BOOK 20_1945-05-21 to 1946-09-03

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226 repealing Ordinance No. 483 and amending Ordinance No. 451. On roll call ordinance was adopted by the following vote: Ayes and in favor of the ordinance: Councilmen Armstrong, Fletcher, Granger and McNulty. Noes and against the ordinance: Councilman Britschgi and Mayor Hilton. Absent: Councilman Anderson. City Attorney McCarthy advised that he had been in- structed to draw up the ordinance so that it would be effective seventy days after adoption, or April 30, but that he had inadvertently provided the usual effective date - thirty days after adoption. He asked that the Council give the assurance that it would not become effective until April 30, 1946. Mayor Hilton so announced. In regard to proposed Charter amendments, City Attorney McCarthy submitted a resolution incorporating several amendments to the Charter to be placed on the ballot in the coming election. Proposed amendments include amending Sections 21 and 32 to provide for the City Clerk to be responsible to the City Council exclusively. Amendment to Section 17 provides that the City Attorney and City Engineer shall be ex -officio members without a vote. As the amendment was incorporated in the resolution, it provided that the City Attorney, City Engineer and Mayor could be counted to obtain a quorum, how - i+, ever, the general consensus of the Council was that it was not desirable that they be counted as constituting a quorum if they were to have no vote. Councilman Britschgi moved, seconded by Councilman Granger, that amendment as suggested by Councilman Granger be used instead of the suggested one in the resolution; i.e., that the Mayor shall be an ex -officio member of the Planning Commission without a vote except in the case of,;a:tie and that the City Attorney and City Engineer shall be ex -officio members and that neither they nor their deputies shall have a vote. The motion passed unanimously. There was considerable discussion in regard to the proposed amendments to t the section covering the duties and powers of the Port Commission. It was the desire of the Port Commission that certain employees of the Port not be compelled to live within the city, the Port Manager and employees paid on an hourly basis being specifically mentioned. It was the general opinion of the Council that employees such as longshoreman could not be compelled to live within the city but that.Office employees should be residents. With respect to the position of Port Manager, it was felt that due to the tech- nical duties of this position, residence within the city should not be man- datory. Mr. John E. McCarthy, a member of the Port Commission, was. in the audience and expressed the opinion that the above mentioned classifications were the ones about which the Port Commission was most concerned. Council- man Granger asked if Section 76 providing for employment for special pur- poses might apply to the position of Port Manager. City Attorney McCarthy was of the opinion that it would not, that "special purposes", as set forth in Section 76, referred to temporary employment. City Attorney McCarthy also advised that the Port Commission was in need of a tariff attorney and he included an amendment to Section 47f, subsection 17 to provide that the �! Port Commission shall appoint a tariff attorney to pass on the legality of all contracts etc � . ,:and to give advice on official matters, his compen- r� I I I