E. 90th st. paving. Harris ave. N. E. to Kinsman ave. S. E. Postponed one week.

Roanoke ave. paving, from Broadview rd. to W. 30th st. Approved for 1918 duplicate.

The following improvements will be considered at the next regular meeting of the board:

Krauss et. N. E. paving, from E. 20th st. to E. 26th st.

Krauss ct. N. E. paving, from E. 26th st. to Pennsylvania R. R.

E. 135th st. sewer, from Miles ave. to Marston ave. S. E.

E. 90th st. paving, from Harris ave. S. E. to Kinsman ave. S. E.

L. C. CUKR, Acting Secretary.

CALENDAR

Friday, August 31

Meeting of the board of control, room 305, City Hall, 10 a. m. Tuesday, September 4—

Meeting of the board of control, 10 a. m.

INFORMATION AND
COMPLAINTS

Complaints, inquiries or suggestions regarding the work of municipal departments should be made in writing or by telephone to the officials directly in charge or to clerk of council, 316 City Hall. A directory of city officials appears on the inside cover page.

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CITY COUNCIL

MONDAY, AUG. 27, 1917

File No. 450432.

August 13th, 1917.
To the Honorable Council of the
City of Cleveland.
Gentlemen:

Pursuant to your request as contained in resolution No. 44320, passed by your body on May 28th, 1917, I hand you herewith a financial statement as contemplated under the terms of the Terrell Bill No. 232, passed by the General Assembly of the state of Ohio on March 21st, 1917.

This statement concerns the cash receipts and cash disbursements of the general fund from January 1st, 1917 to July 1st, 1917, and covers the period which is contemplated by the Terrell law.

From this statement it will be seen that the city has operated within the amount of its receipts during the first half of 1917. The only amount of deficiency loans outstanding as of July 1st, 1917, is the issue of $1,500,000, which deficit accumulated during the years 1913, 1914, and 1915.

enacted in Senate Bill No. 232 are such that it is putting a burden upon the city to take advantage of its terms and change its floating debt from short time certificates of indebtedness into long time bonds.

At present we are carrying this debt and merely providing the interest from the general fund, whereas, if this debt was placed in the shape of bonds as contemplated under the Terrell act, not only would the interest have to be taken care of but a sufficient amount for sinking fund purposes would also have to be provided from the general

funds.

It is common knowledge at the present time that the city needs all the revenues it can secure without such revenue being encroached upon any more than is absolutely necessary. If long time bonds were issued as provided in this act, for twenty years the people would be compelled to pay for deficits created in the past years. Both the present administration of the city and your honorable body were willing to meet this matter in another way and requested the governor at the time the legislature was in session. The present generation should, of right, be compelled to increase tax levies or create a special levy to take care of this shortage within the present and not put it off into the future.

SO

Under the terms of the Terrell Law, which by the way was enacted and became a law after your honorable body had appeared before the legislature both in person and by resolution, advocating the enactment of a law which would give real financial assistance to the cities of the state, any deficiency that exists up to July 1st, 1917, can be placed in the shape of bonds, the life of which shall not exceed twenty years by a majority vote of the people. The terms of the Terrell Law as GENERAL FUND-STATEMENT OF CASH RECEIPTS AND CASH DISBURSEMENTS, FROM JANUARY 1st, 1917 TO JULY 1st, 1917

Respectfully submitted,
C. J. NEÁL,
Director of Finance.

I beg to advise you that late this day there was filed with me a petition said to contain a sufficient number of names, which petition will require the submission to the electors of the city of Cleveland of a proposed amendment to Section 196 of the city charter.

Section 196 of the charter at present provides an eight hour work day "for workmen engaged on any public work carried on or aided by the municipality, whether done by contract or otherwise."

The proposed amendment would extend the eight hour day provision to-"any city employes of the city of Cleveland in the classified service thereof."

I have not had time since the filing of the petition to pass upon its sufficiency. This will be done during the current week.

If the petition proves sufficient and if the council takes final action thereon at its next meeting, September 4th, then the proposed amendment will be submitted to the electors at the regular election next November.

If the petition proves sufficient and the council does not take final action at its next meeting on September 4th, then the proposed amendment must be submitted at a special election to be held within 120 days after final action by council.

Liquor Tax

Balance Cash on Hand January 1st, 1917......

$ 263,478.39

Receipts

General Taxes

$1,243,780.93 461,595.24

Inheritance Tax

23,681.96

Personally appeared before me, a notary public, in and for the County aforesaid, C. J. Neal, Director of Finance, who upon oath deposes and says that the foregoing statement of cash receipts and cash disbursements from January 1st, 1917 to July 1st, 1917, of the General Fund are true as he verily believes. C. J. NEAL.

Sworn to and subscribed in my presence at Cleveland, Ohio, this 20th day of August, A. D. 1917.

J. W. DE CUMBE, Notary Public.

Sec. 2. Be it

R. E. COLLINS, Clerk of Council.

July 19, 1917.

To the Honorable Council, City of Cleveland, O.

