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CITY OF ST. PAUL LE NO.
OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
COUNCIL RESOLUTION—GENERAL FORM
PRESENTED BY
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RESOLVED, That the City Council of the City of Saint Paul,
hereby approves the following bill which has been introduced
in the 1957 session of the Minnesota State Legislature:
S.F. No. 506: " A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO
CITY AND VILLAGE ENGINEERS. "•
Council File No 182005—By Frank D.y
Marzitelli— !
Resolved, That the City Council of
the City of Saint Paul,hereby approves
• the following bill which has been in-
traduced in the 1957 session of the
Minnesota State Le ture:
S. F. No. 506: "A BIT.T. FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO CITY AND VILLAGE
ENGINEERS.'
Adopted by the Council March 10,
1957.
Approved March 19, 1957.
(March 23, 1957)
COUNCILMEN Adopted by the Council 195_
Yeas Nays ''
DeCourcy
Approved 195.
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Mortinson in Favor ®� ,
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HERBERT S. WEST CITY OF SAINT PAUL ACCOUNTING
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Prin. Accountant
• Capital of Minnesota •
BRIDGE HEWETT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
BUREAU OF SANITATION
JOHN M. COTTER, Supt.
FRANK D. MARZITELLI, Commissioner •
TRAFFIC ENGINEER
EUGENE V. AVERY CLIFTON G. HOLMGREN, Deputy Commissioner BUREAU OF MUNICIPAL EQUIPMENT
GEORGE M. SHEPARD, Street & Highway Engineering Coordinator ARTHUR H. KOCH
• ARTHUR W. TEWS, Chief Engineer •
STREETS AND HIGHWAYS ENGINEER BUREAU OF CORRECTION
ARTHUR G. WELIN S JOHN P. MULLANEY, Supt.
March 14, 1957 / g./e
Mr. Thomas J. Ryan,
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Legal Department
City Hall and Court House
Re: Senate File No. 506, Act
relating to city and village
engineers
Dear Mr. Ryan:
This is to inform you that Senate File No. 506, a bill relating
to four—year tenure for city and village engineers, meets with
the approval of the Department of public Works.
A copy of the recommendations of Mr. Arthur Tews, Chief Engineer,
is attached.
Yours very truly,
'/ 1 D. 1 •ZITL
Commissioner of Works
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OFFICE ENGINEER CITY OF SAINT CAUL A- O G �.
.CUNTIN �IIg.ON
HERBERT S. WEST JOS PAVLWEK
• Prin. Accountant
Capital of Minnesota
BRIDGE ENGINEER
MAURICE W HEWETT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS F3.2R F.
JOHN M. COTTER, Supt.
• FRANK D. MARZITELLI, Commissioner •
TRAFFIC ENGINEER
EUGENE V. A VERY CLIFTON G. HOLMGREN, Deputy Commissioner BUREA,.,CF�., IP4 FUIn FMENr
•
GEORGE M. SHEPARD, Street & Highway Engineering Coordinator ARTHUR H. Ko!'tt
$T R[eT4 GNU HIGHWAYS ENGINlfR ARTHUR W. TEWS, Chief Engineer •
ARTHUR G. WELIN BCJOH c:P. MULL cN
,K JOHN P. MULLANEY, Supt.
March 13, 1957
Hon. Frank D. Marsitelli
Commissioner of Public Works
City of St. Paul
Dear Commissioner Marzitelli:
As per your request, I have reviewed Senate File No. 506,
a bill relating to four-year tenure for city and village engineers.
This is a bill designed after a similar bill adopted some years ago
for county highway engineers. County Commissioners have been oper-
ating under a four-year tenure for county engineers for quite a few
years. The operation of the county highway system has attained con-
siderable success because county engineers have had a more stable
job under the tenure bill.
We think that four-year tenure for city engineers is a good
bill from the taxpayers standpoint. This will bethe first time
that cities have been given the opportunity to spend highway user
money. We feel that there will be a greater stability in the city
and village engineer position in the smaller towns than we have
experienced in the past few years. It should be possible to attain
a greater degree of efficiency in the operation of the city engineer-
ing departments if the heads of these departments had greater security
than they now experience in some of the smaller cities. This bill
would not be very important as far as the cities of the first class
are concerned. The Legislature might go so far as to even exempt
cities of the first class from this bill.
We think this is good legislation and should warrant the
support of our city government.
Yours very truly,
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ARTHUR W. TEWS
Chief Engineer
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RESOLVED, That the City Council of the City of Saint Paul,
hereby approves the following bill which has been introduced
in the 1957 session of the Minnesota State Legislature:
S.F. No. 506: " A BILL POR AN ACT RELATING TO
CITY AND VILLAGE ENGINEERS. "
SR 19 1957
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