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Burllngame, Call fornl.a
Apnil 4, J.-o49
A re gula:: neetlng of the Burllngame Clty Councll ras held on the
above given date. l,leetlng ca11ed to order at 8:0O p.m. r - Uayor
S lmonds 1n the Chalr.
Bo11 CalL: Prlesent - CounciLmen: Dahl-Earper-Ilr:nt-Love-S lmonds
Absent - Councllmen! None
The minutes of the prevlous meetlng of Llarch 21, L949 t as subrnl.tted
to raembers of the Council and as posted on the Bulletln Roard ln
the Clty IIalI, were unanimous Iy ap.proved on motlon of Councilman
Dah1, seconded by Councllman Harper.
A letter dated Aprl1 1, 1949, was read from K. S. Fitch, DLrector of
Publtc Works, requestlng that an appointment be made for Junior
frrgtlre o::, ef:ectlve Aprlf 1, 1949. C ouncl.lman Dehl moved that No. 1
on the eIlgitrle llst, Joseph H. Fortunato, be appol,nted, subJect tohls passlng a satlsfactorT medlcal. exc'nlnatlon, seconded by Corrncl1-
man Love and unanlmous 1,y carrLed.
A letter dated lilarch 25, 1949, was read llom the Burllngano frynove-
rrent Associatlon advislng that a €troup of Burllngarne Improvement
Clubs ?econmenC the foll.orrlng:
1. In order to control the smoke nuLsance--as sooD as posslble--
the bunning of rubblsh should not be cerrl,ed on between Ft'lday p.m.,
and fonday noon and Ln so far as possible have no flres burnihg
during ggsf,,;r1y vilnds.
2. A Plantlng prognan be startod.
5. flhat the noad to thls area be graveled and cleaned up.
!.Iayor Sinonds stated'for the benoflt of those in attendance and the
members of the various Assoclatlons the Council are veny much in
acco?d vrl tli the recormrendatlons and th.e recorurendatlon that a Plant-lng Program be started wllL be turned over to Mr. trbanli Anderson,
Superlntendent of ?arks. SectLon 3, ljayor Simonds f\r::the:r stated,wl1l be referred to K. S. Itltch, Director of Publlc VJorks, forcorrectlon as soon as possible. The Clty C1e:rk ras lnstnrcted tov:rlte a Letter to the Chalrran of the AssocLatlons, Mr:. Jack Hecht,with a copy to the other AssocLatlons enurerated,, informlng themof the Course of actlon the CouncLl wl1I take. Councllman Dahlfurther su.?gested that the citlzens utillzlng the [iuniclpal l,Iaste
f5.11 tLe bundle s securely in onder. to p:revent cuttlngs fYom lLtter-lng the over-pass enroute to the lYaste F111. The Clerlr was Lns truc-
ted. to incorporate the suggestion lnto ttre lette:r.
A letter dated. trlarch 24, A949, was read fir.om the BurlLngane fmpnove-
ment Associatlon, reguestlng ansvers to Ure followlng questlons lnregard to the Carolan Avenue extenslon betBeen oak Cr:ove Avenue and
Broadway;
1. tr'i?rat the people of Bunllngarne wllL galn by this pno Ject boingput througJr.
2. Ehat w"l11 total expenditures be and what pontlon of ttrat amountwl1I be paiti by tlee clty.
5. How much of thls anount ls now ln the treasur;r earuarke d forthe purpose of CaroJ.an Avenue, also how and where does the Cltyplan to secu:'e the balance.
