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ORDINANCE NO. 1:05/5/
AN ORDINANCE stating the facts of an emergency affecting
the public safety, welfare and convenience of the City of Port
Angeles; requiring the unforeseen expenditure of funds; providing
for the issuance of emergency warrants, and declaring an emergency.
THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF PORT ANGELES DOES ORDAIN
as follows:
Section 1. That by reason of unexpected, unforeseen and
unusually severe winter weather and storm conditions during the
winters of 1949 and 1950, and 1950 and 1951, that certain thorough-
fare known as the Ediz Hook Road, being and situate upon Ediz Hook
in and in front of the City of Port Angeles, has been severely
damaged and partially destroyed. That the City of Port Angeles is
under contractual obligation to the United States government to
maintain said thoroughfare, and that certain industries situated
under
along said thoroughfare are /contractual obligation to the City of
Port Angeles to maintain the same. That it is necessary for the
public safety, welfare and convenience of the City of Port Angeles
that said thoroughfare be rebuilt and that certain engineering
works be erected to protect the same against damage from the sea
in stormy weather. That those certain industries under contractual
obligation to the City of Port Angeles have provided and paid to
said City certain funds to be used in the repair and reconstruction
of said thoroughfare, which funds are sufficient to meet a portion
of the cost thereof but are not budgeted in the budget of the City
of Port Angeles for the year 1951. That the cost of repairing and
'reconstructing such thoroughfare and providing the engineering
'works for the protection thereof is in excess of the funds so con-
tributed, and that it is necessary that the City of Port Angeles
.provide additional funds for such purpose.
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Section 2. That the cost of repairing and reconstructing
such thoroughfare and providing the engineering works for the pro-
tection thereof is the sum of 018,500.00, all of which sum is in
excess of any funds now available in the budget of the City of
Port Angeles. That there are no funds provided in such budget and
the various funds thereof to meet the expenses of repairing and re-
constructing such thoroughfare and building the engineering works
necessary for the protection thereof.
Section 3. That the expenditures to be made in excess of
the funds provided in the budget of the City of Port Angeles for
the year 1951 for the above purposes are for the protection and
preservation of the public welfare, safety and convenience of the
inhabitants of the City of Port Angeles and could not reasonably
have been foreseen at the time of the preparation and adoption of
the budget of said city for the year 1951.
Section 4. That by reason of the facts above stated an
emergency exists which requires the issuance of emergency warrants
to provide for the expenses of so repairing and reconstructing such
thoroughfare and building the engineering works necessary for the
protection thereof in the sum of $18,500.00. That such emergency
warrants shall be paid from the monies contributed and provided to
the City of Port Angeles by the various industries situated along
such thoroughfare and under contractual obligation to the City of
Port Angeles to repair and maintain such thoroughfare and any other
monies on hand in the treasury of the City of Port Angeles, properly
chargeable with such expenditures, and the Mayor and City Clerk
are hereby authorized to execute, sign and deliver and the City
Treasurer to pay such emergency warrants on and from such fund.
Section 5. 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 1952, and such budget shall include tax
,levies sufficient to reimburse any fund or funds other than those
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.City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
contributed to the City of Port Angeles as above stated from which
such emergency warrants or any of them shall be paid.
Section 6. That this ordinance is necessary and urgent for
the preservation of the public safety, welfare and convenience of
the people of the City of Port Angeles, that an emergency exists,
and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately
upon its passage, approval and publication in the manner provided
by law.
PASSED first reading by the City Commission February /9
1951.
PASSED second reading by the City Commission February / ?,
1951.
PASSED third and final reading and adopted by the City
Commission 5r A 6 , 1951.
APPROVED and signe by the Mayor , 11-.4 , 1951.
ATTEST:
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City Attorney
Mayor