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04-29-1974 Minutes139 City of Salina, Kansas Regular Meeting of the Board of Commissioners April 29, 1974 The Regular Meeting of the Board of Commissioners met in the Commissioners' Room, City -County Building, on Monday, April 29, 1974, at four o'clock P.M. The Mayor asked everyone to stand for the pledge of allegiance to the Flag and a moment of silent prayer. There were present: Mayor W. M. Usher, Chairman presiding Commissioner Robert C. Caldwell Commissioner Norma G. Cooper Commissioner Mike Losik, Jr. Commissioner Jack Weisgerber comprising a quorum of the Board, also: L. 0. Bengtson, City Attorney Norris D. Olson, City Manager D. L. Harrison, City Clerk Absent: None mailed. The Minutes of the Regular Meeting of April 22, 1974 were approved as THE MAYOR PROCLAIMED the Week of May 5 through 12, 1974 - "NATIONAL MUSIC WEEK". The proclamation was read by Mrs. John Long, President of the Treble Clef Club. Mrs. Duane McCall, President of the Staccato Note Club was also presen . THE MAYOR PROCLAIMED May 1, 1974 - "LAW DAY U.S.A.". The proclamation was read by Mayor Usher. THE MAYOR PROCLAIMED April 30, 1974 - "DAY OF HUMILIATION, FASTING AND PRAYER". The proclamation was read by Herman W. VanArsdale, Pastor of the First Baptist Church. THE MAYOR PROCLAIMED the Month of May, 1974 - "POPPY MONTH1° and May 11, 1974 - "POPPY DAY". The proclamation was read by Mrs. Art Hanschu. THE MAYOR PROCLAIMED the Month of May, 1974 - "OLDER AMERICANS MONTH". The proclamation was read by Homer Jewell, President of the American Association Df Retired Persons. John Howell, President of the Golden Years Club was also present. STAFF AGENDA BIDS were received for Engineering Project 74-567 for improvements on Century Plaza Drive and Planet Avenue. Smoky Hill, Inc. $67,097.00 J. S. Frank Construction Company 80,437.34 Engineer's Estimate 69,949.00 motion was made by Commissioner Caldwell, seconded by Commissioner Cooper to ccept the proposal of Smoky Hill, Inc., as the low bidder in the amount of 67,097.00, and to introduce the contract ordinance for first reading. Ayes: (4). ays: (0). Mayor Usher abstained. Motion carried. Ordinance Passed: Number: 140 AN ORDINANCE was introduced for second reading entitled: "AN ORDINANCE providing for the amendment of Zoning Ordinance Number 6613 and the Zoning District Map therein and thereby adopted and providing for the rezoning of certain property within the City and prescribing the proper uses thereof." (Rezoning of Lot 8, Block 5, Walnut Grove Addition from District "B" (Two -Family Dwelling House District) to District "D" (Local Business District),requested in Petition Number 3406 filed by Steven M. Hanson and Larry M. Hays.) (Petition Number 3423 was filed April 16, 1974 by Paul Gene Woods for denial of Petition Number 3406 for the rezoning of Lot 8, Block 5, Walnut Grove Addition.) (Tabled at the April 22, 1974 meeting for one week) Mr. Steven Hays presented, to the City Commission, the statements of three persons who had originally signed the protest petition, but now wish to have their names removed from that petition. A motion was made by Commissioner Losik, seconded by Commissioner Cooper to adopt the ordinance as read and the following vote was had: Ayes: Caldwell, Cooper, Losik, Weisgerber, Usher (5). Nays: (0). Carried. The Mayor approved the Ordinance and it is numbered 8347. The ordinance was introduced for first reading April 8, 1974. THE CITY ENGINEER filed plans and specifications for Engineering Project 74-569 for improvements in Bonnie Ridge Addition. A motion was made by CommissionDr Cooper, seconded by Commissioner Losik to approve the plans and specifications for Engineering Project 74-569 and instruct the City Clerk to advertise for bids to be received May 20, 1974. Ayes: (5). Nays: (0). Motion carried. AN ORDINANCE was introduced for second reading entitled: "AN ORDINANCE creating a Commission to be known as the City Planning Commission of the City of Salina; providing for the number of members and their appointment; amending Article I of Chapter 27 of the Salina Code and repealing the existing section." A motion was made by Commissioner Losik, seconded by Commissioner Caldwell to adopt the ordinance as read and the following vote was had: Ayes: Caldwell, Cooper, Losik, Weisgerber, Usher (5). Nays: (0). Carried. The Mayor approved the ordinance and it is numbered 8348. The ordinance was introduced for first reading April 22, 1974. THE CITY COMMISSIONERS considered the application which is to be filed with the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for re -certification of the City of Salina Workable Program. Mayor Usher said, "I was curious. We complete the work with this program so we can continue with three Government grants of one kind out of seven. I was curious what the others were." Mr. Harris, Deputy City Manager, said, "I think what you are referring to, so far Salina has participated in three of nine programs that the workable program is a prerequisite to. The three that we have participated in are Urban Renewal, we had two projects under Urban Renewal; the Neighborhood Development Project, which is the Central City Project; and the Community Renewal Program, which was an inventory of our housing situation and employment, segregation, and a number of other items. In addition to those three, the other programs that require the workable program is the concentrated code enforcement program, interirr assistance for blighted areas, demolition grant program, general