1600 Improve Prescott AvenuefPublished..in the Salina Evening Journal 1911).
ORDINANCE NO IL 0 0.
An Ordinance providing for the paving, curbing, guttering and
excavating of. Prescott Avenue, in the city of Salina, between
Fourth Street and Ninth Street, specifying the manner of con-
struction, providing for the cost thereof, the manner of pay-
ment and letting the contract therefor.
Whereas, there has Been presented to the Mayor and
Council a petition signed by three-fourths of the resident pro-
perty owners owning property fronting on Prescott.Avenue between
Santa Fe Avenue and Ninth Street, asking that the Mayor and
Council pave, curb and gutter said street between the limits
'herein mggm defined; and
Whereas, there has been presented to the Mayorand
Council a petition.signedby three-fourths of the resident pro-
perty owners owning property fronting on Prescott Av6nue between
Fourth Street and Santa Fe Avenue, asking that the Mayor and
Council pave,, curb and gutter said street between the limits
+herein,o,eeftned.; therefore'.
Be it ordained by theMayorand Councilmen of the city of Salina.*
Section 1. That it is necessary and hereby ordered
that Prescott Avenue in the city of Salina between the west side
of Fourth Street and the East side of Ninth Street be paved with
asphaltic-conerete paving -material on a five inch concrete base,
a & i dpating!-to bi-, 46ibt in width, from gutter to gutter, be.,
tween'Fourth Street and -Santa Fe: Avenue/ and* -R feet in width
between Santa Fe Avenue and Highland.Avenue,and 10. A0
w 12 feet in
width from gutter to gutter between Highland Avenue and Ninth
-Street except n of streets and alleys such
at the intersectio.
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paving . shall: return to the line of such intersecting street.
Sao dea 2. That it is necessary- and hereby ordered
that , said. Prescott Avenue, between the limits dofined'in. Section
1- hereof be. curbed and guttered on both si des Vlwreof - vwitb cemet
concrete pavement on a five inch concrete base, and for the
excavating of said street, at and for the follo�, ing proces,
to -wit: for excavating, thirty-three (33) cents per cubic yard
of dict actually removed from said street, for paving said
street One Dollar and Seventy-five Gents 01.75} per square
yard for the number of square yards of paving and base Laid
upon saidstreet ; and a contract is hereby let for the curbing
and guttering of said street to L.H.1yon, of Salina, Kansas,
at the.price of Seventy-seven (774 Cents sad per lineal foot
cu bing and guttering actually laid, said street; measure-
ment thereof to be made as in said specifications provid*d� and
it is hereby determined that t1he prices herein contracted for
the paving, curbing, guttering and excavating of said street,
as aforesaid, are within the estimated price or c;;* of said
work and improvement as made by the City Engineer of Salina,
which estimates of such price and cost ale now can file with
the City Clerk.
Sec. 6. After the passage of this ordinance, the
Mor and Council shall appoint three disint rested householders,
ay
who, after having taken an oath to faithk\ lly'and impartially
appraise all lots and pieces of ground lia�le to taxation for the
improvements herein provided for, shall, wi�hin ten days after
having been notified of their appointment proceed to appraise
said lots and pieces of .ground liable to taxaiion, without re-
gard to any buildings or improvements tln*neon, ':end after making
said appraisement shall -return the same to\ they ror and Council
at the first meeting thereof after -such app)�aisement shall have
been completed and after said appraisement ireturned to t
Mayor and Council, the said Mayor and Council;,shall designate
a time for holding a special seesioh for the P4pose of hear-
ing complaints and equalizing said :apPsisement�` of which
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special session due notice shall be, Bien in 4 official- city
' paper., and at said special session the Mayor a d Council shall,
if they deem it just and proper, alter or change such appraise-
ment. i-
Sec.7. For the purpose of paying for the work and im-
provements in this -ordinance provided for, the Mayor and Council
are hereby authorized and directed to issue bonds of the city of
Salina, in an amount not to exceed thecon.tract price of such
work. and improvement and to run fora period of ten years and be
payable in ten (10) equal annual installments, t-ogether with
interest not to exceed Five t5) per cent per annum, which bonds
shall be made payable to the Fiscal Agency of the State of Kansaq
and for the purpose of paying principal and interest on said bond
as they severally become dde, she Mayor and Council shall each
year, during the life of said bonds, levy an assessment against
the lots and pieces of ground liable to taxation for the improve-
ments herein provided for in an amount sufficient to pay the
principal and interest for that year: Provided, That for the
purpose of defraying the test of the curbing, guttering and othev,
wise improving the squares formed by the crossing of streets,
for which the city would be liable, the assessments shall be
made aginst all taxable property of the city; and the City
Clerk shall certify such assessments, as they are severally made
to the County Clerk of Saline County, Kansas, at the same tine
and in the same manner as other city taxes are certified, and
the said assessments shall be liable t.o the same penalties and
rebates as other city taxes.
Sec. 8. This . ordinance shall take effect and be in
force from and after its publication -once in the Salina Evening
Fournal.
Passed and approved March zo, 1911,
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�..... ,...., Mayor.
Attestl.
.City Clerk