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December 20, 19491471r1U'1'r;5 ur' e nnuuLtuc w;~c,xl!uU yr rnr, ulix ~uuru~lr.~ ur rxa u1'rx ur w~:~'r' N~r;lv~'n15, Fln1StiNSNJ, HAD.AND HELD ON DECEIviB~R 20, ~.11~2,_. The Council of the City of 6'Jest Memphis met in a regular session at the City Hall in said pity at 7:30 P.M. on the 20th day of December, 1949. The meeting was called to order, and the roll being called there were: Present: Mayor P, M. Dacus, in the chair and the following named Aldermen; C. H. Rcwton, R, n, iviorley, A. R, >r`anchester, P, B, Po•vers, R. L. Garrison, Curtis Foster, and O. I. Bollinger; and City Attorney J. H. Spears. Absent: Alderman James M. Bledsoe and City clerk H. 0. goats. It being determined a quorum was present, the following proceedings were had to-wits Minutes of Council meetings on December 6th and Lecember 8th Vvere read and approved. Mayor Dacus reported to the Ceunrl the recommendations made by the committee composed of Aldermen Bollinger, Garrison, and Bledsoe as to the re-arrangement of the offices in the City Hall as follows: That the Courtroom be moved upstairs to the east side of the building and the partition be removed between the two offices on the east. side in order to make a larger Courtroom and that the Judge and Clerk's of.['ice be adjacent to the Courtroom; that the i~ gineer's Office be moved to the location of the present Courtroom; that a PBX Board be installed; and that arrangements had been made with Chief Holland to feed the prisoners for the came amount paid Jailer i9Jright that is 35¢ per meal, due to the living quarters used by Jailer 1+rright now being used for office space it was necessary for Jailer elright to move from the City Hall and Mrs. Wright could not longer take charge of the feeding of the prisoners. Mayor Dacus next announced that the meeting was now open for the purpose of attempting to work out some agreement between the Memphis-:+est Memphis Transit Company and the West b'emphis Transportation Company reJ;arding bus steps and ether controversies contained in the litigation now pending in Federal Court. Mr, Troy 'Denton, Mr. Glenn Blliot and Mr. Blton Nieves representing the Memphis-'.rest ~ernphis Transit Company were present and were heard on the natter. Mr, Rubens, Mr. A. 'c3. Oliver, Mr. A1bErt Thomas, and Mr. C. B. Jance of the Jest Memphis Transportation ~ornpany were present and were heard on the matter. After consider~.tion by the Counci.i. it appeared that no agreement could be reached betraeen the two companies that would serve the citizens cf ~+est Memphis ~o the best advantage and that no action could be taken by the City until after the litigation now pending in 1`ederal Court was heard. City Attorney Spears presented the ordinance he had prepared for assessing privilege license as instructed by the Council at th;; meeting an December 6, 1949. The ordinance was introduced in writing and r.~ad in full by alderman ilowton, Alderman Manchester moved that the rule requiring said ordinance to be read in full on three different days be suspended, aitd that said ordinance be placed on its second reading; motion was seconded by Alderman Powers, and thereafter the Mayor put the question on the adoption of said motion, and the roll being called, the follrnving voted: Aye: Rotivton, Morley, Manchester, Powrers, garrison, Foster, and Bo11inJ;er. Nays None. Vvhereupon the Mayor declared the motion duly passed and said ordinance placed on its second reading. The ordinance was then read the second time by Alderman Foster. Alderman Garrison then moved that said ordinance be now placed upon its final adoption; motion :eras seconded by Alderman Morley, and after due consideration thereof by said Council, the lu~ror put the question on the adoption of the motion, and upon the roll being called, the following voted: Aye: Rowton, Morley, Manchester, Powers, Garrison, Foster, anri Bollinger. Nay: Nona. ;hereupon the Mayor declared the motion duly carried and said ordinance placed upon its final reading and adoption. Said ordinance was read in full by alderman powers, who moved its adoption, seconded by Alderman Bellinger, and after due consideration thereof by said Council, the Mayor put the question upon the adoption of said motion, and upon passage of said ordinance, and the roll being called, the follotiving voted: Aye: Rowton, Morley, Manchester, Powers, Garrison, Foster, and Bellinger. Nay: None. 14hereupcn the Mayor called to the Council's attention that the ordinance, adopted, contained an emergency clause and suggested that specific action sh~~uld be taken by the Council on this clause. 33 Whereupon motion was made by Alderman Garrison and duly seconded by glderman Fester that the emergency clause of said ordinance be adopted, and the roll being called, the following votedz Ayez Rcmton, Morley, Manchester, Powers, Garrison, Foster, and Bollinger. Nay' None. Whereupon the Mayor declared said motion duly adopted and said ordinance duly passed, and signed his approval to said ordinance and the City Clerk was directed to spread the same upon the record of Ordinances of the City of ','Jest Memphis, Arkansas, and to have same published as required by law, and to number said ordinance No. 175. Said ordinance to which no amendment was offered read as followsz ORDINANCE N0. 