Swearing in Ceremony of Petra Hawkins for Tyler City Council District 2

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Today July 10, 2024, Petra Hawkins City Council Woman - Elect - District 2 - Swearing in Ceremony - @ 9:00 AM - Tyler's City Hall - 212 N. Bonner Ave. - Tyler, Texas 75702.

Today July 10, 2024, Petra Hawkins City Council Woman - Elect - District 2 - Swearing in Ceremony - @ 9:00 AM - Tyler's City HallPhoto byClarence Edmond Shackelford AKA M1Y, (C) 2024

The Tyler's City Hall was opened 31,031 days ago on Wednesday - July 26, 1939 - 84 Years, 11 Months, and 14 Days ago, at the taxpayers cost of $125,000.

In the Tyler paper on Wednesday, July 26, 1939, said about the City Hall Building: From the rambling old Baldwin home, headquarters of municipal government for nine years, city officials Wednesday are moving across the street to the $125,000 new city hall.There will be no fanfare or celebration. It is just a moving day, and business will go on as usual.

Throughout the early part of the week, city employees have been moving their records and equipment from the crowded fire-hazard over to the new fireproof quarters. By Wednesday at 5 p.m. they expect to have the job completed.Final act will be switching the telephone system from the old building to new. And Thursday morning city offices will be open for business as usual, but they will be in brighter, more efficient and more cheerful surroundings. Secretaries, heretofore working wherever.

There room for a desk, will have private little rooms. 'Draftsmen will specialize in lighting systems and modern tables.Engineers will know that their records are safe in fireproof vaults. Employees, to a man, will be keeping an eagle eye for the first wretch who dares scratch 1 a match on the clean, white walls. There will be new faces in the modern building as the Tyler-Smith County health unit moves from the basement of the courthouse to the second floor of the new city hall. Other offices in the new home will include departments of engineering, parks, recreation, taxes, water and inspection.

There will be quarters for the city clerk and the city manager.Relief of city officials at moving to new quarters was expressed by City Manager George Fairtrace. "For months," he pointed out, "we have lived in constant fear of fire. We have taken precaution, turned off electric switches at night, exercised special care in the prompt disposal of inflammable trash. "A fire in the old building would have destroyed records that could never have been restored or replaced. Yet, under the old conditions, we had no place else to put them." In the new building the dread of a fire will be at an end.The new quarters will be almost entirely fireproof. And the more valuable documents will be stored in absolutely fireproof vaults.