03-21-1923 - Regular Meeting - Minutesr]
MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Of The
CITY OF WEST COVINA.
West Covina, March 21, 1923,
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles
having, on the 5th day of February, 1923, declared the City
of West Covina to be a duly organized municipal corporation
of the sixth class, under and pursuant to an act of the legis-
lature of the State of California entitled "An Act to provide
for the organization, incorporation and government of munici-
pal corporations" approved March 13, 1883, and acts amendatory
thereof and supplemental -thereto,
And the said board of supervisors having further declared
Benjamin F. Maxson, Arthur Yarnell, Seymour L. I'latts,
Chas. B. Anderson and George King to be the duly
elected members of the board of trustees of the said city, and
Clemence D. Wolfinger to 'be'.• the elected clerk of the said
city, and each of the said officers having taken and subscribed
the official oath and filed the same with the clerk, as required
by law,
Now the said Benjamin F. Maxson, Arthur Yarnell, Seymour
D.latts, Chas.B.Anderson and Geor eKinmbers'of the said board of
trustees of the said City of West Covina, met at the West Covina
Club House, on the 21st day of March, 1923, at the hour of 7 :00
o'clock P.M., and proceeded with the organi zat ion of the said
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board of trustees of the said City of West Covina and subscribed
the following agreement and consent to the holding of the said
meeting:
West Covina, California, March 21, 1923.
We, the undersigned, being all of the members of the board
of trustees of the City of West Covina, hereby agree tD holds. ,
and hereby give our written consent to the holding,of a meeting
of the said. board of trustees of the said city at the West Covina
Club House on the 21st day of March, 1923, at the hour of 7:00
oTclock P. M., for the purpose of transacting such business as
shall properly come before the said board.
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IJr. Wolfinger, Clerk of the said city, called the meeting
to order and stated that the first business in order was the
election of a president of the board of trustees.
Mr. Uaxson was placed in nomination by Mr. Yarnell, and
the nomination was seconded by Mr. Anderson. On motion of Mr.
• Yarnell, seconded by I& iatts, the nominations were closed and
Mr. Maxson was unanimously elected president of the board of
trustees.
The clerk announced that all members of the board.of
trustees, and the clerk and the treasurer had subscribed and filed
_ their respective oaths of office.
The president announced that a copy of the minutes of the
board of supervisors relative to the incorporation of the City of
West Covina, duly certified by the Secretary of State of the State
of California, had been received,and directed the clerk to read
and to spread the same at length upon the minutes of the board of
trustees; whereupon the:same was read by the clerk as follows:
_ "Minute Book 83,
Page 539.
. OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES , STATE
OF CALIFORNIA.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5th 1923i,
The Board met in regular session. Present, Supervisors
R. F. McClellan, Chairman presiding, Prescott F. Cogswell,
J. H. Bean, F. E. Woodley, and Henry W. Wright; and
L. E. Lampton, Clerk, by A. M. McPherron, Deputy Clerk.
In Re INCORPORATION OF )
CITY OF WEST COVI14A AN D )
ELECTION OF OFFICERS. )
Upon motion of Supervisor Bean, duly seconded and carried,
it was ,.ordered that the following be, and the same is hereby
adopted:
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WHEREAS, at a regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors
held on the 16th day of October, 1922, a good and sufficient
petition, in due form, signed by Seymour L. Watts and more
than fifty other qualified electors of the County of
Los Angeles residing within the limits of the proposed
corporation, praying for the incorporation of the Town of
West Covina, in said County, as a City of the Sixth Class,
said petition having attached thereto the affidavit of
three qualified electors residing within the limits of the
proposed corporation, was tpresented and read; and an affi-
davit having been filed herein showing that said petition
and a notice stating.the time when said petition would be
presented to this Board had been duly published as provided
by law; and,
WHEREAS, on the 4th day of December, 1922, said Board
did duly establish and define the boundaries of said pro-
posed corporation as follows, to -wit. -
Beginning at the northwesterly corner of Lot 11,
Eugene Riggin's Subdivision of the Hathaway Tract, as
shown on map recorded in Book 53, page 37, Miscellaneous
Records of Los Angeles County, thence easterly in a direct
line passing through the northeasterly corner of said Lot
11 to the westerly line of Lot 3, Tract No. 220 as shown
on map recorded in Book 14, Page 179 of Maps, records of
said County; thence southerly in a direct line to the sa uth-
westerly corne t f said Lot 3; thence easterly in a direct
line to the southeasterly corner of said Lot 3; thence
northerly along the easterly line of said Lot 3 to a line
which is parallel with and 620 feet southerly measured at
right angles from the southerly line of the right of way
of the Pacific Electric Railway Company (80 feet wide)
as shown on County Surveyor's Map No. 7441 on file in the
