3213 Improving 10th StreetAN ORDINANCE providing for the excavating and grading and for the gravelling
with sand clay type surface of Tenth Street in the City of Salina,
Kansas from the north line of L nco n Avenue to the south line
of Grand Avenue in said City, and providing for the cost thereof,
how the same shall be assessed and the manner of payment therefor.
WHEREAS, by resolution duly adopted on the 14th day of December 1925,
the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina,.Kansas, have declared
that they deem it necessary to gravel Tenth Street in the City of Salina,
Kansas, from the north line of Lincoln Avenue to the south line of Grand
Avenue in said City, and
WHEREAS, said resolution was published for six days in The Salina
Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Salina, the official
City paper of said City, and
WHEREAS, the majority of the resident property owners owning a majority
of square feet of the lots or real estate liable to taxation for the cost
of said improvement did not within twenty days from the date of the last
publication of such resolution file with the City Clerk of said. City their
protest in writing against such improvement or the making thereof, NOW
THEREFORE:
Section 1. That it is necessary and it is hereby ordered that
Tenth Street in the City of Salina, Kansas, from the north line of Lincoln
Avenue to the south line of Grand Avenue in said City, be excavated and
graded, and gravelled with sand -clay type surface according to the specifi-
cations of the City Engineer of said City hereinafter provided for, for a
width of 31 feet, the same being the distance between the present curb and
gutter on each side of said street as now installed.
Section 2. That for the work and improvement herein provided for
the City Engineer shall make and file with the City Clerk on or before the
'1st day of March 1926 complete plans and specifications for the gravelling
of said street with sand clay type surface as aforesaid the same to be 7
inches deep and that on or before said date said City Engineer shall sub-
mit to the Board of Commissioners under oath detailed estimates of the cost
of such gravelling of said street with the kind of material mentioned, and
the excavation and grading necessary for the completion of such work.
Section 3. That after such plans and specifications shall have
been made.and prepared by the City Engineer and filed with the City Clerk
as aforesaid, the Board of Commissioners may advertise, by advertisement
published in the official City paper for the City of Salina, Kansas for
six consecutive days for the receipt of sealed proposals for the gravelling
of said street with the kind of material named and specified in the preced-
ing section hereof, and for the excavating and grading necessary for the
completion of such work, and after the receipt of such proposals the said
Board of Commissioners may and are hereby authorized to let contracts for the
gravelling of said street with the material so selected to the lowest respon-
sible bidder therefor, as determined by said Board of Commissioners for the
kind and character of gravelling which shall be determined upon by said
Board of Commissioners, and for such excavating and grading. Said Board
of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids.
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Section 4. That for such improvements special assessments shall
be made for the full cost thereof -on the one block to be improved on
all lots and pieces of land to the center of the block on either side
of the street according to the appraisers value thereof, without re -
Bard to the buildings or improvements thereon for the distance to be
improved.
Section 5. After the passage and publication of this ordin-
ance the Board of Commissioners shall appoint three disinterested
appraisers, householders, who after having taken an oath to make a
true and impartial appraisement of all lots and pieces of land liable
to assessments and taxation for the cost of the improvements herein
provided for, shall within five days after having been notified of
their appointment to appraise said lots and pieces of land liable to
assessment and taxation as aforesaid as may be designated by the
Board of Commissioners of said City, without.regard to the buildings
or improvements thereon, and after making said appriasment shall
return the same to the Board of Commissioners of said City and said
Board of Commissioners shall designate a time for holding a special
session of such Board for the purpose of hearing any complaints that
may be made as to the value of any lots or pieces of land appraised
due notice shall be given in the official City paper at which session
as aforesaidr, of which special session/the Board of 60mmissioners 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 6. For the purpose of paying for the work and improve-
ments in this ordinance provided for the -Board of Commissioners are
hereby authorized.and directed to issue internal improvement bonds of
the City of Salina in an amount not to exceed the contract price of
such improvements and to run for a period of ten years and be payable
in ten equal installments, together with interest not to exceed 6% per
annum, which bonds shall be made payable at the fiscal agency of the
State of Kansas,• and for the purpose of paying principal and interest
on said bonds as they severally become due and payable the Board of
Commissioners shall apportion and assdss against the lots and pieces
of land within the taxing district of such improvements special assess-
ments covering the cost of such improvements and the apportionment
therein contained shall hold good for all the installments that are
to be collected from the specific property chargeable with said im-
provements. Such assessment and apportionment ordinance shall contain
the total amount of tax _p portioned to each tract, piece and parcel
of land within the taxing district 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 respect-
ive amounts due on each of said.tracts, pieces and parcels o£,land, which
amounts shall include the annual installments and interest on all unpaid
balances for one year at the rate of not to excedd 5% per annum, on such
amounts so certified which shall be collected as other taxes are collected;
PROVIDED, that for the purpose of defraying the cost of improving the
intersections and areas formed by the crossing of streets and alleys, as
well as where the improvement is through or adjacent to property of the
City for which the City would be liable the assessment w111 be made agd nst
all taxable property of the City and paid by the City at large.
Section 7.• This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force
from and after its publication once in the official City paper.
Introduced for first reading, January 25th, 1926.
Passed and approved---------- February 1st, 1926.
J. S. HARGETT
Mayor.
Attest:
CHAS. E. BANKER
city Ulerk.
STATE OF KANSAS )
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UOUNTY (F SALINE)
I, Chas. 8. Banker, City Clerk of the City of Salina,
Kansas, do hereby certify that the above'and foregoing is a true and
correct copy of Ordinance No.3213 passed and approved by the Board
of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Kansas, February lst,.1926
,,dnd a.record of the vote on its final adoption is found on page l�
of Journal No. 11.
