HomeMy WebLinkAbout021 - 09/03/1917 - RELATING TO AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE RENEWAL AND RECONSTRUCTION OF WATER MAINS AND CONNECTIONS WITH ORDINANCE NO a 1917
RELATING TO AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE RENEWAL AND RECONSTRUCTION
OF WATER MAINS AND CONNECTIONS WITH HYDRAITS IN WHAT IS -
KNOWN AS CONSOLIDATED IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO 5 OF THE CITY
OF FORT COLLINS COLORADO, AND PROVIDING FOR THE PAY11ENT OF
THE SAbTE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
Section 1 Since the passage and adoption of the appro-
priation ordinance for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1917,
and since the passage and adoption of Ordinance No 10, 1917,
relating to an appropriation for the renewal and reconstruction
of water mains and connections with hydrants in what is to be
known as CONSOLIDATED IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO 5 of the City of
Fort Collins Colorado, and providing for the payment of the
same wherein the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000) was
appropriated, an emergency has arisen whereby it has become
necessary to provide an additional appropriation for the com-
pletion of the reconstruction of water mains, connections and
hydrants in connection vritn the water works system of the City
of Fort Collins within what is to be known as the Consolidated
Improvement District No 5 in the City of Fort Collins by
reason of the petition and ordering of the permanent paving of
said district, and which requirement is an unforeseen contingency
arising since the passage of said annual appropriation ordinance
and in the opinion of the City Council it is absolutely necessary
to carry forward said improvement to construct said improvements.
in said Consolidated Improvement District No 5 and to insure
the safety and protection of the water system of said city to
the inhabitants thereof that said water mains be so replaced and
reconstructed
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Section 2 That there be and hereby is appropriated
oat of the revenues of the dater Works Fund of the City of
Fort Collins t"ie sum of "-
Dollars to be used by the Department of Public
Works for the purpose of purchasing pipe and reconstructing the
water mains in what is to be known as Consolidated Improvement
District No 5, in accordance with the plans and recommendations
of the Commissioner of Public Works heretofore adopted by the
City Council, and for the purpose of insuring the safety and
protection of the water supply of said city within the limits
of said Consolidated Improvement District No 5 and that the
funds so appropriated be and are hereby known and designated
as the "Special Water Works Improvement Fund " and all warrants
drawn for the payment of material and labor in the construction
of said improvement shall so designate upon their face, and in
the event t`ie revenues for the fiscal year ending December 31,
1917, are insufficient to pay and redeem said warrants then
said warrants shall draw interest at the rate of six per cent
per annum and be payable out of the appropriation for the fiscal
year ending December 31, 1918
Section 3 This ordinance is hereby declared to be an
emergency ordinance under and by virtue of the provisions of
Section 13 , of Article XX of the Charter, as being necessary
for the preservation and safety of public property, and it is
further certified and declared by the City Council that it is
necessary for this ordinance to be passed finally upon the date
when it was introduced by reason of the emergency for the
preservation of the public health and safety and under and in
pursuance of the authority contained in Sections 6 and 7 of
Article IV of the City Charter
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Introduced, passed and adopted this �fLtLy of
September, A D 1917
Commissioner of Safety and Ex-
ATTESTi.J Officio Mayor
City Clerk
STATE OF COLORADO, )
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COUNTY OF LARIMER )
I, Ray Baxter, City Clerk of the City of Fort
Collins do hereby certify and declare that the foregoing
ordinance, consisting of three (3) sections, was duly intro-
duced and read at length at a regular meeting of the City
Council held on the .3� day of i;k, 1917, and was duly
passed and adopted by an Aye and Nay vote of all the members
of the City Council at said regular meeting and ordered
published in the Fort Collins Courier, a daily newspaper of
the City of Fort Collins, in accordance with the provisions
of Section 7 of Article IV of the City Charter, and that
thereafter and on the 4q-day of September 1917, said
Ordinance No ;�, j as passed and adopted was duly published
in t'-ie Fort Collins Courier, a daily newspaper published in
said City of Fort Collins, Colorado
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my nand
this T, say of September, A D 1917
City Clerk