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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 t 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 1