04-06-1953 VCM
VILLAGE OF ELK RIVER COUNCIL MEETING
April 6, 1953
A regular meeting was held at the Municipal Building on Apr 6, 1953.
Members present:
E.A. Parent, Mayor; Harry Dow, Dan Bailey, August Meyer, Trustees; H.A. Briggs,
Clerk
The meeting was called to order by Mayor Parent. The minutes of the last meeting were read and
approved.
A motion was made by Dow and seconded by Bailey to transfer $83.00 from the General Fund to
the Library Fund to offset purchase of a used typewriter for the library which was paid for out of the
Library Fund. Carried.
A motion was made by Briggs and seconded by Meyer to approve application of Wm Schumacher
for an on and off beer license. Carried.
A motion was made by Briggs and seconded by Dow to send Les Derr to the Fire School at St. Paul
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April 27 to May 1 1958. Motion carried.
A motion was made by Meyer and seconded by Bailey to authorize the Elk River Village Fire
Department to answer fire calls outside the village limits as well as in the village. The motion carried.
At this council meeting the hearing regarding the matter of vacating certain streets in the Walker
Addition Revised was held. No one appeared in answer to the notice of the hearing.
The following bills were approved and ordered paid:
Skelly Oil Co – fuel 55.13
Star News – publishing 143.50
Elk River Utilities – refund 96.11
August Leider – labor 151.95
Zella M Page – salary Mar 70.00
Zella M Page – library books 68.64
Zella M Page – janitor service 7.50
Coast to Coast Store – mdse 36.56
Coast to Coast Store – mdse 6.49
Elk River Utilities – street lights 100.00
Elk River Utilities – hydrant rent 56.00
Elk River Utilities – lights 48.64
Middlestadt Bros – fittings 39.96
Fire Department – fires 315.00
Marshall Wells Store – mdse 5.68
Joe Ludwick – roof repair 5.25
First Nat’l Bank – ins 211.35
Earl Maas – labor 28.00
Miller-Davis Co – Treas. Blanks 7.80
Miller-Davis Co – clerk blanks 6.54
Elk River Mch Shop – repairs 3.00
Miller-Davis Co – justice blanks 8.27
Irvin Hettrick – assessor bond 9.25
Star News – publishing 40.20
American Paint Co – zone paint 55.50
Andy’s Elec. Shop – mdse 21.95
Board of Education – band 350.00
Board of Education – summer rec 400.00
First Nat’l Bank Agcy – insurance 23.68
Westinghouse – lamps fire dept 30.81
Elk River Insurance Agcy – ins 70.56
Meeting adjourned.
H.A. Briggs
Clerk
Resolution
RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL, VILLAGE OF ELK RIVER, MINNESOTA
VACATING CERTAIN STREETS AND ALLEYS
In the Matter of the Vacation of Streets and Alleys in Walker’s Addition to the Village of Elk River:
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WHEREAS the above entitled matter came on to be heard on the 6 day of April, 1953, at 8:00
P.M. before the Village Council of the Village of Elk River, Minnesota, in the Municipal Building in
said Village upon the petition duly filed by Elk River Home and Improvement Company for the
vacation of the following described streets and alleys in said Village, to-wit:
Ninth Street, Elm Street, and all unnamed streets and alleys as laid out in the Plat of Walker’s
Addition to the Village of Elk River, dated July 18, 1946 and filed for record on said date in the
office of the Register of Deeds in and for Sherburne County, Minnesota.
WHERAS due notice of said hearing by published and posted notice as required by law has been
given by said Village Council, and the petitioners appeared in support of said petition and no one
appeared in opposition thereto, and,
WHEREAS said Village Council has heard the evidence in favor of said petition, that the petitioners
and other persons who signed said petition are the owners of all lands adjoining and abutting said
streets and alleys, and that the said streets and alleys are not now nor in the foreseeable future will be
used for any public purpose, and that it would be to the best interest of the public to vacate said
streets and alleys, and
WHEREAS Councilman Bailey introduced the resolution hereinafter set forth and moved its
adoption, which said resolution was duly seconded by Councilman ____, and said resolution having
been put to a roll call vote the following members of said Council voted aye: Bailey, Dow, Meyers,
Briggs
The following members voted nay: none; whereupon said resolution was declared adopted by the
President of said Council;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the Village Council of the Village of Elk River,
Sherburne County, Minnesota that the following streets and alleys shall be and hereby are forever
vacated and closed, to-wit:
RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL, VILLAGE OF ELK RIVER, MINNESOTA
VACATING CERTAIN STREETS AND ALLEYS
Ninth Street, Elm Street, and all unnamed streets and alleys as laid out in the Plat of Walker’s
Addition to the Village of Elk River, dated July 18, 1046 and filed for record on said date in the
office of the Register of Deeds in and for Sherburne County, Minnesota.
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Dated at Elk River, Minnesota this 6 day of April 1953.
Attest H.A. Briggs, Village Clerk