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Minutes of Regular Session for October 1, 1940, continued
ordinance relative to the installation of savior facilities upon a certainty
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portion of Street, as requested by petition, visa presented and read in full for
first reading, as follows:
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A11 ORDII:ANCE specifying and adopting a system or plan for the making of additions to and
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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the plan or system herein specified and adopted £or the makin:• of additions to and
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extensions of the existing sewer system of said city, and the issuance of bonds as herein
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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?
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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
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