HomeMy WebLinkAbout2462 AN ORDINANCE appropriating funds not provided for
in the 1961 Budget and declaring an emergency.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. That it could not have been reasonably foreseen
at the time of the adoption of the 1961 Budget that the City of
Bremerton would enter into a contract with the Kitsap County Humane
Society which required that the city make certain appropriations as
its share of the operating expenses of said society. That in the
1961 Budget entitled MISCELLANEOUS - GENERAL there is hereby
established the item Contribution to Humane Society and there is
hereby appropriated to said item from funds not otherwise appro-
priated the sum of $3,937.98; to be expended in accordance with the
terms of said agreement.
Section 2. That at the t/me of the adoption of the 1961
Budget it could not have been reasonably foreseen that the following
areas would be annexed to the City of Bremerton, to wit: Shorewood
Drive, Madrona Point, Lower Marine Drive, and Marine Drive, increasing
the population of the City of Bremerton and increasing the problems
of the F/re Department, requiring additional help. Effective
September 1~ 1961, three additional firemen shall be employed and
that the item Firefighters shall read 30 Firefighters, Detail 430,
and there is hereby appropriated to said item the sum of $4,242.00 ~'
from funds not otherwise appropriated and there is hereby appro-
priated to the item 12A, entitled Clothing Allowance, the sum of
$70.00 from funds not otherwise appropriated.
Section 3. That an emergency exists and is hereby declared
to exist and this ordinance is necessary for the preservation of the
public peace, health, safety.and welfare of the citizens of the City
of Bremerton and shall be in full force and effect upon passage and
publication.
APPROVED on f~st reading this 6th day of September, 1961.
PASSED UNANIMOUSLY by the City Council of the City of
Bremerton, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in
authentication of such passage this 13th day of September, 1961.
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H. O. DOMSTAD, Mayor
ATTEST ~
E. H. T. McGow~N' City clerk
STATE OF ~ASHINGTON )
County of Kltsap )
H. O. DOMSTAD, being ~B~ duly sworn upon oath, deposes
and says: That he is the duly elected, qualified and acting Mayor
and Commissioner of Public Health and Safety for the City of Bremerton;
that at the time of the adoption of the 1961 Budget the number of
firefighters on the Bremerton Fire Department was sufficient to
adequately protect the city and maintain its Class 3 rating~ the
annexation of Shorewood Drive, Madrona Point, Lower Marine Drive, and
Marine Drive has increased the population of the City of Bremerton
and especially the problems for the Capital Hill Fire Department; that
it has become apparent that it is necessary for the welfare of the City
of Bremerton that the Capital Hill Fire Station force be increased by
three men in order that adequate fire protection may be rendered in
the western part of the city and that the city may maintain its
Class 3 rating~ that it could not have been reasonably foreseen at
the time of the adoption of the 1961 Budget that these annexations
would be made.
That the Kitsap County Humane Society has been reactivated
and that the county and other towns and the City of Bremerton have
entered into an agreement whereby the Society would furnish those
services now rendered by the poundmaster of the City of Bremerton;
that in said agreement the City of Bremerton agreed to pay its pro-
portionate cost-of operating said society; that at the time of the
adoption of the budget it could not have been reasonably foreseen
that the society would be reactivated and that the city would enter
into a contract with it whereby the society would render certain
services for the city and that the city's share of the operating
expenses of said society for the balance of 1961 is $3,937.98.
That these appropriations are necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health, safety and welfare of the citizens of
the City of Bremerton.
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this /3~day of September,
Notary ~lic in and for ~he State of
Washing~on, residing at Bremerton.
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