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JOURNAL OF THE 23RD MEETING OF
THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEV7ER DISTRICT
JUNE litth, 195^
The Trustees of the District met in the Board Room at 506 Olive
Street at .2:00 P.M. on June l^th, 195^* Trustees present: George C. Willson^
Chairman^ John M. Bogdanor^ Vice Chairman; Jos. L. Doran, W. W. Martin, J. E.
Williams, Jr., Wm. C. E. Becker. Staff members present: John P. McCannnon,
CJeneral Counselor, Dr. Victor Brannon, Consultant, H. F. Thomson, Executive
Director, L. McKenna, Secretary-Treasurer. Others present: Victor A. Ellman.
Mr. Willson presided.
Mr. Thomson reported that Mr. Horner had agreed to draft a memo-
randum regarding the Flood Protection Report by the Corps of Engineers. This
memorandum will be discussed with Mr. Russell before presentation to the
Board.
Mr. McCammon read the following ordinance, which was introduced
by Trustees Doran, Williams, Martin, Becker, Willson, Bogdanor:
AN ORDINANCE authorizing and directing the Executive Director to
appi'ove, revise or reject plans, designs and specifications of all sanitary
works proposed to be constructed, altered or reconstructed by any other
person or corporation, private or public, in the District, providing the
terms upon which approval may be granted, providing for the adoption of
standards by the Executive Director, authorizing the Executive Director to
niak^ field inspections and to require that the construction be done in
accordance with the plans and specifications approved, and further authoriz-
ing the Executive Director to delegate the power to approve, revise or reject
plans, designs and specifications, and to make field inspections to the Health
Departraent of St. Louis County and to the Plan and Design Section of the
Board of Public Service of the City of St. Louis, with an emergency clause.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE MECROPOLITAN ST.
LOUIS SEV/ER DISTRICT:
Section One. The Executive Director is authorized and directed to
approve, revise or reject plans, designs and specifications of all sanitary
works proposed to be constructed, altered or reconstructed by any other
person or corporation, private or public, in the District.
Section Two. The Executive Director is authorized to grant the
approval provided in Section One hereof as to any such works in that part of
the District lying in St. Louis County upon certification by the Health Depart-
ment of St. Louis County that such plans, designs and specifications meet the
minimum standards fixed by the Division of Health of the Department of Welfare
of the State of Missouri. The Executive Director is further authorized to
S^a^nt such approval as to any such works lying in the City of St. Louis upon
certification by the Plan and Design Section of the Board of Public Service
of the City of St. Louis that such plans, designs and specifications meet the
minimum requirements of the City of St. Louis.
Section Three. The Executive Director shall, before any acceptance
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