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4~ TUESDAY NOV>>1BER 11. 1952 Through City Manager Mathewson the Council received a progress report from Department of Inspections Director Clay A. Easterly with reference to the sub-standard housing survey and report recently conducted and presented by a committee headed by Mr. Easterly, -- said report indicating that progress is being made towards improving local housing conditions. Council, next, received from City Hanager Mathewson a report and analysis covering the City' s expenditures and revenues for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 1952. While or although this analysis indicated that anticipated revenues are not matching anticipated expenditures or expenditures are slightly exceeding revenues for the period, Council expressed the opinion that the existing deficit for the period was not sufficiently dangerous to become alarmed about and that a review at the end of the next ~~~ 8t:. i quarter __ ending the first six months of the current year -- would indicate more accurately the trend of the City's operations. An agreement permitting the Pure Oil Company to make use of currently-unused right-of-way belonging to the City on Route 220 North by constructing a concrete apron on said right-of-way for access to its property, subject to cancellation of said agreement by thirty days' written notice, was approved for City Manager Mathewson's signature. After having receiving a report from City Manager Mathewson Which revealed that the City has just completed its street surfacing and re-surfacing program - for the year __ having put down 7,199 tons of p1ant-mix at a cost of $6,976 per ton or at least three dollars a ton less than the cost to the City would have been had the work been let to contract rather than been done by the City -- and there being no other business to come before Council, Council was adjourned. Clerk of Council