4. How muctr money has the city already pald out.
l,{ayor SfunonCs stated that t}re Clty Clerk would be Lnstructed. torrtte a Letter cJ.arlf}rlng the varlous guestlons submltted, butfo:: the benefit of those in attendance, questlon nnber one canbest be answerod -by the cltlzens thems e1veg. CalLed upon to answerothe questlons, Ii. S. Fltch, C!.ty &rgtneer, stated that the totalexpendLture of the proJect is estlmated to be applroxlmateLy S225rOOO.OOof lthlch an al-locateil $3OrOOO.O0 gas tax t\rnds have already beenexpended for ttie acqulsltion of rlght-of-ways, and a furthe:r $SOTOOO.OO
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allocated to be expended to whL ch a f\r.nther amount 1111 be lrstched.
by State funds and allocated at the dLsc::etLon of the Cou!c11.
Blr. Fitch fbrther pointed out that the project wi 11 lnclude a
dralnage systen whLch would be an entirely separate proJect.
Qrr.es tione C by lir. tack Hecht at length on wlrat anount would be
borne by assessments and the cost of assessm^ents to the prop-
erty owner, Iriayor Simonds stated that at this tlme the Cor:ncil
ls not 1n a positlon to state Just what the assessments.wlll be
but assured iiir. Heeht that when the flnal outcome of Carolan
Avenue is deterri:ined the cLtlzens wllL be notlfied and a publlc
hearing held.
A Letter dated luTarch 3!, L949, Yras read from the Burlingalre
Llbrary Board, requesting the appointment of a SenLor Llb3arla:e
to the Librarlr Staff. Councihan tove moved tlrat 1Io. 1on the
ellgible 1ist, Iiary Jane !{elbaslqr, be appolnted to the positlon
as ::equested, subJect to ths passing of a satLsfactory med5.cal
examination, seccnded by Cor:ncilman Dahl and unanimous 1y carrLed-
the appolntr+ent to be effectlve as of AprLl I, 1949.
Mayor Sincnds announc e d that the Council Ls whole-heartedly ln
accord r.'i th the request of the residents of Burlingane Village
and Ray Par.k in their effor"ts to be Lncluded ln the Telephone
Exchange of tsurlingeme-San Mateo, as well as those efforts ofthe Chanbe r of Comerce anC other organizatLons, end if there
reere no objectlons, a resoluticn rEould be lntroduced requestlngthe Public Utirltles Corrrission of the State to glve favonab].e
consideration to tJ:e applicati.on. Counci Lman D*.1 thereupon
introduced a:xi noved ttre passage of a Resolution IIo. 22-49,
requesting that the applLcation of the users and prospective
users of telephone servlce in Burllngare Yillage and Ray Parkfor connectio:: to the BurJ.lngelne-San Idateo Ex.change, and tbe
ellr:d-nation of to1I charges for cal1s to Diamond and I'iresLde
numbers be favorably conslder.ed by the Public Lrtllitles Co!r-misslon; seconCed. by CounclJman I{arper anC adopted by the unanL-
nous af fLrr:ra i: ive vote of the Council members.
A letter was nead flom tlle Burlingame Hl gh School S tudent CounclLrequesting ti.ne on th.e Council agenda in order that they n0ay
dLscuss sone business wltir the City Council. Davld Carr, repre-
senting th.e StuCent Counc11, addressed the Councll and advlsedthat fo11ovin3 a cJ-ean-up survey within the cLty, completed bythe students of the H1$r School, Lt vras respectfblly ::equestedthat consideration be given to the p1ac5,ng of additlonal d.1s-posal cans, to be paJ-nted rrhlte, on Burli.ngame Avenue and. varlousottrer locations as recomarended on a rnap submltted. to the CityCouncll. -.?ol].orring a dLscussion on the subjeet, in whlch a
meetlng was to be arranged vith representatives of the Shrdentsof BurlLngane iligh Sehool, the Chsrber of Cornmerce, and a C oun-cll Comrittee tb discuss the Locatlons to pLace the cans, C oun-
cLlnan Ilunt roove d that the City concur in the ::ecommendation ofthe Htgh School end that the requir?ed m:mber of cans be purchased,
seconded by Councllman Love and unan5.mous 1y camj.ed. Mr. ElankAnderson, Superintenaient of Parks also suggested thet consLder-atLon be glven to placLng sevenal cans wLthl,n the park area.
