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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1438 ORDINANCE NO. 1438 AN ORDINANCE declaring an emergency to exist on account of the urgentneed for improved storm and sanitary sewer facilities in the City of Bremerton, and appropriating funds to meet such emergency. THE CITY COMNISSION OF THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. That a public emergency exists in the City of Bremerton, which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of making the budget for the year 1942 ~n that additions, betterments and repairs to the existing sewer system are urgently immediately needed in order to take care of additional demands for sewer services, due to the state of war now existing between the United States of America and the Axis Powers, and the great and unprecedented influx of national defense workers in the City of Bremerton and the extension of the city limits to include additional areas; that said ad8itions, betterments and repairs are necessary to safeguard the health of the inhabitants of the City of Bremerton. Section 2. That the said public emergency is made more urgent by the nee~ of a main trunk storm and sanitary sewer and complete sewer facilities in that part of the City of Bremerton bounded by 9th Street, Callow avenue, l~th Street and Ford Avenue, and a sewer system on Broadway Avenue between lSth and lSth Streets, which areas are not now supplied with any sewer system whatsoever, by the necess~.ty of extending the outfall of the main trunk sewer on ~ontgomery Avenue to deep water; and the necessity of installing an enlarged trunk sewer on Park Avenue in the City of Bremerton and extending the outfall thereof north to deep water, and by the fact that the State Board of Health has ordered and required the City of Bremerton to adopt the additions, betterments and repairs to its sewer system, in this section referred to, and to construct and operate the same. Section 3. That maps, plans and specifications of the additions, betterments, and repairs to the storm and sanitary sewer system of the City of Bremerton, hereinbefore referred to, are on file in the office of the City Engineer of the City of Bremerton, and in the office of the Regional Director of the Federal Works Agency, Division of Public Works, at $11 Alaska Bldg., Seattle, Washington, under F.W.A. Docket No. Wash #4~-17~; that part of the expense of said sewer system will be paid by special assessments in two 8ifferent local improvement districts comprising the property which will be specially benefited thereby, and that the United States Government has agreed to pay part of the expense in a sum not exceeding $$8,~00.00, under the terms and conditions of an Offer which has been made b~ the Federal Works Agency and accepted by the City of Bremerton; that the s~n of $4~,000.00 will be required to meet the expense occasiomed by such emergency and as that part of the expense of the entire project which should properly be borne by the City of Bremerton; that the total cost of said additions, betterments and repairs will be approximately $1~$,02E.00 and it is necessary that the City of Bremerton issue the emergency warrants hereinafter referre8 to in order to comply with the terms of said offer and receive said sum of $~8,$00.00 from the United States of America. Section 4. That there is hereby appropriated the sum of $44,000.00 or so much thereof as shall be required to meet such emergency and the City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to issue emergency warrants not exceeding said sum in payment of such expenses; provided, however, that the City Clerk shall so issue the said warrants that the proceeds thereof will be given full credit by the Federal Works Agency as the City's share of the total expenditure in conn- ection with said Project No. Wash. Section $. That an emergency exists affecting the public health, peace and safety, and this ordinance shall take effect immediately following passage and publication. APPROVED unanimously by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton, on first reading, this 7th day of January, PASSED unanimously by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton, on final reading, signed by the Nayor, anU attested by the City Clerk in attestation of such passage, this 14th day of January, Attest: Nayor I the undersigned do ~rii~ that City Clerk .n~ foregoh~g is ~ true and ~rr~ ~ o~din~nce t~a~s~l by 1he city ~L~, ~&e.