3238 Improving Ash Streetw ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE providing for the curbing, guttering, excavating, grading
and gravelling of Ash Street in the City of Salina, Kansas
from: the west line oT__fIie right-of-way of the Missouri
Pacific Railway Company to the east line of Olkve Street
in said City;) and providing for the cost thereof, how the
same shall be assessed and the manner of payment therefor.
'WHEREAS, by resolution dg,ly adopted on the 8th day of March 1926
the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina.. Kansas, have declared
that they deem it necessary to curb, gutter, excavate, grade and gravel
Ash Street in the City of Salina, Kansas from the west line of the rigs
of way of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company to the east line of Olive
Street 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,aming a
majority in squAre feet of the lots or real estate liable to taxation
for the cost of said improvements did not within twenty days from the
dqte of the last publication of such resolution file with the City Cler3
of said City their protest in writing against such improvements or
the making thereof, NOW THEREFORE:
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina,
Kansas:
Section 1. That it is necessary and it is hereby ordered that
Ash Street in the City of Salina, Kansas, from the west line of the
right-of-way of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company to the east -line.
of Olive Street in said City be curbed and guttered with such material
as the Board of Commissioners may hereafter designate and select, as
hereinafter provided for according to the specifications of the City
Engineer of the City. of Salina as hereinafter provided for, and that
said street within the limits above defined be excavated and graded to
such extent as may be necessary for the completion of said work, and th;
at the intersections of streets and alleys such curbing and guttering
shall be carried back to -the lot line of the street so improved, the
distance between the curbing on each side pf said street to be 40 feet
from face to face of curb.
Section 2. That it is necessary and it is hereby ordered that
Ash Street in the City of Salina, Kansas from the west line of the
right-of-way of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company to the east line
of Olive Street in said City be gravelled with such material as the+.
Board of Commissioners may hereafter designate and select, as here-
inafter provided for according to the plans and specificationsof,
the City Engineer of said City hereinafter provided for and that said
street within the limits above mentioned be excavated and graded to the
extent necessary for the completion of such work according to suEah
specifications and that at the intersection of streets and alleys said
gravelling be carried back to the lot line of the street so improved.
aaid street shall be gravelled for a width of 40 feet, excluding curb
and gutter, which are provided for herein.
Section 3. For the work and improvement herein provided for the City
Engineer shall make and file with the City Clerk on or before the 10th day
of May 1926, complete plans and specifications for the curbing and guttering
and for the gravelling of said street with the following materials:
CURBING AND GUTTERING:
Combined curb and gutteriPortland CemenbnConerete) from back of curb to
paving line 30 inches. Curb to be 6 inches at.top, 7 inches at bottom.
GRAVELLING:
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To be of sand clay type surface and to be 7 inches deep.
and that on or before the same last named date the City Engineer o" said
City shall submit to the Board of Commissioners, under oath, detailed es-
timates of the cost of such curbing, guttering and gravelling, including the
excavation and grading necessary therefor with the different kinds of.materi
herein mentioiwd.
Section 4. That after such plans and specifications shall have been
made and prepared by the City Engineer and filed with the City Clerk as afor
said the Board of Commissi m ers may advertise, by advertisement published
in the official City paper of the City of Salina, Kansas for three consecut-
ive days for the receipt of sealed proposals for the construction of such
improvements, and after the receipt of such proposals the said Board of
Commissioners may and are hereby authorized to let contracts for the improv-
ing of said street with the material so selected to the lowest responsible
bidder therefor, as determined by said Board of Commissioners, which kind
and character of curbing and guttering and gravelling shall be determined
by said Board of Commissioners, and for such excavating and grading. Said
Board of Commissioners reserve the right to reject any and all bids.
Section 5. That for improving the above mentioned street special
assessment shall be made for the full cost thereof on each block separately
on ail lots or 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 improvements thereon for the distance to be improved.
Section 6. After the passage and publication of this ordinance
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 assessment and tax-
ation for the cost of the improvements herein provided for, shall within
Hive days after having been notified of their appointment proceed 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 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 complaint
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 piece of land Lf, in thibir opinion
the same ha"s been appraised too high m too low.
Section 7. For the purpose of spaying for the work and improvement
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 for such improve
ments and to run for a period of five years and be payable in five equal
installments, together with interest not to exceed 5% per cent per
annum which bonds shall be made payable at the fiscal agency of the
State of Kansas; and for the purpose of paving 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 pieces of
land within the taxing district of such improvements special assessments
covering the cost of such improvements and the apportionment therein
contained shall hold gooa for all the installments that are to be
collected from the specific property chargeable with -said improvement.
Such assessment and apportionment ordinanve shall contain the total
amount of tac apportioned 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 proprty
liable for such work and improvements, together with the respective''
amounts due on each of said tracts, piece and 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 5% per annum, on such
amounts so certified which s hall be collected as other taxes are collect
ed; Provided that for the purpose of defraying the cost of improving
phe intersections and areas formed by the crossing of streets and alley§
as well as where the improvement is through or adjacent to property
of the City, for which the Cityowould be liable, the assessment will
be made against all taxabii property of the City and paid by the City
at large.
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Section B. 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, April 12th, 1926.
Passed and approved -----------April 19th, 192§.
GUY T. HELVBRING.
Mayor.
Attest:
Chas. E. B nker
I y lerk.
STATE OF KANSAS )
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COUNTY OF SALINE)
I,.Chas. E. 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. 3288, passed and approved by the Board of Comm-
issioners of the City of Salina, Kansas, April 19th, 1926., and a
recordof the vote on its final adoption is found on page of
Journal No. 11.
