01/25/1938 Board of Public Safety Minutes

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16� -- - , . � 4. The Committee also recommends that the system of issuing special � delivery car tags to passenger car operators as nov�1 employed be � discontinued immediately and that more than SQO tagg, noi�r out- � � standing be recalled and destroyed. 5. As a final ste� it will be necessary to deal v��ith Iarger trans- port trucks and those handling heavy merehandise but��these e�n be handled individually as they are_ not too n�zmerous for such treat- ment. Januarq 4, 1938 Ern est H. Miller Capt. Bert �lmstead John ��'. Gibbons Sergt. P. F.Burns The Board upon regular motion, seconded and carried, ordered the com- munication filed for future consideration. The Clerk oP the Board brought up tne questzon of th e purchase of De1,3.very Car Tickets which have been issued to merchants who make de- liveries in pleasure cars, �ivin� them permission to double nark for a short neriod to make deliveries. The -Board authorized 'the purchase of these� ti cketn and the issuance of same but gave instructions that a change in the� permit be mr�de. The City �lttorney is to draw up a per- �it Agreement to be si.gned by the applicant before -the card is issued. Instruct�i.ons were also given that upon the card shall be printed the limi.ts for par:�zng indicating that there shall be no double parkin� for. deliveries bet�veen th� hours of 11: 30 A. M. and 1:00 P. iui. and 4: 30 P.M: to 5: 30 P. M. ' � Cit� Attorney Hunter brought up the question of dangerous spots in the City, particularly along the river where the public might. be� safe- guarded more carefully than at present, and instructed the City Traf- fic EY�gineer Miller to make a survey of the City and report as soori as possible. It was also decided that the-Police be instructed to more. rigidly inspect and renort outages af aIl lights i:� the City and that they be instructed to notify the Ind. � Mich. Elec. Compsny or tne City Elec-- trical Department of any light outages that may be Found either by burn- �� ing out or being broken. They were instructed to report each day on Red-lights on dead-end streets also to indicate where any reflector buttons �may have been broken out. �GHTS & MEASURES - Mr. Burns submitted his report for the week ending January 22, show- ing 238 inspect.iona made. This report is on file in the office of the Board of Pub2ic Safety. � Meeting ad�ourned at IO:OO A, M. . �(i'!/Y�.� A�'TEST: Clerk ' Chairman �.