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1055 June 4th - -Frank Rhhling-- presenting his operating a soft drink parlor saloon on Neal Street. application for the privilege of and lunch room in the former reception June 4th -- Ashton Britten - -with reference to continuing his work at the sewer farm and requesting the Council to consider further.equipment necessary. A recess followed during thich the finance committee examined Claims No. 498 to 545 inclusive and amounting to $871.59, as well as the officers' monthly reports. Following the recess, after the meeting had been called to order again, Councilman Madsen, of the finance committee, reported that the committee had approved'Claims No. 498 to 545 inclusive and amounting to :;871.59. On his motion seconded by Councilman Olesen, and with all the councilmen present voting in favor of same, the.claims were ordered paid. Councilman Madsen then reported that the finance committee had approved the officers' monthly reports and he made a motion that they be placed on file. There being no ojbections to same, they were ordered filed. Action on the communications received were then taken as follows: May 18th -- Leonard Siriclair-;- Councilman Madsen recommended that the appoint- ment of Mr. Leonard Sinclair be made a temporary one, and he stated his reasons for same. There were no objections-to the appointment and it was ordered. May 21st - -Pred Sanderson - -The resignation of Mr. Sanderson was accepted on motion of Councilman Amaral, seconded by Councilman Madsen and with all Councilmen in favor of same. The-applications of William Dols tra and Joseph A. Leitch for the position were then given consideration. In view of the fact that Mr. Leitch had previously applied for the position his application was given special consider- ation. Councilman Amaral- especially recommended Mr. Leitch and later on his motion, seconded by Counciiman•Madsen, Mr. Leitch was appointed Nightwatchman. Mr. Amaral lead some discussion as regards the title "nightwatchman "., He rather expressed himself as being in favor of the title "Night Officer', feeling that that term was better suited than{ the one now in use. `fie Council talk the matter over but no action was taken with regards to changing the title. May 23rd -- Householder & Schnyder- -The Clerk was instructed to write this firm with regards to a figure on the work. Also the Clerk asked that the work be deferred to either,July or August in order that the annual report of the Clerk and other work toutakeRcare of at this season of the year might be completed before the audit was started. e Council instructed the Clerk to secure the estimates on the work from various firms and present same at the July meeting. May 28th- -1915 Improvement Bond Act Commie -- Filed. May 31st -- Division of Highways -- Considerable discussion was given to tIi.is communication on account of the information contained t1m rein and since rho figures had been presented by the Division at the previous meeting, Mr. Nelson,of the Division of Highways.was instructed to go over the work and to prepare an estimate to be considered by the Council and when this estimate was not included in the communication the Clerk was instructed to communicate with the Division and ascertain how far on St. Marys Street the work might be carried on with the funds available and also if definite understanding could be had with regards to the future so in case the money was allowed to accumulate that the municipality might have same available when 'it was desired. June 1st -- Northern California Buginess Council. Filed June 4th - -Frank Rohling- -The Council discussed the situation very thoroughly follow- ing a request from some of ,the municipal officers that the license be refused feeling that it was for the "best interests" of theapplicant that he be denied a license. The reasonsfor so doing were advanced. After the matter had been fully:ireviewed on motion.of Councilman Amaral seconded by Councilman Madsen and with all the Councilmen present voting in favor of same, it was voted to refuse the application.on the grounds that it was for the best interests of the applicant to do so. The Chief - of- Police was instructed to visit .Mr. Rohling and to advise him of the Council's action. June 4th -- Ashton Britten - -ldr. Britten was present at-the meeting and accordingly in giving his communication attention Uayor Orloff asked Mr. Baitten for .a few remarks. Mr. Britten explained the improvement at the Sewer Farm wh6n 'the incubator was operating and t'o prove this he pointed out that *hen the incubator was in operation 88.2 pure water was coming out at the sewer farm as compared with 64.7 when the incubator was not in operation. He also explained that the bacteria count some months ago when the incubator was operating was less than 100,000, whereas on June 4th it was 8,700,000. He further reported that while no serious bad affects would be. -soon noticed, nevertheless in warm weather there would be a change and probably some disturbance would arise.. Councilman Madsen then discussed sewer farm conditions and told what Mr. Britten had done over a period of two years o remedy matters and that the Council should be willing to support him urther with his experiments. It was generally felt that the matter shoul be laid over until I,,ir. Apperson would return to Pleasanton and accordingly it was decided that the Council should meet Mr. Britten at the Sewer Farm on Sunday morning, June 17th at 8 o'clock at which time conditions there would be looked into and the