BOOK 18_1939-01-03 to 1942-08-10

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MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING REDWOOD CITY COUNCIL AUGUST 5, 1940 8:00 P.M. Upon roll call, the following Councilmen were present: L. C. Christensen, H. W. Edmonds, F. D. Granger, G. W. McNulty, W. M. Werder, Mayor H.F. Anderson, and City Clerk B. E. Myers; absent, Councilman E. A. Fletcher. The'minutes of the meeting of July 15 were approved on motion of Council- man Werder, seconded by Councilman McNulty. In a letter to the City, Port Manager Rudy, for the Port Commission, asked that the City make no distinction between the Pacific Portland Cement Company and the Permanente Corporation in matters involving the pur- chase of cement by the City or for jobs controled by the City. He in- dicated that the Port management had entered into a twenty-year agree- ment with the Permanente Corporation and that already the corporation had made "substantial direct monetary contributions to the City and are the only cement company directly contributing to the city treasury." there was also read a letter from the Permanente Corporation, signed by Henry J. -Kaiser, Jr., Project Manager and Secretary, in which it was requested that "the specifications for work in Redwood City be written so as to allow all cements to be used on such work." Several employees of the Pacific Portland Cement Company addressed the Council, asking that the City favor their company. The City Attorney was called upon for his report, as requested in a previous council meeting, as to the legality of specifying one or more kinds of cement in city contracts. The Attorney read his five-page decision, the gist of which was that any clause specifying either Pacific Portland Cement Company cement or Permanente Corporation cement, or both, was illegal: He -mentioned that the Charter specifically provides that there shall be no favoritism in public contracts. He indicated that the incorporation in any specifica- tions of a clause that would favor one firm or product would not be proper. Councilman Granger, at one point in the discussion, seconded by Councilman Christensen, moved that the City give its moral support to the Pacific Portland Cement Company. Upon vote, the motion lost, four to two. There was no final action, but it seemed the consensus of the members that each felt favorably inclined toward the Pacific Portland Cement Company, but that no definite form of statement should be incor- 111