the monthly Eec].eation activlty report for February, 1949, andthe Depertnent of Publtc Eealth and Welfare for the aonth endlng
January, 1949, wene read. and ordered fiLed. C ounci l.r:ran llar?ell
moved that the neport of the Safety and Trafflc Cormittee to th6Clty Councl1, City of BurlLn€iarie, be rec65.ved and that the Street
Comoittee of tne Council representatlves f)rom the Chamber of
Cormerce and the Safety Cornmlttee arrango a meetJng to furtherstudy the r-epor.t. The motion was second.ed by Counclltran gunt
and r:-nan j.rnous Iy car::ied.
A letter dated Apr11 4, 1949, was read llom }ll:re Chief Leis,
recorcrnendl,ng that the request of Ralph K. Read, for a three monthsleave of absence, effectLve Aprl1 16, 1949, bo accepted. C ourr-
clLman Deirl uoved that the request be granted, without pay, sec-
onded by Counc i]r"nan tove and unanimously granteil.
Under unflnLshed business, a lette:: dated lilar ch 2, L949, was readflom the Board of Fire Conmlssloners, recomnrending that the CityCorrncll accept plans for the proposed drll.L tower, whLch have
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begn approved by tfie Clty Brglneo:r, C or:.nc L lman Dah1, Bulldlng
InsID ctor, CltT ElectrLcLan and the Chief of the E[ro Department.
Cor:lcilman Dehl moved that the CouncLl c oncur Ln the recomenda-
tlon and introduced and movod the pasaage of a resolutlon cal]-lngfor bid.s on the cons tructlon of the drl11 tower, whlch bld.s to
be opened on th.e 2nd of May, 1949, secondod by Courcllman Harper
and adopted by the unanlmous affi rmatLve vote of the Councll
members.
Resolutlon, Iio. 21-49, accoptlng optlon of John W. and Ft'ed W.
Alpen, jolnt tenants, was introduced by CouncLlman Eunt tto movedlts passage, soconded by Councllroan tove and adopted r:nanimous Iy
by Councll memb€rs.
A letter dated l{arch 5!, L949, was ?ead from tho Board of Plre
Underyirj,ters of the ?acLflc enclosing copies of the logs of the
acceptance test rrrn upon the two Amerlcan La F?ance pr:rrpers and.
advislng that aLL tests were satlsfactory to the offlce of the
Board of Flre Underrrlters. Cou.ncl lman DeJL moved that the Coun-c1l accept the test as sutnnitted by the Board of ilre Unde::qriters,
contln-;ent upon the ELre Corsiisslon and the Pire Chlef submltting
a vritten ::ecolrnendatlon prlon to the next CouncLl meetLng, seconded
by Councilman llar?er and. ulanimously carrled.
D:e to r;he resignatLon of Charles Shathrck, member of the Pl-annhg
CommlssLon, tl,e na&e of L. Eerbe"t Esrris, forrner nayor and councll-
tnan, was submltted to f111 the unexqpLred term vacated by Hr. Sha'ttucB.
0n inotLon of Cor:nclltttFn Iovo, seconded. by C ounc llman Hunt tho
appolntnent was unanlmous 1y conflrrned. The Clty Clerk was l-n-
strtucted to w:rite a letter to I{r. Shattuck, thanklng hlu for the
servlce :pender.ed to th6 Clty.
Mayor Slnonds subnltted the nsme of Raymond A. Burns, 11O4 Rosedal.e
Avenre, as a membe:l of the BurlLngame Library Board, repLacLhg
trbed. Colby, nesigned. On noilon of C ouncilman Datrl, secondetl by
C ouncllmarl Love, the appolnfulent was unanLrnous 1y conflrued..
