HomeMy WebLinkAbout01358ORDINANCE NO. 6 j
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Port Townsend specifying and adopting
a system or plan for the making of certain additions
and betterments to, and replacements of, the existing
municipal water works system, declaring the estimated
cost thereof as nearly as may be, and providing for
the payment of the cost of such additions, betterments,
replacements and extensions by the issuance of emergen-
cy warrants upon the Olympic bravity Water Fund of the
City of. Port Townsend, and by grant from the Federal
Emergency Administration of Public Works, and submit-
ting said system or plan to the qualified voters of the
City of Port Townsend for ratification or rejection at
a special election to be held .on the 22th day of Sep-
tumber, 1935.
WHIREAS, the water distribution system of the City of Port
Townsend, is e:hilly inadequate to fill existing and future needs
for water within and without the city; in many instances is worn
out and in grave danger of complete collapse, and that the demands
and requirements for water make it i_:•io rative that said City of
Port Townsend constvuet additions and betterments to, and replace-
ments of, its existing water works system, and, that there is cash
now on hand in the Olympic havity Wator Fund, the sum of Thirty-
four Thousand, One Hundred Dollars ( 3?,100.00), available for the
prosecution of the work incidental to the foregoing demands, and
WHEREAS, it appears to the City Council, from a survey and
estimate of cost necessary to properly carry on such contemplated
work, which had been fixed in the sum of Sixty-two Thousand Dol-
lars ($62,000.00), that the same cannot be fully accomplished ex-
cept by grant of money from the United States government and that
a sum nearly equivalent to forty-five per cent of the entire cost
of the additions, betterments and replacements herein provided for
can be obtained from that source, and that it is to the economic
advantage of the City* of Port Townsend, and all the people thereof,
that application be made for foda pn1 Evan.t and aid for the objects
and nurpoecs specified In this ordiuo.nae, and,
WHEREAS, the making of such nM tions, betterments and replace -
:rents, with federal grant and aid, will not in any respect impair
the security of outstanding obligations now a continuing charge
upon the revenues of said city water system, and,