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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1145 ORDINANCE NO. 1145 AN ORDINANCE providing for the improvement of Hewitt Avenue, from Sixth Street to Eighth Street, in accordance with the maps, plans and specifica- tions 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. ~ CITY C0~GMISSION OF THE CITY OF BR~E~TON DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section lo That Hewitt Avenue, from Sixth Street to Eighth Street be improved by clearing, grubbing, grading, and paving with one course concrete pavement six inches thick and twenty-six feet wide, providing for the draina~ thereof 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 specifica- tions to be placed on File in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Brem.- erton, 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 here- inafter created, in accordance with the provisions of Section 9385 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 de- partment of the National Government created for emergency relief, which pro- portion of such cost and expense is hereby declared to be in accordance with special benefits conferred upon such property, and in the event that arrange- ments 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 district to be called and known as "Local Improvement District No. 162", the boundaries of which district are hereby described: Beginning at a point on the centerline of Sixth Street midway between Hewitt Avenue mud Penn- sylvania Avenue; thence West 360 feet, said point being midway between Hewitt Avenue and Roosevelt Avenue; thence North 664.7 feet to a point midway in Block 6 of Union High School Addition; thence East 100 feet; thence North 4.9 feet; thence East 260 feet along the center line of Eighth Street to a point midway between Hewitt Avenue and Pennsylvania; thence South 669.4 feet to the centerli~e of Sixth Street and 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 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 as here- inbefore 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 ~ayment of the costs and expense of said improvement assessed against the property iuc!uded in the district hereinabove described, which bonds shall be redeemed by a collection of special assessments levied and assessed against the property ~ithin 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 reauired 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 re- demption 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 22nd day of May, 1937. PASSED and adopted by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton this  day of May, 1957, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in entication of such passage. ATTEST: