HomeMy WebLinkAbout1223ORDINANCE NO. I2,3
AN ORJINA TCE stating the facts of an emergency affecting
the public health, peace and safety of the City of Port Angeles;
requiring the unforeseen expenditure of funds; providing for '6iie
issuance of emergency warrants and declaring an emergency.
THE CITY COT;u,'.ISSION OF 'l iE CITY Or PORT A •,a2 LES ,DOES
.0:1.JAIL as follows:
Section 1. That by reason of unforeseen and unexpected
and unusually violent discharge of flood waters over, across and
upon the premises known as the Ocean View Cemetery and owned and
operated as a cemetery and burial ground by the City of Port Angeles,
said premises have been seriously damaged by said flood waters
suddenly and rapidly eroding and greatly deepening and widening
a certain gully or water course running through said premises and
cemetery. That such erosion and crashing away of soil has progressed
to an extent where portions of said cemetery heretofore used as a
burial ground and having graves therein containing bodies has been
damaged, is now being damaged and will in the future be further
damaged unless immediate steps are taken to control such flood
waters and halt such erosion. That by reason of such flooding,
(erosion and damage it has been necessary for the City of Port
Angeles to exhume and remove numerous bodies from the area so
eroded, flooded and damaged to other locations, and that it is fur-
ther necessary, in order to stop such flooding, erosion and damage,
Ito construct a suitable drain of concrete pipe in the gully or water
course crossing said cemetery premises to safely conduct and drain
away the flood waters cast into said Fully in such manner that said
waters will cause no further damage or erosion.
That the cost of said operation is the sum of approxi-
mately 0,000.00, of which sum •4,000.00 is in excess of any funds
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now available in the budget of the City of k'ort Angeles. That such
damage and erosion,and the full extent of the flood waters, and the
magnitude of the damage caused thereby, and the cost of repairing
such damage and erecting suitable works to prevent further damage
could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of making and
preparing the budget for the City of Port Angeles for the year
1950. That the amount provided in said budget and the various
funds thereof was not sufficient to meet the expenses of repairing
the damage caused by such floodinu and erosion and to control fur-
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Lther damage therefrom. That the amount required to meet such ex-
penses in excess of the funds available in said budget is the sum
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of y4,000.00.
Section 2. That the expenditures to be made in excess of
the funds provided in the budget of the City of Port Angeles for
1950 for the above purposes are for the protection and preserve.-
tion of the public health, peace and safety of the inhabitants of
the City of Port Angeles.
Section 3. That by reason of the facts above stated an
emergency exists which requires the issuance of emergency warrants
provide for said expenditures in the sum of ?4,000.00. gnat
such emergency warrants shall be paid from any moneys on hand in
the treasury of the City of Pori Angeles, properly chargeable with
such expenditures, and the Iayor and City Clerk are hereby author -
0.zed to execute, in and deliver and the City Treasurer to pay
'such emergency warrants on and from such funds.
Section 4. That the amount of such emergency warrants
'shall be included and provided for in the annual budget of the City.
of Port Angeles for the year 1951, and such budget shall include
tax levies sufficient to reimburse the fund or funds out of which
, such emergency warrants are paid.
Section 5. That this ordinance is necessary and urgent
for the preservation and protection of the public peace, health and
safety of the people of the City of Port Angeles, that an emergency
exists, and this ordinance shall take effect and be in force immed-
iately upon its passage, approval and publication in the manner
provided by law.
Passed first reading by the City Commission F-�
'1950.
Passed second reading by the City Commission 7_e
1950 .
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' Passed third and final reading and adopted by the City
Commission 1950.
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Approved and signed by the Mayor 4,z�4. _ 6 , 1950.
. City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM: