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PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE MEETING
CITY OF MUSKEGO
MEETING CALLED TO ORDER BY CHAIRHAN WEAVER AT 4:OB PM ON
JUNE 17, 1965. PRESENT WERE GHAIRNAN WEAVER, ALDERNAN WIE--
SBLNANN AND SUPT. BERTRAN.
THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS WAS A CO?INUNICATION RELATING TOM
LATE TO WORK PENALTY FOR HIGHWAY ENPLOYEES. PAST PRACTICE BY
FORMER MUSKEGO TOWN BOARD WAS TO DEDUCT PULL HALF HOURS FOR
TARDINESS AFTER STARTING HOUR. ALDNRNEN WEAVER AND WIESELMANN
BOTH AGREED THAT PAST PRACTICE BE CONTINUED BY SUPT. BERTRAN.
FORNS THAT COULD BE USED BY SUPT. BERTRAN AND THE HIGHWAY
ENPLOYEES WERE SUPPLIED BY CHAIRHAN WEAVER. THEY WERE DISCUSS-
ED AT LENGTH AND WILL BE REVIEWED, AS TO ADAPTABILITY AND
CHANGES, so AS TO BE PRACTICAL FOR DEPARTNENT USE IN RECORDING
TINE SPENT ON VARIOUS PROJECTS AND EQUIPNENT USAGE';.
TRUCK BIDS WERE DISCUSSED AND SINCE ALDERNAN BUDISH WAS NOT
PRESENT, THE CONHITTEE FELT THAT A DECISION SHOULD BE DEFERRED
TO A LATER DATE WHEN THE CONNITTEE WOULD ALL BE PRESENT. CHAIR-
NAN WEAVER NOVED SANE AND SECONDED BY ALDERNAN WIESELNANN.
A LETTER FROM MR. KARL Kdss CONCERNING WATER STANDING AROUND
HIS HOHE AT W188 S10811, KELSEY DR. WAS READ. IT WAS AGREED BY
ALDERNAN WIESELMANN AND CHAIRNAN WEAVER THAT BEFORE ANY DITCX-
ING BE DONE ALONG KELSEY DRIVE, THAT MR. Koss FIRST FILL AREA
AROUND TEE HOUSE TO THE POINT REQUIRED, WHICH COULD POSSIBLY
SOLVE THE PROBLEN.
THE NEW HIGHWAY EXPLOYEE WAS CONSIDERED AND SUPT. BERTRAM RE-
NARKED THAT BRIDGES NEEDED PAINT, RAILINGS AND ABUTNENTS, CUT-
TING E~rr TREES, SIGNS NEEDED REPLACEHENT AND PAINTING(STREET
AND ROAD), SPRAYING OF WEEDS AFTER CUTTING AND AROUND SIGNS.
BECAUSE OF THE NATTNR OF WEEDS TO BE CUT CANE up AND THE QUEST-
TION AS TO WHETHER THE NEW NAN WOULD BE CUTTING WEEDS THAT TEE
WEED CONHISSIONER HAD CUT IN THE PAST ALSO CANE UP AND COULDN'T
BE ANSWERED, THE DECISION AS TO WHICH NAN OR IF ANY WOULD BE
HIRED WAS DEFERRED TO A FUTURE NEETING WHEN THE ENTIRE CONNIT-
TEE Is PRESENT. FURTHER STUDY IS TO BE MADE so THESE AND OTHER
QUESTIONS CAN BE ANSWERED.
A CONFERENCE WITH MAYOR GOTTFRIED WAS SUGGESTED BY CHAIRNAN
WEAVER AND CONCURRED WITH BY ALDERNAN WIESELNANN TO FIND OUT
WHAT EXTENT THE DUTIES OF THE WEED COMMISSIONER WOULD CONE UNDER
THE AUTHORITY OF THE PUBLIC WORKS COMNITTEE,
THE SUGGESTED ORDINANCE FOR CULVERTS AND CULVERT ENDS WAS DIS-
CUSSED. AN EXACT COPY OF THE NEW BERLIN MUNICIPAL CODE RELAT-
ING TO CULVERTS AND INSTALLATIONS WAS REVIEWED. THE MATTER WAS
DEFERRRED TO A LATER DATE AFTER MORE STUDY CAN BE GIVEN TO THIS
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SUPT. BERTRAN ASKED TO HAVE A CLARIFICATION OF WHY 18 INCH
CRUSHED STONE INSTEAD OF USING 18 INCH CRUSHED GRAVEL, A'S HAS
BEEN USED IN TXE PAST ON ALL OF OUR PRESENT ROADS. IT IS CON-
FUSING TO BIDDERS ON ROAD PROJECTS. SUPT. BERTRAN SAID 1s INCH
CRUSHED GRAVEL WOULD BE BETTER CONSIDERING TRUCKING COSTS AND
AVAILABILITY.
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A REQUEST FOR ROAD OIL TO BE APPLIED ON BERGER LANE FROH
MR. WILLIAM KAPKE WAS BROUGHT TO THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC
WORKS COKMITTEE BY ALDERHAN WIESELHANN. DISCUSSION FOLLOWED.
To BE GIVEN FVRTHER STUDY AND A DEFINITE POLICY TO BE SET, TO
BE PUT ON THE AGENDA FOR THE NEXT HEETING.
MOTION TO ADJOURN BY ALDERMAN WIESELHANN, SECONDED BP CEAIR-
NAN WEAVER. CARRIED.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 6:1t3 PM.
DONALD E. WIESELHANN, SEC'r.
PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
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