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October 20, 19481Jr MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUIICIL OF YJ'LST MEMPHIS, ARKANSAS ocTOBER 20, 1948 _ __ _ The Council of the City of West Memphis in the County of Crittenden, State of ~-rkansas, met in a regular session at the City Hall in said City at 7:30 P.M. on the 20th day of October, 1948. The meeting was called to order by the Mayor, and the roll being called there wares Presents P. M. Dacus in the chair and the following named Aldermen: 0. I. Bollinger, R. R. Morley, C. H. Rowton, and G. W. McAuley; and City Attorney Spears. Absents Aldermen Curtis Foster, R. L. Garrison, and City Clerk H. 0. Coats. It being determined a quorum was present, the following proceedings were had to-wits Minutes of the Council Meeting on October 6, 1948, were read and approved. Mayor Dacus announced that the meeting was now open for the report from the Committee appointed at the meeting on October 6th to prepare a proposed route for the West Memphis Transportation Company. Thereupon, Mr. T. R. Green presented the following letters October 20, 1948 Mayor P. M. Dacus, West Memphis, Arkansas. Dear Mayors Pursuant to request by City Council on October 6th that a routing and scheduling for city bus operation be prepared and presented to the Council at their next meeting 1Yedtieaday, October 20th, we are attaching hereto a city map showing two (2) routes one in blue, which is, at present, the only routing and one in red showing a recommended new route. We sincerely believe that the two routes, as shown, will provide adequate local transportation for all citizens in ;Yest Memphis. 1. Present route starting at Marion coming south on 61 to Broadway; east on Broadrovay to 11th; south on 11th to Madison; west on Madison to 9th, turning around at 9th and Madison, and returning to Marion via same route. Ths only change in this present route is the elimination of tho three block loep into the subdivision on the south bound schedule. 2. Recommended additional route starting at North Center Drive and Highway 61, going west on North Center Drive to Park Drive; north on Park Drive to North ~+orthington; ~Yest on North 'worthington to Redding; south on Redding to South ~+orthington Drive; east on South ~Yorthington Drive to Park Street; south on Park Street to Ross Circle; south on iZosa Circle to Barton; west on Barton to Redding; south on Redding to Bond; east on Bond to Rhodes; south on Rhodes to Broadway; east on Broadway to 18th; south on 18th to Polk; east on Polk to 20th; south on 20th to Harrison; east on Harrison to 21st; north on 21st to Broadway; west on Broadway to Rhodes reversing original route to North Center Drive and Highway. We should like to make the following additional recommendation9: 1. Timing on the two routes be scheduled so that transfers may be issued without undue delay. 2. Each driver be provided with a dust cloth and broom in order that buses may be cleaned at each end of the routes. 3. We have ti mad these routes and find that from Northwest end to Southeast end of both routes can easily be covered in less than 30 minutes. Thus, on a 30 minute schedule, ample time for cleaning is available. 4. We should further recommend and urge the adoption of a five cent (5¢) fare with transfer in same direction anywhere within the corporate limits of Yfest Memphis. Respectively submitted this 20th day of October 1948. T. R. GREEN GEORGE G. KIETZMAN it;HEiF j Messrs. Rubens and Staten of the West Memphis Transportation Company were present ,I at the meeting and discussed with the Council the recommendation of the Committee. The Council officially advised the West Memphis Transportation Company that the recommenda- ii tions as proposed by the Committee were being adopted by the City, and that the City at '~! this time was ordering the West Memphis Transportation Company to establish the routes i as suggested by the Committee and that said routes be put into effect by the Company within thirty f30) days; that the Company furnish the Council with a schedule of hiss stops on the routes as herein ordered to be adopted, and that th® said West Memphis ~i Transportation Company would be given sixty p60) days from October 20, 1918, to comply with the orders of the Council as to adoption of the routes, schedules and stops and to l otherwise comply fully with the I~anchise Ordinance. Mr. Rubens requested that the minutes of the meeting on October 6, 1948 that read as follows= ~~Mr. Rubena stated that the Company was not ready at this time to anew®r the violatione.'~ Be amended to read as followst ~~Mr. Rubena stated that the Company was not ready at this time to anstirer the violations and verbally denied a number of the allegations.' Mayor Dacus ordered that the minutes of the meeting on October 6, 19l~8, be so amended. Mayor Dacus advised the Coundl that he had requested Chief Holland to be and have the members of the Police Department present at the meeting. Thereupon, Chief Holland and Officer3 Wright, Burrow, and Reese were called into the meeting and a discussion was had on the work of the Department. The Council ordered that a report be kept by the officers of the mileage on the City Police Car and that the report be submitted to the Council for consideration at the first meeting of the Council in each month. It was also de dded that the City Police Car should be operated in the City Limits unless in making an arrest it was necessary to leave the City Limits to apprehend subject. tdr. G. G. Kietzman advised the Council that he had checked the statements of the Wm. T:. Johnson Company for the extensions to the sewer system on 18th and 20th Streets and found them to be correct. The Building Inspector presented the building permits he had authorized to be issued. Motion was made, passed, and adopted to confirm the actions of the Building Inspector .in the issuance of the following building permits: Scott-Senhaueen Delta Ice Company J. M. Kirtley Guaranty Loan Company Guaranty Loan Company Church of God John Alexander Willie Overstreet E. A. Goes Dora Marshal. Lion Oil Company J. S. Miller W. D. Listen No further business appearing, the meeting was adjourned. ATTESTt .- ~~~ o~ ~~-~-~ APPROVEDs NOVF~'ID~t 3, 19L~8