5376 Utility Improvements Woodland AdditionORDINANCE NUMBER 5376
(Published in the Salina Journal
AN ORDINANCE creating and defining a certain lateral sanitary sewer district
in the City of Salina, Kansas, designated as Lateral Sanitary Sewer District
Number 240, and providing for the construction of a Lateral Sanitary Sewer
in said Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number 240, so created, and providing
for the payment of the cost thereof and for the levying of special assessments
against the property in said district for the payment of the cost of such
construction and for the issuing of bonds to pay the cost thereof.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Kansasr
Section 1. Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number 240.
That there be and there is hereby created Lateral Sanitary Sewer District
in the City of Salina, Kansas, which shall be and it is hereby designated as
Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number 240 and which district shall include
all the following described property in the City of Salina, Kansas, to -wit:
Lots 1 to 22, inclusive, Block 7 and
Lots 9 to 20, Inclusive, Block 8, all
in Woodland Addition to the City of
Salina, Saline County, Kansas
Section 2. It is necessary and it is hereby ordered that an eight
inch V.C.P. lateral sanitary sewer with all necessary connections, manholes,
flushing tanks and other appurtenances be constructed and built in and to
serve said Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number 240 as created by Section
1 of this ordinance along the following course, to -wit:
Beginning at an existing manhole in
Front Street *hich is 29 feet east of
the west line of Front Street and 22
feet north of the south line of Wood-
land Avenue; thence west 159 feet on
a line 22 feet north of the south line
of Woodland Avenue to the center line
of an alley, next east of Second Street,
extended north, to a manhole to be con-
structed; thence south in center line
of said alley 532 feet to a manhole to
be constructed being the south terminus
of said sewer; and further beginning at
said manhole to be constructed in Wood-
land Avenue thence due north 308 feet.
Section 3. That the City Engineer shall on or before uay 23rd,
1949 prepare and file in the office of the City Clerk, plans and specifi-
cations for the construction of the lateral sanitary sewer provided for in
the preceding sections of this ordinance which shall be of proper character
to serve the property lying within the district within which such sewer is
to be constructed and shall on or before the same date prepare and submit
to the Board of Commissioners a detailed estimate under oath of the cost
thereof. That thereafter the City Clerk shall advertise for three consecutive
days in the official city paper for sealed proposals for the building and
construction of such sewer according to such plans and specifications, which
proposals shall be filed with the City Clerk on cr before the time fixed in
such notice, at which time the Board of Commissioners may let a contract for
improvements within the estimated cost thereof as provided by law.
the building and construction of such sewer
to the lowest and best responsible
bidder or bidders therefor, if there be any
whose bids do not exceed
the esti-
mated cost thereof, but said Board shall reserve the right to reject
any or all
such proposals, and if no bid shall be received within such estimate,
the
Board of Commissioners shall have the power
to do such work and make
such
improvements within the estimated cost thereof as provided by law.
Section 4. That for
the cost of
building
and
constructing such sewer,
special assessments shall
be made for
the full
cost
thereof on all lots and
pieces of land within and for which such sewer shall be built, according to
the appraised value thereof, without regard to the improvements or buildings
thereon.
Section 5. After the passage and publication of this ordinance, the
Board of Commissioners shall appoint three disinterested appraisers, who
after having taken an oath to make a true and impartial appraisement of all
lots and pieces of land to taxation for the cost of such improvements, shall
within five days after having been notified of their appointments prooeed
to appraise all of the lots and pieces of land within such district liable
to assessment and taxation as aforesaid, without regard to the buildings
or improvements thereon, and after making such appraisement shall return
to the Board of Commissioners of said city and said Board shall designate a
time for holding a special meeting of said Board for the purpose of hearing
any complaints that may be made as to the value of any lot or piece of
land appraised as aforesaid, of which special session due notice shall be
given in the official city paper, and at which special session said Board
may alter any valuation of any lot or piece of land if, in their opinion,
the same has been appraised too high or too low.
Section 5. The special assessment herein provided for may be paid by
the person liable therefor in four approximately equal annual installments
but the owner of any property liable to such assessment may within thirty
days from the date of determining the amount assessed against the property
pay the same in full and his property shall not be liable for any assessments
for the cost of such improvements, and bonds as hereinafter provided for shall
be issued in the amount of the cost of such improvements remaining unpaid at
the end of the thirty days from the time such assessment is fixed.
S ection 7. For the purpose of paying for the work and improvements
in this ordinance provided for, the Board of Commissioners may hereby and
are authorized and directed to issue improvements bonds of the City of Salina,
Kansas in an amount not to exceed the cost of such improvement, and to run
for a period of four ,years and be payable in four approximately equal annual
installments, together with interest not to exceed five per cent per annum,
which bonds shall be issued and payable according to law; and for the purpose
of paying the principal and interest on said bonds as they severally become
due and payable, the Board of Commissioners shall apportion and assess against
the lots or pieces of land within the taxing district of such improvements,
special assessments covering the cost of such improvement and apportionment
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therein contained shall hold good for all of the installments that are to be
collected from the specific property chargeable with such improvements, such
assessment and apportionment ordinance shall c mtain the total amount of
tax apportioned to each tract, piece or parcel of land within the taxing dis-
trict 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 certified, certify to the County Clerk of Saline County,
Kansas, a full list of all property liable for such work and improvements,
together with the respective numbered amounts due on each of said tracts,
piece or parcel of land, which amounts shall include the annual installments
and interest on all unpaid balances for one year at the rate of not to exceed
five per cent per annum, on such amounts so certifidd, which shall be collected
as other taxes are collected.
Section 8. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and
after its publication once in the official city paper.
Introduced: April 25, 1949
Passed: ,�ay 9, 1949
My or
ATTEST:
W4 Red- I M W., 17
City Cler
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