04-05-1948 VCM
VILLAGE OF ELK RIVER COUNCIL MEETING
April 5, 1948
A regular meeting was held at the Municipal Building on April 5, 1948.
Members present:
Oscar Odegard, Mayor; Elmer Leger, Dan Bailey, R.A. Ellingson, Trustees; H.A.
Briggs, Clerk
The meeting was called to order by Mayor Odegard. The minutes of the last meeting were read and
approved.
Joe Stenglein representing the softball league of the village, asked if the council would appropriate
funds for balls for the league. Also R.W. Hanske was present and asked for financial help from the
village for the athletic program in connection with the school board. After considerable discussion a
motion was made by Briggs and seconded by Leger to appropriate $400.00 for the village athletic
program and $100.00 for balls for the soft ball league. The motion carried.
August Meyer complained that drainage from the peat bog was causing damage to his property and
others. The council agreed to investigate and see what can be done.
V.B. Skellenger and Otis Nickerson asked if the village would buy the International truck now
owned by the Light and Power Commission. They also brought up the matter of the building on the
Power Plant grounds formerly used by Harold Purtell. The commission would like to have it moved
away.
A motion was made by Bailey and seconded by Ellingson to allow the Boy Scouts to use this
building if they will take care of moving it away. Carried.
A motion was made by Ellingson and seconded by Bailey that the village buy the International truck
from the Commission for the balance of the depreciated value. Carried.
A motion was made by Leger and seconded by Ellingson to set the wages of Common labor at 85
cents an hour for village work carried.
Richard Halter presented his resignation as village assessor. A motion was made by Ellingson and
seconded by Leger to accept Halters resignation and appoint John G. Ostby to fill out the unexpired
term. The motion carried.
Upon motion by Leger and second by Bailey the following building permits were approved by
unanimous vote:
E.A. Parent, Wm Bartush, Mrs. Bine Nord, Charles Jungnickel.
A petition was received asking that the sanitary sewer be extended about 150 feet on the Elm Street
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and 5 Street from the present sewer. The petition was signed by Maynard Storlie, Mabel Storlie,
Richard Dreissig and Anna Dreissig. The petition was approved by the Council, work to be started
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about May 1.
The following bills were allowed and ordered paid:
Lester Derr – ½ March salary 112.50
J.H. Daly – 2 mo salary 33.32
Eureka Fire Hose – fire hose 429.00
Charles M Nelson – Mar salary 235.00
Lester Derr – bal Mar salary 112.50
H.A. Briggs – Mar salary 40.00
J.H. Daly – Mar salary 16.66
Gerald Hagel – street work 67.15
Oliver Micheau – street work 44.20
N.W. Bell Telephone Co – Mar 9.95
Louis Horvath – rent for Simmons 45.00
E.R. Utilities – March 204.02
Zella M Page – Mar salary 35.00
Zella M Page – library books 34.32
Zella M Page – Janitor service 7.00
Fairway Market – supplies Simmons 88.58
Albert Delgehauser – street work 1.70
Fire Department – services 114.00
Fred Brentseon – street work 16.60
E.R. Concrete Prod Co – mdse 11.10
Miller-Davis Co – blanks treas 6.18
Miller-Davis Co – blanks clerk 10.17
Dares Furniture Store – shades 1.59
Bank of Elk River – ins fire truck 78.34
Galchutt Hdwe – gas Simmons 8.50
Nickerson Bros – gas .50
Roggatz Pure Oil – repairs fire dept 5.75
Farm Bureau – gas fire truck 4.99
Meeting adjourned.
H.A. Briggs
Clerk
RESOLUTION
The Village Council of the Village of Elk River, County of Sherburne, State of Minnesota, being in
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regular session on the 5 day of April, 1948, 5 members being present, Councilman Ellingson
offered the following resolution and moved its adoption:
That Whereas, the Village of Elk River is the owner of a certain tract of land situated in the County
of Sherburne and State of Minnesota, described as follows, to-wit:
The East Ten (10) feet of the West Seventy (70) feet of the South Sixty (60) feet of Lot Nine (9),
Block Two (2) in the Village of Elk River; and
Whereas, Said land is not needed for any public purpose by said Village of Elk River; and
Whereas, Frank M Nickerson and Henry Otis Nickerson are the owners of the following described
land located in said Lot Nine (9), Block Two (2) in the Village of Elk River, to-wit:
The North Four (4) feet of the South Sixty-four (64) feel of the West Fifty-eight (58) feet of said lot;
and
Whereas, Said strip of land is urgently needed by the Village as a means of access to the North side
of the Municipal Building owned by said Village; and
Whereas, The Houlton Investment Company, the holders of a reversionary interest in the land first
above described have agreed to release said reversion in return for a similar interest in the land
second above described; and
Whereas, Frank M. Nickerson and Henry Otis Nickerson have agreed to exchange their property,
above described, for the above described property of the village and such exchange is in the public
interest.
IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, By the Village Council of the Village of Elk River, that it is in the
public interest that the land described as: The East Ten (10) feet of the West Seventy (70) feet of the
South Sixty (60) feet of Lot Nine (9), Block Two (2) in the Village of Elk River, be exchanged for
the land described as: The North Four (4) feet of the South Sixty-four (64) feet of the West Fifty-
eight (58) feet of said Lot Nine (9).
IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, That the President of the Village Council and the Village Clerk be,
and they hereby are authorized to execute and deliver to Frank M. Nickerson and Henry Otis
Nickerson a deed to the land first above described upon their tendering a good and sufficient deed
conveying to the village the land last above described.
This motion was seconded by Councilman Leger and put to a vote, all members present voted for it
and it was thereby adopted.
I hereby certify that the above resolution was duly adopted by the Village Council of the Village of
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Elk River as a regular meeting held on the 5 day of April, 1948.
H.A. Briggs, Village Clerk