HomeMy WebLinkAbout0807 ORDIN~NC.E NO. 8Q? ~
AN ORDINANCE finding a public emergency to exist in the ~ire Department a~l
Police Department, and not provided for in the Budget for 19£5, stating facts
constituting the emergency, estimated amounts required to meet such emergency
and declaring an emergency.
~tEREAS, in the Budget for the year 1925, the total amount of salaries in
the ~ire Department of the City of Bremerton were fixed at the mum of Eight
Thousand ~our Hundred ~orty D~llars, and in the Police Department, at the sum
of Nine Thousand Eight Hundred 2orty Dollars; and whereas, pursuant to Section
9110, i~emington's Compiled S~atu~es of i~ashington 19££, the Commission submitted
at the general municipal election held in said City of Bremerton on the first
day of December, 19£~, an ordinance increasing the salaries in said 2ire Depart-
ment and in said Poliae Department so that the total salaries in said 2ire Oepart~
ment would be i~ine Thousand Nine Humdred 2orty Dollars; and in said Police Depart-
ment would be Eleven Thous~nd Three Hundred ~orty Dollars; and whereas said Ordin-
ance was, at said election, duly adopted by a majority of the qualified voters
voting on said proposed ordinance, being 161Z votes in favor, and Z~? against;
and whereas on the canvass of said votes by said commission, said commission
duly declared said ordinance carried and adopted; and whereas the Fire Department
and Police Department of said city have, through the Chief of the Fire Departmen~
and Police Department,m~mmmm~mm~?m informed this commission in writing that the
members of said ~ire and Police Departments are dissatisfied with the salaries
provided for in said Budget for 19£5, and that if the men in said Depart~nents
should quit, it would be impossible to replace them with competen~ and qualified
men; and whereas this commission has made an investigation in~o such claims of
said departments and from such investigation finds tha~ it would be impossible
to obtain qualified and competent men to fill such Departments at the salaries
provided for in said Budget, and ~hat such qualified and compet~n~ men could
not be obtained for less salaries ~han are provided for in said Ordinance;
NO~', THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY TEE CITY CON2~iISSION 0P THE CITY 0P
BRF~,,IERTON A S FOLLO~VS:
Section 1. That a public emergency exists w~ich could not reasonably have
been foreseen at the ~ime of making the Budget, and which shall require the ex-
penditure of money not provided for in the Budget, and that the estimated amount
of money required to meet such emergency, over and above the amounts provided
for in such Budge~, is, to-wit: in the Police Department, the sum of ~ifteen
Hundred Dollars; in the ~ire Department, the sum of Fifteen Hundred Dollars.
Section E. Tha~ the increase of salaries, as provided for in said ordinance
shall be paid for by the issuano,e of emergency warrangs which shall be paid from
any moneys on hand in ~he City or ~own ~h~easury from the fund property chargeable
with such expenditure, and if, at any time, there shall be insufficien~ money
on hand to pay any emergency warrant, such warrant shall be registered, bear in~-
eres~ and be called in the same manner as other City or ~own warrants.
Section M. An emergency exists in the Departments mentioned in the preced-
ing Sections hereof, and this ordinance is necessary for the preservation of the
public peace, morals and safety of the city and this ordinance shall take effec~
immediately upon its passage and publication.
THIS ORDINANCE introduced and had first reading at a regular meeting of the
City 0ommission on the l?th day of December, 19E&, and passed at regular meeting
of the Commission by unanimous vote on the Zlst day of December; 19~, signed by
the ~ayor, and a~es~ed by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage.