HomeMy WebLinkAbout1420 AN ORDINANCE declaring an emergency to exist on account of the necessity
for purchase of real property for the construction of an addition to the Pacific
Avenue Fire Station, and appropriating funds to meet such emergency.
THE CITY C0~IISSION OF THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That an emergency exists in the City.of Bremerton that could
not have been foreseen at the time of making the budget for the year 1941, in
that unforeseen and unprecedented influx of national defense workers and their
families into the City of Bremerton made it necessary to increase the facilities
for fire protection in the City of Bremerton; and the City of Bremerton has
applied for Federal assistance in connection with its fire prevention problems,
with the result that the United States Government has offered to make a grant
of $90,274.00 to the City of Bremerton for the construction of an addition to
the Pacific Avenue Fire Station and a fire alarm system including necessary eq-
uipment and the acquisition of necessary land hereinafter referred to as the
"Project", which Project is known as Wash. Docket No. 4§-125.2, and the City of
Bremerton has appointed and designated the Housing Authority of the City of
Bremerton its agent and attorney in fact in connection with handling all matters
relating to the said Project.
Section 2. That'Federal funds have not yet been received for the acquisiti
of necessary real property in connection with the said project, and that for
the purpose of proceeding immediately toward the construction of such defense
Project, it is urgently necessary that the City purchase, through its said agent
the Housing'Authority of the City of Bremerton, the following described real
~property:
Lot Four (4), Block One (1), Cogean's Addition to Bremerton,
Kitsap County, State of Washington,
for the purchase price of $3,500.00; that the necessary funds should be furnishe
to the said Housing Authority with instructions to acquire the said site in the
name of the City of Bremerton and with further instructions that the City of
Bremerton be reimbursed as soon as Federal funds are received.
Section 3. That $3,500.00 is hereby appropriated to meet such emergency
and the City Clerk of the City o£ Bremerton is hereby authorized and directed
to issue an emergency warrant in favor of the Housing Authority of the City of
Bremerton, to be used by the said Housing Authority for the purpose of purchasin
the said real property in the name of the City of Bremerton, with the under-
standing that the City of Bremerton will be reimbursed as soon as ~unds are re-
ceived from the United States of America.
APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY by the City Commission on first reading, this 22nd
day of October 1941.
PASSED unanimously by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton on final
reading, signed by the ~ayor, and attested by the City Clerk in authentication
of such passage, this 29th day of October 1941.
ayor