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ORDINANCE NO. )0 .5
AN ORDINANCE providing for the transfer of the sum of
$5,000.00 from the Current Expense Fund to the Fire Department
Cumulative Reserve Fund for the purchase of hose and other equipment
as provided for in the 1955 budget, and
For the transfer of the sum of $5,000.00 from Street
Department Maintenance, Material and Supplies to the item of surf-
acing and paving Sixteenth Street.
WHEREAS, the Washington Rating Bureau requires that all
fire hose be within seven years of age and the City of Port Angeles
in the 1955 budget provided the sum of $5,000.00 for the purchase
of fire hose and equipment under a Civil Defense Program, and tax
.receipts are as yet insufficient in the Fire Department Cumulative
Reserve Fund for the purchase of such hose and necessary equipment.
There is now in the Current Expense Fund sufficient funds which may
be temporarily loaned to the Fire Department Cumulative Reserve Fund
a nd ,
J'IEREAS, Sixteenth Street from "C" Street ,esterly is now
and for many years last passed has been used as a thorough -fare from
Street Westerly to the city's garbage dump, which is a public
!and municipal garbage dump, and said street also furnishes the only
thorough -fare to the Ocean View Cemetery, which is owned and operated
by the City of Port Angeles, and in addition thereto is the main
thorough -fare to the Clallam County Air Port and the Clallam County
;,Fairgrounds. And said street constitutes a public thorough -fare for
the use and benefit of the City as a whole and its improvement will
'lje for the benefit of the travel, and safety of all of the citizens
bf Port Angeles, and
HEREAS, there was provided in the budget of 1955 the sum
Of $10,000 for the improvement of Sixteenth Street and said sum is
Clow found to be insufficient for such improvement and there was pro-
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vided in the budget for Maintenance, Material and Supplies the sum
of $12,000 and it is found that a certain portion of the same will
be necessary for the completion of the surfacing of Sixteenth Street.
NOV4, T'i£REFORE, TiE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT
!ANGELES DOES ORDAIN as follows:
Section L: That the City Treasurer be, and she is hereby
authorized and directed to transfer and loan from the
Current Expense Fund of the City of Port Angeles to the
Fire Department Cumulative Reserve Fund such sums as may
be necessary to provide the amount budgeted in the Cum-
ulative Reserve Fund, that is, to transfer to the Fire
Department Cumulative Reserve Fund such sums as will
provide the sum of $5,000 in such Fire Department Cum-
ulative Reserve Fund less the amount that is received
by said fund from taxes already paid in and received by
the said City. Further, the City Council of the City of
Port Angeles does ordain that if taxes are received and
dredited to the Fire Department Cumulative Reserve Fund
that the treasurer be, and she is hereby authorized and
directed to pay such sums received and to credit the same
to and repay them to the Current Expense Fund in the City
until the full amount transferred from the Current
Expense Fund to the Fire Department Cumulative Reserve
Fund has been fully repaid to the Current Expense.
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED as follows:
Section ii: That Sixteenth Street to "C" Street westerly
to the City Garbage Dump be, and is hereby declared to
be, a useful and public thorough -fare for the use and
benefit of all of the tax payers of the City of Port
Angeles, and the use of said street is only incidental
to and in a minor part for the use and benefit_of abut-
ting property owners.
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that there be transferred the sum
of $5,000 from the budget item of Maintenance, Material and Supplies
to the budget item of Surfacing and Improving Sixteenth street, all
within the Street Department.
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
rafter five days from the date of its passage and publication in the
manner provided by law.
INTRODUCED this j40i day of ,1955
ATTEST:
PASSED by Unanimous vote
SIGNED and APPROVED by the Mayor
City Clerk
Approved as to form:
City Attorney
published:
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