HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Book 20, Page 196, August 3, 1939NO - 196
Proceedings City of Paducah Au,-ust 3, 1939
At a call meeting of the Board of Commiasioners hold in the Commissioners'
Chamber at the City Hall, Paducah, Kentucky, at ?. o'clock P.M., on the 3rd day of
1Au3ust, 1939, Commissioner Bank presided as 7:ayor pro tem in the absence of Mayor
I;'•,ashburn and upon call of the roll the followinn answered to their names: Commisaionors
�1:elton, Pulliam and Mayor pro tem Hank (3).
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Mayor pro tem Hank stated reason for call, to -wit: For the purpose of
1hearin;; charged prefevred against patrolman Elbridge Staudt and to transact any other
business that may properly come before the meeting.
Elbridge Staudt
Mayor pro tem Bank offered the followingmotion: The `'it 2dann g
suspended y g er havin
rom3d t ysy in Police Deptjauspended
for
patrolman Elbridge Staudt from active duty in the police department on July
31, 1939, pending the hearing of charges preferred against him on Augunt 1, 1939 for
Lefficieney and misconduct in the performance of his duty as a police officer, and the
;'said 3lbridge Staudt having been duly served with a copy of said charEen and notified
;that on August 3, 1939 at the Commiasioners' Chamber in the City Hall, Paducah,
itentucky, a hearing of said charges would be held, and the said Elbridgo Staudt having
(failed to appear at said hearing, either in person or by counsel, and having failed to
Ilanswer
the charges filed against him or to make any defense thereto, and it appearing
;'from affidavits that the charges against the said Elbridge Staudt are true; -
now move that the said Elbridge Staudt be found tuilty of the charges
,,as specified in the aforesaid notice served upon him, and that he be suspended from
netive duty in the Police Department of theCity of Paducah for a period of 30 days
from this date. Adopted on call of the roll: Yeas; Commissioners kelton,Pulliam
and Mayor pro tem Hank (3).
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Payrolls - last
July,'It
Mayor pro tem Hank offered motion that the payroll for the last half of
1939
1IJuly,
1339 be allowed in the amount of 69705.06 and that the City Treasurer be authorize
o nay same by checks drawn on the General Fund. ^dopted on cnll of the roll:
'fens; COMissioners t;clton, Pulliam and ,-.Iayor pro tam Hank (3).
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On motion mectinr adjourned.
ji ADOPTED _ ,1939 APPI(OV D