HomeMy WebLinkAbout041 - 10/03/1963 - APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF $500 000 FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1963 FOR WATER WORKS IMPROVEMENT AND BETTERMEN ORDINANCE NO 41 1963
APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($500 000 00)
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1963 FOR WATER WORKS IMPROVEMENT AND BETTERMENT
WHEREAS it is necessary that the City of Fort Collins immediately
acquire additional reservoir facilities for its municipal water works system
and
WHEREAS the engineers engaged by the City for this purpose are ready
for the letting of contracts in connection therewith, and
WHEREAS, the budget for the year 1963 does not include an item for
this expenditure and
MEEREAS, the actual necessity to meet the expenses incident to such
improvement and betterment of the municipal water works system has arisen from
an unforeseen contingency arising after the passage of the annual appropriation
ordinance, and
WHEREAS, Section 8 of Chapter 5 of the City Charter provides that the
City Council may provide by ordinance for the payment of any expense, the actual
necessity of which is caused by any unforeseen contingency arising after the
passage of the annual appropriation ordinance, and
WHEREAS there are adequate funds to meet this expense in the reserve
for depreciation fund of the division of Electric Light and Power of the Depart-
ment of Municipal Public Utilities
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS
Section 1 That there be and there is hereby appropriated for the
improvement and betterment of the municipal water works system and primarily
for the expenses incident to the acquiring of additional reservoir facilities
the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500 000 00)
Section 2 Said sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500 000 00)
is hereby transferred out of the reserve for depreciation fund of the division
of Electric Light and Power of the Department of Municipal Public Utilities into
the general fund of the City of Fort Collins
Section 3 In the opinion of the City Council an emergency exists
for the actual preservation of the public peace/ health, safety or property, and
this Ordinance shall take effect upon its passage under and by virtue of the
authority contained in Sections 6 and 7 of Article 2 of the Charter of the City
of Fort Collins
Introduced read at length and adopted by the unanimous vote of all
members of the City Council at a regular meeting held this 3rd day of October
A D 1963
Mayor
ATTEST
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STATE OF COLORADO )
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COUNTY OF LARIMER )
I, MILES F HOUSE, City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins, Colorado,
do hereby certify and declare that the aforesaid Ordinance, consisting of three
sections, was duly proposed and read at length at a regular meeting of the City
Council, held on the 3rd day of October, A D 1963, and was duly adopted and
ordered published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, a daily newspaper and official
newspaper of the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, by the unanimous vote of all
members of the City Council, as an Emergency Ordinance, in accordance with the
provisions of Section 6 and 7 of Article II of the City Charter, and thereafter
and on, to-wit the 8th day of October, A D 1963, said Ordinance No 41
was duly published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, a daily newspaper published
in the City of Fort Collins, Colorado
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal
of said City, this 8th day of October, A D 1963
� City Clerk