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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1921_11_10 Town Board Minutes Meeting of the Town Board, TOWN OF MAMARONECK, held, November 10th, 1921. The meeting was called to order by Supervisor Burton at 9.30 P.M. PRESENT: Supervisor Burton, Justices Boyd, Collins, Dudley and Shafer, Town Clerk Sherman. Upon motion it was voted to dispense with the reading of minutes of meetings not yet approved. The Committee of the new weaver Street Fire house, Messrs, whitaker, Moore and Merritt were present and upon motion duly seconded it was VOTED, that the Board take up the report of the Committee for the new fire house for Fire District No. 1 CARRIED. The Committee presented the following program which had been submitted to Architects for the competitive drawings. PROGRAM OF A COMPETITION FOR A NEW FIRE HOUSE AUTHORIZED BY THE TOWN BAORD OF THE TOWN OF MAMARONECK, NEW YORK, TO BE ERECTED IN FIRE DISTRICT No.1, TOWN OF MAMARONECK. SITE The site is located on the southerly side of weaver Street running from Edgewood Road to Hillcrest Avenue, with a depth of approximately 250 feet. LOCATION OF BUILDING. The building may be located anywhere on this property that the Competitors may consider best, but it must be borne in mind that future buildings may be erected on the property, and that the owners are desirous of retaining as much of the rear portion as possible for park, etc. The fire apparatus must face Weaver Street. REQUIREMENTS IN BUILDING. On the GROUND FLOOR- An engine room sufficiently large to accomotate two machines, a combination engine and truck and a hook and ladder. A room for the use of the Police Department whick will be at least 250 square feet in floor area. A room for sleeping two (2) police officers, and a room for sleep- ing two (2) firemen, also two Company rooms and necessary toilet accornodations. On the SECOND FLOOR- An Auditorium to seat approxim- ately 350 persons with a small stage and one small dressing room (This room will be used for meetings, entertainments and dances.) A room for the use of ladies for cloak and dressing room, a mens' coat room if possible; also toilet accomodations. 7 In the BASEMENT*- There is to be the usual boiler room coal space etc . A small kitchen to be used only in connection with Company or special dinners. It is desired that sufficient space be left in the cellar so that at some future time a reg- ulation bowling alley may be installed, and if possible, a space for a. pool table; The Fire Alarm system will also be located in the basement, and will require space about 15 feet square. NOTE- It is not mandatory that the smaller rooms be located on the floors as placed above. The Competitor may arrange these rooms on the 1st or 2nd floor, as he deems best. EXTERIOR. While it is not mandatory, the Compittee is desirous of having the design of the exterior, as it will be exposed an all four sides, of simple country architecture, using either stone, brick, or other fireproof material for the main construction. CUBIC CONTENTS. The building should not contain over 150,000 cubic feet of contents, to come in cost, within the appropriation. The cub- ical contents shall be measured to the outside face of exterior walls, a mean height of roofs, and parapets if any, and from a level one foot from the level of the basenent floor. DRAWINGS REQUIRED . Basement plan First Floor plan Second Floor plan Front Elevation Section Small scale perspective All drawings, except perspective, are to be presented at the scale of 1/8 inch equals one foot, drawn in black ink on white paper, and mounted on cardboard. On all plans the sections of walls, piers and partitions etc., are to be shown in solid black, and the names and sizes of the principal rooms shall be indicated. On one of the drawings shall be indicated the method of obtaining, and the total amount of, the cubical contents of the building. The perspective may be rendered in pencil or in pen and ink, but not in color. All sheets shall be 20"x 30" in size over all. The Town Board of the Town of Mamaroneck has selected as a Committee to judge the drawings, the following names :- George W. Burton, Chairman Frederick P. Shafer George B. Dudley Clarence C. Merritt Henry M. Whitaker George Moore Architectural Advisor, w. Syaney wagner of Geo. B. Post & Sons. The Committee will pass on the drawings and make their reccomendations to the Town Board of the Town of Mamaroneck within