175 AN ORDINANCE TO LEVY AN ANNUAL OCCUPATIOPI TAB UP:"'N ALL PERSOrTS, FIRMS, PARTNERSHIPS, ASSOCIATIONS AND CORPORATIONS kIVGAGED IN CARRYING ON OR FOLLO6'JING CERTAIN `TRADES, BUSINES^ES, PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS AND/OR CALLIDIGS WITHIN THE CORP~RATR LIMITS OF THE CITY CF WEST MEMPHIS AND TO PROVIDE THE TIME FOR PAYMENT OF SUCH OCCUPATIONAL AND OR PRIVILEGE TAXES AND TO PROVIDE PETdALTIES F^R NON-PAYMTSVT THEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY CO[INCIL OF THE CITY OF ~Jr~ST MEMPHIS, AR3SIsTdSASz SECTION 1. That an annual license fee be, and the same is, hereby levied and assessed upon every person, partnership, association, firm or corporation engaged in carrying on or following, within the corporate limits of the City of ~~rest Memphis, Arkansas, each of the following trades, businesses, professions, vacations, and/or callings an amount set opposite the trade, business, profession, vocation, and/or calling herein mentioned, which annual license fee shall be in addition to any herein mentioned, which annual license fee shall be in addition to any other license or tax levied by any other Ordinance of the City of hest Memphis, and said license fee shall be due on and payable January 1st of each year by all persons, partnerships, firms and/or corporations then engaged in any business for which a privilege license is charged, and said license fee shall become delinquent on February 1st thereafter. Any person, partnership, association, firm and/or corporation engaging in any business for which a privilege license is payable under this Ordinance subsequent to January lst of any year shall immediately apply for and pay the license fee provided for in this Ordinance, and if not paid within thirty (30) days after such person, partnership, association, firm and/or corporation begins such business, shall be delinquent and subject to the penalties herein provided. The trades, businesses, professions, voations and/or callings for which license fees shall be payable are as follows: Abstract Company .......................................................... ~ 50.00 Any business not otherwise provided herein, the annual fee shall be........ 25.00 Auctioneers ................................................................ 50.00 Auto body and/or Paint Shops ............................................... 50.00 Attorneys .................................................................. 25.00 Airports ......................................................... ......... 50.00 Air-Conditioning and/or Heating ............................................ 100.00 Bakeries ................................................................... 25.00 Bakery or Delicatessens .................................................... 25.00 Banks and Banking .......................................................... 100.00 Barber Shops (per chair) ................................................... 10.00 Beauty Shops ............................................................... 20.00 Billiard or Pool Table Parlors (per table) ................................. 10.00 Blacksmiths ................................................................ 25.00 Boarding House ............................................................. 25.00 Bottling Norks ............................................................. 100.00 Bowling alley (For first six alleys) ....................................... 50.00 (each Additional alley) ........................ ........... 5.00 Brokers - (Commodities or Securities) ...................................... 50.00 Building and/or General Contractors ................ ~~ ........................... ~ 100.00 ii Building and Loan Agencies .................................................... 50.00 ~'~ ,,I ', Bulk Oil and/or Gas dealers - Located out of city, but doing business in city. 100.00 Ii Bus Stations ...................................................... ... 75.00 ~~ Butane Gas and Accessories .................................................... 100.00 i Casket or Coffin Factories .................................................... 75.00 '~ Chiropractors, Chiropodists, Phrenologists, Neuropaths ........................ 25.00 i I~ u Coal Dealers .................................................................. 25.00 I~ Concrete Mix Plant ............................................................ 100.00 Concrete Products ............................................................. 50.00 ~!, Contractors Iquipment Dealers ................................................. 200.00 !I Cotton Buyers and Brokers .................. ................................... ii 25.00 Cotton Gins ................................................................... 100.00 ii Coin Operated Vending Bdachines Operators...... ................................ ~~ 20.00 Cotton Compresses ............................................................. i 250.00 Credit Agencies ............................................................... 25.00 j' i Cabinet 5hops ................................................................. 25.J0 ~! Dairies cr Dairy Products ..................................................... 50.00 I s Dealers in Farm Machinery &. Implements Under X50,000.i~O ....................... f 50.00 ~'! Dealers in Farm Machinery & Implements Over X50,000.00 ........................ 100.00 ;. Detectives or Detective Agencies...... ... 25.00 it i Distillery .................................................................... 500.00 ;'' 'd Domino names - Per Table .......................................... .. 10.00 Drug Store ............................................,.............. ........ ',I 75.00 ;; Dentists ...................................................................... 25.00 ,' Distributors .................................................................. 25.00 iI Electric Motor and/or Transformer - Rewinding and Repairs ..................... 50.00 i ~ Electric F ring and Installation.. Ji ............................................ ~ 50.00 !,I Feed and/or Seed Lealers ...................................................... 