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CITY COMMISSION, SANFORD, FLORIDA, September 26 at 7:30 P M19 40
The City Commission of the City of Sanford, Florida, met in adjourned session at the
City Hall in the City of Lanford, Florida, at 7:30 o'clock P.11. September 26, 1940.
Present: Commissioner "' �.lter S. Coleman, Mayor.
It H.James Gut
II Edward Higgins
II M J Lodge
" G E Rollins
City Attorney Fred R.!"ilson
City Clerk H N Sayer.
Meeting called to order by the Chairman.
E F gousholder, Attorney, next appeared on behalf of the Fernald - Laughton 11emorial
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Hospital Associaition with further reference to the application of L ".r. Harris E. Anderson
and Mr. J Charles Griffith for permit to establish a funeral home at the northwest corner
of Oak Avenue and Fifth Street , and requested the Commission not to grant a permit for
a funeral home at this location, which is adjacent to the hospital, stating that it
would have an adverse psychological effect on the patients and lower the standards of
the hospital.
Doctor.C.L.Park next registered a protest on behalf of the majority of the doctors
of Sanford against the establishment of a funeral home adjacent to the hospital, because
of the adverse psychological effect it will have on the patients.
G. A. Spe er, Attorney, representing Mir. Anderson and "r. Griffith, next requested
the Commission to grant them a license to operate a funeral home at the aforesaid location,
stating that they had invested their money in the property at this location with the
assurance that it could be used for this purpose.
Thereupon, after careful consideration, and in view of the statement of the doctors
of the adverse psychological effect a funeral home adjacent to the hospital will have on
the patients, and of the moral effect it will have on the hospital, Commissioner Lodge
moved that the Tax Collector decline to issue P.zr. Anderson and Mr. Griffith a license
to operate a funeral home at the northwest corner of Oak Avenue and Fifth Street, of which vg=
bal application has been made.
Seconded by Commissioner Rollins and carried.
The Commission then advised Pis. Anderson & Mr. Griffith that they would be glad
to consider their application for a permit to operate a funeral home at some other location
outside the hospital zone.
The Board next proceeded to a further study of the budget of revenues and expenditures f
the fiscal year 1940 -1941, final action being deferred, pending further consideration.
The meeting then adjourned until 4:00 o'clock P.M. September 30, 1940.
Attest;
City erk.
Mayor.