- Regular meeting.
- Mayor SMITH presiding.
- Present - Ald. BUCKERIDGE, CLARKE, CUNNINGHAM,
GARDNER, GESLEY, HANSEN, LEDELL,
- MERRILL, MUELLER, NEEDHAM, SHARP
- 11.
- Absent - Ald. DAY, HELM, HEWITT, POLLOCK
- 4.
- The minutes of the meeting of Dec. 3rd and 10th were read
and approved.
- Ald. CLARKE for the Aldermen of the First ward presented
the following report:
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Beloit, Wis., Dec. 17, 1900.
- To the Mayor and Common Council:
- Your committee to whom the within resolution
was referred for a new cross walk on west side of
- Central avenue, crossing Hubbard place, would
recommend that the same be not granted.
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- On motion the report was referred to the Aldermen of the
First ward by the following vote, the ayes and noes being
- called:
- Ayes - Ald. BUCKERIDGE, GARDNER, HANSEN,
LEDELL, MERRILL, NEEDHAM - 6.
- Noes - Ald. CLARKE, CUNNINGHAM, GESLEY,
MUELLER, SHARP - 5.
- Ald. MERRILL for the Public Property committee presented
the following report which was accepted and place
- on file:
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- To his Honor the Mayor and members of the
Common Council:
- Your committee on Public property who were
instructed to confer with the City School Board in
- relation to converting the southern portion
of the High School grounds into a park, report that they have
met and discussed the subject with them, and find them all willing
to concur in the project depending on the action of the Common
Council. But before they or the Common Council can do anything
positive in this direction, a school meeting of the district
will have to be called and a vote of the people obtained sanctioning
such action, and transferring the right to the city for that
purpose as the town is also interested in the transfer.
- S. R. MERRILL,
- R. H. SHARP,
- Isaac BUCKERIDGE,
- J. C. CLARKE.
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- Ald. HELM appeared and took his seat.
- Ald. CUNNINGHAM for the Bridge committee presented
the following report which was adopted:
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- Your Bridge Committee to whom was referred
the resolution to examine and to report as to the
- conditions of the bridges would respectfully
report and recommend that two new iron bridges be ordered built,
one across Turtle Creek, and one across Rock River on South Bridge
street, and that the Bridge Committee be directed to receive
plans, specifications and bids as to the cost of said bridges
and report to this Council.
- L. E. CUNNINGHAM,
- S. R. MERRILL,
- Chas. F. MUELLER,
- Jno. T. NEEDHAM,
- F. N. GARDNER.
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- Ald. CUNNINGHAM for the Bridge committee presented
the following resolution which was adopted:
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- Resolved, That
the Board of Public Works be, and it is, directed hereby to notify
the Berlin Machine
- Works to repair the covering of its flume
over the race at once. Be it further
- Resolved, That
if the said Berlin Machine Works refuse so to do, that the Board
of Public Works be,
- and it is, directed to make said repairs
at once.
- L. E. CUNNINGHAM,
- S. R. MERRILL,
- Chas. F. MUELLER,
- Jno. T. NEEDHAM,
- F. N. GARDNER,
- Bridge Com.
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- Ald. CLARKE for the Street Lights committee presented
the following report which was adopted by the unanimous
- vote of the Council, the ayes and noes being called:
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- To the Hon. Mayor and Common Council:
- Your committee on Street Lights to whom was
referred the petition of the Beloit Electric Co. for the use
- of $50 withheld from their bill for July
service, would recommend that the sum of $35 be allowed from
amount so deducted and withheld, believing that a fair allowance
for such service.
- J. C. CLARKE,
- E. F. HANSEN,
- R. H. SHARP,
- T. GESLEY,
- S. R. MERRILL,
- Street Com.
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