50.00 ~~ II Fish Markets .................................................................. 25.00 ',' ~ Florists, Plant Nurseries, and/or Landscaping ................................. i 50.00 Frozen Food Lockers ........................................................... 50.00 !~ Fruit Stands ........................................... .................... 25.00 'l ~i Funeral Homes ................................................................. 50.00 Garages and Auto Repair Shops ................................................. 50.00 i Glass Installation ............................................................ 25.00 '~ grain and/or reed P:;il'_s ....................................................... 1^0.^0 i ii Hay Merchants. ......................................................... . 25.00 (Itinerant Truckers) .I Hotels of more than 10 rooms .................................................. i 50.00 Hotels and/or j~ooming Houses of Less than 10 rooms ............................ i 20.00 Ice Cream, IIot Dog, Hot Tam:~le ~~agons or Carts ................................ 10.00 Ice Distributors, Icetail ...................................................... 50.00 '~ Ice Plants .................................................................... 100.00 34 Insurance A us ors .............................................................9c 2 .00 5 Insurance.Agencies .............................................................. 50.00 Insurance Agents ................................................................ 25.00 Interior Decorators ...... ....................................................... 25.00 Jewelers ........................................ ............................. 50.00 Lumber Manufacturers ............................................................ 150.00 Machine Shops - Fabricating ~Jorks. .... ............................ 0 00 ... .. 5 . Manufacturer of ~andy ........................................................... 100.00 Meat Market - Butcher Shop .......................... ......................... 25.00 Merchants - Average Stock not to exceed ~1,000.00 ............................... 25,00 Merchants - Average Stack X1,000.00 to ~G5,000.00 ................................ 50.00 Merchants - Average St~~ck in Lxcess of ~5,000.00 ................................ 100.00 Merchants - ~uholesale ........................................................... 100.00 Minnow Pits or Live Bait ...........................................................20.00 honey Lenders, other than Banks, or Buildings and Loan Agency ................... 75.00 Newspapers Publishing ........................................................... 50.00 Optometrists .................................................................... 25.00 Oil Mills ................................................ .................... 250.00 Old Iron and/or Junk Dealers .................................................... 50.00 Outdoor Advertising ............................................................. 25.00 Printers, Job ................................................................... 25.00 Pecan Shelling and/or packing plants ........................................... 50,OU Pet ~hops ....................................................................... 25.00 Photographers ................................................................... 25.00 Plumbers or Plumbing Contractors ................................................ 50.00 Popcorn Machines ................................................................ 5.00 Photographer, Studio ............................................................ 25.00 Physicians ...................................................................... 25.00 Pottery, Retail ................................................................. 10.00 pressing, Dry Cleaning and/or Landering Plant ................................... 200.00 pressing, Dry Cleaning and/or Laundering, Routes, Linen Supply Oompanies, or Diaper Service or Supply Company ............................................. 200.00 Produce Dealer, Live Poultry, etc ............................................... 25.00 Public Accountants .............................................................. 25.00 Radio Broadcasting Station .............................. ....................... 150.00 Radio Repair Shops .............................................................. 15.00 Real Estate Agents .............................................................. 25.00 Refrigerator Repair ............................................................. 25.00 Retail Automobile Dealers ....................................................... 100.00 Retail Oil `'tations (Each active pump) .......................................... 10.00 Retail Lumber & SupP1Y Dealers .................................................. 150.00 Retail iJhiskey Steres ........................................................... 200.00 Repair Shops (Lawn mower, small tools) .......................................... 15.00 Restaurants, Lunch dooms, "afes, Etc, vrith seating capacity of 20 or more persons.. ~ 75.00 Restaurants, Lunch Rooms, Cafes, Etc. irrith seating capacity of less than 20 persons 25.00 Restaurant-Drive-Inn ............................................................... 75.00 Roofing Contractors ................................................................ 50.00 Salon (Reducing Treatments, Masseur) ............................................... 25.00 Sandvriches 1Vrapped for Sale ........................................................ 25.00 Service Station Fr~uipment and Supplies-sales and Service ........................... 