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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1215 0RDINANCE NO. 1215 AN ORDINANCE provididg for the improvement of Hewitt Avenue from Eleventh Street to Thirteenth Street, 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 improvement and making such improvement payable by bonds. The city oommission of the ~ity of ~remerton do ordain as follows: Section 1. That Mewitt Avenue from Eleventh Street to Thirteenth street, be improved by clearing, grubbing, grading, surfacing and construc- tion of sidewalks five ~5) feet wide, together with the doing of any and all other work in connection therewith as may be necessary to make such imp- rovement a complete Job, all in accordance with maps, plans and specifications now on file in the office of the City olerk of the uity of ~remerton. Section 2. That the cost and expense of said improvement shall be borne by and assessed against the property included in the assessment district here- inafter created, in accordance with the provisions of Section 9365 of Reming- ton'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. Section 3. There is hereby established and created a local improvement district to be called and known as "Local Improvement District No. 177", the boundaries of which district are described as follows: Beginning at a point on the centerline of Eleventh Street 133.5' West of the centerline of Hewitt Avenue and Eleventh Street, said point being midway between Marguerite Avenue and Hewitt Avenue; thence North 671.80' to the centerline of Thirteenth Street; thence East 263.5' to the point midway between Hewitt Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue; thence South 674' to the centerline of Eleventh Street; thence West along the centerline of Eleventh Street 263.5' to the point of beginning. Section 4. That the cost 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 the United States Department for Emergency Relief, as in Section 2 of this ordinance provided, shall be assessed against said pro- perty 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 said cost of the improvement is to be paid for by arrangement with either a department of the State of Washington or a department of the United Sates Government as here- inbefore provided. Section 5. Bonds bearing interest at the rate of not to exceed six per cent per annum, payable on or before ten years from the date of issuance, shall be issued in payment of the cost and expense 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 the 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 ~rdinances 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, after its first reading be placed on file with the City Clerk for a period of at least one week and shall take effect thirty days from and after its final reading, passage and publication as provided by law. Passed by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton on first reading this 30th day of April, 1938. PASSED and adopted on second reading this 7th day of May, 1938, signed by'the Mayor and attested, by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage.