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1075- as the "Water Department Special Deposit Fund ". Following the reading of the resolution it was adopted on motion of Councilman Madsen, seconded by Councilman Orloff and with all the Councilmen present voting in /avor of same. Mr. Elsnab who was present at the meeting was called upon by Mayor Pickard with regards to whetIB r he had anything to say or not. Mr. Elsnab advised the Council that he was present to encourage its support in his behalf it the coming municipal election on April 9th. Mr. Ashton :Britten was also present and presented to the Council a report. of his activities to date. He advised the Council that further funds would be, needed to complete the project at the sewer farm which he planned and he assured the Council that further satisfactory results might be anticipated if the project as he had outlined it would be carried to completion. He left his report with the Council for it to read over and discuss. The following resolutions were then presented: Resolution No. 149.7 -- Authorizing the payment of the salary • of the municipal of fi cers for the month of March and amounting to $682.50. No. 1498 -- Authorizing the cancellation of License No. 44 - -C. Letham, Restaurant - $12.00, on account of the license being dated in advance of what was desired. No. 1499 -- Authorizing the cancellation of License No. 122 -- H. G. Munatz, Furniture Dealer - $12.00, on account of his being unable to pay same. Action on these resolutions was taken as follows: Resolution No. 1497 -- Adopted on motion of Councilman Apperson, seconded by Councilman Orloff and with all present voting in favor of same excepting Councilman Madsen who voted favorably on all excepting the sa as ry of the Fire Chief in which he voted "No." No. 1498 -- Discussion among the Council members followed with regards to carcelling this license for the reason stated. Councilman Madsen reported that he was very certain that Mr. Letham had b een operating a restaurant right along and that he had been serving meals• and accordingly he could nat see any reason why this license should be concelled, and instead; one of more recent date substituted . Councilman Apperson was also of the same opinion and with Council- man Orloff moving that the resolution be adopted and no one seconding same and the discussion being decidely against cancelling same, 1dr. Orloff withdrew his motion. Councilman Madsen moved that the 1933 license be collected and the 1934 license cancelled. His motion was seconded by Councilman Orloff and adopted on the favorable vote of all present. IT IT " No. 1499- -The Clerk advised the Council that Mr. Delucchi had made a number of efforts to collect the license since the -ft rst of the year, but that Mr. Munatz was without funds and that he (Mr. Delucchi) had been advised that Mr. h1unatz was behind in his rent, that his landlord was carrying him and that friends were helping him in other ways. Accordingly he recommended that the Council cancel this license. There was some discussion as regards the matter and while the Council disliked doing same and probably starting a precident, nevertheless -rider the circumstances it was regarded as charitable to cancel this license. Councilman Orloff moved that the license be cancelled and his motion was seconded by Councilman Apperson and-with all the Councilmen present voting in favor of same. Mr. William H. Graham was present at the meeting and a few words were solicited from him by the Mayor. Ur. Grahanstated that he had nothing to offer and had "just dropped in ". Clerk Schween advised the Council that during the past month representatives of the State Highway commission had called on him relative to state funds which would be available to the Town of Pleasanton from the gasoline tax. These representatives advised as regards the work to b ,- aken by the municipality and which•would be paid for out of these funds. He also advised that approximately $1400.00 would be available. It was decided that at an early date the City Council should hold a special session and which representatives of the commission would be received and at which time they could outline to the Council just exactly how the money might be spent. Councilman Apperson then asked the Council to refer back to the report submitted by Mr. Ashton Britten with regards to further 'improvements on the incubator at the sewer farm. Mr. Apperson advised that the report should be given serious consideration. He explained what Mr. Britten had done, of the benefit that his work had been, and that he regarded,the money already spent as being well spent. He recommended that each Courn it member should read over the report carefully and study its contents. Councilman Madsen stated that he would appreciate the Council giving the report favorably consideration. He regarded the work of Mr. Britten as been satisfactory and felt that it should go forward. He also discussed various ideas that Mr. Britten had in connection with completing his plans for the incubator.