Item JM-AIY/B936-5/1953-06-09 - Meeting of the Municipal Council (n° 85) - 1953-06-09

Number of pages: 5

Attendance:
Omar al-Wa’ari (chair),
Hanna ‘Atallah,
‘Fou’ad Muhie al-Din al-Nashashibi,
Anton Lawrence,
Dr. Amin Majj,
Ruhi al-Khatib,
Fayez al-‘Alami,
Dr. George Farah,
Rashid al-Haddad,
Dr. Salim M’atouq,
Salah al-Din Jarallah (secretary),
Anton Safieh (city clerk and head of finance),
Yusif Al-Budeiri (city engineer),
Jamil Ahmad (head of the water department),
Fayez al-Husseini (assistant of the city engineer).

Absenteeism:
Arif al-‘Arif,
Nihad Abu Gharbieh.

Topics:
Approval of the decisions of the previous meeting and meeting no. 84 - p. 1;
Recommendations of the roads, public works and bids committee on 4/6/53 - pp. 1-2;
Recommendations of the education and social affairs committee on 8/6/53: Letter of the education inspector of the Jerusalem district on 31/3/53 regarding water consumption in government schools, [requests submitted by individuals in need to enroll their children in schools], request submitted by some residents of al-Sa’dia neighborhood in order to set up road blocks in the roads leading to their neighborhood to protect them from bullets [fired from] the Jewish [side] - pp. 2-3;
Borrowing 8,500 dinars from the Ottoman Bank to establish a fire brigade - p. 4;
Loan of the construction council - p. 4;
Compensation request submitted by the construction contractors of the vegetable market - pp. 4-5;
Borrowing Mufid al-Nashashibi – the health engineer - to UNRWA - p. 5.