office of the Surveyor of Los Angeles County; thence easterly
along said parallel line to the westerly line of Block 7,
Phillips Tract, as shown on map recorded in Book 9, pages
3 and 4, Miscellaneous Records of said County; thence along
the westerly line of said Block 7 to the southwesterly
corner of Lot 1, said Block 7; thence easterly in a direct
line to the northeasterly corner of Lot 6; Block 9, said
• Phillips Tract; thence southerly in a direct line to the
southeasterly corner of Lot 6, Block 28, said Phillips
Tract; thence southerly in a direct line to the northeast-
erly corner of Lot 2, Tract No. 930, as shown on map recorded
in Book 17, pages 38 and 3 9 of Maps, records of said County;
thence southerly in a direct line to the southeasterly
corner of Lot 18, said Tract No. 930; thence westerly in
a direct line to the southwesterly corner of said Lot 18;
thence westerly'in a direct line to the southeasterly corner
of Lot 285, E. J. Baldwin's Fifth Subdivision, as shown on
map recorded in Book 12, Pages 134 and 135 of Maps, records
of said County; thence westerly in a direct line passing
through the most westerly corner of Lot 278, said last
mentioned subdivision to the southeasterly line of Lot 160
E. J. Baldwin's Fourth Subdivision, as shown on map recorded
in Book 8, Page 186 of Maps, records of said County; thence
southwesterly in a direct line to the most easterly corner
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of said Lot 159, said last mentioned subdivision; thence
northwesterly along the northeasterly line of said Lot 159
,to a line parallel with and 500 feet southeasterly; measured
at right angles from the northwesterly line of said Lot 159;
thence southwesterly along said parallel line to southwesterly
line of said Lot 159; thence northwesterly in a direct line
to the most westerly corner of Lot 107, said last mentioned
subdivision; thence northeasterly in a direct line to the
most northerly corner of said Lot 107; thence northwesterly
in a direct line to the most westerly corner of Lot 97,
E. J.Baldwin's Second Subdivision, as shown on map recorded -
in Book 7, page 7 of Maps, records of said County-; thence
northeasterly in a direct line to the northwesterly corner
of Lot 86, said last mentioned subdivision; thence easterly
in a direct line to the northeasterly corner of said Lot 86;
thence northerly along the westerly line of aforesaid
Eugene Riggin's Subdivision of the Hathaway Tract to the
point of beginning.
and did ascertain and determine that the number of inhabitants
residing within said boundaries as established and defined
was 675, and
WHEREAS, said Board of Supervisors,did, on the 4th day
of December, 1922, order an election to be held within said
proposed corporation on the 3rd day of February, 1923, for
the purpose of determining whether the same shall become
incorporated, and did give due and legal notice thereof in
the manner and for the length of time required by law; and,
WHEREAS, in pursuance of said order and said notice and
said proceedings, an election was duly held within said
boundaries on the 3rd day of February, 1923, and returns and
the votes cast at said election were, by said Board of Super-
visors, at the first regular meeting succeedinsaid election,
to wit; the 5th day of February, 1923, duly canvassed; and,
_ WHEREAS, upon said canvass it appears that a majority
of the votes cast at said election are for the incorporation
of West Covina;
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED, and this Board by its
said order does declare that all that territory situated
in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, and em-
braced within the boundaries hereinbefore described in this
order, is a duly incorporated Municipal Corporation of the
- Sixth Class, under the name and style of "City of Nest Covina".
It also appearing upon the canvass of said votes that
Benjamin F. Maxxon, Arthur Yarnell, Seymour L. Watts, Chas. B.
Anderson, and George King received, severally, the highest
number of votes for members of the Board ofTrustees; that
Clemence D. Wolfinger received the highest number of votes
cast for Clerk, and that Thomas Robbins, received the highest
number of votes cast for Treasurer, of said City of West
Covina;
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NOT► S THIS BOARD, BY*ITS ORDER, DOES DECLARE the afore-
said -Benjamin F. Maxxon, Arthur Yarnell, Seymour L. Watts,
Chas. B. Anderson and George King duly elected to tle
office of the Board of Trustees, Clemence D. Wolfinger duly
elected to the office of Clerk, and Thomas Robbins duly
elected to the office of Treasurer of said incorporated
City of Nest Covina.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )ss
County of Los Angeles )
it L. E. LAM.PTON, County Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors of said County, do hereby
. certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct
copy of the original Minutes of the Board of Supervisors,
as entered in Minute Book No. 83, Page 239, in re
Incorporation of City of West Covina and Election of
Officers, and that I have carefully compared the same
with the original.
IN `,WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of the Board of Supervisors, this 14th day
of February, 1923.
L. E. LAMPTON,
County Clerk and Ex-Officio.
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors,
of the County of Los Angeles,
State of California.
(SEAL) By - A. M. McPherron, Deputy.
