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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1596 ORDINANCE NO. 1596 AN ORDINANCE declaring an emergency to exist on account of immediate necess- ity of exterminating rats in the City of Bremerton for the preservation of public health and appropriating funds to meet such emergency. THE CITY OF BRE~ERTON DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. That a public emergency exists in the City of Bremerton due to the state of war now existing and the consequent continued increase in population and overcrowding in the City of Bremerton which has caused an unprecedented and unusual increase in the rat population of the City of Bremerton and the fact that there is an immediate hazard to the public health and safety unless steps be promptly taken to exterminate rats in the City of Bremerton; that the said emerg- ency could not have been foreseen at the time of making up the official city budgets for the years 1944 and 1945, and that the said emergency has been celL led to the attentian of the City Commission by the Commandant of the Puget Sound Navy Yard and the United States Public Health Service. Section 2. That the City Council of the City of Bremerton has approved a comprehensive rodent control program which requires the employment of a rodent control officer starting as of November El, 1944, and continuing until the 31st day of December 1945, with a consequent necessary expenditure for salaries or wages, the furnishing of transportation to said rodent control officer, and the expenditure of funds for the purchase of rat traps and other equipment and essenti paraphernalia requiring expenditure of moneys as capital outlay; that the total sum of $3,800.00 budgeted as follows: salary and .wages $2,900.00, maintenance and operation $600.00, capital outlay $300.00, will be required to meet such emerg- ency to and including the 31st day of December, 1945, and said sum of $3,800.00, or so much thereof as shall 'be necessarily expended, is hereby appropriated and the City Clerk is hereby authorized to execute emergency warrants not exceeding the said sum as herein budgeted in payment of the expense made necessary by such emergency. Section 3. That the said rodent control officer shall be trained and super- vised by the City Health Officer, shall act in cooperation with the Sanitation Department, the Building Department, and the Fire Department and shall in general follow the procedure for rodent control recommended by the United States Public Health Service. Section 4. That the emergency warrants herein authorized shall be charged to and paid from the general fund of the City of Bremerton. Section 5. The City Clerk is hereby instructed and directed to publish a copy of this ordinance in the city official newspaper immediately following approval of this ordinance on first reading. Section 6. This ordinance shall be read fox final passage at the meeting of the City Council one week following the date of the first reading of this ordinance. Section ?. An emergency exists affecting the public peace, health and safety in the City of Bremerton, and this ordinance shall take effect immediately follow- ing passage and publication. APPROVED unanimously by the City Council of the City of Bremerton on first reading this Pgth day of November, 1944. PASSED unanimously by the City Council of the City of Bremerton, signed by the Nayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage this 6th day of December, 1944. Attest: -- -~ayor ~ State of Washington City of 8[emecton I, the uudnr~[E~ed, do %~e by c~r*~v that lh~ above and fo~e~c,'~ same has been published ~co~'~,, ~ ~,~ :~w.