HomeMy WebLinkAbout1187 ORDINANCE NO. 1187
AN ORDINANCE providing for the improvement of Charleston Avenue from
the North margin of Preble Street North to the South margin of Rodgers
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 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 Charleston Avenue from the North margin of Preble Street
North to the South margin of Rodgers Street, be improved by clearing, grubbing,
grading, providing for the drainage 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 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 here-
inafter 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 ~nd 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 specificatton~
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 created and established a local improvement
district to be called and known as Local Improvement District No. 171, the
boundaries of which district are described as follows:
Beginning at the intersection of the centerlines of
Preble Street and Charleston Avenue; thence West 145
feet, said point being midway between Charleston
Avenue and Constitution Avenue; thence North on a
line midway between Charleston Avenue and Constitution
Avenue; 1322.5 feet; to the centerline of Rodgers
Avenue; thence East 290 feet to a point midway between
Charleston Avenue and Yantic Avenue; thence South on a
line midway between Charleston Avenue and Yantic Ave-
nue 1322.5 feet to the centerline of Preble Street;
thence West 145 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 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 herein-
before provided.
Section 5. Bonds bearing interest at the rate of not to exceet 6% per
annum, payable on or before ten years from date 'of issuance, 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 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 paysent
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.
Ordinance No. 1187 (cont)
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 16th day of October, 1937.
PASSED and adopted by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton this
23rd day of October, 1937, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk
in authentication of such passage.
Attest: ~ f '- Mayor