HomeMy WebLinkAbout01652ORDINANCE NO.
All ORDINANCE of the City of Port Townsend providing for
the immediate appropriation of money for the City Street Fund of said
city and for expenditure during the year 1944, and declaring an
emergency.
WHEREAS it appears to the City Council of the City of Port
Townsend that it is necessary at this time that said city make the.
following public improvements, that is to say - the construction of
a concrete sidewalk and guard rail on Washington Street, between
Polk and Harrison streets, and the construction of a seawall on the
south sides of Quincy and Tyler streets, and,
WHEREAS, it appears that the value of the abutting prop -
arty is insufficient to pay for said improvement by assessment
thereupon and that the cost of all of which should be borne by
general funds of the City of Port Townsend, and,
WHEREAS, the need of said improvements could not have been
forseen at the time of the adoption of the official budget of the
Street Department of said city for the year 1944, and that an emer-
gency now exists requiring the expenditure of money for the purposes
aforesaid, and,
WHEREAS, the total cost of daid improvements, exclusive of
trust funds in the hands of the Mayor which can be used as herein
directed is the sum of ;4,000.00, therefore,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT T0;7N3END DO ORDAIN AS FOLLUNS:
Section 1. That an emergency is hereby found and declared to
exist requiring the appropriation and expenditure during the year 1944
of the sum of -J;t4,000.00 for the purposes aforesaid, and the City Clerk
be and he is hereby authorized to draw emergency warrants upon the City
Street Fund of said city in an amount not exceeding said $4,000.00
upon the presentation of properly approved vouchers.
Section 2. That this ordinance be published once in the Port
Townsend Leader to be in force arid take effect as provided by law.
Attest:
PASSED by the City Council February ,'�, , 1944.
APPROVED by the Mayor hebruary j 6� , 1944.
Mayor.
City Clerk.