Postpone Most Matters Until Meeting To Be Held Next Tuesday.

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ACCEPT RESIGNATION OF SUPERINTENDENT

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Get Protest On Assessment For Sprinkling On Minnesota St.

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Not much transpired at the meeting of the city council held Tuesday evening most of the important matters were laid over until the next meeting which will be held on Tuesday, December 22. The meeting lasted less than an hour and was one of the shortest ever held by the council.

Object to Sprinkling Cost

Quite a few property owners on Minnesota Street between First and Second South Streets appeared before the council and objected to the high assessment for sprinkling. The Board of Public Works met on the thirtieth of November and assessed the property owners on Minnesota Street from Fourth North Street to Second South Street at the rate of 36c per front foot. The following petition was presented to the council by the property owners objecting to the assessment:

To the Hon. City Council,

City of New Ulm.

Gentlemen:

We, the undersigned, property owners on South Minnesota Street, object to the unjust assessment made by the Board of Public Works for sprinkling Minnesota Street. The Board did not take into consideration the benefits derived from said sprinkling, they only assessed according to frontage. We kindly request to be heard at your meeting on Dec. 15,1925.

J.P. Graff

Bernard Esser

Geo. O. Gastler

Aug. Puhlmann

Mrs. Mabel Frenzel

John C. Siebenbrunner

Otto F. Oswald

Henry Flor, acting city attorney, informed those present that the council had not had time to look into the matter of these assessments but that they would consider the matter during the coming week and take it up at the meeting which will be held next Tuesday.

Object to Refuse Dumping

A petition was also presented to the council by property owners living on Valley Street objecting to the dumping of refuse on the new dumping grounds between nineteenth and twentieth South and Valley Streets without such refuse being properly covered. The matter was disposed of by referring it to the committee on dumping grounds who will report the matter to the Board of Health and see that proper action is taken to keep it as sanitary as possible.

Accept Resignation

The resignation of Herbert H. Huevelmann as superintendent of the electric light and water works plant was accepted in order to permit him to accept a better position.

The matter of issuing soft drink licenses was again postponed until the next meeting as the council felt that the city attorney should be present when the matter comes up.

Brown County Journal,

December 11, 1925

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