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(Published in The Salina Hourntl c-!1926)
ORDINANCE No. 3238
AN ORDINANCE providing for the curbing, guttering, excavating,
grading and gravelling of Ash Street in the,C,ity of
Salina, Kansas from the west— ne o£ -the right-of-way
of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company to the east
line of Olive Street in said City; and providing for
the cost thereof, how the same shall be assessed and
the manner of payment therefor.
6;THEREAS, by resolution duly adopted on the 8th day of March
1926 the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Kansas, have
declared that they deem it necessary to curb, gutter, excavate, grade
and gravel Ash Street in the City of Salina, Kansas from the west line
of the right-of-way of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company to the
east line of Olive Street in said City; and
WHEBEAS, said resolution was published for six days in The
Salina Journ 1, a daily newspaper published in the City of Salina, the
official CitJ paper of said City; and
WHEREAS, the majority of the resident property owners, owning
a majority in square feet of the lots or real estate liable to tax-
ation for the cost of said improvements 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
improvements or the making thereof, NOW THEREFORE:
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina,
Kansas:
Section 1. That it is necessary and it is hereby ordered
that Ash Street in the City of Salina, Kansas, from the west line of
the riglit-of-way of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company to the east
line of Clive Street in said city be curbed and guttered with such
material as the Board of Commissioners may hereafter designate and
select, as hereinafter provided for according to the specifications
of the City Engineer of the City of Salina as hereinafter provided
for, and that said street within the limits above defined be excavated
and graded to such extent as may be necessary for the completion of
said work, and that at the intersections of streets and alleys such
curbing and guttering shall be carried back to the lot line of t*e
street so improved, the distance between the curbing on each side of
said street to be Lir feet from face to face of curb.
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Section 2. That it is necessafy and it is hereby ordered that
Ash Street in the City of Salina, Kansas from the west line of the
right- of -way of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company to the east
line of Olive Street in sa,id:City be gravelled with such material as
the Board of Commissioners may herehfter designate and select, as
hereinafter provided for according to the plans and specifications of
the City Engineer of said City hereinafter provided for and that said
street within the limits above menticned be excavated and graded to
the extent necessary for the completion of such work according to such
specifications and that at the intersection of streets and alleys said
gravelling be carried back to the lot line of the street so improved.
Said street shall be ®ravelled for a width of 11-67 - feet , excluding
curb and gutter, which are provided for herein.
Section 3. For the work and improvement herein provided for
the City Engineer shall make and file with the City Clerk on or before
the 110 day of ngav 1926, complete plans and speci-
fications for the curbing and guttering and for the gravelling of said
street with the following materials:
CURBING AND GUTTERING:
Combined curb and gutter (Portland Cement Concrete) from back of
curb to paving line 30 inches. Curb to be 6 inches at top, 7 inches
at bottom.
Gravelling
To be of sand clay type surface and to be efx inches deep.
and that on or before the same last named date the City Engineer of said
City shall submit to the Board of Commissioners, under oath, detailed
estimates of the cost of such curbing, guttering and gravelling, in-
cluding the excavation and grading necessary therefor with the differ-
ent kinds of material herein mentioned.
Section 6. That after such plans and specifications shall
have been made and prepared by the City Engineer and filed with the
City Clerk as agoresaid the Board of Commissioners may advertise, by
advertisement published in the official City paper of the City of
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Salina, Kansas for reix consecutive days for the receipt of sealed
proposals for the eu-rbing-and-gutteri�g-of said--st*eet-with-fihe
kind-o€--material-.named and specified i,n_the--preeediWg sectTdfI -
hereof; arn-i� f6r-the^'excavation-and-g-rgdd:ng-necessarg for the com-
pletion of such-curbi-ng--and-<guttering,,-and-for-the-gravelling o f
said--street-wi-th�the.,kind�of-.material named--and-specified herein-
tbefor'e, and after the receipt of such proposals the said Board of
Commissioners may and are hereby authorized to let contracts for the
improving of said street with the material so selected to the lowest
responsible bidder therefor, as determined by said Board of Comm-
issiorm rs, which kind and character of curbing and guttering and
gravelling shall be determined by said Board of Commissioners,
and for such excavating and grading. ,Said Board of Commissioners
reserve the right to reject any and all bids.
Section 5. That for improving the above mentioned street
special assessment shall be made for the full cost thereof on each
block separately on all lots or pieces of land to the center of the
block ba either side of the street according to the appraisers value
thereof, without regard to the buildings or improvements thereon
for the distance to be improved.
Section 61 After the passage and publication of this ordinance
the Board of Commissioners shall appoint three disinterested appraisers,
householders, who after having taken an oath to make a true and im-
partial appraisement of all lots and pieces of land liable to assess-
ment and taxation for the cost of the improvements herein provided for,
shall within five days after having been notified of their appointment
proceed to appraise said lots and pieces of land liable to assessment
and taxation as aforesaid as may be designated by the Board of Comm-
issioners of said City, without regard to the buildings or improve
ments thereon, and after making said appraisement shall return the
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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 piece of land if, in their opinion, the same
has been appy ed too high or too low.
Section 7. For the purpose of paying for the work and impruve-
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 theme contract price
for such improvements and to run for a period of years and be payable
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in equal installments, together with interest not to exceed _
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 assess against the lots and pieces of
land within the.taxiiN district of such improvements special assessments
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 improvement.
Such assessment and apportiomemt ordinance shall contain the total amount
of tax apportioned 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 9)f all property liable
for such work and improvements, together with the respective amounts
due on each of said tracts, pieces and parcels of land, which amounts
shall include the annual installments and interest on all unpaid
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balances for one year at the rate of not to exceed �J" per annum,
cn 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 will be made against all taxable property of the City
and paid by the City at large.
Section 8. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full
force from and after its publication once in the official City paper.
Introduced for first reaUgg, April 12, 19260
Passed and approved -----------April 19, 1926.
ayor.
Attest:
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