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. ; _ _ . _ �� � several improvementa had been made. $creens.had been installed and a drier was bein� installed. It appeared that the plant should be in proper operation wit�in a week or daye and it was th recommendation oY the City Manager that the:matter be carried on the agenda until•the next meeting to see if the eituation 1$ fully correctefl. Mr. 4Pilliameon is nccepting no more Yertilizer until the plant is in operation. The matter wa.s ordered plaoec� on; agenda ' Oommunication was received from City Manager Blom_in regard to the work week for employees in the water, sewer, etreet and park depa.rtments engaged in Yield �vork. He reaommended that the regular work week be reduced from 44 houre to 40 hours, Monday through Friday; that overtime accumulated on Sundaye, ' . holidays and emergency calls during the night, under orders of oompetent authority, be paid for in cash at a rate equal to one and one-ha1Y timee the employee's equivalent hourly rate; and that overtime aocumlated as a reault of the extenaion of the normal work day or on Saturdaye be paid in oaeh at a rate equal to the equivalent hourly rate of the employee. Oity Manager • Blom advised this would involve an amendment to the rules and regulatione oi the personnel eyatem. Councilman Granger aeked if thie matter shoul�d not be referred to the Board oY Review and was.adnised by City Manager Blom triat it had not been done so. He further recommended that if the Councll approned tae recommendation it be made ePfective as of the preaent payroll period, He advised that he was a meeting oY the Hoard of Review to have.. their asaistance in making up the change in the rulee so tnat it will be ' completed before the checke are drawn Yor the presenL payroll period. Ooun- cilman Werder asked if conformed to plans uaed in other cities. City Manager Blom advised that it was a trend that was being folloaeed and that trie City of Palo Alto had been on a 4Q hour week for over.a qear. It was the opinion of Mayor Hilton the plan should be approned subject to the ' approval of tne Board of Review. Councilman Werder moved, seaonded by Councilman $wift, that the recommendation of the City Manager be approved aubfect to the approval oY the Hoard of Review. Under the question, Counoil- • man Qranger wanted it understood that the Council was attempting to help the employees to solve their problems. City Manager Blom advised that the plan ..had been suggested by the employeea theme and that they �rere satiefied, Trie time and one-half Por overtime on Sundaye, holidays or emergency work ' had been recommended by the City Manager. The motion passed unanimously, Councilman (3ranger believed it vuould be wiee to provide a fund,in the budget in the enent further salary inoreases are neoeesary. Oity Manager Hlom adviaed the budget could be presented at a speoial meeting oY the Oounoil to oon- sider the setting up of eucri a fund. . It wae deeided that a meeting would ' be held Monday, Auguat 26th, City Manager Blom requeated the Oouncilmen to advise him as to the means of trane- portation ttiey wiahed to take to the League oY Californi8 Citles� Convention in,.3an Diego in 8eptember, Mr. Louis Behrens, a resident oP Edgewood Park, appeared before the Oouncil in regard to the matter of water preaeure in that dietrict and aeked that some- • thing defini'te be done to improve the.eystem. A garage had been destroyed y � „ '.,