neighborhood renewal plan, rehabilitation loans and grants and Urban Renewal and concentrated code enforcement areas, mortgage insurance under Section 220 for housing construction and rehabilitation, rent supplements, rent supplement projects under Section 221 B 3 for low income families with certain exceptions. We understand that, we don't have anything official on it, but just the feed -back that we get from HUD is that the workable program will but to be a requiremen even under the Better Communities Act, or however that might finally come out." 141 Commissioner Cooper said, "If no one in the room has any comments, 1'd like to make some. A part of this workable program which has presented some conflicts is the Mimimum Housing Code. Not only has the Commission denied people their legal right to decide if they do or do not want this program, it appears that little thought has been given to the financial hardships that will be created when this code, the Minimum Housing Code, or its twin brother, occupancy permit or whatever, little thought has been given to the financial hardships that this could very well present to the people that we are supposedly trying to assist. I cannot support this application until I know the community is willing to meet these HUD requirements." Mayor Usher commented, "I don't think we have committed ourselves to the occupancy permit." Commissioner Cooper said, "No, but it is a spin off of the Minimum Housing Code as an enforcement procedure type of thing for a Minimum Code, right?" Mr. Harris replied, "I think the way I should answer that is that the occupancy permit has been considered for several years and the Citizens' Advisory Committee is in the process of restudying the merits of it, as a tool for the enforcement of the code itself, and the financial implications, the burdens of making these repairs has been seriously considered and will continue to be, because that is getting right down to the nitty gritty of it. Now there have been in the past, from the time the Federal purse strings were tightened up, a number of different programs, low interest loans, and grants that did assist property owners in making these repairs, and it would appear to us that any concentrated effort to bring about these compliances is certainly going to have to be contingent on such federal assistance. We read this time after time in articles that come from other communities that their enforcement efforts are certainly contingent upon Federal participation. I think Salina would certainly be in the same boat." Commissioner Cooper said, "I know but we presently ..." Mr. Harris said, "... without any consideration of financial burden that people are going to have to do certain things to their property because people do have the limitations." Commissioner Cooper said, "Right, but we are really talking two things. We are talking about enforcing the code and being financially able to carry out the requirements of this code, so we are talking about two things. You have the code, and then in some instances where it would be enforced you might encounter people who would not be in a position to economically comply with the code, but my objection and I will have to restate it - my objection to this workable program, since you cannot break it apart, you either have to support it or not support it, is the fact that the people of this community have never been given an opportunity to say whether they want these kinds of programs or not." Commissioner Weisgerber said, "May I ask a question Bill? On this occupancy permit, you have in mind, do you not, putting this into effect, shall we say when a property either changes hands or changes a tenant, not the person who is owning his own home and is continuing to own it, but rather when there is a change in the ownership, or a change in the tenant, one or the other." Mr. Harris replied, "That is correct." Commissioner Weisgerber said, "Alright, does anybody have a guess, we may be into this situation from another angle since this recent court ruling on the property in Wichita that said there was an emplied warranty and I believe this was a Supreme Court ruling, was it not?" Mr. Harris replied, "State Supreme Court, yes sir." 142 Commissioner Weisgerber said, "If this works out the way it appears that it would, then our own State Laws are going to come back and force this same thing through the property owner anyway. He is going to have to do it. If he doesn't have to do it for this reason he is going to have to do it for the other. It is something that is going to come through either the one avenue or through the other avenue." Mayor Usher said, "If we don't have a workable program, we aren't going to have any source of federal assistance anyway, the way block grants are. Is that right?" Mr. Harris replied, "Well, as I said a moment ago, we haven't received any official word so far as the effects or requirements of the workable program under these block grants, but what information we have received indicates that it will be required, that the block grants will be tied to it, just as these others have been in the past." Mayor Usher said, "I'm positive of that. You are going to have to have something that says you are doing the job if you are going to take the money." Mr. Harris said, "Well, the Citizens' Advisory Committee is concerned, as Mrs. Cooper is, about the hardships that this might cause, it is a tough problem, but we do have the code. The City Commission has seen fit to pass a Minimum Housing Code, and we in the past have been making