HomeMy WebLinkAbout1199 0RD~NANCE NO. 1199
AN ORDINANCE providing for the im.provement of Fourth Street from the center-
line of Park Avenue and Fourth Street East to the centerline of Washington Avenue
in accordance with the maps, plans and specifications on file in the office of
the City Clerk, establishing an improvement district, providing for the levying
of assessments for the payment of such improvements, and making such improvements
payable by bonds.
THE C!TYC0~MISSION OF THE CITY OF BREMERTON DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That Fourth Street from the centerline of Park Avenue and Fourth
Street East to the centerline of Washingtoh Avenue, be improved by the construction
of a concrete slab two and one half (2~) feet wide and six inches (6) thick on
each side of the present paving; the alteration of the present side walk on each
side thereof to a width of ten (10) feet, and the construction of concrete curbs
and gutters where necessary, and changing and replacing of the present ornamental
lights, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, on said street, together with the
installation of additional ornamental lights on each side thereof, placed opposite
the present ornamental lights, with the installation of wiring necessary for such
lights, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, together with the adjustment of
manholes and catch basins as necessary, and the doing of any and all other work as
may be necessary to make such improvement a complete job, all in.accordance with
plans and specifications to be placed on file in the office of the City ~lerk of
the City of Bremerton, reference to which is hereby made for further particulars.
Section 2. That the cost and expense of said improvement shall be borne by
and assessed against the property i~cluded in the assessment district hereinafter
created, in accordance with the provisions of Section 9365 of Remington's Revised
Statutes, except such proportion of said cost as shall be borne by and paid for by
either a department of the State of Washington, or a department of the National
Government created for emergency relief, which proportion of such cost and expense
is hereby declared to be in accordance with special benefits conferred upon such
property, and in the event that arrangements cannot be made for the securing of
such assistance from either of said departments to the extent of a proportion of
such ~ost as is estimated in the plans and specifications on file, prior to the
letting of a contract therefor, then said work shall not be prosecuted nor said
district established.
Section 3. There is hereby established and created a local improvement
district to be called and known as "Local Improvement District No. 172", the
Boundaries of which district are described as follows:
Beginning on a centerline of Washington Avenue
149.38 feet South of the centerline of Fourth
Street, said point being midway between the
centerline of Fourth Street and the centerline
of Burwell Street; thence Northwesterly 142.14
feet to the intersections of the centerlines of
the alley in Block 7, Original Town of Bremerton;
thence West along the centerline of the alleys
in Block 7 and Block 14, OTB, 1182.43 more or
less to the West line of Lot 46, Block 14, OTB;
thence North ll0 feet to the South margin of
Fourth Street; thence West along the South margin
of Fourth Street, West 150 feet to the centerline
of Park Avenue; thence North 170 feet to the
center Of alley in Block 15, OTB; thence East
along the center of said alley 1379.87 feet to
the intersection of the alley in Block 6, OTB;
thence Southeasterly 142.14 feet to the center
of Washington Avenue; thence South along the
center of Washington Avenue 291.98 feet to the
point of beginning.
Section 4. That ~heCo~t and expense of said improvement to be borne by
said improvement district, and exclusive of the portion borne by either the State
of Washington or a Department of the United States for emergency relief, as in
Section 2 of this ordinance provided shall be assessed against the property
included in said improvement district in proportion to said area and in accordance
with the provisions of Section 9365 of Remington's Revised Statutes of the State
of Washington and the remainder of the costs of said improvement to be paid for by
arrangements with either a department of the State of Washington or a department
of the United States Government aw hereinbefore provided.
Section 5. Bonds bearing interest at the rate of not to exceed 6% per
annum, payable on or before ten years from date of issuance, shall be issued in
payment of the costs and expenses of said improvement assessed against the property
included in the district hereinabove described, which bonds shall be redeemed by
a collection of special assessments levied and assessed against the property within
said district, payable in equal annual installments with interest at the rate of
not to exceed 6% per annum, under the mode of payment by bonds as required by law
and the ordinances of the City of Bremerton. These bonds shall be delivered to
the contractor in the redemption of warrants on the local improvement district funds
issued on the estimate of the City Engineer, or the City of Bremerton may, at its
option, sell said bonds either to the United States Government or to any private
person or persons and make such redemption in cash.
Section 6. This ordinance shall take effect thirty days from and after its
passage and publication as provided by law.
PASSED by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton on first reading
this 8th day of January, 1938.
PASSED and adopted by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton this 10th
day of January, 1938, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authen-
tication of such passage.
Attest:
C~ty Clerk