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Savannah Beach, Georgia,
April 22nd, 1941
The regular adjourned meeting of Council was held today at 4 p.m.
in the Council Chamber, and was attended by Mayor Jones, who
presided, and Councilmen Griffin, Siotin, Lovell, Daniels., Henry
and Ferguson.
The minutes of the meeting of April 1st, were read and adopted.
The budget for the year 1941 was read and upon motion by Councilman
Griffin, seconded by Councilman Siotin, the motion passed -unnani-
mously.
Budget for Savannah Beach, Georgia, from May 1, 1941 to April 30, 1942
EXPECTED INCOME:
Taxes for current & Prior years
Police Court
Licenses, 1941
Parking Space Collections
Miscellaneous Collections
ANTICIPATED DISBURSEMENTS:
_GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Ma, rorl s Salary
Cle►it s Salary
Assistant for Office
Printing & Postage
Office Telephone
Insurance, including bonds
Advertising
Auditing
Interest on Loans
Town Attorney
Adding Machine
Library
Salary for Publicity Agt.
Miscellaneous Expenditures
POLICE DEPARTMENT:
Chief of Police
Policemen (2)
Extra Officer (4 months)
Extra Officer Week Ends
Jail Telephone
Feeding Prisoners
Uniforms
Gas, -0i1 & Tires
Garage Supplies
750.00
2,400.00
720.00
125.00
175.00
50.00
.00
225;000
400.00
300.0o
100.00
220.00
300.00
100.00
1,500.00
2,500.00
300.00
500.00
25A0
_+ e5.00
150.00
350.00
/5,00
27,5004V
1,500.00
12,000.00
5,000.00
1, 200.00 $47,200.00
6,765.00
Electric Lights
Recorder
Life Guards
Miscellaneous ExPense
Rent on Jail 150.00
Collectors for Parking Sp. 600.00
Supplies - 65.00
Motorcycle 250.00
80.00
lOO.00
100.00
150.00
FIRE DEPARTMENT
500.00
SANITARY DEPARTMENT
Inspector, Assistant to
Superintendant Public Wks.
Wagon Drivers
Mosquito Control
Maintenance Equipment
Gas and-Oil
Feeding Mlles
PUBLIC WORKS
Superintendent's Salary
Gas and Oil
Tires and Supplies
Sewer Pipes
Maintaining Streets &
Material
Electric Lights
Water
Repair to Property
Labor
Convict,Camp Lights
Transferring Convicts
Miscellaneous
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS
Jail
Rest Rooms
PRIOR YEAR'S DEFICIT
1,200.00
200.00
150.00
150.00
100.00
500.00
Accounts Payable, 19+0
Notes Payable, Maggoni
Due Seawall Project
Due Beach Erosion Project
Payment on Deficit of
Seawall Project
PUBLIC DEBT:
Principal on bonds
Interest on bonds
Due to banks
Accounts Payable
1,500.00
75.00
0.00
124.00
1,100.00
2,640.00
175.90
200.00
1,000.00
125.00
50.00
100.00
3,000.00
726.00
1,900.00
5.5.00
2,300.00
275.00
1,500.00
6,500.00
5,700.00
16,865.00 147,2o .
7,300.00
500.00
2,300.00
7,789.00
3,726.00
6,520.00
12,200.00
Estimate income over expenditures
47,100,40
100.00
SEAWALL PROJECT NO. 2
8,9 8.00 Cash on hand 281.39
3,643.96 Due from Gen Fund 2,300.00
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Brought Forward 12,581.96
DkIa 'rom,Property
Owners
Due from W.P.A.
Due from Sprague
Deficit
12,581.96
Sealed bids for the sale of $32,000.00 of Sanitary
opened in the presende of representatives
2,581.39
2 3
2,649.50
2,66o.00
400.00
4D291.O7
12,581.96
Sewerage Bonds
of the several concerns
were
submitting bids. After the bids were opened and tabulated, it was
Found that tYe,bid of Wyatt, Neal and_Waggoner and their associates
was lowest, after which Councilman Griffin moved that the following
resolution be adopted. Councilman Ferguson seconded and the motion
passed unnanimously.
