- Regular meeting.
- Mayor SMITH presiding.
- Present - Ald. BUCKERIDGE, CUNNINGHAM, GARDNER,
GESLEY, HELM, LEDELL, MERRILL,
- MUELLER, NEEDHAM, POLLOCK, SHARP
- 11.
- Absent - Ald. CLARKE, DAY, HANSEN, HEWITT
- 4.
- The minutes of the meeting of October 1st were read and approved.
- A petition from DORRBAKER & ANDERSON for
three bowling alleys was received and referred to the License
- committee.
- Ald. GARDNER presented the following petition which
was referred to the Public Property committee with power
- to act:
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- To the Honorable the Mayor and Common Council
of the city of Beloit.
- Gentlemen: I desire to place a monument in
the path running east and west between my two lots in the
- Cemetery and I petition your honorable body
for permission to do so. This can be easily done without harming
anybody else as the path ends at the east side of my said lots.
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- Ald. SHARP, for the Finance committee, presented the
following report and resolution which were adopted:
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- Your Finance committee to whom was referred
the matter of devising ways and means to raise funds
- necessary to pay for the proposed storm water
sewer in the Fourth ward beg leave to report that we favor borrowing
money for a short time to meet the necessity and recommend the
adoption of a resolution as follows:
- Resolved, That
the city of Beloit borrow the sum of money necessary to pay for
the proposed storm
- water sewer in the Fourth ward and that the
Mayor and City Clerk be, and hereby are, authorized, empowered
and directed to execute the promissory note of the city for the
necessary amount, the same to be payable Jan. 1, 1901.
- R. H. SHARP,
- L. E. CUNNINGHAM,
- A. C. HELM,
- Finance Com.
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- On motion of Ald. POLLOCK the contract for the construction
of the surface sewer on Vernon avenue and Eighth
- street was awarded J. C. CLARKE, he being the lowest
bidder.
- Ald. LEDELL, for the License committee, reported recommending
the granting of a license to DORRBAKER &
- ANDERSON for the three bowling alleys. On motion the
report was adopted and license granted.
- Ald. SHARP, for the Aldermen of the Third and Fourth
wards, reported estimates for surface sewer on Brooks
- street to drain Hackett street. On motion the report was
accepted.
- Ald. CUNNINGHAM presented the following resolution
which was adopted:
- Resolved, That the Board of Public Works be directed
to cause a storm water sewer to be built on Brooks street
- according to the recommendation of the Aldermen of the Third
and Fourth wards and plans furnished by the City Engineer.
- The Judiciary committee reported progress on the claim of
Thomas BIRDITT and were granted more time.
- Ald. HELM, for the Aldermen of the First ward, presented
the following report which was adopted:
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- We the Aldermen of the First ward to whom
the within report of city engineer was referred, respect-
- fully report in favor of adopting the grade
on Central avenue and request more time in the matter of the
South Race street grade.
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- Ald. MUELLER presented the following majority report
which was supported:
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- To the Mayor and Common Council of the city
of Beloit:
- We the undersigned aldermen of the First
ward to whom the petition of the BRODER sisters was
- referred regarding the laying of sidewalk
on Central avenue to the terrace line, would recommend that the
same not be granted.
- C. F. MUELLER,
- J. C. CLARKE.
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- Ald. HELM presented the following minority report
and moved that it be submitted for that of the majority:
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- I respectfully report in favor of granting
the within resolution.
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- Ald. HELM's motion was supported and lost by the following
vote, the ayes
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