Chief of Pollce, R. C. Theuer, announced that the Anrnlal Po1lce
Inspoctl-on would be held at the Burllngane Elgh School on Aprll. Iat 2 p.m. - and the pub1lc ls c ordially invlted to be presont,
A J. Rapp, l-153 oxfo:rd Road., add:ressed the CouncLl ca].]-J.ng attentl-onto the health condl.tlon east of the raLboad tnacks and north ofthe pound on RollLns Road, and also to the ac cumrlation of excoss
water at ttrc co:.ne:r of M11Is Avenue aIId EI Cmlno ReaJ.. The CltyEn6lneer vgas lnst:ructed to lnvestlgate both condltions and the
Eea1th Departnent to also investigate the heal-fh condltLon on
Ro111ns !oad.
Mr. Gllbert OtShaugnesqy, representlng ttre Burllnganre Vlllage Improve-ment C1ub, thanked K. S. Eitcir for pnompt serrlce ln correctingthe unslghtly condltlon on Killarnoy Lane, and asked lf there rroref\rther deveIopments on tbe actlon of the CouncLl at a provLoua
ueetlng to pave CalLfornla D!.Lve between DrfferLn and Rosedale Avenueg o
A letter d.ated Apnl1- 4, L949, was read lYom K. S. Fltch, Dlrectorof Publlc \',lor);s, reportlng on the protests in regard to Unlt No. 1of the Sidwalk Repair progra.m. C ounc i- l:oran ilarpe? and C ounc l}nran
Dahl ::epo:rted tbat they had also lnvestigateil the complaints and
upon examlnationbeLleve that the clty changes of ::epaLr are Justl-fled. LIr. II. Eikerenkotter, 2!6 PenLnsula Avenue, addressed the
Courlcll and agaln plo,tested hLs assessnent, declar.ing the roots oftrees had. Canagod the sldewalk. The matter ras agaln held 1n abey-
ance pending a frr:rthe:: lnvestlgatlon by the Street and ButJ.dlng
Conrnlttee of the CouncLl.
Questloned as to progress mado on tfre Chapln Avenue p::oject, Clty
Englneer Titch statetl that a study ls belng mad6 and it was hopedthat a ::eport vould bo fortheoming by tiee next Councll meetlngo
Mayor SJ:nonds stated that the Councll aga!,n wLstres the Bullding
fnspector, the Department of Pub1lc i{eaLth snd the Fire Chlefto lnspect the Sauret property and subnLt a new reporst, and
lns tructed the Cit-v Clerk to so corrmnLcate vl- th the above named
departnents .
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Mr. Eltch replled that as yet a cost estlnate ls not available.
Mr. hanl< Jacobs, rep::esentLng our Ladies of Ange1s ParLsh, andapproriuately AOO fami3.les withln that area requested earnest
consl-deratlon bo given ln dlsallovrlng the proposed R[re Statlonto be erected in that soction of BurlLnga:ne. llayon Slmonds
assured Mn. Jacobs that ttre Councll xould try to aflrLvo at a declslon*rlch in its oplnlon rcuId conforr:r to the best lntenest of Bu:r-
1lngame, and publiclty Hould be glven at the propontime.
C or:ncLlman Iove suggested that a cornnlttee be appo!.nted to meotrl tl. representatLves from CounclJ-s of other citles ln an attemptto determine tlre dLsposltion of rallroad tracks now abondoned.
Fblloyri ng fi:rther suggostions, C ouncilman Iov€ moved that aletter be fon'rarCed to J. E. Tuxner, president of the Uttlttleg
Corrmrlsslon requestlng action ag soon as poss5.ble, seconded by
Cor:ncl.fman i{u.rlt and unanlmous 1y carrLed.
The neetlng t'as adjourned on notLon of C ouncL Jman Lrove, secondodby C ouncihrar ilarper snd unaalnous ly carrLed.
Respectf\r11y submlt ted,
t teClty Clerk
Sinon Jr.
i{ayor