5897 Utility ImprovementsORDINANCE NumBER 5897
Published in the Salina Journal ` 19�+
AN ORDINANCE providing for the construction of a certain storm sewer and drainage
in the City of Salina, Kansas, to be designated as Claflin Avenue Storm Sewer,
and providing for the letting of contract for such construction and for the pay-
ment of the cost thereof.
Wj�REAS, at all times heretofore, the entire City of Salina, Kansas, has constituted
a storm sewer and drainage district and bonds issued to pay the cost thereof are
payable by a general tax as provided by law; and
BE IT ORDAIM by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. That the preamble of this ordinance is hereby incorporated herein.
That the entire City of Salina is hereby determined to be the benefit district
for the purpose of the installation of a system of storm sewerage and drainage
in the said city. That the entire limits of said city has always constituted one
district for said purposes.
Section 2. That it is necessary and it is hereby ordered that a storm sewer,
which is hereby designated as Claflin Avenue Storm Sewer, together with all
necessary inlets, inlet connections, manholes, connecting lines, sluice gates and
other appurtenances, be constructed in the City of Salina along the following
course, to -wit:
A 24 inch storm sewer beginning at an existing manhole
which is in easement on the east line of Block 7, Likin
Foster Addition and 12 feet north of south line of said
j block; thence east along a line 12 feet north of the
south line of said Block 7 extended 500 feet to a manhole
to be constructed; thence east bearing slightly south 430
feet with a 24 inch storm sewer to a manhole to be con-
structed which will be 15 feet north of the south line of
Jewell Avenue and 5 feet east of the east right-of-way
of the Missouri Pacific Railway; thence east along a line
15 feet north of the south line of Jewell 890 feet with a
24 inch storm sewer to a manhole to be constructed; thence
south with a 24 inch storm sewer along a line 15 feet west
of the east line of Rush Street 690 feet to a manhole tobe
constructed; thence east with a 24 inch storm sewer 20 feet
north of the south line of Claflin Avenue 301 feet to a man-
hole to be constructed; thence east along the same line with
an 18 inch storm sewer 1315 feet to a manhole to be con-
structed which is 5 feet east of the west line of Ninth Street
and 20 feet north of the south line of Claflin Avenue which
will be the terminus of said sewer.
Section 3. That on or before the 20th day of September ,
1954, the City Engineer shall xprepare and file in the office of the City Clerk,
detailed plans and specifications for the construction of the storm sewer provided
for in Section 2 of this ordinance with vitrified and/or corrugated metal pipe,
bituminous coated, and/or concrete sewer pipe or any combination of such types
of sewer pipe and on or before the same date shall prepare and file in the office
of the City Clerk, under oath, a detailed estimate of the cost thereof. After
such plans and specifications and estimate of cost shall have been filed, the
City Clerk shall advertise by advertisements published in the official city paper
for at least three consecutive days for sealed proposals for the building and
construction of such storm sewer and at the time and place mentioned, the Board
of Commissioners may let a contract with the lowest and best responsible bidder
for the building and construction of such storm and drainage sewers, but the
right to reject any and all bids shall be and it is hereby reserved, and provided
further that if no responsible person shall purpose to enter a contract at a price
not exceeding the estimated cost, then the Board of Commissioners may proceed to
construct said improvements within the estimated cost thereof and shall purchase
the necessary tools, apparatus, and materials and employ the necessary labor for
the purpose of constructing the sewer.
Section 4. That for the payment of the cost of said work, the Board of
Commissioners shall issue General Obligation and Improvements Bonds of the City
of Salina, Kansas, in an amount not to exceed the total cost of such work and
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improvements, to be payable in 4 approximately equal annual installments
and to bear interest at not to exceed five per cent per annum and from the date
of such bonds, and for the purpose of paying such bonds and interest as they
severally become due, the Board of Commissioners shall annually levy a tax upon
all real and personal property in the City of Salina in an amount sufficient to
pay the annual installments of such principal and interest, and that pending
the issuance of such bonds, temporary notes shall be issued according to law,
to pay the cost of such work.
Section 5. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and
after its publication m in the official city paper.
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Introduced: August 96,v 195+
Passed: S6064313P054
P,
Mayor
Attest:
City Clerk
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