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July 2 2 1951 - 7:30 Pnl .Ao
RegUlar Meting Of t 1i e Council of the City of Pet aluma
called to order by r:tyor M: Meru o
OLL CALL .
�` esen -s. COUnCilmen Adams, Brown, Nor - , iood, Schoeningh,
SChwo Shomaker,
and Mayor 1 J' @Y°s8
l.U{J.J.1o1`ty C'C tlVtJ +JfJd'�d£SiO:y.do
P3otic;e of North Day League meeting to be held in Purelm.,
California., July 14 and 15, read and filed m
Councilman Schti�obeda,, Mayor �Wers, and City Manager Marshall
ind:ica- ted that they expected to attend said m eting.
Notice of the 37th Annual Conference of international City
Manragerts Association.. to be held at Poland Spring, 11sine,
Sept. 943 � 15I, read and filed
Letter from A. R. Grinstead., City .attorney of Sonom, California,
9� the. passage by all cities in the County, as well as by
the County itself,. of Curfew Ordinan0es in an effort to curb
Juvenile delinquency, read and filed. Also submitted by
Attormcy Grinstead was a copy of Ordinance adopted by the City
of Sonoma or. June 22.,, 1951, fregulating the presence of minort
under the age; of IS years :in public streets and other places
between certain. hours etc. t
F611dwing a di scussion by thou Council, of the matter was
referred to the City D City Ittorney and Chief of Police
for consideration mind recomendation.
C,omiya nic tion ' from" the Commercial. Utility Service on the
b je ct, of P. G. & R. Gas Rate case, read and filed.
C? aim s approved for paymen y -e
r. City Manager were submitted D
whereu
Res. #831 - N.C.S.
introduced by Councilor- n Brown seconded by Coachman Schwobeda .
approving claims (Nos. I to 5 inclusive) adopted by 7 affirmative
vote
A.ss of Personnel under date of July 2 1951,, submitted
and filed,
Monthly report o- Central Per -mit Bureau, read end filed.
ADOPTION OF ORDMANCESa
Terms or 0 7n. ration Ord.
1 0 by CouT1Cilmnan Schwobeda., SeCOYId�d
by CouiioiLman Shoes ter entitled,
�Wl ORDWANCF MUC33M `!'IMTORARY APPROPRIATIONSFOR CURRMT
DPTAzM.s 4 T r'1PzTtES,, CHAIRGW18 TO TIM 4,PPROPRIATIM."Is OF "
TTY FISCAL 'AR �' 1 TO CU'U' R t SA R ES OF'
VAR1.0fJ5 ,D PA 'r. i ll S0 UNTIL THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION IS IN
FORCE. �$
came up rogularly and Baa adopted by 7 a ffirmative votes.
MWINISHED BUSINE
Official Advertisi _
Cry . ormey arc° oohs reported that
ear he had not as yet
red the ° tten repot t reque s'ted at the meeting of ime
On the subject of awarding the contract for Off vial Idvertising
for the fiscal ye 1951-52, Piro Ken Ward addressed the Council
stating thW1; he wished to correct some of the' katements he: had
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made at the June 29th meeting. He stated that :he had since
checked into the records and had ascertained that the Petaluma.
Thews has been in Continuous publication since 1937,, instead of
1932 .as he had previously stated; tha the hews was granted a
second clans mailing permit in June of 1950 and this permit
was given because the newspaper had q ualified itself b bed;
printed and published in Petaluma during the ear previous to
I.-Tr. the date of permit issue. �m Ward submitted and filed with
the City Clerk a. copy of Permit Issued by the Post Office app °ov—
the application dated June 24,, 1054 for seta nd -class nail
privileges for the puT611cation of the Petaluma News, effective
2e 5,, 1950.) Mrs Nard stated that the original of said Permit
is on file with the Postmaster,, Petaluma,, Calif ornia.
Mr. falter Possi an employee of the Petaluma Argun- Co urier,
questioned that the Petaluma. News had been printed - in Petaluma
since 1 stating, that he believed that some issues had been
prkited in Santa Rosa and that he might be able to find an issue
with the Press Derrm-crat stamp on ito
1r. ward, stated that the Buyerts Guide is printed in SEnto
Rosa and possibly. this paper was confused with the Petaluma News
The ratter of aww,'v ding the Contract for official advertising
was held in abeyance pending the opinion of the City Attorney,
arr:, va t%c .Uloaa v.& yr —j. SJLZl1G3 "Uo ulru VVUA1t.0.l.JL
complaiziing that roosters In he neighborho di s turbe d her
and that the owners of said ro osters had refused to abat the
nu1sance.
Following a general discussion of the matter,, City Attorney
Brooks pointed out that the question is twhether or not there
shotL.d be police regulation and that the Council could quite
properly consider ts"ze question fmlx t - go angles, i.e., a
comps °ehensi.ve ordinance on animal �ii.sances, or an ordinance
dealing only with crow ng roosters.,
The ratter was referred to the City Attorney €md City P alter
for study and r°ecameen.dation,
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There baing no fur�,her
the meeting as adjourned
hour of 7-030 P.M.
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business to come before the meeting,
t o Monday, July 9,, 195 at the