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HomeMy WebLinkAbout00021 Minutes of Regular Session for October 1, 1940, continued (2)34 I Minutes of Regular Session for October 1, 1940, continued ordinance relative to the installation of savior facilities upon a certainty A the proposed portion of Street, as requested by petition, visa presented and read in full for first reading, as follows: ORDliJA?7C8 1i0. A11 ORDII:ANCE specifying and adopting a system or plan for the making of additions to and `ovrnsend, dec- extensions of the existing sewer system of the City of Port laring the estimated cost thereof, as near as may be, providing for the issuance and sale of bonds to secure funds therefor, and submitting such plan or systein to the qualified voters of said city at a special election be held therein on November 5, 1940. TIE CITY COUNCIL CF TR8 CITY OF POST TO'7N3SND DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. That the demands anal requirements for- sewer facilities make it necessary and advisable that said city make additions to and extensions of its existing municipal AN l' sewer system. 'That no portion of the gross revenues and proceeds derived and to be derived from the herein proposed additions and extensions, has been previously pledged as a fund for the payment of any bonds, warrants, or other indebtedness. That said gross revenues Real proceeds derived and to be derived from such operation will be sufficient in the judgment of the City Council to meet all expenses of operation and maintenance, and to per- mit the set-ing aside into a special fund out of such gross revenues of amounts sufficient! from time to time to nay the interest and principal of the bonds hereby authorized as the same fall due. Section 2. That the City of Port 'Townsend here-oy specify and adopt the system or plan hereinafter set forth for the malting of additions to and extensions of the existing sear system of said city as follows: The City of Port 'Townsend proposes to construct within the corporate limits of said city by underground concrete pipe laterals sufficient in diameter to carry all sewerage and refuse from the district served by each lateral; sAid lat-orals connecting v:ith the main trunk sewer constructed of cement, all in accordance with plans and specifications for 'lovmsen said sewer system new on file in the office of the City dark of the Uity of Port That said plan or system hereinbefore described shall be known as the 11'1 10v: Street Sewer." Section 3. 1`hat the gross estimated cost of the system or plan herein described is hereby declared, as near as may be, to be the sum of 45000.00. Section 4. That in order to secure funds to carry out said plan or system, said City shall 'issue and sell its negotiable bonds in an amount not exceeding U5000.00, which shall be issued at such times, in such denominations and shall bear such rate of interest, not exceeding six per cent (6%) per annum, payable semi-annually, as the city may, by resolution direct. Section 5. 'feat there be and hereby is created and established a special fund to be called "Nillow Street Sewer rund, 1940", which fund is to be drawn upon for the sole pur- pose of paying the interest, or principal and interest, of said bonds. From and after the date of said bonds, and so long thereaft•.r as any obligations are outstanding against said fund, the City Treasurer shall set aside and pay into said fund, thirty (30) days prior to the respective dates on which interest, or principal and interest, of said bonds shall become due and payable, certain fixed amount-, out of :;'a gross revenues of said sewer system equivalent to the respective amounts of interest, or principal and interest, as the case may be, so falling due upon any and all bonds issued hereunder and then outstanding. The City Treasure- is hereby authorized to make payment of said bonds and coupons A herein authorized, as the same fall due, from the moneys in said "'Dillow Str+:et Sewer rund,; 1940", and front no other source, and the payment of s•rid bonds •and coupons, as they fall due, is hereby declared to be the only charge which has been made upon said fund, or will ever be made thereon until all of said 'corals and interest thereon shall have been paid. The City of Port '10wnsend and its corporate authorities do hereby declare that in � fixing the amounts to be paid into said fund as .foresafd, they have exercised due regard to the cost of operation and maintenance of said system and to the existing obligations against the revenues thereof and h,a.ve not hereby obligated and bound said city to set aside into said special fund a greater amount of the revenue of said system than in the judgment of said corporate authorities will be available over and above such cost of maintenance and operation and the existing obligations against such revenues. The City of Port Townsend further birds itself to establish from titre to ti...:e and maintain such rates as will provide sufficient revenues to permit the payment of said suns I into said special find, which said city has pledged to be set aside for the payment of j principal and interest as herein provided, to be appiied to the pa=ent of the principal and interest of the bonds herein authorized, until said 'coeds shall ha:•e been paid in full, and in addition thereto all costs of operation and mainterance ind all warrants issued against the revenues of said system prior to the date of t::is ordinance. Section 6. A special electionis hereby called ,a be held in the City of Port lownsend in the several established voting precincts therein, on November 5, 1940. At said election there shall be sub=itted for ratification or rejection to he qualified voters of said city. ;Ej( the plan or system herein specified and adopted £or the makin:• of additions to and tytyl' extensions of the existing sewer system of said city, and the issuance of bonds as herein E-- provided to provide funds to pa; „therefor, and the proposition so submitted shall appear on the ballot in substantially the following form: Shall the City of Port Townsend, pursuant to a systen: or plan therefor, specified and adopted by Ordinance ;do. of said city, at an estl:%ated cost of :?5000.00, male the a a tions to and extensions of its sewer system, as therein described and ,known as Street Sevier," and for said purpose issue and sell its bonds in an amount not exceeding W5000.00, payable solely from the revenues of its sewer system as provided ins aid Ordinance? 1. x ,. , Q v :w r • t}. :r c r I a [ r eh � 7dinutes of Regular Session for October 1, 1940, continued i In favor of above proposition........ Against above proposition............ Any voter who desires to vote in favor of said proposition shall place au "x" in the square to the right of the words "In favor of above proposition," and any voter who desires to vote against said proposition shall place an "x" in the square to the right of the words "Against above proposition." Section 7. That this Ordinance shall be published once in the Port '1'ovrnsend Leader, to take effect and be in force from and after five days after its publication. Passed by the City Council October , 1940. Approved by the 1Eayor October , 1940. Attest: Mayor City Clerk City Attorney Daly urged that inasmuch as immediate action was not necessary on this subject, the further reading and passage of this ordinance lay over until the next regular meeting in order that interested parties might better acquaint themselves with the procedure outlined, and it was so ordered by the Mayor. U17IE7ISnLD AND NEW BUSINESS Yayor Hirtzler announced that in view of the increased personnel at Fort ''7orden, the military police would regularly assist local Peace Officers in maintaining order among members of the Post, and that the military authorities wished to make some arrangement for the headquarters of the military police at the City Hall Building. It was moved by Councilman hobt. 3rown, seconded by Councilman Sullivan, that the military police be allowed the use of the office of the Police Department in the City Hall Building, and that permission be .granted for the holding of citizenship classes in the Police Courtroom of the City Hall, as requested in the letter from County Clerk Helen J. pads, included in the minutes of shis session under "Communications." Lotion carried. Re: Rose Street Opening Councilman Robt. Brown, reporting for the Street "omnittee upon the request for the opening of a short section of Pose Street at its Southern end as requested by residents of that district, and referred tothe Street Committee previously, stated that this work could be done at small cost to the City, but that the present schedule of work for the Street Department was definitely necessary for the next trio months, and it would be about t length of time before this matter could be taken care of. Councilman Sullivan asked if consideration could be given to the matter of establishing public rest rooms somewhere in the business section of the City, and after various and informal discussion, City Attorney Daly requested that he be put on record as being opposed to any plan of this sort for reasons wiaich he outlined to the me.bers of the Council present. ADJOUR'i:Z T No further business appearing for consideration by the.City Council at this time, it was n:oved by Councilman Maroldo, seconded by Couribilman Robt. Brown, that the Council do now adjourn. Kotion carried. CC I Eayor Attest: 3D` I J