50.00 Sheet Metal Worka .................................................................. 50.00 Shine Stands ....................................................................... 10.00 Shoe Cobblers ...................................................................... 10.00 Sign Painters ......................................... ...... 25.00 ........................ Skating Rink ....................................................................... 150.00 Soda Fountain ...................................................................... 25.00 Soy Sean Mills ..................................................................... 200.00 Sub Contractors= Floor Finishers ................................................................ 25.00 Masonery ....................................................................... 25.00 gaper Bangers ............................. .................................. 25.00 Painters ....................................................................... 25.00 Plasterers ..................................................................... 25.00 Roofers ........................................................................ 25.00 Siding .. ..................................................................... 25.00 Tile Setters ................................................................. 25.00 .. Telephone Exchanges ................................................................ 150.00 Theatre....... .................................................................. 150.00 Tire necapping ................................................................ 50 00 Tourist Courts ..................................................................... 50.00 Trailer For Rent ................................................................... 50.00 Trailer Parking Lots ............................................................... 50.00 Trailer Sales, Bouse or r'reipht .................................................... 50.00 Typewriter and Office Machines - Sales and Service ................................. 25.00 upholstering and/or Mattress making ................................................ 25.00 7~asherette - Bach Machine up to Five ............................................... 5.00 Additional machine after Five ......................................... 2.50 (~+asher, llryer, Extractcr, Ironer) 'r~`atch Repair Shops ................................................................. 25.00 `~uelding Shop ....................................................................... 25.00 fholesale beer Distributors ........................................................ 50.00 Yholesale Gasoline and Oil Dealers ................................................. 100.00 Wholesale tiJhiskey Stores ........................................................... 700.00 Woodyards .......................................................................... 10.00 ti'Voodworking Plants ................................................................. 50.00 34 SECTION 2. 1Vhere two or more businesses each of vrhich require the payment of a separate license shall be carried cn by any person, firm or corporation upon the same premises, the licence shall be an amount equal to the highest license provided for carrying on of any such businesses separately, plus, one-half the license fee provided for carrying on each of the other businesses separately. all licenses provided herein shall be for the calendar ,year beginning January 1st, provided tkiat said license is issued prior to June 30th. If such business, trade, profession, .vocation and/or calling .should be begun after June 30th and prior to September 30th, the charge sha)1 be one-half (2) of that for the calendar year. if such business, trade, profession, vocation and/or calling should he begun after September 30th the charge shall be one-fourth (1/4) of that for the calendar year. A11 licenses issued under the provisions of this Ordinance shall expire at midnight on December 31st of the year for vrhich said licenses may be issued. SECTION 3. The licenses fee or occupation taxes herein provided for shall be due and payable on January first of each year, or within 10 days after any business, trade, profession, vocation or calling subject to license, and shall expire on December the 31st following; said licenses shall be payable to the City Clerk who shall issue his receipts in duplicate, one of which shall be delivered to the licensee and the duplicate shall be retained by the City Clerk. The City Clerk shall make montkily settlements with the Treasurer and pay to him all license fees collected. SECTION 4. any person, partnership, association, firm and/or corporation desiring to engage in any of the foregoing businesses, trades, vocations and/or calling shall make application to the City Clerk for such license on fcrms prescribed by said City and shall be subject td approval by said City. SECTION 5. The license provided for herein shall not be transferable from any person, persons, firm, association and/or corporation to another person, persons, firm, association and/or corporation. SECTIOk7 b. The license fee and/or tax provided for in this Ordinance, when paid for any period provided herein, shall not be returnable in case the licensee for any reason surrenders or discontinues his said business, and any sum so paid shall not be returnable to any person, persons, firm, association or corporation. SECTION 7. jhe City Clerk may upon written application therefor, and with the approval of the Mayor endorsed htereon, extend the time for the payment of any license for any period, not exceeding thirty days, but only one extension of time shall be granted. SECTION 8. ~1]. Or~snances or parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed and/or amended as herein set forth. SECTION Q. