Hospital Updates, Cemetery Prices, Tax Talks
- Approved the purchase of $500 worth of furniture for the Nurses' Home, an addition to the City Hospital.
- Addressed multiple citizen appeals regarding property tax valuations.
- Established a new pricing schedule for burial plots in Section II of the Oakwood Cemetery Annex.
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602 the payment of taxes on the reduced valuation of $2665.00 and to take credit for the texes on the $670.00, the amount of reduction agreed upon by the Board of Equalization. The above resolution was adopted by the following vote: Ayes, Mayor Yett, Councilmen Copeland, Eyres, Haynes and Searight, 5; nayes, none, Councilman Copeland introduced the following resolution: WHEREAS, the City Council has heretofore purchased from S. A. Philquist certain articles of household furniture for the equipment of the Nurses' Home, an addition to the City Hospital, for the sum of $500.00 and said equipment has been delivered to the City for such purposes, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUSTÍN : That the sum of $500.00 be and the same is hereby appropriated out of the City Hospital Bond Fund and the City Clerk is hereby instructed to draw a warrant for said amount payable to the order of S. A. Philquist, in full payment for said equipment. The above resolution was adopted by the following vote: Ayes, Mayor Yett, Councilmen Copeland, Eyres, Haynes and Searight, 5; nayes, none. The Council then took up the matter of the hearing of a number of tax protests, after which the Council recessed, SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin, Texas, February 20,1922 The Council was called to order by the Mayor, Roll call showed the following members present: Mayor Yett, Councilmen Copeland, Eyres, Haynes and Bearight, 5; absent, none, Councilman Haynes introduced the following resolution: RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TEXAS: That the schedule of prices hereto attached against the number of the lots and their approximate sizes in Section II of Oakwood Cemetery Annex, be and the same is hereby adopted by the City Council as the schedule of prices for lots in said Section E of Oakwood Cemetery Annex, The above resolution was adopted by the following vote: Ayes, Mayor Yett, Councilmen Copeland, Eyren, Haynes and Searight, 5; nayes, none. The Council then adjourned.