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City Hall
250 E.`Pine St. March 17, 1970
Central Point, Oregon 730 p.m.
The common council met in regular adjourned session with Mayor Eurton
presiding.
Roll call found present: Mayor Eurton; Councilmen Bagham, Hill,
Manasco, Tonri. Absent..:-Van Hain. Also present: Tucker, Chief
Higinbotham and Chief Sanders. _
Due to the absence of the Recorder and Deputy Recorder, Mayor
Burton appointed Tucker as Recorder pro tem for the evening.
® The minutes of the March 3 meeting were read but the council asked
~ that .they be rewritten and submitted again at the next meeting. _
~ Glen Hibner of Viking Automatic Sprinkler Co. appeared before the
V council to ask that ordinance no. 9~6 be amended to allow installation
of, wet -type automatic sprinklers without a detection check or other
meter.. .After discussion, the matter was referred to the water committee.
Ordinance No. 979, an ordinance authorizing and directing the Mayor
and Recorder to execute a lease with Robert G. Lull was presented.
The lease is on a major portion of the granite pit property. Tonn
moved the adoption of the proposed ordinance; Hill seconded the motion.
Roli call vote found Bigham, Hill and Tonn in favor; Manasco abstained
,from voting. Motion carried. Ordinance 979 declared duly adopted.
.Administrator Tucker presented Jack Dalkenberg's request that a
portion of the no-parking area in front of his home at 600 N. Third
Street be returned to a parking allowed status. Chief Sanders
'recommended that the no-parking status be retained in the interest
of safety. The council discussed the matter and decided to take no
action.
Problems with the present copying machine were mentioned as were
lease possibilities of other copying machines. Hill moved and Bigham
seconded a motion to authorize the administrator to enter into a
rental agreement with Xerox under the MUP plan of the State of Oregon.
A letter was read from the Oregon. Department of General Services,
Purchasing Division, asking for the filing of the names of persons
authorized to sign Purchase Requests for the 1970 ca~.endar year. The
council authorized Mayor Burton, Administrator Tucker and Councilman
Hi11, Administrative Committee chairman, to so sign.
Bigham moved that the bills be approved for payment; Manasco seconded
the motion and it carried.
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The council discussed the matter of electing a councilman to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of Reed. It was decided to
cast ballots for first and second choice, all of which would be
counted together. The two nominees receiving the highest number of
votes would then be the remaining nominees; the others being eliminated.
This was done, with Thomas V. Thomas and Richard D. Olson receiving
thehighest number of votes. It was further decided that the balloting
between those two nominees would be held over until the meeting on
April 7, 1970.
Manasco asked whether the Charter Revision Committee was to do any-
thing further. The committee was then requested to meet again and
formulate plans for publicizing the contents of the proposed new
charter. Chairman Hill called such meeting for March 25, 1970 at .
7:00 p.m.
Tonn mentioned his concern for the safety of pre-school age children
on bicycles. He stated that many are riding in the streets without
regard to stop signs or other traffic regulations. The Police Depart-
ment was asked to try to handle the matter by publicity and enforce-
meet.
Eigham moved and Manasco seconded a motion to adjourn to the next
meeting or to the call of the Mayor. Meeting adjourned at 8:30 p.m.
ti pproved
Mayor
Attest•
City Reco er -
Approved by me this day of , 1970
Approved
Mayor
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