HomeMy WebLinkAbout2144 ORDINANCE NO. 2144
AN ORDINANCE providing for the appropriation of funds for which
an insufficient appropriation was made in the 1955 budget and declar-
ing an emergency.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. ~'hat certain sums were appropriated by the 1955 Bud-
get for wa~er'""Department Supplies and Equipment and for Street Light-
ing, which have or will, by the 31st day of ~cember, 1955, been ex-
pended in full, and thai'by reason of making an insufficient appro-
priation for these items, it is necessary that the following appropria-
tions be made:
Traffic Control:
Maintenance & Operation
Street Lighting $ 7,000.00
Distribution Department:
Capital Outlay
Pipe and Appurtenances 10,500.00
Service Connection Material 3,050.00
Supply Department:
Capital Outlay
Well Drilling nig 4,574.67
Section 2. 'hat at the time of the adoption of said Budget, a
clerical error was made in the sum appropriated for Street Lighting
in the Traffic Control ~udget, and at that time it could not have been
reasonably forseen that the National Avenue Supply Main would have to
be replaced, and that the cost of a Well Drilling Rig would rise con-
siderably, and that by reason of the insufficient appropriations here-
tofore made, it is necessary that the above appropriations be made
from funds not otherwise appropriated, and the respective sums are here-
by appropriated to the funds hereinabove set out. That by reason of
the insufficient appropriations, there exists and is hereby declared to
exist an emergency, and this Ordinance is necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety of the citizens of
Bremerton and shall be in full force and effect i~ediately upon pass-
age and publication.
PASSED UNANIMOUSLY hy the City Council of the City of Bremerton,
signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication
of such passage this 30th daN' of December, 1955.
ATTEST: 5.0. DOMSTAD, Ma~or
E.H.T. McGOWAN, City Clerk