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The City Commission of the City of Sanford, Florida, met in Regular Session at the
City Hall in Sanford, Florida, at 7 :30 O'Clock P.M.
Present: Commissioner T.L.Dumas, iilayor.
" W.A.Leffler
" H J Lehman
11 V.A.Speer
u C.A.Byrd.
City Attorney Fred R.Wilson
City Clerk, F.S.Lamson
Chief of Police R.G.Williams
Meeting called to order by the Chairman.
April 27, 1931.
Minutes of Regular Meeting of April 13th. and Adjourned Meeting of April 15th. 1931
read and approved.
Request next received from Special Counsel DeCottes for payment of invoices here-
tofore rendered covering retainer of Messrs, DeCottes and Boggs for services in the suit
brought by the Chase National Bank against the City of Sanford in the Florida Courts.
Commissioner Lehman moved that action be withheld upon this request pending
further consideration and the securing of additional information.
Seconded by Commissioner Leffler and carried.
Communication next read from Special Counsel DeCottes requesting that $600.00
expense money be furnished he and Mr Boggs for the purpose of proceeding to New York City
in connection with hearing in the suit-of the City of Sanford, Florida, versus the Chase
National Bank.
Commissioner Speer moved that expense money be furnisehd as requested.
Seconded by Commissioner Leffler and carried by the following vote:
Commissioner Dumas Aye
" Leff ler Aye
It Lehman Nay
it Speer Aye
it Byrd Aye
In compliance with instructions the Clerk next presented itemi2ed statement
showing the amount of delinquent real estate taxes together with total assessed for the
year 1930, against certain property located within the corporate limits and adjacent to the
Southern boundary of the City comprising approximately four square miles, which it has been
requested, be excluded from the City limits of Sanford, the totals being as follows:
Total unpaid taxes prior to the year 1930 $21,848.24
Total 1930 taxes assessed 4,332-59
Thereupon Commissioner Lehman moved that the City Commission go on record favoring
the removal of this property, most of which is waste land, from the City Limits, and ascertain
whether the Bond Holders Protective Committee would favor such action.
Seconded by Commissioner Speer and carried.
Engineer Fred T.Williams next presented Replat of Druid Park and requested its
approval by the City Commission.
Commissioner Leffler moved that this matter be referred to the City Attorney for
investigatioa and report at the next meeting.
Seconded by Commissioner Lehman and unanimously carried.
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Communication next read from City Physician Tolar recommending the passage of an
ordinance requiring that every dispenser of milk and cream, whether dairy or individual,
selling milk and cream, raw or pastuerized, in the City of Sanford, be required to have said
milk or cream examined bacteriologically each month at their own expense, and that such
examination be made in Sanford.
Matter referred to City Inspector Paxton with instructions that the terms of the
milk ordinance be enforced.
The Clerk next presented Depository Receipt No. 1642 dated April 18, 1931, issued
to the City of Sanford by the Atlantic National Bank, covering two United States Certificates
of Indebtedness Series TS2 -1931, Total value $20,000.00 deposited by the Sanford Atlantic
National Bank as additional security for City of Sanford funds in said bank, and on motion
of Commissioner Speer, seconded by Commissioner Lehman, and carried, said additional security
was approved and accepted.
Commissioner Speer next moved that bill for 365.56 , presented by H.M.Papworth as
Chairman of the Special Transient Relief Committee of the Seminole County Welfare Board,
covering cost of handling destitute transient families fron Nov. 1st, 1930 to April 1st,
1931, be paid , such expenditures not exceeding $500.00 having been authorized by the City
Commission at a previous meeting.
Seconded by Commissioner Byrd and carried.
Communication next read from the Florida Securities Bureau giving list of water
works bonds payment on which request was made by a Mr. Kenny at the meeting of the City
Commission on April 13th, and same ordered acknowledged and filed.
The Clerk next presented copy of alternative writ of mandamus calling for payment
of profits of the water department to apply against water bond coupons included in the two
Federal Judgments obtained on January 30, 1931 by Xenneth M. Keefe, et al, representing the
Bond Holders Protective Committee, and same was referred to the City Attorney.
The Commission next approved and authorized the payment on account of the following
liabilities of the Capital Fund:
Accounts Payable Amount of Account Amount to be Paid Balance.
Gallespie & Emile $2863.65 859.10 200+.55
Pierpont & Henthorne 1870.00 398.53 1471.47
John Williams , Inc. 719.20 215.76 503•44
Time Warrants.
.U.G.I:Contracting Co. 102000.00 600.00 Interest
2400.00 Principal 7600.00
Total to be paid $4473.39
Communication next read from Kenneth M.Keef e, Chairman of the City of Sanford
Bond Holders Protective Committee agreeing to the request of the Commission that the fol-
lowing amounts be excluded from the arrangement heretofore made whereby the City is to pay
$1.50 on debt service for each $1.00 used for operating expenses.
For salary of Assistant Librarian $600.00
For maintaining Municipal Golf Course 2500.00
For publicity purposes through Chamber of Commerce. 1000.00
Commissioner Byrd next moved that the time for the closing of the 1930 Tax Roll
be extended to May 31, 1931, and that no further extension beyond that date be given.
Seconded by Commissioner Leffler and carried by the following vote:
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ti Byrd Aye
Commissioner Lehman next moved that the Clerk be authorized to purchase a Municipal
Court Record book and that a sufficient amount be transferred from the Contingent fund to
the appropriation for the Municipal Court to defray the cost.
Seconded by Commissioner Byrd and carried.
Commissioner Lehman next moved that the time limit when the offer of the Mayfair
Hotel to the U.S.Government for a Veterans Home and Hospital would expire, be extended an
additional thirty days from May 1st.
Seconded by Commissioner Byrd and carried.
On motion duly adopted, action taken at the adjourned meeting of April 15th, and
special meeting of Aril 23rd. , was next rescinded insofar as it approved for passage by the
State Leigislature the following entitled Bill: An Act to Amend Section Twenty of Chapter
9897 Laws of Florida, Acts of 1923, entitled:
If An Act to Abolish the Present Municipal Government of the City of Sanford,
Seminole County, State of Florida, and to Organize, incorporate, and establish a City Govern-
ment for the same, and to prescribe the jurisdiction, powers and functions of said Municipalit l',
-as said Section was amended at an election held in the City of Sanford, Florida, on the Eighte nth
day of September 1928, which electionwas ratified and confirmed by Chapter 14345, Laws of
Florida, Acts of 1929, said section hereby amended relating to the election of a Mayor by
the City Commission of the City of Sanford, Florida, and the duties of the Mayor.
said Bill being referred back to the special legislative committee of the Chamber of Commerce
and City Commission for further consideration.
The meeting then adjourned.
Attest:
City Clerk.
Mayor.