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Minutes of a special meeting of the Common Council
of the City of Rochester, Minnesota, held in the Council Chambers, in the
City Hall, in said City, at 7:30 o'clock P.M., on September 13th,1933.
Meeting called to order by President Liddle.
Roll Call* Present: Liddle, Amundsen, Dallman,
Miller, Moody, Norton, Absent: Hicks.
The call for the special meeting was read; said
meeting being called f9r the purpose of decision on trunk line sewer bids
and to issue instructions to those who ere; t appear before the State
Advisory Board the afternoon of September 14th91933, and any other business
that the said Common Council might deem proper:
The bids of C.G.Fraser and L.M.Feller, for the
construction of a trunk line sanitary sewer in Broadway Street South from
Fourth Street to Sixth Street, and the laying of lateral connections in the
said part of Broadway Street South, were discussed, as to whether the bid
made under the City scale or the bid made under the N.I.R.A. scale should
be accepted, as to whether the said bids should be rejected and the City
Engineer instructed to securethe necessary labor and materials and matte the
said improvements under City Force Account with City scale for labor,
whether to reject the bids and ask for authority to use day labor under
the application to N.R.A. for a 30 percent grant, or whether to reject all
bids and readvertize for proposals for the construction of the projects
named, but no decision was reached either on that or the instructions to
those who with to go before the State Advisory Board the afternoon of
September 14th,19339 except that the Common Council made informal expression
that the application for a 30 percent grant should be allowed to proceed
without injecting the questions above set forth, even to the :extent bf not
advising the State Board of the fact that bids have been received and
opened at this time.
Council adjourned.
Upon motion by Norton, second by Millar, the Common
City Clerk.