REGULAR MEETING
February ?, 1928
(Original document is not dated.)
The Town Council met in regular session with the following hold-over members present: Messrs. Downes, Clements, Frear and Hinkle.
Organization
Mr. Clements acting as temporary chairman called for the certificate of the election held on the 9th day of January A.D. 1928. The same was read as follows:
STATE OF DELAWARE )
Town of Dover, ss.)
At an election held in the Levy Court Room in the Town of Dover, on Monday the 9th day of January, A.D. one thousand nine hundred and 28 being the Second Monday of the said month, for the purpose of electing a President of Council, four Members of Council, and as Assessor, for the said Town of Dover, in the manner prescribed by the Charter of the said Town, the following named persons were elected, viz:
J. Wallace Woodford President of Council;
John P. LeFevre Member of Council for the First District;
Thomas V. Keith Member of Council for the Second District;
Jesse S. Burton Member of Council for the Third District;
Thomas F. Clark Member of Council for the Fourth District;
and James B. Keith Assessor for the Town;
The said persons having each received the greatest number of votes for the respective offices.
In witness whereof we, the undersigned, Edwin F. Wood Alderman of said Town, of Dover, Delaware, and two members of the Town Council of said Town of Dover, Delaware appointed to hold said election, have each hereunto set our hands this 9th day of January A.D. 1928.
Edwin F. Wood; Alderman
W. D. Clements; Councilman
G. C. Frear; Councilman
Upon motion of Messrs.. Downes and Frear, certificates of elected were excepted and ordered spread upon the minutes.
OATH OF OFFICE
The newly elected members as above stated, all being present were sworn in by acting President Clements for the ensuing year.
ROLL CALL
The following members answered to roll call: President Woodford; Messrs. Frear, Clements, Downes, LeFevre, Burton, Keith, Hinkle, and Clark.
ELECTION OF CLERK
Upon motion of Messrs. Keith and Clark, J. Osborne Willis was nominated and elected as Clerk of the Council for the ensuing year.
TREASURER ELECTED AND SALARY FIXED
Upon motion of Messrs. Keith and LeFevre, the Treasurer Mr. W. S. Haman was nominated and elected for the ensuing year.
Upon motion of Messrs. Downes and LeFevre, the Treasurer’s salary was fixed at $300.00 per year.
ELECTION OF ALDERMAN
Councilmen acting on motion of Messrs. LeFevre and Hinkle, unanimously elected as alderman Edwin F. Wood for the ensuing year.
STANDING COMMITTEES FOR YEAR 1928
The committees were appointed by the Mayor as follows:
Finance: Burton, LeFevre and Downes
Accounts: Downes, Burton and LeFevre
Ordinance: Clark, Keith and Hinkle
Streets: Clements, Clark and Hinkle
Fire & Police: Keith, Clements and Frear
Sewers: Frear, Burton and Clements
Light & Water: (elected) LeFevre, Downes and Clark
Tree Committee: Hinkle, Keith and Frear
Leave of Absence
Upon motion of Messrs. Keith & Clements, Council unanimously decide to grant Mr. T. F. Cook leave of absence for one year with his regular salary, account of sickness.
ASSESSOR SWORN IN
Mr. James B. Keith sworn in by President Woodford as assessor for the ensuing year.
DANGERS TO MR. THOMAS EMORY
Upon motion of Messrs. Clements & Frear, Mr. Thomas Emory was granted $200.00 damages to his property while crossing with the new sewer system.
LETTER OF RESIGNATION
Upon motion of Messrs. Clements & Keith, resignation of Mr. C. C. Short from the Robbins Hose Company was accepted to take effect March 3rd, 1928.
SOLICITOR SALARY
Upon motion of Messrs. Downes & Clements, the amount of $200.00 was ordered pay solicitor James M. Satterfield for the year of 1927, also the amount of $200.00 was decided upon for the coming year for his services.
REST ROOM
Upon motion of Messrs. Downes & Hinkle Council decided to pay Capitol Grange $20.00 per month rent for the rest room for the year of 1928.
RENT FOR COUNCIL CHAMBER
Upon motion of Messrs. Keith and Clements, Clerk was ordered to draw order on Treasurer for $300.00, for rent of Council Chamber.
ALDERMAN'S REPORT
The Alderman's Report for the month of January showed eight arrests and fines collected amounting to $53.50. Check for same being turned over to Treasurer. This report after being read by the Clerk was accepted on motion of Messrs. Downes and Clark.
SUPT’S. REPORT
Upon motion of Messrs. Keith & Clements, the following report of the Supt. was accepted for the month of January, ordered placed in the minutes and filed.
K. W. Generated 171,000
Tons coal consumed 258
Used in street lights 15,600 K.W.
Used City Pumping 35,680 K.W.
Paid Town Treasurer $ 12,967.85
The old engine set authorized disposed of last meeting was sold for junk, and is cleaned up. The total realized from this set, was $1,750.00 net.
We are securing prices upon a turbine, but do not expect to have these so that we can determine the total installation costs before the middle of the month.
We certainly must purchase some street repairing material, such as slag and ground slag.
Respectively submitted,
L. D. Shank
Amount of Jan. Commercial $ 6,766.80
Amount of Street Lighting 936.00
Amount pumping 1,070.20
Total monthly bills $ 8,773.20
Sup’t Shank was ordered by Council to place an order for ten cars of ground slag to be used on the streets of the Town.
TREASURER’S. REPORT
Upon motion of Messrs. Downes and Keith, the following report of the Treasurer after being read by the Clerk, ordered placed in the minutes and filed.
LIGHT FUND
Jan. 27, 1928
Receipts
Disbursements
Balance
GENERAL FUND
Jan. 27, 1928
Receipts
Disbursements
Overdraft
WATER FUND
Jan. 27, 1928
Receipts
Disbursements
Overdraft
SPECIAL GENERAL
Jan. 27, 1928
Disbursements
Balance
$ 6,904.55
6,456.19
38,151.89
846.25
7,997.83
16,536.66
5,512.05
1,480.37
11,582.15
12,661.22
61,845.29
FINANCE COMMITTEE
The following bills after being audited by the finance committee and found correct, Clerk was instructed to draw orders on the Treasurer necessary for their payment.
Light Fund
General Fund
Water Fund
Total
$ 4,820.24
2,093.44
122.20
7,035.88
ADJOURNMENT
Council adjourned at 9:45 P.M.
Signed:
W. A. Green
Clerk of Council