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cost was not prohibitive, and said that it was the recommendation of the ?Comm3.ttee that this project be put next i.n order of business. The WeLlnian.s ha.ve no ti,rater Urhatever on their properi:y and are forced to purchase it. au,r Engineer was asked to petition the City ldater Department for pernission to terminate the water main at the Gates NTills Line on the south side of the street and to draw up an estimate of costs for this project, 1-1s°s Strater reported that the police Timer had gon2 the way of a11 old equipment and a new one tisould cost $450.00, but Electric Tuners zaere `becoming obsolete and everTone was going to Radai. Ths Committee ha.d recammended the purchase of a new electric timer, but after the demonstration of radar Saturday, and due to the fact that it could be worked with one police car and a mobile transmi.tter, and the life of a radar se-t was far in exeess of tha.t of an electric timer, Mr. Strater felt that this should be considered before purchasing an e;ec ,timer for $?.50.00 and la.ter buyir?g a radaro Said I1?r. Stra•ter, "An ??lc? timer can stop 4 or 5 and this wiL increase reven.ue and slow down t'raffic." 3t was also brought out tha.t there was a possibility of the speed limit on SOM Center Road being incx9eased to 50 miles per hour. ` Mr. Taylo.r, seconded by Mr. Hopkins, tnen introduced Resolution No. 334 entitled: «A Resolutzon to Purcha,se aPol:i.ce Ra,dar Outfit For Not More than Nine Hundred ($900,00) Dollars", which resolution was.read to Council. It was moved by Mro Taylor,.seconded by P'Ir: -gedler, that the rules of law requiring a resolution to be read on three separate occasions be suspended, ° Roll Ca11e Ayes -Messrs Taylor,Stra-ter,Wedler,Brown,Falk & Hopkins. Nays - NoneO Motion carried Rules suspended It was moved by Mr. Taylor, seconded by Mro "Wedler, tha.•t Resolution , No. 334 be. approvecl and passed. as readm Ro11 Call: Ayes - Nlessrs Taylor,Si,rate2°9Wedler9Brown,Falk & Hopkins. Nays -- None. _ Motion carried Resolution passed Nlr. Taylor, seconded Uy Nrs, Brown, then 3.ntroduced Resolut,a.on ' No. 335 en-citleds TfA Resolution to Purchase aTwo -Uay Portable Radio for the Police Departmen?u" which resolution was read to Council. It was moved by Mr. Taylor, seconded Uy Mr. Hopkins, that the rules of law requiring a resolution to be read on ths°ee separate occasions be suspended. Ro:l'1..1 Ca11: Ayes - Messrs Ta3Tlor,strater,-?nledler,Brown.,Fal.k & Hopkins. Nays - None. Motion ca,rried Rules Suspended. 4.