the following resolution! Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin, Texas! First, that the north side of west 9th Street Sidewalk on W 9th ordered from Lavaca Street to San Antonio Street be and the same is hereby ordered Sidewalks to be sidewalked and curbed, in accordance with the general specifications heretofore adopted by the City Council, regulating the width of Sidewalks and the dimension of curbing. Second, that the Supt. of Streets and Public Improvements and the City Engineer are instructed to arrange for the Sidewalking and Curbs of said 9th Street from Lavaca to San Antonio Streets on the north side, in the manner heretofore set forth, whenever practicable to the property traders owning property upon said Street Third, that the defendants, of consent entitled to do so, by the fronting property owners upon said West 9th Street from Lavaca to San Antonio Streets be and they are hereby instructed, for a period of thirty days from the passage hereof, to sidewalke the said and be in hereby instructed to have said property sidewalked & curbed, in accordance with the provision of the ordinances of the City of Austin, Texas, in such case make and provide. S. S. Posey Nominated Confirmed Inspector at Dam The resolution was read and action in order on the nomination of S. S. Posey, to the Inspector at the Dam, in place Councilman Bartholomew, Supt Parks and Public Property, of B. S. Groom, resigned, which nomination was confirmed by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldredge, Councilmen, Hart, Haynes, Powell 4 Nays Councilman Bartholomew 1 The Council then recessed Subject to Call. --- Page break --- 364 Oct 26th 1912 Councilman Powell, offered the following resolution: Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin, Texas, that the Supt of Streets and Public Improvements be authorized J A Geisinger . . to employ Mr. J. A. Geisinger as Assistant Engineer at the appointed asst. rate of eighty ($80.00) dollars per month, beginning October Engineer 22nd 1912. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Reagan, Thoveridge, Councilman Bartholomew, Hart & Heyman Nays none. Councilman Bartholomew offered the following resolution: Resolved that the Supt of Parks & Public Property be Supt. Parks etc. authorized to carry out the recommendations of an To Carry out Ass. Consulting Engineer, in the matter of recommendations laying pipe to the proposed Reservoir; that he be authorized Engineer as to of an Asst. be spread on the minutes of the Council Reservoir The resolution was adopted by the following Vote: Yeas Reagan, Thoveridge, Councilman Bartholomew, Hart, Heynes & Powell Nays none Report of Supt. Austin, Texas. Oct 25th 1912 Mr E C Bartholomew Supt of Parks and Public Property Austin, Texas Dear Sir: With reference to the water system of the City, and its relation to the new reservoirs to be built, and the centrifugal pumps to be inRecommendation stalled by the City Water Power Co., I devise Consulting to make you the following statement: Engineer of A careful study of the present water supWater ply, system, and of the amount of water supplied to the City, indicates clearly, that to preclude a prohibitive water pressure on the down town section, a thirty inch main should be laid from the new reser- voir to be built, to the Income Asylum; a supplementary twenty inch main should be laid from the Asylum to 17th St., and a further supplementary twelve inch main --- Page break --- extended from 19.th to 1.th This agreement, however, contemplates an increase in the City's consumption during the next five years of perhaps three or four million gallons in twenty-four hours, and pro- vides for such a reduction in friction head due to present conditions as to make the reservoir a balancing and equaliz- ing factor on the water system to the fullest desirable and practicable extent. An approximate figure for the total cost of labor and material to make this installation complete would be #65,000.00. In view of this relatively large expenditure of money for the installation, and the considerable amount of time that must necessarily be consumed in making it, I believe that it is expedient to modify the requirements to meet the present de- mands and conditions as follows: Place a thirty inch, Class "A", cast iron main immediately at the reservoir to re- ceive the discharge from any and all of the four reservoir compartments, each compartment to have a twenty-four inch stop valve between its discharge pipe and the thirty inch main. Connect to the two twelve inch mains now extending to the Asylum, the twenty inch main which is being re- moved on the boulevard leading to the dam, and supplement same with enough new, Class "A", twenty inch cast iron pipe to connect with the thirty inch main at the reservoir. When the reservoir is filled the static head at the pumping station will be about one hundred, twenty-seven pounds per square inch, and to force the water through the modified system, as proposed, for the present, into the reservoir at the rate of three million gallons in twenty- four hours will require an additional pressure of about eighteen pounds, or a total head under such conditions of about one hundred, forty-five pounds per square inch. The down town section must be connected to withstand this pressure if possible to permit economical operation of the pumps. If that pressure is found to be excessive the only remedy will be to so operate the --- Page break --- 366 pumps as to force less water into the reservoir at any time than would be done at the rate of three million gallons per twenty four hours. It would be advisable to place a relief valve on the discharge main at the pump- ing station, which would automatically bypass the water when the pressure at any time exceeds its pre-determined value