1938-1939 Council Minutes - Lancaster County Website

split incident to the resurfac ing expenses on Nolt ~ s Hill. The Borough
Secretary wsfs ins tructed to vrrite Mr. Edgerly, of the Highway Department
and notify him of thi. s agreement;.
Senator Homsher located the Ordinance f ixing the widt;h of North
Decatur Street, page 141 of the Minute Book, Ordinance passed September . 6,
1923, reading as fo llows:
"Sept, , 6,
1923.
An Ordinance re laying out and changing grades on part of N. Decatur St. , as
follows:
ORDINANCE
Widening, laying out, and changing grades on part of N. Decatur St. , Strasburg
Borough, Lancas ter, Co ~, Pa.
Sect. I The Council of St rasburg Borough does hereby ordain that Nor th
Decatur Street; beginning at Center Square, be laid out and widened, in ac-
cordanc e vrith the ge ne ra 1 plan for the 5 is tsnc e of 283 feet;, and that the
. grade on said distance be f i xed at a fall Northward of . 0153 of a foot per
foot; thence at an angle of 170-3/4 degrees bearing Wes tvrard 250 feet, and
the grade for a dis tance of 296 feet be ing . 02664 of a foo t per foot; fall-
ing Northward; thence at an ang le of 169-3/4 degrees bearing Wes tvrard. to the
end of the Borough limi ts, j oining and connecting at the m d of the Bor-
ough limi~ts with the public road. in Strasburg Tovrnship, leading to Hartman ' s
Bridge. The width of said. Street t;o be 38 f eet wide between curbs, and the
building lines 10 feet back from the c urb lines. "
On motion of M. Huber Hes s, s eco nded by Wi 1 liam T ~ Koch and. duly
passed, it vras resolved that the Solicitor be instructed to vrrite J. M.
Hagens, Fire Company No, 1, asking that; a s idewa lk and curb be ins tal led on
the East side of N. Deca tur Street, northward from Center Square, joining
the pavement al ready la id .
Hensel diss e nt ing.
The vote on this questi on was seven ayes and one nay, Leon C,
The Pres ide nt instructed Jacob H. Rane k, Water Superintendent,
to move the fire plug in front of t he Witmer Hersh property on North Decatur
St;rect.
The Secretary was directed to send cards to members of Council
advising them of the next meeting of Borough Council w'ill be held on
Tuesday, September 5, 1939, i, e. , the d ay f ollovring Labor Day,