667 Regular meeting of the City Council: Austin, Texas, January 04, 1917: The Council was called to order by the Mayor: Roll called: Present Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Absent none: The minutes of the last regular and subsequent recessed meetings were read and adopted: Reports of City Officers: Reports Read. The Mayor laid before the Council the reports of the City Marshal, the Public Weigher, the Assessor & Collector of taxes for the month of December, also the Annual report of the Assessor & Collector & the Public Weigher,all of which reports were read and ordered filed: Mayor Wooldridge offered the following emergency appropriations to be used until the Budget for 1917, is adopted: viz: $ 3,000.00,out of the General street fund, to pay for Labor: $ 12,000.00,out of the Permanent street fund to pay for Labor. $ 2,000.00,out of the Sanitary Sewer fund to pay for labor, $ 5.00.00, out of the Sanitary Sewer Earnings fund to pay for labor, Emergency approp- priations. Separate resolutions appropriating the different amounts above mentioned,were read and adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. All approved by A P Wooldridge, Mayor: Mayor Wooldridge offered the following resolution: Be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin,Texas: That the following appropriations are hereby made out of the Earnings fund of the Water, Light & Powers Dept of the City of Austin, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to cover all emergencies in the operation ,maintenance,etc, of said department ,pending the adoption of the regular budget for the year 1917, toswit: W.L. & P. Dept. Office salaries $ 2,176.66 Plant 4,257.00 Water Line 740.00 Electric Line Salaries 850.00 Temporary labor, Plant & Lines 8,000.00 Buildings and grounds 500.00 Machinery & Equipment 750.00 Oil & Waste 100.00 Fuel 4,000.00 Emergency Appropriations Unloading fuel 200.00 Printing, Stationery & Postage 200.00 Damages, cost and Attorneys fees 100.00 Miscellaneous- refunds,etc 250.00 Incidentals 200.00 For the purchase of Material,etc, -------- $ 5,000.00 Total $ 27,333.66 The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. Approved, A P Wooldridge, Mayor --- Page break --- 664 Fine - Walter Burns On motion of Councilman Anthony , the fine and costs assessed against Walter Burnes in the Recorders Court , in cause No 1150 , charged with sleeping in a public place, were remitted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none, Councilman Powell offered the following resolution : Be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin, Texas : Bridges - That the Supt of Streets and Public Improvements be, and he is hereby Sale of Steel reiforced authorized to dispose of the reinforced steel left on hand from the constructio -tion of the reinforced concrete bridges . The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none, Approved, A P Wooldridge, Mayor. Mayor Wooldridge offered the following resolution : Be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin, Texas : That the accompanying specifications for the construction of sidewalks on the Sidewalks - east side of Lavaca street between 12th & 13th streets , and on the north side Lavaca St. of 12th street between Colorado and Lavaca streets , be and the same are hereby 12th St. approved, and Be it further resolved: That the Supt of Streets and Public Improvements be, and he is hereby, authorized to advertise for bids for this work , said bids to be received until 11 O'clock A M of Thursday the 11th day of January A D 1917. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. Approved, A P Wooldridge, Mayor. The Mayor presented an application for drivers license for service car from Drivers License - Grant Garber, which was granted by the following vote: Grant Garber Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none: By Councilman Powell Resolution ordering improvement of the alley from 2nd to 3rd Paving - streets between Congress Avenue and Brazos streets in the City of Austin, Texas, Alley bltw Congress and approving specifications, proposal, contract and bond therefor The resolution was read the 1st time and laid over for one week. By Councilman B. Powell , resolution ordering the improvement of the alley Alley b/tw 4th 5th from Brazos to San Jacinto streets between 4th & 5th streets in the City of Austin , Texas, and approving specifications, proposals, contract and bonds therefo -for The resolution was read the first time and laid over for one week. --- Page break --- 695 Paving - Alley from 2nd & 3rd By Councilman Powell , resolution ordering the improvement of the alley from 2nd to 3rd streets between Congress Avenue and Colorado street in the City of Austin,Texas, and approving specifications ,proposal, contract and bond therefor. The resolution was read the 1st time and lais over for one week. January 6th 1917: All presentexcept Powell Drivers Licenses The Mayor laid before the Council applications from Frank Swander& Henry Allen for Frank Swander licenses as drivers service cars ,which were granted by the following vote: Henry Allen Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony,Bartholomew & Haynes " Absent Councilman Powell 1 Mayor Wooldridge offered the following resolution: Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin : Park Fund. That an anticipatory appropriation of two hundred and fiftydollars($250.00)be and the same is hereby made out of the Park fund of the City of Austin ,Texas, to pay for miscellanbills. This appropriation is to be included later in the annual appropriation for the Park fund to be submitted in the budget of the Mayor of this City, probably during the present month. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony,Bartholomew & Haynes " Absent Councilman Powell 1 Approved, A P Wooldridge, Mayor. Mayor Wooldridge offered the following resolution : Cemetery Fund Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin : That an anticipatory appropriation of two hundred and fifty dollars($ 250.00)be and the same is hereby made out of the Cemetery Fund of the City of Austin,Texas , to pay for miscellaneous bills. This appropriation is to be included later in the annual appropriation for the Cemetery fund to be submitted in the budget of the Mayor of this City ,probablyduring the month of January 1917. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilman Anthony,Bartholomew & Haynes " Absent Councilman Powell 1 Approved, A P Wooldridge, Mayor. C E Schaff, Reciever By Mayor Wooldridge, An ordinance granting to C E Schaff,Receiver of the Missouri,Kansas M. K. T. R. R. Texas Railway Company of Texas and its properties ,the right and requiring said Receiver, Granting Franchise his successors and assigns ,to construct ,maintain and operaterailroad switchesand service tracks or turnouts upon the certain alleys and across certain streets in the City of Austin, subject to certain conditions. The ordinance was read the first time and passed under suspension of the rules by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony,Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. --- Page break --- 696 January 8th 1917: All present: Councilman Powell offered the following resolution : Re it resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin, Texas: That P S Spiller, Cashier of the Sanitary Sewer Earnings fund ,be instructed to Louis Silverstein – Sewerage Refund. refund to Louis Silverstein the sum of five dollars and seventy five cents ($ 5.75) on account of him paying this amount for sewerage at 1304 E 5th street,1210 E 5th street,1206 E 5th street and 408 E 5th street to the 31st of March 1917. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. Approved, A P Wooldridge, Mayor. Drivers' License R. C. Stovall. Application of R C Stovall for license as driver of,service car ,was presente & license granted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Bartholomew & Haynes 3 Absent Councilmen Anthony & Powell 2 January 3rd 1917: Mayor Wooldridge offered the following resolution : Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin, Texas: That leave is hereby granted to Walsh & Burney, contractors to build the new Land Office - Permit for Walsh & Burney To use Streets. Land Office at the corner of Brazos and East 11th street in this City, to use all of Brazos street from the alley between 10th & 11th streets to 11th street,save and except a roadway of twenty (20) feet which they are to keep open and unabs -structed between the line of material which they may wish to deposite in the construction of this building upon Brazos street and the west sidewalk curbing along Brazos street from said alley to 11 th street. That they are also given the right and privilege to use thirty (30) feet from the property line of 11th street for the deposite of material and the doing of work in the erection of said New Land Office building. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew ,Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. Approved, A P Wooldridge, Mayor. --- Page break --- 697 A. L. Keller - appointed Election Cleric Mrs. Maud McDonald - Valuation of Property. H. E. Townsend - Tax Assessment. Mrs. Maud McDonald Valuation of Property. The Mayor laid before the Council the following resolution: Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin, Texas : That A L Keller be and he is hereby appointed Clerk of Election in the 6th ward of this City in place of W J McNamara who has moved from said Ward. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. Approved, A P Wooldridge, Mayor. The Mayor laid before the Council the following resolution : Resolved by by the City Council of the City of Austin, Texas: That the appeal of Mrs Maud McDonald from the action of the Board of Equalization of this City in fixing a valuation of fifteen hundred ($1,500.00) dollars upon her lot 60X 128 feet ,the same being the South East corner of Outlot 25 Div "E" of this City and situated at the corner of Nueces and West 18th streets, be and the same is hereby declined. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. Approved, A P Wooldridge, Mayor. Councilman Haynes offered the following resolution: Whereas, it appears from the attached affidavit of H E Townsend that personal property in the amount of two hundred and twenty ($ 220.00) dollars ,was assessed against him for the year 1915, whom as a matter of fact said personal property had been removed from the County of Travis some three months before the 1st day of January 1915, Now, therefore, Be it resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin: That the personal property against the said H E Townsend for the year 1915 in the amount of two hundred and twenty ($ 220.00) dollars be ordered stricken from the assessment rolls of the City of Austin, Texas. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. Approved, A P Wooldridge, Mayor. Councilman Haynes offered the following resolution : Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin, Texas : That the appeal of Mrs Maud McDonald, from the action of the Board of Equalization in valuing her lot , 92 X 150 feet ,situated at the corner of West 12th & Nueces street in this City at the price of one thousand , nine hundred ($ 1,900.00) dollars , be and the same is hereby declined. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. --- Page break --- 684 Councilman Anthony offered the following resolution: Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin,Texas: That for good and sufficient reasons unto the City Council moving,the balance of the fine and costs,amounting to $ 10.80) in cause No 11321,State of Texas vs Joe Hughes,in the Corporation Court of the City of Austin,Texas, be and the same is hereby remitted. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony,Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. Approved,A P Wooldridge, Mayor. Fine - Joe Hughes Councilman Anthony offered the following resolution: Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin,Texas: That for good and sufficient causes unto the City Council moving, the balance of the fine and costs ,amounting to two & 80/100($ 2.80) in cause NO 11498, State of Texas vs L B Moffatt,in the Corporation Court of the City of Austin, Texas, for intoxication, be and the same is hereby remitted. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge,Councilmen Anthony,Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none, Approved, A P Wooldridge, Mayor. Jany 8th 1917 Fine - L.B. Moffatt. Mayor Wooldridge offered the following resolution: Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin,Texas: That leave is hereby granted to the Woman's Suffrage Society to suspend a banner across the sidewalk at No 909 Congress Avenue in this City. This cloth banner will be about ten to twelve feet long and Eighteen inches wide. This permit is good for sixty days from and after this date. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony,Bartholomew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none, Approved, A P Wooldridge,Mayor January 2nd 1917: handed the Clerk Jany 11th 1917 Woman's Suffrage Society - Permit for Sign. MaResolvedbydtheoouncilfotheCityofAustin,Texas: Mayor Wooldridge offered the following resolution: Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin,Texas: January 8th 1917: Mayor Wooldridge offered the following resolution: Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin,Texas : That permit be and is hereby granted to the Western Union Telegraph Co to install and maintain in front of their place of business in the Hancock building on West 6th street in this City an electric light sign of the same general character and design as the sign now installed by said Companyat said place,with the change onlythat it will be a more pronounced electric sign than the one now installed at said place,and it will be illuminat Western Union Tele- graph Co. "Permit" - Sign. --- Page break --- 699 with thirty electric light bulbs. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony,Bartholemew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. Approved, A P Wooldridge,Mayor: G. Flury – Electric Light Permit. The Mayor offered the following resolution : January 2nd 1917: Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin,Texas : That the petition of G Fluryto install an electric light sign of the following approximate description ,at No 2103 Speedway in this City, be and the same is hereby allowed: Said sign is to be about 3 feet in width and approximately 40 feet in height. It is to have placed thereon the words " American National Bank" on each side and facing north and south ;said sign will be illuminatedwith 350 - 5 watt electric lights. Permission is granted to the said G Fluryto guy said sign by attaching same with strong wires toTXIM poles securely stubbed 6 feet in comcrete into the ground and the wires are to be at least 8 feet above the sidewalk. The sign hereby authorized is to be entirely on the property of the said G Flury and the poles to which the guy wires are permitted to be attached are to be on the curb line of the east sidewalk of Speedway in front of the property of the said G Flury,and Be it further resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin: That this permit is revocable at the pleasure of the City Council. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony, Bartholemew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. Approved, A P Wooldridge, Mayor. Gen'l Contingent Fund – $500.00 appropriation Mayor Wooldridge offered the following resolution: Resolved by the City Council of the City of Austin,Texas: That the sum of five hundred($500.00) dollars ,be and the same is hereby appropriated out of the general contingent fund of the City of Austin,Texas,for the year 1917,to pay for urgent miscellaneous needs of the City ,as they may arise, before the budget of the city for the year 1917 can be formulated. The resolution was adopted by the following vote: Yeas Mayor Wooldridge, Councilmen Anthony,Bartholemew, Haynes & Powell 5 Nays none. Approved, A P Wooldridge, Mayor. The Council then adjourned. Jno. G. Johnson City Clerk