HomeMy WebLinkAbout1556 ORDINANCE NO. 1556
AN ORDIN~'~CE declaring an emergency to exist on account of the necessity
of employing additional help for the collection of garbage and paying over-
time wages to employees doing overtime work in the collection of garbage; and
making an appropriation.
THE CITY OF BREN'~RTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. That a public emergency exists in the City of Bremerton due
to the state of war now existing, the constant influx of population in the City
of Bremerton and a necessary increase in the demand and need for garbage coll-
ection and the limited number of employees and the limited number of equipment
available to properly collect garbage, and. to provide for the sanitary pro-
tection of the citizens of the City of Bremerton making it necessary to employ
employees of the garbage department over and above the established working
hours in order to complete all of the garbage collection.
Section 2. That the said public emergency and the necessity for the pay-
ment of overtime wages could not have been forseen at the time of making the
budget for 1944. That at the time of making said budget it was expected that
additional equipment and additional labor to operate said equipment would be
available and that in the absence of said equipment and said addit~ona! labor;
it is necessary to pay employees of the garbage department overtime pay and
to hire extra help and that the total sum of $10,000.00 will be needed for
the year 19~4 in order to pay such overtime and meet such emergency.
Section ~. That the City Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to
transfer from the general fund the total sum of ~10,000.00 to be deposited to
the credit of the Sanitation Department, for payment of overtime salaries and
for the payment of additional help for the garbage department, and the City
Clerk is authorized and directed to draw emergency warrants thereon.
Section 4. That the City Clerk is hereby instructed and directed to pub-
lish a copy of this ordinance in the official City newspaper immediately
following the approval of this ordinance on first reading.
Section 5. After approval on first reading, this ordinance shall be read
for final passage at the meeting of the City Council one week after the date
of its first reading.
Section 6. That an emergency exists which affects the public peace,
health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the City of Bremerton and this
ordinance shall take effect immediately following passage and publication.
APPROVED unanimously by the City Council of the City of Bremerton on
first reading this 19th day of January, 1944.
PASSED unanimously by the Oity Council of the City of Bremerton on final
reading, signed by the Mayor an(~ attested by the City Clerk in authentication
of such passage, this ~nd day of February, 1944.
Mayor
ATTEST:
/City Clerk
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~a~e has be~n pubiishud
CRy Clerk