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ORDINANCE NO. %i if g
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 and unforeseen
acts of certain aggressor nations there has arisen unanticipated
danger to the civilian population of the United States of America
in general and of the City of Port Angeles in particular of injury
and destruction by attack and acts of war in general and air bom-
bardment in particular. That the government of the United States
of America, in order to protect the civilian population of the na-
tion from such injury and destruction and to guard against,remedy
and offset the effects of such attacks, in so far as possible, has
adopted a program of civil defense, which program calls for aid,
assistance and cooperation, both financial and otherwise, by local
governments in general and the governments of cities in particular.
,That in order to carry out its share of such civil defense program
the City of Port Angeles will be compelled to expend funds which
have not been provided for in the budget for the year 1951.
Section 2. That the cost of such civil defense program to
the City of Port Angeles is the sum of $5,000.00, all of which sum
is in excess of any funds now available in the budget of the City
of Port Angeles for the year 1951. That there are no funds provided
in such budget which may be expended for such civil defense program.,
and that the entire amount to be expended on such program is there-
fore in excess of such budget and the various funds thereof.
Section 3. That the expenditures to be made in such pro-
gram of civil defense are for the protection and preservation of
i the public welfare, health, safety and convenience of the i nhabi-
tants 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 cost and expense of such program of civil de-
fense in the amount of $5,000.00. That such emergency warrants
shall be paid from any 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 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, health, welfare and conven-
ience of the people of the City of Port Angeles, that an emergency
exists, and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immed-
iately upon its passage, approval and publication in the manner
provided by law.
PASSED first reading by the City Commission February /..V,
1951.
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PASSED second reading by the City Commission February /..! ,
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PASSED third and final reading and adopted by the City
Commission February / 9', 1951.
APPROVED and signed by the Mayor February / / , 1951.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney
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Mayor
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