two weeks of the receipt of the drawings. The Committee reserves the right to reject any or all of the designs submitted, if, in their opinion, they do not meet the requirements or in- tent of this program. Should the Town Board of the Town of Mamaro- neck fail to accept the recommendation of the Committee, and make other selection, it hereby agrees however to pay the author of the drawing selected by the Committee, the sum of $500.00 in lieu of the compission as Architect of the building. RULES The competition will he held conforming as nearly as possible to the rules of the American institute of Architects governing competitions. METHOD OF SUBMITTING DRAWINGS. All drawings to be submitted anonymously, with no mark or identification of any kind, but attached to same should be a plain unmarked, sealed envelope, containing the name of the author so that the Committee may mark the drawings and envelopes similarly for identification later. Drawings are to be delivered addressed "Committee for Fire House, Fire District No. 1 Town of Mamaroneck- Town Clerk's Office Town of Mamaroneck, N.Y. on or before 8.00 O'Clock P.M., November 1st, 1921 The program of the Committee was ordered received, read, ordered entered in the minutes and placed on file. The report of Mr. Wagner, Architectural Advisor as received and read, ordered filed with the Clerk and is as follows; November 7th, 1921. To the Committee appointed by the Town Board of the Town of Mamaroneck to judge the designs submitted in the competition for the new Fire House, to be erected in Fire District No.1 Town of Mamaroneck. Gentlemen: I beg to submit to you my report and recommendations as your Architectural Advisor in the recent judgement of the designs submitted in the competition for the new Fire House to be erected in District No. 1, Town of Mamaroneck. . On November 2nd, 1921, I met the members of your Comm- ittee for the purpose of examining and judging the designs sub- mitted. Seventeen sets of drawings were submitted for consider- ation and numbered from one to seventeen inclusive. Each set was carefully studied, checked and discussed by the writer with the members of your Committee. Each design was analyzed from the following main stand- points;- 1. Conformity with program. 2. Quality and suitability of design. 3. Quality and practicability of plan. 4. Cubical contents . 5. Economy of design and construction. 6. Ability of competitor, as expressed in his design, to act as Architect of the building. It was soon discovered that there was a wide variation in the cubical contents of the designs as scheduled, and that the cubical contents of several of the designs were very diffi- cult to check accurately and justly because of complicated roof lines, dormers, terraces, etc .. It was therefor agreed by the members of your Committee and by the writer that an excess of cubical contents over the amount called for in the program not to exceed one per cent would be allowed. As a result of these analyses I made the following recommendations to the members of your Committee and confirm same herewith. 1. The design marked and designated as No. 1 is the best of those submitted in this competition and I recommend that it be awarded first place. This design conforms in all essentials with the re- quirements of the program; in addition it provides the building requirements in a plan of practical and architectural excellence. The grouping into self-contained seperate departments- each with its seperate entrance, toilets and other necessary facilities of the Engine Room, The Auditorium, the Company rooms and Firemen' s sleeping rooms, the Police Department and Police sleeping rooms, assures the seperate operation of each of these departments with a minimum of interference with, or from, any of the other departments. The location of the kitchen, fautly in many of the other plans submitted, is here ideal for service either to the engine room or the auditorium above. Also noteworthy in this plan is the introduction of a private roadway at the rear of the building, the service from this roadway to the auditorium, the kitchen service entrance, the coal entrance and the ash exitfrom the boiler room; the exit facilities from the auditorium, faulty in several of the other plans submitted; the length of the bowling alleys permitting spectators seats at rear of same. The designs of the exterior are excellent from the standpoints of architectural merit and suitability to location and use. The simplicity of its plan, roof lines, and exterior treatment assures a building of economical construction. Judged independently of its plan, I should place the design of the exterior as cecond in merit of the exterior designs submitted. ( See recommendation 111.) 