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that each word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, section or sub-section shall be a separate provision of this Ordinance, and in the event that any word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, section or sub-section of this Ordinance shall be declared unlawful or invalid, such declaration shall not affect the remaining portions of this Ordinance and all other provisions herecf shall remain in full force and effect. SECTION 10. any person, firm, association, partnership or corporation, who shall engage in, carry on, or follovr any of the trades, businesses, professions, vocations or callings specified herein vrithin the corporate limits of the City of ~(est Memphis, without having first paid the license fee or occupation tax as herein prescribed, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this Ordinance, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined any sum not exceed- ing double the license fee provided for the trade, business and/or calling. SECTION 11. It is found and determined to be a fact that the provisions contained in this Ordinance are immediately necessary in order that said City of V'Vest Memphis shall have an adequate licensing and/er occupation tax, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this Ordinance sha1.1 be in full force and effect after January 1, 1;%~0. 3r;;~(-3X :F:Fif ::;Ei:?: 3E-3tit3: Mayor .Dacus presented statement received from the law firm of Hale & Fogleman for balance due nn attorneys fees in the Jadk }3unri case in the sum of X200.00; said case having been heard in Federal Court and dismissed with prejudice. After discussion of the matter, motion was made, passed, and adopted approving the payment of the balance of $200.00. Mayor Dacus advised the Council that the licensed plumbers in Ylest Memphis had been notified by letter of bids to be submitted for the plumbing work at the City 'a"Jarehouse, thereupon, the sealed bids were received as follows: I. bi. Hanna ~k752.20 L. E. Sanders Plumbing Co. 758.65 bluff City Plumbing & Haating Co. 751.16 Harvey ;~hite X25.00 The lour bid being made by Harvey T;~hite motion eras made, passed, and adopted that the contract be awarded Harvey Lvhite. Mayor Dacus advised the Council that the follcvring letter had been receiveds The k4ayor and City Council west ilkemphis, Arkansas ('yen tlemen s as ,you have undoubtedly seen by the press the Southvrestern Bell Telephone Compan,~ is asking for a rate increase in about 78 cities and towns in Arkansas. !I The people of ,your city will be affected by this increase in telephone rates if !' it is granted by the Arkansas Public Service Commission. '~ The telephone company has presented its direct testimony before the Counnission and has completed its case in chief. It is now up to the communities concex•ned to combat the evidence presented by the telephcne company by the presentation of expert witnesses. Some twenty cities interest desigaiated the undersigned city attorneys as a steering committee to coordinate the efforts of the varioua cor:mwn'_ties af~cted. you knew, expert witnesses are expensive and we are asking you to make a contribution to help defray the expenses of this litigation on bekialf of the people of your community. Fine Bluff and North Little Rock each pledged x"500.00, and Little Rock ~D1,O:i0.00. The telephone company is asking for an increase which will cost your community approximately X17,392.32 annually which is in addition to the amount you are already paying for telephone service. ;>gay we hear from you inunediately? Please address year reply to Mr. R. A. Eilbott, City Attorney, Pine Bluff. lours very truly, -tt-;r;~t :: ~i::: ~ti~:.;~: a; /S/ R. H. Eilbutt, Pine Bluff T. J. Gentry, Little Rock P. A. ~~right, Blytheville K, nodges, Newport Price Dickson, Fayetteville City Attorneys After discussion of the matter the City Attorney vras instructed to advise the Committee that the City of ~~est Memphis would appropriate the Burn of Two H,irrdred Dollars toward the expenses of the litigation. City 2atorney spears advised the Council of a pending agreement betw_en the Taylor wand and Gra•~el Company and the City of ~+est Mer:rphis for the construction of a power line to the said company. Thereupon, the following motion l;~as made by Alderman Garrison: That the L'ity Council recommend that the LigYit & ;rater Commission enter into the contract, as prepared, with the Taylor-Sand Gra•;el `'ompany. The motion eras seconded by Alderman Foster, and upon the matter being called to vote, the following voted: Aye' itovrton, k~orley, Tvianchester, k'ovrers, Garrison, Foster, and ilolli.nger. Play: VOne. The Building Inspector presented the buiicling permits he had authorized to be iasued. iYiotion was made, passed, and adopted to confirm the actions of the Building Inspector in the issaunce of the following building permits; L. h. Thompson Guaranty Loan Co. Guaranty Lean Co. Julius Robinson H. F. Spicer henry i~cCoy Roberta lrilliams C. V. Griffin D. L. Conl.ee Cecil Adkinson Jolin L. Goodwin John Mize T. R, uuilliams George ?~ustin Mary Davis Mayor Dacus advised the Council that it would be necessary to adjourn the meeting until December 27th for the hearing on the proposed amendment of Ordinance No, 165. Thereupon, motion was made by tilder:.,an Garrison to adjourn the meeting until 7;30 P.PS. December 27, 15'49. 'i'he motion was seconded by Alderman Bollinger, and upon the matter being called to vote, the following voted: Aye: Rowton, Mcrley, lalanchester, Powers, Garrison, Foster, and Bollinger. Nay: None. ATTEST: Y, APPR ;D; JANUARY 17, 1950 ~ o~ ~,-~- MAYOR