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ineers Are/Credited WithSaving to City:!Hayward's eity engineering department, ectablifjhed 'i;jx incmtliis fttfo, today was credited with saving $3,301.20 ;b.ver-a)l expensesj and imiltling up $793.54 additional in i'^Qiilpmesst dni'Jng its beginning period, j It faced considerable oon-trov•OVOJ-ftVIL.b?inuinasiuziikI much vviu-MuJiayor Gordon Burt reported lo the nniinoil.Iasi night, “but it has proved its ■Value.1*• . Enginecrin* costs on projects have been held to 2,7 pur cent : instead of the seven per cent v: charged propertyrovmers and tin? City..when work was let out- to private engineers, Burt reported, Hugh Golinher n city en^incGi,: and Elt;1 Phillips and Bruce Reiser , mo assistants. , • , ,. J3nui hearing projects hcaocd the aj-point agenda last night. WORK- ORDERED.iCxtiist work on the S5Q,OQO*» liplu't job, of ’ Wide nip? Maju ppd, and installing water .niKtm on Main street was of*L dared, Bids will be ooened ;• jfanuaiy 01 on Iho- $12,000 wa-TV’ter piolech and bids will be invited sooh afterward on the street widonmg, John Mane ini former cily manager, has •drawn the plans and specificalt; Hons,' Plans mid spec\i\canons were .presented for repaving of B street fi'om First to Seventh, at, ' nn estimated cost of S57.5B0.1 They will be sent to the state for . approval so that state gasoline tax money can bo used for the work.; Vho $2,000 Walnut street storm . sewer was accepted as complete.. Cl arc n street property owners agreed that they will be satisfied with a cost of approximately $7.00 per front foot for widomnc Of the street to 40 fee*-, and mit-• ting in paving, 'curbs gutter?!, sidewalks and drainage. The street Is not dedicated to the citv, and the council has said it will not accept it unless it is first pvt in shape. The engineering stnif» was told to proceed 'with the• work preliminary lo forming1 nilassessment district..Rejects offerCri recommendation of the engineers, tlio council rejected an offer by Tannan Bechtel of a 30-foot casement on Rcwcua drlVe, Paving is sufficient, said• Engineer Hugh Gallagher and the city manager, but backfills over• pipes is poor, the street is narrow, it is head-end without a turn-around at the end, it bus a 20-degree grade al its steepest sppt, no provision is made for a- sidewalk, and a retaining wall has been built directly over a sewer line. Burt said the con* tractors steadily declared they• would not want Ihe city to take it{Continued on Page Two)How the Engineers Figured Saving for City in Six MonthsarifdcktiethmelsepiorP»atelwrHere's how Ihe city engineering department figured saving for the city and ils residents in its first six months.Cost of projects on a seven per cent basis as formerly paid private engineers would have been SI 1*143. Saving io the city was S3.3Dl.20. In addition to lhisr the city accumulated in-sloolsr fable#*.-' SUp- -.h plies*-etc,, valued al 5798.54.And Ihe engineering. depait-J meni has’be'i tvuilable’' swCr questions and give esli-mates wilhoui additional charge.V/hen first employed, .the council gave the 3-man staff three months to make good or get out,City Manager Burl told tho council that SanLeandro, with twice our population, has studied our opeTaticn, and hss sex up a public works department of ils own.Unemployment Head Will Be TransferredMrs. Hazel Gilbert, who has ueeii manager of the unemployment insurance division of the California department of employment in Hayward since 1949, is transferring this month to the Oakland industrial office.Mrs, Gilbert expects her transfer to become effective abaut Jan. 10. She will be succeeded here by Phyllis Rasmussen, who comes lo Hayward from the Oakland industrial office. Miss Basin up sen will be assistant to Linton R. Bradley, who was recently named over-all manager of the Hayward office.vcthti«E3£thinofmCLoftoJainofF«EibiMrs. ed in nearlyiniGilbert has been employ-j g.the Hay ward 12 years.ofFice forMInRETURNSniTUCSON, Aviz. (U.P.) -- Lewis arDouglas, American ambassador ..to England, few to Montreal today lo attend the funeral of his father. Douglas was on his ranch at Sonila, GO miles southeast of here, when lie received word yesterday of the death of his father, southwest minipg pioneer, James Stu-nrl Douglas, 80.ofhewwwac
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Hayward Daily Hayward Review
Hayward, California, US
Tue, Jan 04, 1949
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