Minutes-12/02/1964

Minutes of Regular Council Meeting, December 2, 1964 Present: Bill Bream, Wayne Stratton, Ted Spivey, Bill Verry Absent: Glenn Potter Meeting was called to order by Mayor O'Toole and minutes of the last two meetings were read and approved. OLD BUSINESS: Sewer: Mayor talked with Powers, who told him he felt that the Council would be in an insecure position to accept the funds from the contractor to repair the streets since there was no provision for doing this in the Code. The attorney advised him that this was not a wise thing to do, so Mayor told Powers that we would make what improvements were obvious now and keep Glenn on the hook until next spring and if more work is required on the streets that was the result of the sewer excavation, we would do it in the Spring. Mayor didn't think that in view of the settling that took place along Highway 6 that we could be assured that it would be satisfactory to fix it now. Contractors are responsible for a year after the contract. DeWaine said no stone was put in by school signal light. One load was put in west of Frank's; the rest was old lime dust, he said. Mayor read letter from Wayne Stratton's attorney, L. G. Klein, which is on file. Platting of the Brooks Addition has been discussed with Ned Allen. The standing of this plat is not necessarily going to change the picture, except that it may in some manner place a little more responsibility on the Town or the engineer; Mayor assumes it would be the engineer. If plans were made to lay a sewer line, it is the responsibility of the engineer to ascertain the ownership of the land over which these lines will travel, and if they select a platted alley, they want to make sure that the plat is still legal. DeWaine said he couldn't see any "Y" when looking through the manhole next to Stratton's property, although Wayne Reed reported that Glenn had stated that there was one installed, a foot or two from the manhole. Mrs. Rogers has copies of the description of the property. Water: Geologists hit the vein at about 70 feet (six feet of good sand) and they started pumping at 50 gallons a minute. The water level came up to 30 feet from the surface, and in a couple hours it was lowered to 55 feet, then lowered the rate to 40 and it still continued to drop; then they lowered it to 20 gallons a minute and it seemed to maintain a level at 61 feet. They pumped for about an hour and it didn't seem to drop much. They were to come back Monday and pump 2½ hour, but apparently the weather or something prevented them. Geologist felt that there was at least one undercut boundary as he suspected in the beginning. He said if this were the only boundary, it wouldn't be so bad because if we got 20 gallons a minute out of this one well it would supply our basic needs. We could probably obtain another well even though it was in a deeper strata and mix the two waters, if necessary. If there is another boundary, it can be detected by the rate at which the water falls. The closest boundary will show up first. Generally a 2½-hour test is a good test. Housing Ordinance. The possible problem of house trailers was brought up. Although they are covered by the State Board of Health, and at the current time there can be two trailers to a lot, if we want to stipulate only one trailer to a lot in the ordinance, we can. Mayor will talk with Tucker. Crop Damage. The statement of crop damage done to the soybean crop on the Rogers property was stated verbally and is on paper. The estimate by Mrs. Hebl of 1½ acres of damage was considered by the committee of