HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Book 20, Page 657, January 26, 1943Proceedings of PLonrd of Com719s10rars City of Paducah Jnnuar7 20. 1943 I
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At n lio;-;ular lZectinr of the Board of Commissioners hold in the
CorLmissioners Chanbor at the City Hall, Paducah, Kentucky, at 7:30 ovelock P. I.%,
January 26th, 1943; .layor Lackey presided and upon call of the Roll the following
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answered to their names: Commissioners Dorian, Johnston, Pulliam, Wagner and
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Mayor Lackey (5).
9 Minutes of the previous meeting wore adopted as read.
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Traffic Lts.
/ Commissioner Johnston offered motion that the City hlanagor make an inveati,atlon
City Mgr.!_
investigat
for the purpose of finding out if the traffic lights at 19th & L3roadway, 12th
Jefferson, 10th & Broadviny, 6th Z. 111a3hington, 7th & Jefferson, 4th E: Jefferson and
4th 8: Kentucky Avenye, and 10th & Kentucky Avenue, can be changed to a constant
yellow signal, and that he report his findings to the board at the next regular
meeting. Adopted on call of the Roll, Yeas, Commissioners Dorian, Johnston,
Pulliam, '.7ag.ner and Mayor Lackey (5).
Cemetery
Commissioner Johnston offered motion that deed granted to J. Everette Pearson
deed to
J.E.Pear-
son
for Lot No. 25 in 'Block Pio. 1 in the Mausoleum Addition to Oal. Grove Cemetery, upon
proper payment of �1GO.00 to the City Treasurer be approved. Adopted on call of the
Roll, Yeas, Commissioners Dorian, Johnston, Pulliam, Wagner and Mayor Lackey (5).
Salary in-
, / Commissioner Pulliam offered motion that the City L:anager be requested to includ
crease for
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City Emp-
1,in his budget an increase in the salaries of all persons employed by the City of Paduca
loyoes
Ivrith
the exception of the i;ayor, the members of the Board of Con^sissioners, and the
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I!City '.?anagen, such salary increase to be or a percentage in keeping. with the hither
11cost of living but not of such percentage as would make impossible the reduction of
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taxes. Adopted on call of the Roll, Yeas, Commissioners Dorian, Johnston, Pulliam,
i'agner and ;dayor Lackey (5).
Uashinc-ton
/ Commissioner Pulliam offered motion that the report made by a committee of
trip oxnen-
v
sea anpro-
Paducah citizens composed of Yayor Pierce Lackey, County Judge, Brady 1•1. Stewart, Mr.
printed
C. A. Sawyer, President of GPA, Mr. E. J. Paxton, Jr., Chairman of OFA Airport
Committee, 1.!r. George Katterjohn, Jr., Vico !reaident of GPA and Vr. F'loyde D. Sperry,
Executive Secretary of GPA, this ronort sotllne out the mattera ingpirod into and the
business transacted whilo on the trip to 7nshincton, January 10th to January 16th, be
',received and filed.
.further move that the sum of :y274.£13 be appropriated by the city for pnyment
sof its rsrt of the expenses incurred by said Con•nittee on the trin to Wanhtngton, the
:r -f, r , ,n propriated to be charged to the Contin cnt :°turd. Adopted on call of the
r.-,:1• _urord Johnst•m, Pulliam, 'Wagno, r.rd L,eye,- L:w:ccy (4), ,'aya,
-nnr offered motion thnt the eirnnelal Re;.ort or the Fnducah
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'�t,^r ..... , . �,r ..., -rrO+h V D-onl,cr 1942 be received ui:d filed. Adopted on dill e
r.......oncrs ✓,r inn, Johnatn n, 1'ul11�m, .i;,; ar an(,' kayor Lueey (L).
-� •u,t.len k}fat the re^nest of t}:a Foard of :;gnat izors
!anr9 t,o -1von until
.. .. , - . - ...... `" _ •. - .. .l izfn,' Lax asaoaamenta
Proceeding's of 'oard of Cor;:nlsaionors City of Paducah Januar;; 26, 104.3
:'ire Cos- - Co=nissioner 1'.agnor offered motion that the sum of ,100.00 be appropriated
vention V{
4100.00 by the City of Paducah to defray a part of the expense for conductln;; a fire school at
Paducah to be attcndod by fire chiefs and their assistants durin,7, the wook of-obruary
Co.h, 1943, the amount of such appropriation to be charred to the ContinC,ent bund.
Adopted on call of the Roll, Yeas, Commissioners Dorian, Johnston, Pulliam, :nrner and
"a;:or Lackey (5).
S/S 1:y Avc Commissioner Pulliam offered the following motion: I move that an ordinanc
no oar',r1ng'✓
02 to le entitled: "AN O-IDINAWrE PROHIBITING THE PARKING OV VEHICLi?3 Oil 'fIIE SOUTH 3IDE W
streets
:E?TUCI:1 AVE!= EEVIEINI 12TH AND 16V STREETS, AND PRESCRIBING 'ISIS rZWj:-Y FOR VIO-
LATIOIi THEREOF AND RZPEALING ALL OP.D11TANCES IN CONFLICT IIEREIVITiI", be adopted.
f•dopted on call of the Roll, Yens, Cormiosionera Dorian, Johnston, Pulliam, 1.aCnor
n and Payor Lackey (5).
Enforce i:ayor Lackey offered motion that the Board of Commissioners recommend to th
Par kine
on Ky ',P;rq City r.'anarcr, that he rive instructions to the Police Department to require strict
h compliance with the ordinance prohibiting the parkinC of vehicles on the South Side
9 of Kentucky Avenue between 12th 8: 16th Streets, and that any person violating said
ordinance be arrested and required to pay a rine if guilty, with no warning riven
or leniency shown first offenders. Lost on call of the Roll, Nays, Commissioners
,orion, Johnston £ :agner (3), Yeas, Commissioner Pulliam and Mayor Lackey (2).
41C0 lunon ✓ / Mayor Lackey offered motion that the City Manager be requested to have
li•^ht -t
iZ"h E- Ky Installed at the corner of 13th E: Kentucky Avenue a 4000 lumen li-;ht instead of the
AVe
^ht of 2500 lumen now located at said corner. Adopted on call of the Roll, Yens
Cw=iosloners Corion, Johnston, Pulliam, i."arner and Mayor Lackey (5).
' Myor Lackey offered motion that the report of the Baoi:d of Park
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or ri: toners (,colored) for the year 1942, be received and filed. Adopted on call
t:•.^ 'a:!, Yeas, Commissioners Dorian, Johnston, Pulliam, '3arner and I.'ayor Lackey
On notion the ncetln adjourned.
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