102928CITY COMMISSION, SANFORD, FLORIDA,..
MINUTES
461
Adjouzned Session October 29 at 2 P~9N 1928
The City Commission of~the City of Sanford, Florida met in adjourned session
at the City Hall, Sanford, Florida October 29th at 2 O'Clock P N 1928~
Present: Commissioner E F Housholder, Mayor.
" Frank L Miller
City Clerk, F 8 Lamson.
City Attorney, George A DeCottes.
Absent: City Commissioner, S 0 Chase.
Upon motion duly adopted, ~nd in view of the fact that the 192? Delinquent
Tax Certificates have not been delivered to the Clerk of the Circuit Cou~t for collection,
the costs against lots i and 2 Blk 3 Orange Hts. for 1927 taxes were ordered abated, and
the Tax Collector instructed to receive the amount of taxes only.
On motion duly adopted $5.00 of l~2y personal Tax of L E White was ordered can-
celled on account of error in assessing.
On motion duly adopted SEES.lZ of the 1927 Personal Tax of C Benjamin was
ordered cancelled on account of error in assessing.
Upon motion duly adopted the 1927 personal Tax of C D Brumley was ordered
reduced from $39.38 to $25.00 on account of error in assessing.
Upon motion duly adopted $1,200.00 was appropriated from the Division of
0ha~ity for the use of the Seminole Oounty Welfare Board during the year commencing Oct. 1
192~ and ending Sept. 30 1929 and the Clerk was instructed to make payment at the rate
of $100.00 per month
Upon motion duly adopted, Gardner Minyard , now serving a term in jail,
was ordered released, conditional upon his obtaining work and caring for his wife.
Er Clyde Byrd, Local Manager of the Florida Power & Light Co. appeared before
the 0ommission requesting the passage of a resolution petitioning the Federal Radio Com-
mission to grant the necessary permits to allow the installation and operation of a short
wave length radio transmitting and receiving sets at points within the State of Florida.
Thereupon,0ommissioner Miller made the motion, which unanimously prevailed,
that the request of the Florida Power & Light Company be complied with.
Thereupon Commissioner ~iller offered the following resolution, which was
unanimously adopted, Said resolution to be signed in duplicate, one copy to be furnished
to the Florida Power & Light Company.
Said resolution being in words and figures as follows:
WHEREAS, the Florida Power & Light Company, a public Utility Company, organized
and existing under the laws of the State of Florida, supplies a large part of Florida, ln~
eluding this immediate community, with electric service, and,
WHEREAS,~ the Florida Power & Light 0ompany maintains an inter-connected electric
system within the State of Florida running along the East 0cast from Florida City on the
South to Yules on the north, across the State ~rom Fort Pierce to Arcadia and along the
West Coast from Bradenton to Fort Myers, serving approximately one hundred and forty(1400
communities with an approximate pupulation of 240,000 persons for the proper operation of
which requires uninterrupted communication service over said system, and
WHEREAS, during the past two years the State of Florida has been visited by
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are effectively isolate and cut off the community from the rest of Florida and the other
portions of the United States, and
~EREAS, during such hurricane and thereafter for a time, this community as
well as other communities within the State has been cut off from the remainder of the
State of Florida and the world at la~ge as regards telephone, telegraph and other means
of comnunication, causing among other unfortunate conditions, disastrous interference with
the Florida Power & Light Company's electric service, resulting detrimentally to this and
various other communities in the State, and
WHEREAS: THE FLORIDA POWER &LIGHT COMPANY in order to better enable it to
maintain continuous and adequate electric service to this and such other communities and
to minimize interruptions of service during emergency conditions, proposes to install short
wave length radio transmitting sets at necessary points on its interconnected electric
system and,
WHEREAS, it is the stated purpose of said 0ompany to confine the use of the
above mentioned sets in the maintenance of electric service to the communities it serves
and not for commercial use, and
WHEREAS, it is the belief of this body that during such emergencies and at all
times the installation and operation of such sets would among other things assist the
Said Company in maintaining continuous electric service to such necessary agencies for the
public health and welfare of the co~nunities served as water utilities, fire protection,
hospitals, refrigeration plants, dairies and milk depots, sewage disposal systems, fire
alarm systems, street traffic signal systems, train control systems, light houses, radio
beacons, certified aeronautical beacons, draw-bridges and.other uses which directly affect
the safety of public life and property and in general would inure to the benefit and wel-
fare of this community and the State of Florida at large,
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED BY THIS BODY, that the proposal
~ the Florida Power & Light Company to install and maintain at points within the State
of Florida on its interconnected electric System short wave length radio transmitting and
receiving sets for communication in order that the Company may be better able to maintain
electric service which is vital to the public welfare and the general benefit of this com-'
munity and the State of Florida at large is hereby unanimously endorsed by this Body, which
hereby petitions the Federal Radio Commission to grant the necessary permits to allow the
installation and operation of the above described radio equipment by said Company.
F S Lamson
0ity Clerk.
Dated October
October 31, 1928.
EF H~usholer
Mayor.
Frank L Miller
City Commissioner.
29, 1928, Sanford, Florida.
There being no further business the meeting adjourned to meet again