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, in accordance with a Resolution heretofore adopted and an
advertisement appearing in the Savannah Evening Press, Council met in
an adjourned regular meeting this 22nd'day of April, 1941, at four
o'clock P.M., after proper and legal notice given to each Councilman, .
for the purpose of receiving sealed bids for the sale of $32,000.00
worth of Bonds, known and designated as Sanitary Sewerage Bonds, and
sealed bids were duly opened by the Clerk of Council in the presence of
the Mayor and Councilmen of the Town of Savannah Beach, Tybee Island,
and the bidders or repreeentatives of said bidders; and
WHEREAS, the following bids were submitted, to -wit:
Atlanta, Georgia,
April 22, 1941
Hon. Mayor & Councilmen of the
Town of Savannah Beach,
Savannah Beach, Georgia.
Gentlemen:
Based on the financial statement submitted to us, for the:
$42,000. Town of Savannah Beach Georgia, 20 SANITARY SEWERAGE
BONDS, dated March 1, 1941, and to mature serially from
1943 through 1962, as described in your official notice of
sale,
we will pay you the sum of:
THIRTY TWO THOUSAND, FIFTY FOUR DOLLARS & FORTY CENTS
($32,054.40) plus accrued interest to date of
delivery of bonds to us in Atlanta.
Prior to delivery, you are to furnish us promptly, without expense to
us, lawfully certified copies of all legal proceedings, including the
election, validation and judgement and other such proofs suggested or
required by our attorneys relative to the issuance and sale of said
bonds, which shall satisfy our attorneys that the bonds are unqualified,
valid and binding obligations of the Town of Savannah Beach, issued in
conformity with the Constitution and laws of said state, including
unlimited tax levy on all the taxable property therein, both real and
personal, as provided by law. Our attorney's opinion shall be con-
clusive in the matter. Your attorney, also, is to cooperate with our
attorneys without expense to us.
Enclosed herewith is Cashier's check, No. 167751, issued by the Fulton
National Bank of Atlanta, in the amount of $1,000. which check is to
be betdrned to us promptly in the event our bid is not accepted; other-
wise, it is to be held uncashed by you and when the bonds are delivered
and paid for under the terms of this bid, said check is to be returned
to us. In case we fail to take up and pay for the bonds, said check is
to be retained as and for liquidated damages.
Our bid is for immediate acceptance.
Yours very truly,
WYATT, NEAL & WAGGONER * ATLANTA, GA
BROOKE, TINDALL & CO n n
NORRIS & HIRSCHBERG, INC. n "
J.H. HILSMAN & CO., INC. " n
Signed: Henry Wyatt
Savannah, Georgia,
April 22, 1941
Mr. Henry M. Buckley, Clerk of Council of
The Mayor and Councilmen of the Town of
Savannah Beach, Tybee Island,
Savannah Beach, Georgia.
Dear Sir:
For your $32,000.00 Town of Savannah Beach, Tybee Island, Georgia,
Sanitary Sewerage Bonds, bearing interest at the rate of 2 1/2% per
annum, payable semi - annually on Marcy 1 and September 1; dated March
1, 1941; due $1,000 1943 to 1950, inclusive, $1,500 1951 to 1954,
inclusive, $2,000. 1955 to 1955, inclusive; $2,500 1959 to 1962, in-
clusive; $500. denomination; principal and semi - annual interest payable
at Savannah Beach or New York City; bonds in coupon form and registerable
as to principal; based on financial statement and bonds delivered to us
in ,Savannah, Georgia, we will pay you
$32,028.00 plus accrued interest from March let, 1941
Less a discount of $960.00
you to pay the cost of the preparation and printing of bonds and the
cost /acceptable legal opinion.
of
This bid is made subject to the bonds being properly voted and
validated (Chatham County, Georgia), and subject to the approval of our
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attorneys to the effect that they are direct obligations of the Town of
Savannah Beach, payable from unlimited taxes to be levied on all the .
taxable property within the Town. Your attorney to furnish us promptly
as they become available and, without expense to us, a complete certi-
fied transcript of all the legal proceedings, including the election
and validation. This bid is for immediate acceptance and the bonds are
to be delivered to us and the transaction closed within thirty (30) days
from this date.
Yours very truly,
JOHNSON, LANE, SPACE & CO., INCL
TRUST COMPANY OF GEORGIA,
VARNEDOE CHISHOLM & CO.
By: JOHNSON, LANE SPACE & CO., INC.
