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Home My WebLink About1912-07-19 Minutes180 _- _..-_;_,__--.Adjourned-lieeting._C.ity Co.unc,il_,_held_July-_1,9.,_191,2.�_�__T_�_- _ Present, Clerk, Aldermen, Eason, Price, Sour, Suttle and Wright, Absent, Mayor and Ald. Cornwell -Upon motion of Aid. Suttle seconded by Ald. Price, Ald. Sour was elected President . _ -- ____.pro Tem. The Council_ proceeded to check the books of .the Clerk and Treasurer and cancel the -_ redeemed city warrants; the amount of script cancelled amounted to $57,764.74 and same was _-___,-bur-ne.d,_by�.,the_-count l`in o,pen_meeting. -_Upon motion Council adjourned. I - Approved Attest: JQo Acting Mayor. erk. i REGULAR MEETING CITY COUNCIL FIELD AUGUST_1,1912` ---»-- ,.-�-- I' Present, Mayor and Clerk, Aldermen _ Cornwell, Eason,_price, Sour and Suttle_,_a. — i _Ald. Wright Minutes of meetings held July 18th and 19th, 1912 were read. end-appro_v.ed . Sour submitted the follow " To The Honorable Mayor and City Co Gentlemen:, In consideration of the extension of the franchise _of+the Oxford_ Telephone_Mfg, _Co___ oto cons'truot a TelepYione system in this City (Fayetteville) for one year from the first day of September, 1912, to September let, 1913 we hereby agree to furnish free of charge one tele- _ phone- to-the-office-of-the~Mayor-and-'one to-tYie office of -tile Pdrice Judge and`one piiore each to the residence of Chief of Police rind Assistant Chief, and we hereby further agree to furnish to..-the-residence-of-each-of-the-present-f-ourteen-f-ireman- or -their successors; one phone' free-of- entals. Very respectfully,, Oxford Telephone Mfg. Co. " Whereupon Alid. Suttle moved that the above request_be accepted_ and recorded,_ which__ _ _ ----r— �- �.- -rte- -- - --f--- ' I motion was duly seconded by Ald. Sour and adopted_by_the fo11owing._vote,._°Ayes,'!--Cornw.ell__Eason _ Price,,Sour, and Suttle "Nays" _ None,-absent-and_not vot.ing,_Ald.._Wr.ight.. ___,Caraied.- -- L. Ald. Eason introduced_ the following resolution _ "Resolution, � - - -- Be it-re'eoTved, by -the -City -Council of-the-City-of-Fayett evil re' Arkdrfsas,—that each and every property owner owning property on Dickson Street, from the Frisco Depot West, to - --Arkansas-Avenue-,--in--se.-id-C-i-ty-,-be-and--they-are-hereby-requ-i-red-to-construct-s-idewalke-along-and— in front of'their respective properties on the North and South sides of said Dickson Street,eight feet-.in_„width_on_Nor-th_side_o.f D.i.cke.on-Street.,-and-s_ix_fe.etin_w.idth_on-the_Sou.th_s.ide-of_Dlckson Street, together with�a curb, and each and every rproperty owner owning property on Dickson Street from Arkansas Avenue West, to Duncan Street, be and they are hereby required to construct -i1devGa:lks along and-in`fro`nt of -their respective property six feet wide,—together with-acurb; -- tha.t said sidewalks shall conform with the City Ordinances governing the construction of said - - sidewalks--as-now-requ�ired-by-t•he-said-ordinances ” -- i--- — - - - - - --- - And moved its adoption, which motion was duly seconded by Ald. Sour and adopted by the following vote,_"Ayes�"� Cornwell, Eason Price, Sour, and Suttle, "Nays" _ None,_ubaent and - -- _-not__v_ot ing,,_Ald._ Wright - Carried. 71 The Mayor appointed Aldermen Cornwell and Sour, and Mr. R.Putman, a Committee to circulate _pe_ tions_and see .if�it would be_poasible to get a majority in_ value ofthe _property owners_ to_____ t - -- -, form an im p. form district composed _-of. the Public Square, -Flock Street and East_ Street _,__to -pave- said Streets, pave_saidStreets, and report their proceedings at an_adjourned meeting -to be held _Monday _night -,_Aug. 5_ -- - - Mr. Putman_,representing the Washington County Fair Association,. submitted the following, -We-,_ the _members,of-the City_Council -of the _C-ity of_lay_ettev-ille,_t.rkaneas_,_-realize_the, benefit, entertainment and amusement furnished to the people of Fayetteville, Washington County and the surrounding country by reason of the hmlding of the Washington County Fair, end as an _ _ tt _ - - assistance.to the VJashin�ton County -Fair Association be it therefore resolved'JThat-the exclusive rights and privileges of the streets and alleys of the city of Fayetteville be and are hereby given-�oper�to -the Via:shington--County-Fair Association -during -the week--of--Sept: 30th -,-1912 and--tha ----- no out door licenses be sold during that period. " And asked that it be adopted; whereupon Ald. Ir Sour moiled that the above resolution be adopted, which motion -was duly seconded by Ald. Price and —