these committments to HUD that we would perform a certain number of inspections and gain compliances and what we are saying in this application is that it is time for us to quit making these committments without having a means of doing it." Mayor Usher asked if anybody in the audience wanted to speak. There was no response. well I think Mr. Harris said, "This I saw some figures is our interpretation of here it and it appears that the citizen envolvement portion of it. I still take that same exception to the citizen envolvement portion. I would have to bring up the fact that the City her recently where about 20% of the residential with. I agree with Minimum Housing, but then we did a lousy job, I feel of publi property in Salina is tenant or rental property, and as I think you are probably aware in the last session or two of the State Legislature, there has been efforts we want to continue enrolling the City into these types of situations. Now, I to bring about a State Minimum Housing Standard, so far it hasn't passed, but it does appear that it will come and this Supreme Court ruling - it would appear sold to the community, or the community doesn't want it. Now if we recertify, to have a significant effect on it in the future." are going to have to take a harsher action to meet these compliances. Now when Mayor Usher said, "If we don't have a workable program, we aren't going to have any source of federal assistance anyway, the way block grants are. Is that right?" Mr. Harris replied, "Well, as I said a moment ago, we haven't received any official word so far as the effects or requirements of the workable program under these block grants, but what information we have received indicates that it will be required, that the block grants will be tied to it, just as these others have been in the past." Mayor Usher said, "I'm positive of that. You are going to have to have something that says you are doing the job if you are going to take the money." Mr. Harris said, "Well, the Citizens' Advisory Committee is concerned, as Mrs. Cooper is, about the hardships that this might cause, it is a tough problem, but we do have the code. The City Commission has seen fit to pass a Minimum Housing Code, and we in the past have been making these committments to HUD that we would perform a certain number of inspections and gain compliances and what we are saying in this application is that it is time for us to quit making these committments without having a means of doing it." Mayor Usher asked if anybody in the audience wanted to speak. There was no response. Commissioner Losik said, "I have some comments. The last time we were asking for re -certification I approved the application, but I took exception to the citizen envolvement portion of it. I still take that same exception to the citizen envolvement portion. I would have to bring up the fact that the City her the staff and the Governing Body did pass a Minimum Housing Code which I agree with. I agree with Minimum Housing, but then we did a lousy job, I feel of publi relations because there was a petition circulated which indicated that many peopl either didn't understand what we were doing, or they were afraid as is written in here, they became suspicious and apprehensive of our motives, and as a result we used the administrative word to prevent our people from having a voice in whether we want to continue enrolling the City into these types of situations. Now, I think somewhere along the line we have to look at this long and hard because it begins to snowball. For every action there is a reaction. We committed ourselve to having so many compliances, inspections and compliances we haven't been able to do that on a voluntary basis. This indicates to me that our program wasn't sold to the community, or the community doesn't want it. Now if we recertify, we are saying again, and as Bill pointed out and I agree with him, we cannot continue these promises to HUD unless we do it. It appears to me that now we are going to have to take a harsher action to meet these compliances. Now when we take these harsh actions to fill in some squares on a chart to show that we have complied with an X number, we may be stepping into the area of where we are depriving an individual of his home, on what he should do, and it may evolve into exactly what has happened into the suspicion and apprehension that the public seems to have in many of these cases, because you have human inspectors and being human, you can never eliminate personalities, you can never eliminate poor and good judgement of interpretation and application of these inspections, and I think a good classic example of where we start telling Uncle Sam we want your 143 money, and we are going to do things for you is a good example is this 55 mile an hour speed limit. We didn't have any choice in saying we would or wouldn't do it, we are doing it 'cause Uncle Sam says now here again if we go ahead and recertify, approve this application, Uncle Sam is going to come back and say, look you didn't do it we are going to take your money, and everyone of us are going to become despirate and we are going to take extreme actions to maintain this flow of capital. Yes, we need this money, I can appreciate we need it, but I am wondering from the standpoint of many of these areas where we are going on and making committments or saying we are going to do this, or we are going to attempt to do this. Now the inspection, the Minimum Housing Code, 2 areas. Another area is on this area where there is a need for elderly and