5322 Utility Improvements Grounds of Kansas Welseyan UniversityORDINAJACE NuuBER 5322
(Published in the Salina Journal
1948)
AN ORDINANCE creating and defining a certain lateral Sanitary Sewer District
in the City of Salina, Kansas, designated as Lateral Sanitary Sewer District
Number 231, and providing for the construction of a Lateral Sanitary Sewer
in said Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number 231, 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 con-
struction and for the issuing of bonds to pay the cost thereof.
BE IT ORDAIr1ED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Kac sas:
Section 1. Lateral Sanitary Sewer ivumber 231.
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 Lat-
eral Sanitary Sewer District Number 231 and which district shall include all
the following described property in the City of Salina, Kansas, to merit:
Lots 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35,. 37
and 39 on Ellsworth Avenue and Lots 22,
24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 40 on
Jewell Avenue, all in the Addition to the
Grounds of Kansas Wesleyan University; an
Addition to the City of Salim, Saline
County, Kansas.
Section 2. It is necessary and it is hereby ordered than an eight
inch V.C.P. lateral sanitary sevrer with all necessary connections, manholes,
flushing tanks and other appurtenances be constructed and built in and to
serve said Lateral Sanitary Sewer District Number 231 as created by Section
1 of this Ordinance along the following course, to -wit:
Beginning at an existing manhole that is
30 feet west of the east line of quinsy
Street and on the center line extended
of the alley north of Jewell Avenue;
thence west in said alley with an 8 inch
vitrified clay pipe sewer 500 feet where
a manhole is to be constructed which is
the terminus thereof.
Sec4ion 3. That the City Engineer shall on or before July 19th
1948, prepare and file in the office of the City Clerk, plans and specifications
for the construction of the lateral sanitary sewer provided for in the preced-
ing 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 Comm-
issioners a detailed estimate under oath of the cost thereof. That thereafter
the CitNT 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 or before the time fixed in such notice, at which time the
Board of Commissioners may let a contract for the building and construction of
such sewer to the lovrest and best responsible bidder or bidders therefor, if
there be any whose bid does not exceed the estimated cost thereof, but said
Board shall reserve the right to reject any or all such proposals, s.nd if no
bid shall be received with such estirate, 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 construction_ of
such sewer, special assessments shall be made for the full cost thereof on all
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lots and pieces of land within the sewer district within and for which such
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sewer shall be built, according to the appraised value thereof, without regard
to the improverients 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 lend to taxation for the cost of such improvements, shall within
five days after having been notified of their appointment proceed to appraise all
of the lots and pieces of land within such district liable to assessment and tax-
ation as aforesaid, without regard to the buildings or improvements thereon,
and after making such appraisements shall xreturn to the Board of Commissioners
of said city and said Board shall designate a time for hold:'_ng 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 appriased 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 lbt or piece of land if, in
their opinion, the same has been appraised too high or too lour.
Section 6. The special assessment herein provided for may be paid
by the person liable therefor in four approximately equal annual installments
by the of°mer of any property liable to such assessmen - 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
thirty days from the time such assessment is fixed.
Secti-r_ 7. For the purpose of paying for the work and improvements
in this ordinance provided, for the Board of Commissioners are hereby authorized
and directed to issue improvement bonds of the City of Salina in an amount not
to exceed the cost of such improvement, and to run for a period of four years
andbe payable in four approximately equal 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 princiapal and interest on
said bonds as they severally become due and payable, the Board of Commissioners
stall apportion and assess against the lots or pieces of land iiithin the tax-
ing district of such improvements, special assessments covering the cost of such
improvement and apportionment therein contained shall hold good for all of the
installments that are to be collected from the specific/ property chargeable
with such improver:,ents , such assessment and apportionment ordinance shall contain
the total amount of tax apportioned to each, tract, piece or parcel of land
within the taxing district and shall hate 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 amounts due on each of said tracts,
pieces or parcels 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 certified, which shall be collected
as other taxes are collected;
Section 8. This ordinance shall take effect e[nd Be in force from
and after its publication once in the official city paper.
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
Introduced: June 28, 1)48
Passed: July 12, 1918