which is safe for the piping system. Furthermore it would also be advisable to place an electrically operated gauge at the pumping sta- tion which will indicate at all times the pressure on the mains in North Austin, probably in the vicinity of the North Austin Fire Hall. I would recommend the substitution for one of the six million gallon pumps to be installed at the pumping station, a four million gallon pump of the same relative efficiency as required for the other six million gallon pump. The reason for recommending that one of the pumps be made a four million instead of a six million is, that with the pump running on an alternative current cir- cuit at practically constant speed, too much water would be by-passed in order to prevent the pressure on the mains from increasing far above 145 lbs. per square inch, which is considered to be about the limiting pressure which should be impressed upon the system to by-pass a relatively large amount of water would, of course, lower the economy of pumping, and for the average water consumption and below, a four million pump should be operated without by-passing much little, if any, of the water pumped. For the peak water consumption conditions the six million pump may be used, and if the demand should be extraordinary, both the four million and the six million gallon pumps could be run at the same time to supply the system. It should be said further that the modification proposed, by what is con- sidered to be the best installation from an engineering standpoint, presumes that as the City increases in size, and the water demand becomes greater, provision will be made for supplementing the twenty inch main now to be laid from the Dayton to the reser- voir, with another main of about the --- Page break --- Same size, and additional connection will be laid between the pumping station and the reception. - Yours very truly, (Signed) A.R. Doak Consulting Engineer. Handed back Oct. 28th 1912 - O.K. B.A.P.M. Mayor H. Wooldridge offered the following resolution: Be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin! That leave be and is hereby granted Mayor A.P. Wooldridge to withdraw from the consideration of this Council the proposed Ordinance, granting to E.H. Brown et al, their successors and assigns, a franchise to use certain streets, alleys and other property in the City of Austin as a part of an interurban Railway System between this City and Lockhart, Texas and to substitute therefor another ordinance identically, of the same form, save in a few verbal particulars, approved by the City Council! The resolution was adapted by the following Vote: Yeas. Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Hart, Haynes and Powell Nays. none. Franchise Suburban R.R. The Mayor presented to the Council an ordinance, granting to E.H. Brown, L.P. Dunlap, Jim Gobot, N.M. Ulasy Waller & Crawford, Elgin Sharacero, heirs and Assigns, the right, privilege and franchise to build and construct a single and double line track, and necessary switches, and turnouts, over certain streets of the City of Austin, and run along and across the tracks of other railway companies, and on and along the tracks, and across the bridges and the Colorado river in the City of Austin, for the purpose of operating interurban cars now and after the same The Ordinance was read the first time. The Council then recessed Oct 28th 1912 Council called to order by the Mayor with all members present. Councilman Powell offered the following resolution! Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin, Texas, That Mr. Joseph Wooton be given a temporary grade for his Sidewalk Mr. Jos. Wooton Sidewalk, on the west side of Saraceen Street from 18th street North, this grade to correspond approximately with the present grade of the gravel walk; also, that he be given a temporary grade and line for his curbing on the said line, the same to correspond with the grade and line of his present brick curbing. --- Page break --- 308 Grades Lasacca bet 18th & 19th st's The resolution was adopted by the following Vote! Yeas Councilmen Bartholomew, Hart, & Powell 4 Nays Mayor Worredridge Councilman Powell offered the following resolution, Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin, Texas, that grades be given as follows on the east side of Lavaca Street between 18th & 19th Streets, and on the South side of 19th Street. 1. That the curb in front of the Randolph and Bruggenhoss properties join the Grade of Curb in front of the Wells Property, and continue to the South Curb line of 19th Street at the Same height above the Pavement Grade, and going east from this Corner on 19th Street the Curb to drop to the pavement height above the Pavement Grade. 2. That the Sidewalk in front of the Bruggenhoss Property at the Southeast Corner of 19th and Lavaca Streets join the Grade of the Sidewalk in front of the Randolph Property and continue to 19th Street, approximately, at the Same height above the Curb. 3. The driveways into the Wells and Randolph properties be cut back to the Curb line and lowered sufficiently to give them Safe entrance, such steps or an encline being placed in the Sidewalk to these driveways. 4. That the 19th Street Side of the Bruggenhoss Property, the grade of Sidewalk be placed with a rise of from 7 feet to the present grade of Sidewalk in front of the Steppa Regina property at the Corner of Granada Street. The resolution was adopted by the following Vote! Yeas Mayor Worredridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Hart, Haynes & Powell Nays None Councilman Bartholomew presented a bill of G. R. W. Murray for medical services which was allowed and ordered paid by the following Vote! Yeas Mayor Worredridge, Councilmen Bartholomew, Hart Haynes & Powell Nays None The Council then adjourned (Geo. Johnson City Clerk)