low income housing. Right in our own recertification if we have a private developer and through the Dousing Authority we submit an application for Section 23 housing, it will have to go through the City Commission, and yet we acknowledge right in this workable program that we have no means of determining whether just how many low income and elderly homes we need, and yet we are going to be forced to certify it because if we don't we aren't going to be eligible to get this project in here to take care of low income housing and elderly, and on a basis that if to approve from my standpoint if I approve this, then I am approving all these areas that I have stated, and in my own mind I cannot with clear conscience approve this knowing that there are people in this community that either don't know or are still suspicious and afraid of what we are doing, and the fear of wha might come of this a year or two down the line, we may be forced into taking hars action to comply to get the money that HUD is going to dangle in front of us. I don't know where the answer lies, but I still feel someplace there has to be a method of getting this into a little better setup to where we do have citizen envolvement. We say we have it, but frankly I question it because when you refus to listen to 2200 people, I think we don't have citizen envolvement. Now those people I know, there was many of them were mislead, many of them didn't agree with what they signed, we have an example today where once these people have something explained to them and understood it, they were willing to pull back. I think we have a responsibility to the people of this community to make this effort. We haven't done it I don't feel. I don't think we have sold ft to them.' Commissioner Weisgerber said, "I think that one of the primary considerations of the Citizens' Advisory Committee if they go this way is to sell the program to the people. Let's take a look at who really is effected by this. The person who sells their property will be, because it will have to be up to standard, at the same time if the sale of a home, and most of them are any more, financed through some kind of an agency, there is usually some kind of requiremen that the home be up to standard as one condition of issuing the loan under the occupancy permit, the person who owns his own home, stays in it, doesn't sell it, will not in any way be effected. Now I think this is important because this is one of the groups that was concerned at the time the petition was up. The group that may be the most adversely effected are the group of property owners who rent property, particularly lower value property, because they will be perhaps in the position when they change a tenant,of having to bring that home up to a standard which they haven't been maintaining. It will be one thing in favor, perhaps of minority groups and lower income groups both that they will be guaranteed a better class of housing than they may now have. Again, if this Wichita case holds, if they aren't effected by this Minimum Housing or occupancy permit that we are talking about, they would be caught from State enforcement if the tenant chose to make a law suit, so but it is going to take some selling. It is going to take cooperation of the people and I - from what I read of the Citizens' Advisory Committee Is report, they had this well in mind as they proceed along this way that selling the program will be most important." Commissioner Cooper said, "I think what we are talking about Jack, is when it comes to the occupancy this is a tool to the Minimum permit enforce Housing Code, right? Alright, we come right back to the same kinds of a problem that you had in the beginning with some of the areas of the Minimum Housing Code if you are - when it is enforced, you are going to eliminate some moderate dwellings, some moderate priced dwellings or low cost rentals is what you are going to do because if these properties could meet the standard they wouldn't be selling and renting for these kinds of monies, and I can think of, f can think of my own personal knowledge where these units would not meet a Minimum Housing Code and yet there is nothing, there is not any health or safety factor involved. It just simply won't meet the ceiling height, it won't meet some of these criterias but at the same time this is a low, these are low cost units, and this is one of the reasons they are low cost units; so you are eliminating some low cost either property to purchase or property to rent. This is what some of this - the regulations in the cost insist upon.11 11 I 1 144 Commissioner Weisgerber commented, "But there is an appeals procedure." Mr. Harris said, "At the time we built in safe guards here, the safety valve so to speak that a year or so ago..." Commissioner Cooper said, "... I know we did, I know we amended it, right." Mr. Harris said, "That permits the Appeals Board to grant a waiver to any requirement of the code, any standard within the code, so far as it does not jeopardize the intent, the purpose and intent of the code is to provide safe, decent and sanitary housing. Now the housing code, one of the things that perhap< we should point out, the housing code is only one of about four or five..." Commissioner Cooper said, "... granted.." Mr. Harris said, "... that HUD requires us to have. The Building Code, the Plumbing Code, Gas Code, Electrical Code, Fire Prevention, but for some reason the Minimum Housing Code has been the one that has attracted all the attention, and caught all the flack. Well as we say