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Home My WebLink About00306 SESSION OF THE CITY COUHCIL,KAECH 20, 1945r A, =` 60 z Pipe Line heplacement Emergency Ordinance A proposed emergency Ordinance, to provide funds for the prosecution of the work of replacerent of certain portions of the. main water upply line, together with a letter of transmition by the City Attorney, was presented anc read as follows: E:arch 20, 1945 Honorable M.ay or and City Cou❑cil Port Townsend, 'Sashington Gentlemen: Attached hereto is a draft: of proposed Emergency Ordinance to provide for the water line replacements r_a contemplated by Ordinances 1169 slid 1180. 1 have arrived at the figure of ;"98,000.00 arbitrarily by merely lidding ten per cent of the total construction price to include sales tax, engineering, and overhead. Very truly yours, J. Daly City Attorney OHDIla,11CF. I!0. All OLDINANCE of the City (if Port Townsend providing for the immediate appropriation of money for expenditure during the year 1945 to provide oriPinal capital for the prosecution of that certain public work contemplated under Resolution No. 44-4 of said city and as further authorized and directed under Ordinance Nos. 1169, and 1160; fixing the nsme of the fund as created hereunder and declaring an emergency. 77HER A5, at the time of the adoption of the official budget of the Olympic Gravity Water System for the your 1945, the amount proposed to be expended under ties olution No. 44-4 and under Ordinance No. 1169 of sr.id city could not, with accuracy, have been foreseen, and, '1liiE:;Iis, under contract heretofore directed to be executed, by and botv:een the City of Port Townsend and The Steel Tank and Pipe Company of Portland, the am unt ':aereof has been settled and deter- mined at 388 ,032.99; and, that in addition thereto it is necessary that further, appropriation be made to provide for the en.l,;ineering, sales tar., e::d other incidental expense heretofore incurred, and to be hereinafter incurred, in the prosecuticn of such work, and, :"tiEi,EAS, the City Council has now fixed*and deterndned that the sum of c98,000.00 is a sufficient su:n to provide for these Purposes anc to take care of the payment of estimates that will bc• sul,mitted from tine to time by the: contractor, and awaiting reimbursement from the lessee under the existing lease heretofore executed under Ordinance No. 1169 as aforesaid, now therefore, TIIE CiTY COUNCIL OF T171-. CI_"i OF PORT 'TOWNSEND DO ORDAIN AS F'OLLC"'S: Section. 1: That an emergency is hereby found and declared to exist, requiring the: immediate appropriation of money charge- able to the funds of the Olympic Gravity rater System of the City of Part Townsend, in the sum of �;98,000.00, to meet the fiscal requirements as hereinbefore. determined. Section 2: That such sun.:, as herein appropriated, is hereby establisi.ec as a ter.-.porary fund of this city - to be known and designated ns "Olympic Gravity '"cter System heplacement I•und," and that all dizburser:ents heretofore made in contemplation of said Resolution No. 44-4, and as later confirmed by said Ordinances Nos. 1169 and 1160, arc: hereby nor: declared to be a debit to the said fund as herein created, end the City Clerk and City 'Treasurer be and hereby arc authorised to make appropriate transfer upon the boo.:s of their respective offlc•.,s in order to meet the tenor and intent of this Ordinance, end to •,:•oxide a medium by which strict nccountinF can be given to the cost of this public :cork. Section 3: That this ordinacc be published once in the Port, Yo;:nsend Leade.- to :.e in force and take effect from and efter fi,e days of such publication. by the City Council April 1945. Approved by the ;gay or April , 1945. Mayor Attest: C ty C erk is It C: h M WINMT A s. b Tl `D'ly,iv�'_;^',ti^Sx." 4Tn� •15,i M"' �' �1,,..:� 1�� . r . M 0 1IINUTT]S OF THF. REGULAR SESSION OF THE CITY COUHCIL,KAECH 20, 1945 The reading of tho foregoing ordnance in full, is considered as the first reading of three, as required by law. But the ordinance boing of a emergent nature, must by 1avr, lay over to the next regular session for final action, and therefore was given no further., consideration at this time. Resolutions Complying P:ithState Examiner's Recommendations A letter of the City Attorney, presenting a number of resolutions; the purpose of vrhicY •aas to simplify the keeping of the financial records of the city,in accordance with the recommendations of the State Examiner, visa read, together with said resolutions, as follows: Idarch 20, 1945 Honorable Mayor and City Council Port Townsend, Plashington Gentlemen: Please find attached sundry resolutions prepared by myself t:t the: suggestion of t:r. Davisson of the Division of I„unicipal Corporations of the State Auditor's Office. Unless some particular councilman has objection thereto, it appears that the same may be numbered and passed en bloc. Very truly yours, °' J. Daly City Attorney hESOLUTIOI! NO. `15=3 Upon the recommendation of the Division of Municipal Corporations of the State Auditor's office of the St:.te of Yiashington, I'T IS HEREBY RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Port Townsend, that the City Clerk and the City 'Treasurer of the City of Port Townsend be and hereby are directed to close and strike from the records of tbeir resnective offices, the entry of the following funds: P/AR LIQUOR TAX FUND niOTOR VEHICLE EXCISE TAX. FUND STATE AID FUND and such balances as are now on hand in each and all of such funds, be and hereby are transferred to the CU'.IRENT ly..PENSE FUND of said city. Adopted by the City Council this day of March, 1945. Attest: City Cler c RESOLUTION BE IT P,ESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Port Town- send, that there be and is hereby set aside from tho Current Expense Fund of said city for use and expenditure by check of the City 'Treasure:- of said city, the sum of Ca200.00 in order t"O t sr..all items of freight, express, motor vehicle licenses and other incidental expense can be handled with promptness and dispatch to be later expensed against the proper funds of said city res- ponsible therefor, said fund to be known and designated as "City Treasurer's Petty Cash Fund". Adopted by the City Council this cay of March, 1945. Macy or Attest: City c er- H1 a k ��k Y •y �'~ �1�''�,+��y4�i�rrt>.� ek`:�n��re.•} , �., , IN rt�,f..t wth M1 �i+4' �.,-i� ✓i ��:f"'L � 1..,' e nil'' e >�Y hxse;�� U�1 4r� 's •S , a a ' iF�e°rfi'e� i +. kj:w �v✓:et r 7 • i