HomeMy WebLinkAbout1609 Ordinance No. 1609
AN ORDI~IANCE declaring an emergency to exist on account of the need for
eme.rge~cy budgetary appropriations for the Sanitation Department, the Water
Department, the Police iDepartment, and the Recreation ~3epartment, providing
for the payment of certain employees of the Recreation Department on a monthly
basis, appropriating funds to meet such emergencies, anm declaring an emergency.
THE CITY OF BRE~,fERTON OOES OF. DAIN:
Section 1. '£hat a public emergency exists in the City of Bremerton due
to the imme~iat:e necessity an~ ad/visability of transferring responsibility to
the Water Department for the maintenance of the sanitary fill on tide lanms
at the Head of the Bay owned by the Water Department of the City of Bremerton
under an arrangement whereby the Sanitation Department will pay the Water
Department on a time-and-~aterial basis for the expenses properly chargeable
to the Sanitation Department, and the Water Department will assume any add-
itional expense necessary to make the said tide ian~l area more readily suitable
for use or sale after the same has been reclaimed; that the expenses incident
to the maintenance of said sanitary fill have teen provided for in the 1945
budget, chiefly through appropriations for salaries and automotive maintenance,
but that fun~s so appropriated may not 'be used under the bu~.get laws to re-
imburse the Water Department for wages and truck rental properly chargeable
t~"the Sanitation Department~ Chat the necessary expense to the Sanitation .De-
partment occasioned by sai~ emergency will amount to approximately ~15,000.00;
that the expense to the Water Department occasioned by said emergency will
amoun~ to approximately ~6,5fi0.00, itemized as follows:
SALAHY AND WAGES
1 utility operator t-~ ~t.32 per hour $ 2,700.00
1 watchman @ .$175-!90 per month 2,280.00
~AINTEI'~a. ICE AND OPERA~ION
Truck rental (for rental of truck from Sanitation
Department ) 1,000. O0
CAPITAL OUTLAY
1 calculating machine 540.00
· ~o, ~'20. O0
Ordinance No. 1609 (Con"t)
Section 2. That an emerg, ency exists in the Recreatisn Department in that
it became necessary from the first day of January, 1945, to arrange for the
services of a part-time m~lsica! director at a salary of 3100.O0 per month
starting as of January 1, 1945, at a total expense for the year 1945 of ~1,200.
and that eight leaders and that eight leaders and specialists for the Recreatic
Department should be employed on a monthly basis, instead of on a basis of an
hourly wage, at ~150-175 per month; that no additional appropriation will be re
quired for said eight leaders aha specialists.
Section 3. That an emergency exists in the Police Department on account c
the inability to secure a police surgeon for the salary set up in the 1945 bud-
get, making it necessary to employ such physicians an~ surgeons as may become
necessary for the Police Department an~ that the expense incident to such em-
ployment for the year 1945, to-wit, medical and sur6ical expenses, will amount
to approximately ~1,000.00.
That the public emergencies referred to in Sections 1,2, and. 3 of this
ordinance were occasioned by the continue~ influx i~ population in the City of
Bremerton and the state of war now existing, and that the said public emergenci
could not have been foreseer~ at the time of making the budget for the year 1945
that the sums of ~15,000 for the Sanitation Department, ~6,520. for the Water
Department, ~1200 for the Recreation Department, and ..~1000 for the Police Depar
ment be, and the same are hereby appropriated, sn~ the City Clez.k ~s hereby
authorized to execute emergency warrants not exceeding the said respective s~tms
in payment of the expenses of said emergencies as in this ordinance specificall
set forth.
Section 4. The City Clerk is hereby instructed an~ directed to publish a
copy of this ordinance in the official city newspaper immediately following ap-
proval of this ordinance on first reading.
Section 5. This ordinance shall 'be read for final .passage at the meeting
of the City Oouncil one week after the date of its first rea~ing.
Section 6. That an emergency exists which affects the public peace, healt
and safety of the City of Bremerton, and this ordinance shall take effect im-
mediately on passage and publication.
APPROVED unanimously by the City Council of the City of Bremerton, on
first reading, this 14th day of February, 1945.
PASSED unanimously by the City ~ouncil of the City of Bremerton, sig~ed
by the l~'ayor, and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage,
'this 21st day of February, 1945.
l, fhe U;:d~,~igned, do hare ~,y c~rt~y that
the ab(];,e arid foregoing
COpy
Bremerto,~ e~t,tled as abov~a~d that the
lame h.~ b~en published accerdj.g to law,
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