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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE of. the City of Port Angeles stating the facts
of an emergency affecting the public safety, welfare and convenience
of the people of the City of Port Angeles; requiring the unforeseen
jexpenditure of funds; providing for the issuance of emergency
warrants; and declaring an emergency.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT ANGELES DOES ORDAIN
as follows:
Sectionl. That subsequent to the making and adoption of
the budget of the City of Port Angeles for the year 1952, the City
of Port Angeles has made a demand upon Clallam County Public
Utility District No. 1 for a readjustment in the rate at which
electric power is sold to said City by said Public Utility District.
That said demand was made in accord with and under the terms and
conditions of a written c ntract heretofore entered into by and be-
tween said City and said Public Utility District, by the terms of
which the City of Port Angeles is entitled to have said contract
amended to enable the City `to purchase power at a lower rate from
such District. That such demand has been refused by said Public
Utility District and that in order to provide for the enforcement
'thereof by the City of Port Angeles, it is necessary for said City
to procure and hire additional legal and engineering help and ex-
pend additional sums for legal, engineering and technical data and
various extraordinary legal, engineering and other technical costs
and expenses in connection with litigation to enforce the demand
of said City against said Public Utility District.
Section 2. That the necessity for and the cost and ex-
pense of employing such extra legal and engineering help and assist -
ance, securing and assembling such legal, engineering and other
technical data, and conducting such litigation could not reasonably
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have been foreseen and anticipated at the time of the making and
adoption of'the budget of the City of Port Angeles for the year '
1952. That such cost and expense is in the sum of X10,000.00 and
is entirely in excess of any funds provided for in the budget of
the City of Port Angeles for the year 1952, and that there are no
funds available in such budget for the payment of such cost and
expense.
Section 3. That the expenditures to be made for the
above purposes in excess of funds provided in the budget of the
City of Port Angeles for the year 1952 are for the protection and
preservation of the public welfare, safety and convenience of the
Inhabitants of the City of Port Angeles. 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 so
securing and employing additional legal and engineering help and
securing and assembling legal, engineering and other technical data
and defraying the cost and expense of such litigation to enforce
such demand on the part of the City of Port Angeles.
Section 4. That such emergency warrants shall be paid
from any monies on hand in the Treasury of the City of Port Angeles
in funds properly chargeable with such expenditures, and the City
Manager and City Clerk are hereby authorized to execute, sign and
,deliver, and the City Treasurer to pay, such emergency warrants on
and from any such funds. That the amount of such emergency warrants
shall be included and provided for in the annual budget of the City
iof Port Angeles for the year 1953. That tax ]e vies shall be in-
eluded in the budget of the City of Port Angeles for the year 1953
to such extent as shall be necessary to reimburse any fund or funds
'out of which such emergency warrants shall be paid.
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Section 5. That this ordinance is necessary and urgent
for the preservation and protection of the public safety, wel-
fare and convenience of the people of the City of Port Angeles.
That an emergency exists, and this ordinance shall take effect
and be in force immediately upon its passage, approval and pub-
lication in the manner provided by law.
INTRODUCED 7 , 1952.
PASSED 2/ , 1952.
APPROVED and signed by the Mayor
1952.
Attest:
City Clerk
Approved as to form:
City Attorney
Published:
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