HomeMy WebLinkAbout1618ORDINANCE NO. /6' as
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Port Angeles providing for the
expenditure of funds for the purchase of equipment to
be used on a sanitary land fill and declaring an emergency
WHEREAS, the budget for the City of Port Angeles for the
year 1967 was adopted in the fall of 1966, and
4111 WHEREAS, since that time the use of the City Dump on the
west end of the City has substantially increased due to the fact 1
that wood by- products, which were formerly used by local industry,
are no longer being used by industry but are being burnt at the
City Dump, and
WHEREAS, the increased burning has created a substantially
•
•
Imore serious problem of air pollution than heretofore existed, and
WHEREAS, the increased use of the dump has made the problem
of rodent control almost impossible to handle, and
WHEREAS, the Olympic Health District and State Department of
Health have verbally advised the city manager that use of the City
Dump in its present manner will lead to the issuance of an order
i;from the State Health Department, which will cause closure of the
dump, and
WHEREAS, a sanitary land fill is the only practical solution
1
to the pollution and rodent control problem existing, and such a
land fill requires equipment which the City did not have or did not
anticipate the need for at the time of the adoption of the 1967
budget, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the Sanitation Department
which requires the expenditure of funds in the amount of $13,062.50
for the purchase of a Catepillar 977 track loader and $1,000.00 for
a portable garage to house said machine; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED that
Section 1. An emergency exists which requires the expendi-
ture of $14,062.50 in the Sanitation Department.
•
•
•
•
Section 2. There is hereby appropriated to the Sanitation
;Department the sum of $14,062.50 from other funds available to the
City for the purchase of a Cateo liar 977 track loader and a
portable garage.
PASSED by the City Council
and approved by
regular meeting of the Council held on the
1967.
Attest:
-' ^�
Approved as to form:
PUBLISHED: AL)cj1 y� 19 t7
17-1
its Mayor at a
day of August,