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at?#■T'S COUNCIL.Watermaster Brown andCouncilor Holdaway .Resign,JOSEPH S.STRONG UNANIMOUSLY APPOINTED WATERMASTER,A Building Committee Appointetl for the Erection of a City Hall*9yaxThe Cny Council met’in regular session la 'evening, with Mayor Dusenber-ry in the chair- The only absentee wasCouncilor Hansen.The following petition was read:2*o the Honor able Mayor and Members of the City Council:Gentlemen;—-We, the undersigned, your petitioners, pray your honorable body to take into consideration and deliberate upon some means of protecting from fire, the costly business blocksana other buildings that have and are being i-reeled in compliance with an ordinance ^y the City Council governing ihe*|nre limits of this city.* And yourpetitioners mrther pray that you gentlemen take the matter under advisementat an earl}' date for the benefit of yourtaxpayers and public enterprises that may accrue from a measure of safety, countenanced and created b}r your hon orabte body. -For which your petitioners fervently P ray- Respectfully,A. 0. Smoot, and eighty-four others.# On motion of Alderman Scott the petition was referred to the committee on fireworks, with instructions to report atan early day.The communication of John Lid-uiardj giving reasons iviiy their veran-dfth was erected of material forbidden by the ordinance on the Bubjecfc, was read.Aldertnan Alexander moved that it bo referred to the City Inspector.City Inspector Sairmelson said if this inslance was allowed to pass unnoticed bv the City Council other persons would bo taking advantage of the city ordinance providing for the erection of verandahs. He would like to hear the Council express themselves on the matter, He had done his part, and he considered it unjust to refer the matter back to him without an expression on the partof the Council.Alderman A. D* Holdaway considered the Council should be persistent in having the ordinance bearing on this matter enforced. If we are going to let .the present cage pass, then let the ordinance establishing firs limits be.repeled. Butwhile it remained on the statute book,he was in favor ot seeing it enforced.Alderman Alexander stated that he had been waited upon by Mr, D. John in relation to the matter, who had sought his advice In the premises. Mr. John had stated that he intended to replace the wooden supports of the verandah with iron pillars, as soon as he possloly could, and in other-ways make it con-formidable with the ordinance. The communication by the proprietors of the Cosmopolitan hotel was not satisfactory, and hence he was in favor of it being referred back to the street inspector, with authoritj to sea that the verandah was reconstructed in conformity with the city ordinance.Councilor Maiben was not present when the resolution providing for the erection of verandahs wag passed; bad he been, he would have opposed it, as it was Inconsistent in its provisions. He would oppose the reference of the communication to the City Inspector. That oflieer had already done bis duty. The Marshal was the proper one now to attend to the matter.Councilor Bean considered the Council was working an injury, in saying that every part of a verandah should be com* nose of incombustible material. Tlie Council might just as well say that a person should not make his windowframes, his door frames, or even hxs doors of anjthing else but iron. There was leas danger of fire from sl verandah th*n anv other part of a building.Alderman Scott said so long as we have an ordinance on the book it should be enforced. But he sincerely believed that the ordinance .establishing firelimits should be amended panyways.Alderman Holdaway did not consider, that the ordinance prohibited the useof material in the erection of a verandah that was absolutely needed in its con-gtructionjoveo thoughjit was eombufetible.JBut a verandah should not be built entirely of combugtibl* material.Councilor Maiben did not think Provo would go far wrong If sh* patterned after dalfc Lake city in this respect. She was not so technical in the matter of erecting verandahs as the Council want-ed_ to be. His fir#? belief was that the originator orjariginafcore of the reBolutionproviding for the Erection of verandahsdrew up the ordinance for ne other purpose than that of prohibiting the erection of verandahs altogether.The cornu nication was finally referredto the City Inspector with authority to see that the ordinance was con pi ledjrith.A letter of resignation waa presented from City Waterraaste, W. H. Brown.On motion of Councilor Dixon the resignation wag accepted.The report of the City Marshal for the month of August, showing fifteen arrests and $67 assessed as iines, was read andaccepted.The monthly report of the Recorder was also read and accepted. The* report showed a total of $296.65 collected aslicense.The report of the Quarantine Physician for the six months ending August 30th, was read and accepted.The import of Justice Alexander for’ the quarter ending August 30th, was read and accepted. The report shows atotal of sixty cages beard, and $145 assessed as fines Alderman Seott from the committee of finance, to whom was referree the peti-■on of S. S, Jones asking for the appropriation of $140 to liquidate the debt incurred on the celebration of the Fourth of Julv, lee'immended the appropriation oi the sum askrd for.Alderman £1 old a way did not think the Council had any right to makfc such an spproprjatic.il. So far as he understood sentiment of the taxpayers of this citv they wers opposed to any amount ueing appropriated for any such purpose.Alderman Scott said tjiat while^the Council had no technical right to make ihi$ appropriation, yet there was any amount of precedence on every side that would warrant the Council granting the request, and he believed the city would justify the action of the Council in sodoing* .The motion to make the appropriation was carried without one dissenting voice.This commit :ee also recomroeudedftbat the sum of $70 he appropriated to Pound-keeper R« T. Thomas for services from November to March. Adopted.The same committee recommended that the compeneati on of