in here, Salina is no different than most any other community. We have a problem on one hand of blight and deteriorating conditions and this is a concern to everyone because it erodes your tax base and ordinarily those areas are blighted areas, puts more demand on the municipal services and this is the reason the Federal Government says if you are going to participate in these programs in an effort to erase or correct the already blighted areas we want you to make an effort to see that other areas don' get to that point. That is the reason we are required to have these codes and keep them updated, so, but the reason behind it is good, but I think everyone recognizes that there are difficulties in enforcing and arriving at a method of enforcement that is equitable, it is reasonable and it is acceptable to the public, but if we don't do something like this, how are we ever going to correct and stop this blight and rehabilitate these areas without such tools as this?" Commissioner Cooper said, ''Well you are not really going to totally sto blight, you know this and I know this, but the purpose of a Minimum Housing Code I believe is simply to establish standards for health and safety factors, now if that fellow doesn't want to paint his house, I don't think there is any law in the world that is going to require him to do this, or if he does not have the resources to do it." Mr. Harris said, "But he is affecting his neighbor, right?" Commissioner Cooper said, "Surely he is, he certainly is. Certainly, but if he does not I think, if he really had the resources he would probably paint his house, or whatever the outward appearance is, so I don't know but it appears to me like that basically other than health and safety standards that you are treading, you are treading on pretty private areas when you are saying that they have to do these other things, and I recognize that you cannot divorce the Minimu Housing from the other sections of the workable program, and you are right. The little bit of misunderstandings we had on the electrical and plumbing was easily resolved but this one has not been and it still has not been." Mr. Olson, City Manager, said, "May I make a couple or three comments on this point. I asked Bill to more or less carry the ball on this because he was the one on staff who has really headed up and coordinated the efforts of putting this together, with the help or Planning, Housing, Urban Renewal, and our Inspection Departments. We do have some spin off in Minimum Housing as it relateE to exterior conditions, junk cars, these types of conditions of deterioration in the yard around the houses and the like, and I would merely comment here that we had and we have substantially more complaintsand problems probably in this area than we ever had in the Minimum Housing area, and we get more calls in this particular area. It is a first cousin probably to the conditions of the house itself. The second thing, we do spend a lot of time and we are concerned as anyone else is I am sure, Bill touched on this, and that is the criticism that the Inspection Department very well might receive enforcing the Minimum Housing Code. To my knowledge I don't know of any valid, or any documented complaint being filed where our Inspection Department has been unreasonable to date in enforcing the Minimum Housing Code, and of course we have enforced it maybe with 145 a degree of laxity of course, since the filing of the petition. Another point I would like to make is that you will, or you have noted I am sure in reading the submission that we are asking HUD to work with us and attempt to come up with more valid data on a basis upon which to proceed. The very first submission in 1965 1 believe it was, carried with it 3404 sub -standard houses I believe based on a 1960 Census, and this is about the only place that any municipality had to go to get this type of data, substandard data. They quit printing such data in the 1970 Census because, and I am sure we feel very definitely that because of the failure of this data to be proven as valid data, they didn't even include this type of data in the 1970 Census figure; so we are asking also to attempt to rework the numbers into something that can be validated if at all possible to be something more realistic, if we can find some data somewhere that we can put our figures on and say that this is more valid. Another point that I would make, this is not a vote on going with the occupancy permit or some portion of it, or the entire program as used by University City, Missouri. University City, Missou has received National recognition because of the means and manner in which they implement their program, and surely I would think even if this submission is made to HUD, those people will be out here. There will be some conversation and exchange just because of what has been suggested in this report. I would suggest if you get serious, or if there is some serious considerations to the occupancy permit, that probably this entire City Commission - I would certainly appreciate I know, individually, an opportunity to go to University City, Missouri and I am sure they will take a day, take a half a day, they will take any time that a group asks, because they are touring somebody down there quite a bit. They are paying quite a bit just for tours, I am sure. A number of cities have gone and studied first hand their operation and I think this would be something that everyone of us could get a greater appreciation of just what the program is that they are implementing. There