HomeMy WebLinkAbout1144 AN ORDINANCE providing for the improvement of Warren Avenue from Fifteenth
Street to Seventeenth Street; Broadway Avenue from Thirteenth Street to Fifteenth
Street and Fifteenth Street from Warren Avenue to Broadway 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 CITY C0~ISSION OF THE CITY OF BRE~RTON DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That Warren Avenue from Fifteenth Street to Seventeenth Street,
Broadway Avenue from Thirteenth Street to Fifteenth Street and Fifteenth Street
from Warren Avenue to Broadway Avenue, be improved by clearing, grubbing, grad-
ing, paving with one course concrete pavement six inches thick and thirty-six
feet wide on Warren Avenue; twenty-six feet wide on Broadway; and grading Fif-
teenth Street thirty feet wide and establishing a sewer, together with 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 Clerk 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 included 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
Govern~_ent 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 cost 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 dis-
trict to be called and known as "Local Improvement District No. 161", the boun-
daries of which district are described as follows:
Beginning at a point on the centerline of Thirteenth
Street midway between Warren Avenue and Broadway Avenue;
thence West 327.42 feet to a point midway between Broad-
way Avenue and Chester Avenue; thence North 665.40 feet
to the centerline of Fifteenth Street; thence East 163.71
feet to the centerline of Broadway Avenue; thence North
332.70 feet to a point midway between Fifteenth Street
and Seventeenth Street; thence East 163.34 feet; thence
North ~32.70 feet to the centerline of Seventeenth Street;
thence East 335.1~ feet to a point midway between Warren
Avenue and Elizabeth Avenue; thence South 665.40 feet to
a point on the centerline of Fifteenth Street midway be-
tween Warren Avenue and Elizabeth Avenue; thence West
187.20 feet to the centerline of Warren Avenue; thence
South ~32.70 feet; thence West 168.60 feet; thence South
332.70 feet 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 a Department of the United States for emergency relief, as in
Section 2 of this ordinance provided shall be assessed against the property in-
cluded in sa~d improvement d~strict 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 depart-
ment of the United States Government as 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 issua~ce, shall be issued in payment
of the costs and expense of said improvement assessed against the property included
in the district hereinabove described, which bonds shall be redeemed by a collec-
tion Of special assessments levied and assessed against the property within said
district, payable in e~ual annual installments, with interest at the rate of not
to exceed 6% per annum under the mode o£ payment by bonds as reGuired by law and
the ordinances of the City of Bremerton. These bonds shall be delivered to the
contractor in the redemption o~ warrants on the local improvement district funds
issued on the estimate of the City Engineer, or the City of Bremerton ~ay, at its
option, sell said bonds either to the United States Government or to any private
person or persons and. ma~e such redemption in cash.
Section 6. This ordinance shall take effect thirty days fro~ and after its
passage and publicatio~ as provided by law.
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PASSED BY the City Commission of the City of Bremerton on first reading
this 2£nd day of May, 1937.
PASSED and adopted by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton this
29th day of May, 1937, signed by the Mayor and attested~by the City Clerk in
a-~entication of such passage.
ATTEST:
~CITY CLERK