11. The design marked and designated as No. 14 I recommend to be awarded second place, as when analyzed from the standpoints outlined above, it is the only other design submitted in this competition which presents a solution of your problem, comparable with, or approaching in general excellence, that of design No 1 111. It is recommended that the design marked and desig- nated as No. 6 be especially commended for the exceptional beauty and suitability of its exterior design. As minor changes in the plan design of No. 1 and in the exterior design of No. 6 would adopt one to the other, I respectfully suggest that in the interests of your Community you make an endeavor to secure the colloboration or association of the authors of these two designs as Architects for your building, toward the end of permanently expressing in this building the exceptional merits of both designs. In closing permit me to congratulate you upon the high standard of excellence shown in the designs submitted by the Architects you invited to compete, and to wish you all success in the completion of your building project. Sincerely yours, Sgnd, W .Sydney Wagner. The report of the Committee on New Fire House Committee was received and read, ordered filed with the Clerk and is as follows; November 7th, 1921. Town Board of the Town of Mamaroneck. Gentlemen: The Committee appointed by you to hold a competition and select plans for the new Fire House to be erected on Weaver Street, for Fire District No. 1 begs to report; That the program approved by your Board setting forth the conditions governing the competitions and giving the re- quirements of the propose building, were transmitted on or about October 1st, 1921, to all the Airchitects who had filed application requesting permission to compete; That seventeen (17) sets of drawings were submitted and the drawings of these seventeen (17) competitors, as yoi know, were received by your Board on Tuesday evening, November 1st, opened by you and marked for identifination, and in accord- ance with your resolution, removed by the Committee to the Weaver Street Fire House for study and consideration. That your Committee with Mr. S. W. Wagner, the Architect- ural Advisor selected, has carefully gone over and studied all of the drawings submitted, and as a result have unanimously agreed, That the competitors drawings marked No. 1 by your Board are the best and most complete solution of the program. That the competitor's drawings marked No.14 by your Board are the next best, and should be given second mention. A copy of Mr. Wagners report to the Committee is attached hereto and is unanimously endorsed by the Committee. The Committee, therefore, recommends and urges that your Board accept the drawings marked No. 1 as the plans for the new building, and that you commission the author of them to prepare the regular working drawings, etc., and further recommends that in making this award, that the successful competitor be urged to collaborate with the designer of drawings marked No. 6, with a view to adopting the exterior of No. 6 with his plans, which in your Committee's opinion, is perfectly feasible owing to the similarity of the two designs. Sgnd, George H. Moore H.M. Whitaker, C.C.Merritt. Upon motion, duly seconded it nas RESOLVED, that the Top Board concur in the judgement expressed in the report of Mr. Wagner and the Committee as to the best and second best plans submitted in the competition for the new Weaver Street building, this con- currence however shall not be con- strued as in any way binding the Town Board to accept the aforementioned plans. The question being taken upon the foregoing resolution, same was upon ROLL CALL, unanimosly adopted. Upon motion, duly seconded, it vas VOTED, that the envelopes of sketches Nos. 1, 6 and 14 be opened. CARRIED. The Clerk proceeded to open the three numbered envelopes and it was found that sketch No . 