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<br />TUESDAY
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<br />JANUARY 12, 1965
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<br />Council commended the City's Police, Traffic, and Fire Departments for their
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<br />1964 records in traffic and fire safety, noting that no traffic fatalities
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<br />occulTed in the City during the past two years until the last \-reek in
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<br />December of 1964; and that fire summons have been on a steady decline
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<br />over the past ten years except for the year 1963 when, during a long period
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<br />of dry weather, there were many brush and grass fires requiring attention.
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<br />City Manager Hirst informed Council that, excluding the City's construction
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<br />work in progress, major construction work in progress in the City--according
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<br />to building permit valuations--exceeds $4,500,000.00, reflecting continued
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<br />expansion of commercial and industrial business activities.
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<br />Council was informed that the owners of the Sparrow property, on the south
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<br />side of East Church Street between the former First Baptist Church property
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<br />and the former O. D. Ford property, have refused to donate right-of-way in
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<br />front of their property to permit the widening of this side of East Church
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<br />Street between Broad and Ellsworth Streets according to plans, although
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<br />other owners of property within the block on this side of the street have
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<br />donated right-of-way or have agreed to donate right-of-way. Upon being
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<br />further informed that the City already owns sufficient right-of-way to
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<br />permit the proposed widening, Council agreed that widening should proceed
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<br />although right-of-way along the Sparrow property will not permit the planned
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<br />13'-sidewalk but only a three-foot sidewalk. Council learned, too, that the
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<br />owners of Sidney's, a new store under construction within the block, have
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<br />requested the use of brick for the sidewalk in front of this store; however,
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<br />Council indicated that the usual concrete sidewalk would be constructed.
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