might be some little segment of it we could use or all of it or none of it; but I think that is probably down the road. That decision to adopt the occupancy permit is not being required today, is what I am saying." Commissioner Caldwell said, "Mr. Mayor, I feel if we don't ask for recertification on the workable program, the City will be taking a step backward. We have worked at this for a number of years and I think this building is an example of some of the money we have received from the Government and I think of all the things we have going, I don't see why we want to turn down a program, so I am going to make the motion that we submit recertification for the City of Salina Workable Program." Commissioner Weisgerber seconded the motion. Bill Scholl was present and again expressed his belief that the citizen. of Salina should have had a right to vote on whether they wanted the code. Commissioner Losik said, "Bill, I objected to some points in this thing which of course I did, but I would also like to point out one that I was real tickled to see in there and it is coming along, and that is the fact that the fire protection study is contemplated, and in our annual report it also states that we will be reviewing and considering the need for additional fire stations. I am real pleased about that item." "In view of this study, we find that there is not any warrant for regulatory traffic control at this location at the present. Therefore, this office recommends the denial of Petition Number 3415, requesting the installation of crosswalk signal lights at the intersection of Ohio Street and Shalimar Drive. Mayor Usher called for a vote on the motion to approve the application for recertification of the workable program for the City of Salina, Kansas. Ayes: Caldwell, Weisgerber, Usher (3). Nays: Cooper, Losik (2). Motion carried. A REPORT was received from Laverne Safety Committee, recommending the denial of Brockway, Chairman of Petition Number 3415 the School filed by parent and patrons of USD #305, for the installation of a stop light and pedestrian cross walk on South Ohio in the area adjacent to Grace E. Stewart School, at the corner of Shalimar Drive and Ohio. "In view of this study, we find that there is not any warrant for regulatory traffic control at this location at the present. Therefore, this office recommends the denial of Petition Number 3415, requesting the installation of crosswalk signal lights at the intersection of Ohio Street and Shalimar Drive. 146 ------------------------ "The study does reveal that there is a warrant for additional warning type traffic control at this crossing as well as at the intersection of Ohio Street and Wayne Avenue. ... It is recommended that the paving in the median be widened so the children will have a larger area to stand while waiting for gaps in the traffic and the installation of flashing beacons with 20 M.P.H. speed limit signs. We feel that the beacon will attract the attention of the drivers better than just a speed zone sign. We have already installed "No U Turn" signs and painted the crosswalks in this crossing." A motion was made by Commissioner Caldwell, seconded by Commissioner Losik to accept the recommendation of the School Safety Committee and deny the petition for crosswalk signal lights, but approve the installation of alternate safety devices. Ayes: (5). Nays: (0). Motion carried. THE CITY COMMISSIONERS considered the final development plan for Salina Sportswear Company. The City Manager reported the plan has been approved by the Metropolita Planning Commission and the Urban Renewal Agency. It has been reviewed by all th departments of the City that are involved and it meets all the requirements. A motion was made by Commissioner Losik, seconded by Commissioner Caldwell to approve the final development plan for the Salina Sportswear Company. Ayes: (5). Nays: (0). Motion carried. COMMISSION AGENDA None PUBLIC AGENDA PETITION NUMBER 3424 was filed by Maynard Jones, Secretary -Treasurer of Gibsons Products Company of Salina, Inc., for the closing of Spruce Street from Chicago Street to the first alley East, a distance of 257 feet, more or less. A motion was made by Commissioner Losik, seconded by Commissioner Cooper to refer the petition to the Engineering and Planning Departments for a recommendation. Ayes: (5). Nays: (0). Motion carried. PETITION NUMBER 3425 was filed by Verle Simpson, Plant Manager for Butler Manufacturing Company, 606 North Front Street, for the closing of Railroad Avenue through their property, starting at Front Street, East 32518" to and through Grant Street. A motion was made by Commissioner Cooper, seconded by Commissioner Losik to refer the petition to the Engineering and Planning Departmes for a recommendation. Ayes: (5). Nays: (0). Motion carried. A REQUEST was received from Kenneth J. Nordboe for final hook-up to the City sewer and water lines to serve the Southwest Quarter of Section 26, Township 14 South, Range 3 West of the 6th Principal Meridian. Mr. Nordboe was present and discussed the necessity of the hook-ups wit the City Commissioners because his water wells have gone bad. A motion was made by Commissioner Cooper, seconded by Commissioner Weisgerber to refer the request to the City Engineer for further information and a recommendation. Ayes: (5). Nays: (0). Motion carried. A MOTION was made by Commissioner Caldwell, seconded by Commissioner Losik that the Regular Meeting of the Board of Commissioners be adjourned. Ayes: (5). Nays: (0). Motion carried. D. L. Harrison, City Clerk