1 as submitted by James W. O'Connor, 162 East 37th Street, No. 14 by Sherrill whiton and R.M. Hood, 101 Park Avenue, and No. x6 by Otto R. Eggers and Charles Mink, 17 West 46th Street. Upon motion, duly seconded, it was VOTED, that the Clerk be instructed to forward a copy of the resolution to Mr. Wagner concurring in his rec- omnendations . CARRIED. The Clerk was instructed to notify Mr. O'Connor that his plan had been judged best under the competition and also to notify Mr. Whiton that his plan had been judged second best. Upon motion, duly seconded, it was VOTED that Mr. O'Connor and Mr. Mur- dock be invited to meet with the Town Board and the Committee on Monday next at 8.30 P.M. CARRIED. Captain Decker appeared before the Board and reported suspending Officers Shutz and Cullen and it was upon notion duly seconded, RESOLVED, that the Board arrange a hearing for officers Shutz and Cullen and that Captain Decker be instructed to notify them of the hearing to be held on Monday evening November 14th 1921, at 7.45 P.M. CARRIED. Upon motion, the meeting adjourned at 10.45 P.M. /T, 'n Cre- 271 HeetinZ of the Ton Board of the Tonn of Mamaroneck, convened as a Board of Canvass- ere on November 10th, 1921e The neeting as called to order by justice Boyd in the absence of 9upervicor Purton at IO.A.M. A A P77SE1\'T: justice Boyd and Collins , To, Clerh Sherman. Upon notion duly seconded, it as vnTED, that a recess be taken until 5. 30 P.M. , fcr the purpose of canvassing the votes cazt The meeting -as re-convene? at 5. 70 P.O. , on the some late by tho Supervisor. PRESENT: Supervisor Burton, 41 justices, Boyd, Collins , Dudley and Shafer, To-,n Clerk Sherman. The official returns from the canvass of the votes cnot; for the To,n Officers at the Election held on November gth,1021, resulted as follovs:- Dist, Dist. DIV. Dist.list. Dist TOTAL Yorge 7. Burtop 217 172 175 386 420 26o 026 Tchn F.Hunter M.P. 177 po4 888 Tre per ick Y. Sherwan 211 175 10 316 367 20 Mo Thomas McCor-mack 141___?5_k_16_ JUSTICE OF T77 PFACF, Frederick P.Shafer 216 187 208 764 VIP -cp's i648 Louis ?.Miller 142 165 IK 'C7 181 125 826 41 220 1484 aeorZe E. Dudley 211 i56 211 113 30 QnKy Harlach 1 1 167 119 128 120 127 -120 H 7n�1 i s h 174 IS 171 122 's16 217 1366 Qhn nvCnr-o, 721 -1�, -114 116 144 1021 - of i3 7 20 Y 212 1;7 2K 7105 35-0 00-S 14 _00 Antoine Hann 170 17 1% 111 1G7 51 AwN TR OF TAXES -1 1 1 H=7 -YcG? i 7' 207 157 211 36o 726 lop 1500 Mamie Q.Thomnson ini 157 ill C8 017 '.72 002 ?777?777 07 70071, john Bloomer 210 190 217 341 3Y2 230 150.8 john Bloomer - 7 g6 10 110 AUDITORS 71 chard ?tack lop 45 1;4 ay vy 274 i4o "? NO 199 230 1 nilliam F.May 15 17Y 20? Q67 I op Gun 1i gham -1 203 30 42 227 1 21 pules J.Puengnet 174 ? -1, l5b 107 72 105 12Q e "' , ugene Humphrey ILI 177 125 87 115 127 774 ,harles P.Caputo _124_185_121_ 81 107 122 WSWLES 1-n 201 6 257 1570 170 200 345 0 , illilm C .Nichols 149 IS 203 927 350 239 1521 1 Archibald Park !of 175 200 3 7 -181 275 15 1 32 7 � sul Kohloff 20 155 00 7 77, %79 1557 aU I 1 015 229 074 illian 7.Carey 1?7 178 A 5 14 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th Dot Dist 7)1 st D I^t Di s t !Fiqt T,,-,T A I 205 170 127 9LL 109 105 70�6 lit games Hal-pin 117 181 i65 8; lop �'4 688 Thomas Penrierg-ast 1 -7 172 116 18'5 11+6 12S 504, � 11 i man 18Q 1(,14 784 PntnDny Corneluis G - n P5 125 1175 Trarm-- 106 1 2 107 -744 3-CH(DOL DTIP-TffCT-07, Inez ".Lloyd 210 175 20C, 372 700 226 1532 711s-.,or+h 'Smith 2041 159 19 40,55, 3�2 �27 O 1537 III Aq T4 'D—ent 128 165 102 58 127 126 746 - 'CA. is—:,r —1 3.5 1��5 121 6 2 In conformity kith the official returns of the canvass -above sho;yn, upon motion, duly seconded, it ,as upon ROLL CALL RESOLVED, that the follo,,,,,ing named are duly declared to have receivei a maj- ority vote fo-f their respective offices and thereby are declared elected, for the respective terms set opposite their na'm,e s Supervisor George -.Burton 2 year term To-,,n Clerk Frederick M.Sherman 2 year t e r-m. Justices of the Peace Frederick P.Rhafer 4 vear tern, George B.Dudlev 4 year term -Issessor - 4vears Ferdinand Fish 4 treax term Assessor - 2years John H.Tvlurray 2 year term Receiver of Taxes Harry T.T.IcGivney 2 ,rear term Overseer of the Poor John Bloonem, 2 vear term To,en Auditors Richard, Stack 2 year term -rilliam F.Kiay 2 year term Oven Cunningham 2 year term Constables John -elsh '2 year term "illiar C.Nichols 2 year term Archibald Park 2 vear term Paul Kohloff 2 year term '"i 11 i am 17.C aT ev 2 vear term School Directors Inez P.LlqVd 5 year term Ellq,,,()-.rth -smith 2 year term The question being taken upon the foregoing resolution, same as upon ROLL CALL,1, unanimously adopted. Upon motion, the meeting adjourned at 9- 30 P-TV1- U -Io,,n Clerk.—