(ENDORSED)
F I L E D
In the Office of the SECRETARY OF STATE of the
STATE OF ' CA LI FO R[i IA
Feb 17 1923
FRANK C. JORDAN, Secretary of State
By - Frank H. Cory, Deputy.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
I , FRANK C. JORDAN, Secretary of State of the State of
California, do hereby certify that I have carefully compared
the annexec c9py of Minutes of the Board of Supervisors re-
lative to the Incorporation of the City of WEST COVINA with
the certified copy of the original now on file in my office,
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and that the same is a.correct transcript therefrom, and
of the whole thereof. I further certify that this authen-
tication is in due form and by the proper officer.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand and have caused the Great Seal of the State of
California to be affixed hereto this 9th day of March,
A. D. 1923.
(GREAT SEAL OF STATE)
FRANK C. JORDAN
Secretary of State
By
Deputy - "
It was moved by Mr. King and seconded by Mr. Watts that
Mr. Anderson be appointed a committee of one to communicate
with and interview the board of supervisors concerning the
transfer to the City of'dest Covina of the road fund in the
County Treasury and hereafter to be collected properly
belonging to the said city.
Mr. Chas. B. Anderson introduced Ordinance No. 1,
entitled "An Ordinance Fixing the Time and Place of Holding
Regular Meetings of the Board of Trustees", which was read
by the Clerk;
Mr. George King introduced Ordinance No. 2, entitled
"An Ordinance Providing for the Posting of City Ordinances",
which was read by the Clerk;
Mr. S. L. Watts introduced Ordinance No. 3, entit;led
"An Ordinance Determining the Penal Sums of.Bonds of
Certain Officers", which was read by the clerk;
Mr. Arthur Yarnell introduced Ordinance No. 4, entitled
"An Ordinance Providing for the Commitment to the County
Jail of Persons jlq,ld for. Trial or Conviction of IdisdemeanorTV
which was read by the Clerk;
Mr. ' Geo. King, introduced Ordinance NO. 5 , entitled
"An Ordinance Adopting a Seal of the City of West Covina," and
the same was read by the Clerk;
Mr. Chas. B. Anderson introduced Ordinance No. 6,
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entitled "An Ordinance Providing for the
Appointment
of a
Superintendent of Streets", and the same
was read by
the Clerk;
Mr. George King introduced Ordinance No. 7, entitled
"An Ordinance Determining the Salaries of Certain Officers", which
was read by the Clerk;
Mr. S. L. Watts moved that the compensation of the Clerk
and Ex-Offieio'._Assessor be fixed as follows: A salary of $25.00
per month as Clerk and the sum of 05.50 per day for his services
as Assessor, and that the said amounts be inserted in the said
Ordinance No. 7. Motion unanimously carried.
Mr. Arthur Yarnell moved that the salary of the Treasurer
be fixed at the sum of $15.00 per month, and that the said amount
be inserted in.the said Ordinance No. 7. Motion unanimously carried.
Mr. S. Z. _.Watts moved that the Marshal and Ex-Officio
Tax
Collector
be
not
paid
any salary as Marshal,
and that
he be paid
the
sum of $5.50
per
day
as Tax Collector while
actually
employed
in his duties as such, and that the said amount be inserted in the
said Ordinance No. 7. Motion unanimously carried.
Mr. -Charles B. Anderson introduced Ordinance No. 8,
entitled "An Ordinance Creating the Office of City Attorney and
Providing for his Duties and Compensation", which was read by the
clerk;
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Mr. George King introduced Ordinance N.o. 9, entitled
"An Ordinance Regulating the Making of Excavations in Public
Streets, Alleys or Other Public Places", which was read by the
Clerk.
Mr. Anderson introduced Ordinance No. 10, entiitled
"An Ordinance Forbidding the Obstruction of Streets", which was
read by the Clerk.
is Mr. Yarnell introduced Ordinance No. 11 entitled
"An Ordinance Providing for the Assessment and Collection of
City Taxes", which was read by the Clerk.
The president then declared that nominations were in
order for Recorder.
Mr. Anderson nominated IVIr. C. D. Wolfinger. There being
no other nominations it was moved, by Mr. Anderson, and seconded
by Mr. King, that nominations closed and that Mr. Wolfinger be
declared elected Recorder. The said motion was unanimously
carried. The president thereupon declared C. D. Wolfinger duly -
elected to the office of Recorder.
The president then.declared that nominations were -in
order for Marshal.
Mr. Watts nominated `Rayne Weaver. There being no other
nominations it was moved, by Mr. Watts, and seconded by Mr.
Yarnell, that nominations closed and that Mr. Wayne Cleaver be
declared elected Marshal. The said motion was unanimously carried.
The president thereupon declared Jayne 'Heaver duly elected to the
office of: Marshal.
Thereupon, on motion made and unanimously carried, the
board adjourned, to meet March 28, 1923, at 7 o'clock P.M.
The foregoing minutes of the meeting of the board of
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trustees of the City of 'Jest Covina, of March 21, 1923, are
recorded on pages 1 to 10 of the Book of Records of the said board.
Approved this of March, 1923.
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President of the Board of Trustees
of the City of Nest Covina.
Attests
Clerk
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