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(Published in The Salina Journal ,?�a_ d -,:;�L 1926)
ORDINANCE NO. 3213.
AN ORDINANCE providing for the excavating and grading and for the
gravelling with sand clay type surface of Tenth Street
in the City of Salina, Kansas from the norTR-jjne of'-
Lincoln Avenue to the south line of Grand Avenue in
said City, and providing for the cost'thereofrµ how the
same shall be assessed and the manner of payment therefor.
WHEREAS by resolution duly adopted on'the 14th day of December
1925, the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Kansas, have
declared that they deem it necessary to gravel Tenth Street in the
--City of Salina Kansas, from the north line of Lincoln Avenue to the
south line of Brand Avenue in said City, and
WHEREAS, said resolution was published for six days in The
Salina Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Salina,
the offlficial City paper of said City, and
WHEREAS', the majority of the resident property owners owning a
majority of square feet of the lots or real estate liable to taxation
for the cost of said improvement did not within twenty days from the
date of the last publication of such resolution file with the City
Clerk of said City their protest in writing against such improvement
or the making thereof, NOW THEREFORE;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMAISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF SALINA,
KANSAS:
Section 1. Thab it is necessary and it is hereby ordered that
Tenth Street in the City of Salina, Kansas, from the north line of
Lincoln Avenue to the south line of Grand Avenue in said City, be
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_'Lsxeavated and graddd, and gravelled with sand -clay type surface
according to the specifications of the City Engineer of said City
hereinafter provided for, fora width of 31 feet, the same being
the distanee.between the present curb and gutter on each side of
said street as now installed.
Section 2. That for the work and improvement herein
provided for the City Engineer shall snake and (file with the City Clerk
on or before the 1st day of March 1926 eompleteeplans and specifications
for the gravelling,of said street with sand clay type.surface as
aforesaid the same to be 7 inches deell and that on or before said
date said City Engineer shall submit to the Board of Commissioners
under oath detailed estimates of the cost of such gravelling of said
street with the kind of material mentioned, and the excavation and.
grading necessary for the completion of such work.
Section 3. That after such plans and specifications shall have
been made and prepared by the City Engineer and filed with the City Clerk
as aforesaid, the Board of Commissioners may advertise, by advertisement
published in the official City paper for the City of Selina, Kansas
for six consecutive days for the receipt of sealed proposals for the
gravelling of said street•with the kind of material named and specified
in the preceding section hereof, and fob the excavating and grading
necessary for the completion of such work, and after the receipt of such
proposals the said Board of Commissioners may and are hereby authorized
to let contracts for the gravelling df said street with the material
so selected to the lowest responsible bidder therefor, as dete mined
by said Board of Commissioners for the kind and character of graveling
which shall be determined upon by said Board of Commissioners, and
for such excavating and grading. Said Board of Commissioners reserve
the right to reject any end all bids.
Section 4. That for such improvements special assessments shall
be made for the full cost thereof on the one block to be improved
on all lots and pieces of land to the center of the block on either
side of the street according to the appraisers value thereof, without
regard to the buildings or ijiprovements thereon for the distance to
be improved.
Section 5. After the passage and publication of this ordinace
the Board of Commissioners shall appoint theee disinterested appraisers;
householders, who after havinttaken an oath to make a tree and impartial
appraisement of all lots and pieces of land liable to assessment and
taxation for the cost of the improvements herein provided for, shall
within five days after having been notified of their appointment to appraise
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said lots and pieces of lend liable to assessment and taxation
as aforesaid as may be designated by the Board of Commissioners
of -said City, without regard to the.buildings or improvements
thereon; and after making said appraisement shall return the
same to the Board of Commissioners of said City and said Board
of Commissioners shall designate a time for holding a special
session of such Board for the purpose of hearing any complaints
that may be made as to the value of any lots or pieces of land
appraised as aforesaid, of which special session due notice shall
be given in the official City, paper, at which special session
the Board of Commissioners may alter any valuation of any lot
or pice of land if, in their opinion, the same has been appraised
too high or too low.
Sectioni For the purpose of paying for the work and
improvements in this ordnance provided for the Board of Commis-
sioners arc hereby authorized tnd directed to issue internal
improvement bonds of the City of Salina in an amount not to
exceed the contract price of such improvements and to run for
a period of ten years and be payable in ten equal installments,
together with interest not to exceed 5% per annum, which bonds
shall be made payable at the fiscal agency of the State of Kan-
sas; and for the purpose of paying principal and interest on
said bonds as -they severally become due and payable the Board of
Commissioners shall apportion and assess against the lots and
Pieced of land within the taxing district of such improvements•
spEcial assessments covering the cost of such improvements and
the a pportiohmentItherein contained shall hold good for all the
installments that are to be collected from the specific property
chargeable with said improvements. Such assessment and appor-
tionment ordinance shall contain the total amount of tax opporticn,_
to each tract, piece and parsel of land within the taxing distrlc
and shall state the number of annual installments in which sy-h-
tax is to be collected; and thereafter the City Clerk shall
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annually, at the same time other tares 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 bf.said tracts, pieces and
parcels of land, which amounts shall include the'annual install-
ments and interest on all unpaid balances for one year at the
rate of not to exceed 5% per annum, on such amounts so certified
whcih shall be collected as other taxes are collected; PROVIDED,
that for the purpose of defraying the cost of improving the
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intersections and areas formed by the crossing of streets and
alleys, as well as where the improvement is through or adjacent
to property of the City for which the City would be liable the
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assessment will be made against all taxable
Property of the
City and paid by the City at large,
Section This ordinance shall take effect and be in
full force from and after its publication once in the official
City paper,
Introduced for first reading, January 25th, 1926
Passed and approved --------- rlebruary 1st, 1926
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Attest:
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