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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC MINUTES 1954 04 12 MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA, HELD ON MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1954 AT 7:30 P. M., AT THE CITY HALL COUNCILMEN PRESENT: Vincent L. Humeston, W. L. Tadlock, Arthur O. Park, Frank E. Bacon, Jr. COUNCILMEN ABSENT: Jerome C. Kidd. CITY ATTORNEY: C. Arthur Nisson, Jr., was present. City Clerk penington Was absent and C. Arthur Nisson, Jr., City Attorney, acted as temporary clerk at the request of the Mayor. Minutes of the meeting of March 22, 1954 were read and approved as corrected. Bacon seconded that the City Treasurer be authorized to transfer $544.94 from the Traffic Safety Fund to the Special Gas Tax Fund for the purpose of ad- justing said funds. This to be done pursuant to letter dated April 7, 1954 from the City Auditor, and also in accordance with a letter from Robert C. Kirkwood dated March 17, 1954. Motion Carried. Correspondence was presented including a letter from City of Yuba City read concerning location of Air Force Academy at Beale Air Force Base. Matter was deferred and ordered filed. Letter received and filed from the Orange Chamber of Commerce inviting the City of Tustin to participate in the May Festival. Letter from National Baseball Conference referred to Recreational Director Bacon. Estimates for the cost of heating facilities in the City Hall were received and filed and the City Clerk was asked to get two more bids, plans and suggestions concerning re- vamping the heating system in the City Hall. A letter from the Division of Highways concerning cancel- lation of taxes was received, whereupon it was moved by Park, seconded by Tadlock, that the second half of 1953-54 taxes and property taxes for all subsequent years on real property deeded from Elanor to the State of California des- cribed as: That portion of Block B of the S. Tustin Tract as shown on map recorded in Book l, page 99, of Miscellan- eous Maps in the office of the County Recorder of said County, lying Southwesterly of the following described line: Beginning at a point in the center line of D Street (80 feet wide) distant thereon N. 0 12' 50" W., 302.69 feet from the intersection of said center line with the center line of Co. Road now Newport Ave. (60 feet wide) as said street and read are shown on said map; thence S. 67 32' 34" E., 204.33 feet to a point in said center line of Newport .Ave., distant there- on N. 39 52' 58" E., 292-74 feet from said intersection. All right, title and interest, in and to said D Street and Newport Ave. abutting the above described parcel of land, Which deed is dated October 13, 1953, be cancelled. Motion Carried. Mayor Humeston reported on a conversation from Bill Nelson, Superintendant of the Elementary School in Tustin, concern- ing the fact of purchase of certain property from Mr. Chase at 320 South "C" Street in Tustin. Mayor Humeston reported that the Tustin Elementary School Board had requested a can- cellation of the second half of property taxes in the sum of $4.50, that being a cancellation from April 1, 1954 through June 30, 1954. After discussion Park moved, Tadlock seconded, and it was duly carried that $450 be cancelled from the second half of the 1953-54 property taxes and that all future property taxation be waived on that certain property purchased by the Tustin Elementary School District from Mr. B. Chase at 320 South "C" Street in Tustin, more particularly described as follows: Lot 12, Block 15, Tustin City Tract. It was moved by Tadlock, seconded by Bacon, that Mr. Bud Hanaford be employed as Deputy Assessor for the year 1954-55 at the rate of $2.00 per hour. Motion was carried. Sanitation District Bond Election proposal was discussed. Park moved, Bacon seconded, and it was duly carried that City Engineer McBride be authorized to employ county road crew men on off-days and be authorized to sign for equipment and material needed to repair city streets. The matter of the need for increased police salaries was dis- cussed and deferred until Commissioner Kidd could be present at the next meeting. Park moved, Tadlock seconded, and it was duly carried, that bills be paid. The following bills were ordered paid: Hanson & Peterson $ 85.00 Orange Co. League of Cities 3.50 Seaside Oil Co. 122.89 Carson & Golding 68.66 Duane W. Wheeler and Co. 308.31 Graves & Howley 17.47 James A. Muslck, Sheriff 6.60 County of Orange 1.00 Tustin Fire Department 165.50 Calif. State Firemen's Asso 34.50 Walt's Garage 258.12 F. Morton Pitt Co. 10.04 Tustin Hardware Co. 10.85 J. L. McBride 40.20 First National Bank of Tustin 74.79 Director Internal Revenue 249.10 State Dept. of Employment 180.30 Dudley C. Kiser 30.00 $1,666.83 Bacon moved, Tadlock seconded that the meeting be adjourned to April 20, 1954, at the hour of 7:30 o'clock P.M., where- upon said meeting was adjourned to said day, time and place. Vincent L. Humeston Mayor Samuel C. Penington City Clerk