Dear Sirs:

Referring to resolution No. 44558A, requesting that I report as to the advisability of appointing police

women, I wish to say that the great need in the police department at this time is men, to patrol beats, regulate traffic, guard public buildings, and do general patrol duty.

While there is no doubt but that police women could be used to a very good advantage work, yet, at this time the necessity in welfare for this kind of work is not so great as for able-bodied mands for patrolmen to safeguard men. The dethe streets and parks and also to regulate rapidly are so great at the present time that increasing traffic I think it would be inadvisable to appoint any police women.

Respectfully,

A. B. SPROSTY,

Director of Public Safety.

Received.

File No. 45046.

To the Honorable City Council, August 10, 1917. Cleveland, O.

Gentlemen:

In response to council resolution file No. 44989, by Mr. Taylor, requesting a report on the approximate cost of building a 40 foot by 100 foot wading pool in Woodland Hills park, beg to state that the cost thereof, together with water service and drainage sewer, would be about $4,,500.00.

Respectfully submitted,
ALEX BERNSTEIN,
Director of Public Service.

Received.

File No. 45047.

To the Honorable City Council,

August 23, 1917.

Cleveland.

Gentlemen:

Wednesday,

At the regular meeting of the city plan commission held August 22nd, the nances were endorsed:

following

ordi

Ord. No. 44781, "an ordinance to authorize the commissioner of purchases and supplies, to purchase certain lands needed for opening Mont

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clair ave. S. W."

Ord. No. 44782, "an ordinance to authorize the commissioner of purchases and supplies to purchase certain lands needed for opening and widening E. 117th st."

Ord. No. 44783, "an ordinance to authorize the commissioner of purchases and supplies to purchase certain lands needed for opening and widening E. 77th st."

Ord. No. 44874, "an ordinance to authorize the commissioner of purchases and supplies to purchase certain lands needed for opening and widening Morgana ave. S. E."

Respectfully yours,

WILLIAM GANSON ROSE,
Executive Secretary.

I submit herewith communication from the Cleveland Railway pany dated July 31st, 1917, declining Comto accept ordinance No. 44914 granting franchise rights on Euclid ave. in E. Cleveland.

Very truly yours, FIELDER SANDEDRS. July 31st, 1917. To the Council of the City of Cleveland,

Cleveland, Chio. Gentlemen:

At a meeting of the board of directors of this company held on the 26th instant the board considered ordinance No. 44914, passed by your honorable body July 16th, 1917, entitled "an ordinance granting to The Cleveland Railway Company right to operate a double-track exthe tension of its railway in Euclid ave. between the easterly limits of the city of E. Cleveland and the casterly limits of the city of E. Cleveland and the easterly limits of the city of Cleveland, and to repeal ordinance No. 44287, passed June 25, 1917," and adopted a resolution directing us to advise you that the company must decline to accept the grant embodied in that ordinance. Very respectfully, JOHN J. STANLEY, President. Secretary.

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ESTIMATED ASSESSMENTS
File No. 45145.

August 27, 1917. To the Honorable Council of the city of Cleveland:

The undersigned board of revision of assessments having met at the time and place designated in the notices served for the following improvements, after careful consideration approved the estimated assessments as they now stand, and the improvements being deemed necessity rcommended that the necessary legislation to proceed and assess a tax therefore be enacted.

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E. 117th st., from Kinsman rd. S. E. to Ely ave. S. E., paving. G. R. 10206.

E. 123d st., from Ray ct. N. E. to Taft ave. N. E., paving. G. R. 10208. E. 128th st., from St. Clair ave. N. E. to Penobscot ave. N. E., paving. G. R. 10210.

E. 157th st., from Waterloo rd. N. E. to Calcutta ave. N. E., paving. G. R. 10212.

E. 158th st., from Waterloo rd. N. E. to Calcutta ave. N. E., paving. G. R. 10214.

E. 160th st., from Trafalgar ave. N. E. to Calcutta ave. N. E., paving. G. R. 10216.

E. 123d st., from Abell ave. S. E. to Imperial ave. S. E., sewer. G. R. 10218.

E. 140th st., from St. Clair ave. N. E. to Castalia ave. N. E., sewer. G. R. 10220.

E. 155th st., from Holmes ave. N. E. to Saranac rd. N. E., paving. G. R. 10222.

E. 156th st., from Holmes ave. N. E. to Saranac rd. N. E., paving. G. R. 10224.

Korman ave. N. E.. from E. 74th st. to E. 79th st., paving. G. R. 10226.

McElhattan ave. N. E., from E. 136th st. to E. 140th st., paving. G. R. 10228.

Olivet ct. N. E., and E. 106th st. from E. 108th st. to Hathaway ave. N. E., paving. G. R. 10230. Alcoba ct. S. W., from W. 67th st. to W. 73d st., paving. G. R. 10232. E. 49th pl., from Czar ave. S. E. to Barkwill ave. S. E., paving. G. R.

10234.

E. 57th st., from Hege ave. to Harvard ave. S. E., paving. G. R. 10236. E. 58th st. from Hege ave. to Harvard ave. S. E., paving. G. R. 10238.