the city assessorbe established at $400 per year. Thereport was adopted* ^Tho special committee, to whom .was referred the matter of conferring^ with «ho County Court regarding the building of a vault, submitted the following report :To the Mayor and City Council; Gentlemen** Your special committee,to whom was referred the subject of conferring with the County Court committee In relation to joining with the county iu building a central building and vault would report that we have conferred with said committee and from what information we can get we are of the opinion that it would not be advisable for Provo city to join the county in building said bu Iaing and vaults, and would recommend that Provo city build a City Hall on the northwest corner of the Courthouse block, and that there be a building committee of three appointed, and that they be authorized to procure competi ive plana and specifications for a building not to ex. esd $25,000 in c^st, and submit the same to the Council.W. It. H. Paxman, Chairman.Councilor Farrer was not in iavor of the report. If Provo was to build a City Hall, it should not be erected on theproperty facing the Tabernacle on the east. It shotiLd be near the Courthouse. He believed the west half of the Square would be used for other purposes In the future*Aldermau Brown moved to amend the report by striking out all that portion referring to the location of the Hall.Alderman Alexander considered the northwest portion of the block the placefor the erection of the Hall, and nowhere else, and he would oppose the amendment.Councilor Maiben thought the location could be decided at some future time.Councilor Paxmaa wanted to eee the Hall built on the west half of the square, and In such a situation as to allow of the appropriate laying out of the grounds surrounding it,Alderman Scott thought the matter of location should be decided before any move was made for procuring plans andspecifications. Ha would favor the southwest corner beint? used for the Hall and the northwest coiner being sold.Councilor Dixon thought the location decided upon by the committee would meet with public approval.Alderman Brown would like to see the matter left entirely with the committee.The Mayor here stated that thingswere getting “considerably mixed up.1'First, this special committee was instructed to call a mass meeting of the taxpayers of Provo for the purpose of getting from them their views as to whether Provo should co-operate with Utah county in building a Yault, Next, the meeting is held, and the sense of the people is declarod to the effect that Provo City shall build a City Hall in con* junction with the Courthouse. Now comes along this committee and pays that the City Hall shall not be built in conjunction with'the Courthouse, but by itself, a proposition entirely different to what the taxpayers declared at the mass meeting. If this was the way' we were going to treat |the expressed wishes cfthe tax-payers what was the use of baying mass meeting*? So far as he himself was concerned, if an ether such meeting was called,he would not attend. Ho would advocate this “inglorious Council letting the entire matter die out, and nothing being said at all about it. At some future day when the record of this Council would be read, seme wit would arise and say that the Asylum was erected in a very suitable place in-deed. ^ yCouncilor Maiben did not understandthat the people at the mass meeting wanted a City Hall built in conjunction with the Courthouse. Some individual, it is true, got up and added the words* “in conjunction with the Courthouse just as the question was being put tovote, but that proposition was net discussed at all.Councilor Bean was not in favor of this “inglorious Council” letting the matter “die out as suggested by the Mayor. He was in favor of the Council going on record as a sensible body and one that could do something Jhat would redound to their credit.A great deal of talk was here indulged in by several of the members of the Council regarding the action of the County Court in advertising for bids for the erection of a vault without first consulting the special committee appointed by the Council to confer with the County .Court committee on the subject.The motion to strike'out from the report of the special committee, the wards “on ths northwest corner of the Courthouse block, was then carried by a vote of 9 to 3.The report as amended was then adopted,”Th« following claims were then allowed : City Marshal, for police services for the mopth of August, $160*75; A. Wilkins, for board oj prisoners, $4.80; Quarantine Physician, six months ser vices, $100; Wafermasier,for special services, for 1SS8, $31; Watermaetsr and deputies, $90; Street Supervisor and deputies, $53.25; Recorder, $75; Justice W* D. Alexander, $77.10; City Surveyor,locating fa four rod street from Wesfe-phaFs house to Utah Lake, etc., $19; Soren Jensen, ringing curfew bell, $4;Committee on Streets aud Alleys, $37.75; Committee on Finance, $4.75.On motion of Alderman Alexander the claim of Fyne Maiben, for famishing medicine to,quarantine patients/amount-ing to $22.70, waa referred to the committee on quarantine, as also the claims of Alfred Newel Sf A- Wilkins and Asael Wilkins,Councilor David Holdaway here arose and tendered his resignation as councilor of the Third Ward on account of hisleaving Provo.On motion of Alderman Brown the resignation was accepted.The Mayor appointed as a building committee on the City Hall, in accordance with the report of the special committee on the subject,Messrs, Alexander, Paxman and Bean.Councilor Dixon here placed In nomination the name of Joseph S. Strong as Water master, vice W. H. Brown resigned. Seconded by Councilor Pax-man.Aldermau Scott moved that the question of appointing a wtermastei he deferred till a future meeting of the Council.Alderman Scott's motion was lost and Mr. Joseph Strong was elected water* waster*At five minutes to lb o'clock Dae Council adjourned till Monday evening, September 16, 1SS9,gI1tafiJeC£1JVtIfIfifr/c1]
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Provo Utah Enquirer
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