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An ordinance providing for the paving, curbing, guttering and excavat-
ing of College Avenue, in the city of Salina, between the north
line of Ash Street and the south line of Park Street, specifying
the manner of construction, providing for the cost thereof and
the manner of payment, and letting the contract therefor.
WHEREAS, a petition has been presented to the mayor and council
requesting said mayor and council to pave, curb,. gutter and excavate
College avenue between the limits hereinbefore and hereinafter defined;
and,
WHEREAS, said petition has been examined and found to contain the
names of a majority of the resident owners of real property liable to
taxation and assessment for said improvements; therefore,
Be it ordained by the Mayor. and Councilmen of the City of. Salina:
Section 1. It is necessary and hereby ordered that College Aven-
ue, in the city of. Salina;. Kansas, between the north line of Ash Street
and thea south line of Park Street, , be paved with ' asphalt ic-concrete pav-
ing material, as more particularly hereinafter described, said pavement
to be thirty -,three (33) feet in "width, from gutter to gutter, and all
excavating, rolling and filling necessary for the proper construction
of such ._paving shall be done, and such paving shall be laid and con-
structed on the established grade of said street.
Sec.. 2. It is necessary and hereby ordered that said College
Avenue, between the limits defined in section one hereof, be curbed on
both sides thereof with cement curb and.guttered on both sides thereof
with cement gutter, such curb to be .six inches in thickness and such
gutter .to be twenty-four inches in width, and the lot line edge of such
curb shall be set nineteen feet from and parallel with the center line
of said'.street .
.Sec.'3.- Such street shall be paved with Bermudas Lake asphaltic-
conerete,paving.material, on a five inch concrete base, and according
to the. specifications for the paving, curbing and guttering of Ash
street -between College avenue and Railroad street adopted and approved
by the mayor and.'council on the 3rd day of May, 1915, which such speci-
ficatisms Jor-the improvements herein are hereby adopted and approved as
the specifications for said College avenue between Ash and Park Streets
and are hereby made a part of this ordinance.
Sec. 4. A contract is hereby let to Watts & Amerman for, the
Paving and 'excavating of said College avenue, at and for the following
prices, to -wit: for the paving of said street, with the paving material
specified in the preceding section, laid on a five -inch concrete base,
as specified, one and 40/100 Dollars, ($1.40) per square yard, and
for the ..excavating on said street thirty-three cents per cubic yard,
and for the curbing and guttering of said street, as specified, fifty-
two cents per lineal foot; which such prices are hereby found to be
less than the estimated cost of such improvements as made by the city
engineer of said city and now on file with the city clerk.
Sec. 5. kfter the passage and publication of this ordinance the
mayor and council shall appoint three disinterested appraisers who,
after having taken an oath to faithfully and impartially appraise all
lots and pieces of ground liable to assessment for the cost of said
improvements, shall, within ten days after having been notified of their
appointment, proceed to appraise said lots and pieces of ground, accord-
ing to law, and, after making said appraisement, shall return the same
to the mayor 'and council at the first meeting thereof after such appraise-
ment shall have been made and completed, and after said appraisement
is returned the mayor and council shall designate a time for holding a
special session for the purpose of hearing complaints and equalizing
said appraisement, of which special session due notice shall be given
in the official city paper; and at such special session the mayor and
council shall, if they deem it just and proper, alter or change such
appraisement.
Sec. 6. For the purpose .of paying for the improvements in this
ordinance specified the mayor and council, are hereby authorized to issue
bonds of the city of Salina, in an amount not to exceed the cost of such
improvements, and to run for a period 4.Dt to exceed ten years and payable
in equal installments each year togeUier with interest not to exceed
five per cent per annum, which bond -shall be made payable at the fiscal
agency of the State of Kansas; and for the purpose of paying principal
and interest on said bonds as they severally become due the mayor and
council shall by ordinan-ce apportion and assess against the lots and
pieces of ground in --the taxing district of such improvements special
assessments covering the cost of said -'improvements.. and the apportionment
therein contained shall hold good for all the installments that are to
be collected from the specific property chargeable with the cost of such
improvements. Such assessment and apportionment ordinance shall contain
the total amount of tax apportioned.to each tract, piece and parcel of
land within the taxing district and shall state the number of annual
installments in which such'tax is to be collected; and thereafter the
city clerk shall annually, at the same time other taxes are to be certi-
fied, certify to the county clerk of Saline county, Kansas, a full list
of all property liable for the cost of such work -and improvements to-
gether with the respective amounts due on each of such tracts, pieces
and parcels of land, which amount shall include the annual installments
and the interest on all unpaid balances for one year at the rate of five
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per cent per annum, and such amount so certified shall be collected as
other taxes are collected.
Sec . 7. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from
and after its publication once in the Salina Evening Journal.
Passed and approved, September 6th, 1915.
J. E. .Putnam,,
Mayor.
(SEAL)
Attest:
Chas, E. parker.
City Clerk.
STATE OF KANSAS
COUNTY OF SALINE ) SS.
CITY OF SALI.NA )
I hereby certify that the above and foregoing
is a true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Council and
approved by the Mayor of the City of Salina, September 6th, 1915, and
a record of the vote on its final adoption is found on Page / % of
Journal No. S.
City Clerk.