Signed: Freeman N. Jelks, V.P.
l ND W MEAS lthenbtd7of Wyatt - =Neal ind ;Waggonet UBrooke, :-�Tindail Company,
Norris Hirschberg, Inc., and J.H. Hilsman & Co., Inc., for the entire issue
it:ithe' SANIT, AY SEWERAGE BONDS in- the A4tmro '1132° 000.00, said bid being in
all respecter in compliance with the original resolution and said advertise-
ment; and
WHEREAS, it is made to appear to said.Mayor and Councilmen of the Town of
Savannah Beach, Tybee Island, that the said bid of Wyatt, Neal and Waggoner,
Brooke, Tindall & Co., Norris Hirschberg, Inc., J.H. Hilsman & Co., Inc.,
is the highest and best bid of all the bids submitted for the sale of
said Bonds; and
WHEREAS, in the judgement of Council, said bid is a satisfactory one and
that thesale of said Bonds at said price is advantageous to the Town of
Savannah Beach, Tybee Island.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayor and Councilmen of the Town
of Savannah Beach, Tybee Island, in Council assembled, that the said
bid of the said Wyatt, Neal and Waggoner Ms-ehereby accepted and all of
said Bonds are hereby sold to the said Wyatt, Neall and Waggoner at the
price name in said bid o the said Wyatt, Neal and Waggoner.
Councilman Biotin moved that the following resolution be adopted.
Councilman Griffin seconded and the motion passed unnanimously.
RESOLUTION
BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayor and Councilmen of the Town of Savannah
Beach, Tybee Island, in Council assembled, that the SANITARY SEWERAGE
BONDS issued by the Mayor and Councilmen of the Town of.Savannah Beach,
Tybee Island, under the authority of the Election held on January 30,
1941, and validated by the Superior Court.of Chatham County, Georgia,
on the loth day of February, 1941, shall be numbered from one (1) to
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sixty -four (64), said Bonds to be in denominations of Five Hundred
Dollars each and shall mature and become due as follows:
Nos. 1,2 $500. each shall become due March 1, 194
Nos. 3,4 500. each shall become due March 1, 1944
Nos. 5,6 500. each shall become due March 1, 1945
Nos. 7,8 500. each shall become due March 1, 1946
Nos. 9,10 500. each shall become due March 1, 1947
Nos, 11,12 500. Y eaoh.g.'sEhall become due March I, 1948
Nos, 13,14 500. each shall become due March 1, 1949
Nos, 15,16 50D. ,,each shall become due March 1, 1950
Nos. 17,18,19 5Q0. ,each shall become due March 1, 1951
Nos. 20,21,22 5-00 ,each shall become due March 1, 1952
Nos. 2 , 24 2 5.
3 5 SpQ. each shall become due March 1, 195
Nos. 26,27,28 500. each shall become due March 1, 195
Nos. 29,30,31,32 5Q0. each shall become due March 1, 1955
Nos. 33,34,35,36 500. each shall become due March 1, 1956
Nos. 37i3 ,39,40 500. each shall become due March 1, 1957
Nos. 41,42,43,44 500. each shall become Ave March 1, 1958
Nos. 45,46,47,48,4 500. each shall become due March 1, 1959
Nos. 50,51,52,53,54 500.,eaoh shall become due March 1, 1960
Nos. 55,56,57,58,5 ?500. each shall become due March 1, 1961
Nos. 60,61,62,63,6 500.:each shall become due March 1, 1962
The interest coupons upon said Bonds shall become due on the 1st day of
March and the let day of Aeptember of each. year commencing in the year
1941.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the authority aforesaid that the principal and
interest of said Bonds shall be payable in legal currency of the United
States of America, at the office of the Clerk of Council in the Town of
Savannah Beach, Tybee Island, or at the office of its agency in New York,
New York, at the option of the holder, and foi m' of the bond shall be
substantially as follows:
UNITED STATE S
O F A M E R I C A
S T A T E O F G E O R G I A
TOWN OF SAVANNAH BEACH, TYBEE ISLAND
SANITARY SEWERAGE BONDS
NUMBER
RECEIVABLE FOR ALL TAXES AND OTHER DUES OF THE TOWN.
ISSUED TO CONSTRUCT AND ?OR ERECT AND MAINTAIN A SEWERAGE DISPOSAL PLANT
IN THE TOWN OF SAVANNAH BEACH, TYBEE ISLAND.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
That, the Mayor and Councilmen of the Town of Savannah Beach, Tybee
Island, a Municipal Corporation in Chatham County, of the State of
Georgia, acknowledges its indebtedness and for value received hereby
promised to pay the bearer hereof the sum of $500.00 on the let day
of March, 1943, with interest thereon from date hereof, at the rate
of two and one -half per cent per annum, payable semi - annually on the
let days of March and September of each year, on presentation and surrender
of the annexed interest coupons as they respectively become due, both
principal and interest of this Bond are payable in legal currency of the
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''United States of America At the office of the. Clerk of Council of the
Town of Savannah Beach, Tybee Island, or its agency in the City of New
York, New York, at the option of the holder.
This bond is one of the series aggregating the sum of 02,000.00, issued
for the construction and maintenance of a sewerage disposal plant in the
Town of Savannah Beach, Tybee Island, under and by virtie of the
authority conferred by the Constitution and laws of the State of Georgia,
and pursuant to the result of an Election duly called and held in the Town
of Savannah Beach, Tybee Island, on the 30th day of January, 19.1, for the
purpose of authorizing the issuance of said Bonds, whereat more than twe-
thirds of the qualified voters of the said Town of Savannah Beach, Tybee
Island, voting in said Election voted in favor thereof; said two - thirds
so voting being a majority of the registered voters of the said Town.
It is hereby certified, recited and declared that all acts, conditions and
things required to exist to happen and to be performed, precedent to and
in the issuance of this Bond exist, have happened and have been performed
in due time, form and manner, as required by the Constitution and laws of
said State of Georgia, and ordinances and resolutions of the Town-of
Savannah Beach, Tybee Island, applicable thereto; and that the amount of
this Bond, together with all other indebtedness of said Town of Savannah
Beach, Tybee Island, does not exceed the•statutory and Constitutional
limitations;
That provisions have been made by the Mayor and Councilmen of the Town of
Savannah Beach, Tybee Island, for the Collection of an annual tax
sufficient in amount to pay the principal and interest of this Bond,
within the time prescribed by law.
The holder of this Bond may at any time have the same registered at the
office of the Clerk of Council of the Town of Savannah Beach, Tybee
Island, and have such registration certified hereon, after which it
shall be transferred only by endorsement of the registered holder to the
transferee, and such transfer noted hereon, unless the last registered
holder shall transfer it to bearer when it shall again be transferred by
delivery.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said The Mayor and Councilmen of the Town of
Savannah Beach, Tybee Island, has caused this Bond to be signed by the
Mayor of said Town, its corporate seal hereto affixed and attested by the
Clerk of Council, and the annexed interest coupons to be authenticated
by fac simile signatures of the Mayor of said Town and said Clerk of
Council, this 1st day of March, 1941.
ATTEST:
CLERK OF COUNCIL
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the authority aforesaid, that the form of
the interest coupon on said Bond shall be substantially as follows:
The Mayor and Councilmen of the Town of Savannah Beach, Tybee Island,
on the let day of March, 1941, will pay bearer at the office of the
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Clerk of Council in the Town of Savannah Beach, Tybee Island, or its
Agency in the City of New York, New York, at the option of the holder,
, being six (6) months' interest then due on its Bond,
dated March 1, , No. This coupon is receivable for
all taxes and o her dues of said Town.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
CLERK OF COUNCIL
Council heard protests from Joseph G. Stovall, protesting against the
1940 -1941 assessment on his property, after which Mr. Stovall was excused.
On motion of Councilman Slotin that the assessments were in order and that
they remain as is, seconded by Councilman Henry, the motion passed. A
protest against his 1941 assessment was read:from Oertell Collins.
Councilman Biotin moved that the assessments were in line with others in the
neighborhood, and that Mr. Collins assessment should remain as is.
Councilman Ferguson seconded and the motion passed. Mr. E.A. Dutton,
as Agent for Home Owners Loan Corporation protested against the taxes on
lots 5 -6, Ward 5, in the name of Home Owners Loan Corporation, and re-
quested that the assessments be reduced. Councilman Griffin moved that
the assessment remain as is until the property is 'sold, when Council can
reconsider and adjust the assessment. Councilman Ferguson seconded and
the motion passed.
Councilman Griffin moved that the offer of Tybee Beach Company to sell
to the Town lots 1 through 16, Block 7, Bay Ward, for $638.16, be
accepted, these lots to be used for the location of the treatment plant.
Councilman Slotin seconded and the motion passed.
The Mayor informed Council that he had been in communication with
Officers of the United Stated Army with reference to utilizing Camp
Sebeca as a Military Center,this to be sponsored by the Town. He
stated that the owner was asking $600.00 rent per year, and also stated
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that it would require about $100.00 for plumbing, and an additional
$100.00 for miscellaneous expense to make the 'camp usable for the
Military. Councilman Slotin suggested that the matter be left to
a committee to handle and report back at the next meeting.
It was decided that the official Tybee opening day would be on May
17th.