HomeMy Public PortalAbout00220 O R D I N A N C E NO.220
AN ORDINANCE levying special benefit assessments
against all of the real property benefitted by the construction of
sewers within the boundaries of Special Benefit Subdistrict Number
20 (Norwood Manor) of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District;
directing issuance of Special Tax Bills evidencing said levy;
setting out the form, terms, and provisions of said Special Tax
Bills, with an emergency clause.
WHEREAS, The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District was
created pursuant to a plan adopted by the voters of the City of
St. Louis and of St. Louis County, Missouri, at a special election
held on Tuesday, the 9th day of February, 1954, all as provided
and authorized by Sections 30(a) and 30(b) of Article VI of the
Constitution of the State of Missouri; and
WHEREAS, thereafter, proceeding under the authority of
the aforesaid Plan, the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District, pursuant to proceedings duly and lawfully
had in accordance with the provisions of said Plan, did proceed as
follows, to wit:
(1) By Resolution No. 125, adopted on the 4th day of
June, 1957, did declare the necessity of an improvement consisting
of the construction of storm water sewers Ord. No. 220 within an
area to be known as Special Benefit Subdistrict Number 28 (Norwood
Manor) of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, and did
provide that the costs of such construction shall be paid for by
special tax bills or other evidence of special benefit assessments
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levied on all land benefitted by such construction, whether public
or private, exclusive of public streets, roads and alleys within
such Special Benefit Subdistrict No. 28, and
(2) Did cause to be duly called and held a public
hearing at the Bermuda Elementary School, Dartmoor and Bermuda
Avenues, Normandy, St. Louis County, Missouri, at the hour of
3:00 P.M. on Thursday, the 20th day of June, 1957 at which public
hearing all persons interested in such improvement were given an
opportunity to be heard; and
(3) By Resolution No. 129 adopted on the 1st day of
July, 1957, did determine that it is in the public interest that
such improvement be made, and did direct that The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District proceed with the said improvement according
to the provisions of said Resolution No. 125, and pursuant to said
direction, plans and specifications for the improvement were
prepared and the Board of Trustees did approve the same on the
25th day of February, 1958, and proper notice to contractors for
bids was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the 24th day
of February 1958, and the 3rd and 10th days of March, 1958, and
(4) By Ordinance No. 189 adopted on the 7th day of
April, 1958, did confirm a contract with the Crow Contracting
Corporation as the lowest responsible bidder, pursuant to bids for
construction of such improvement received and opened on the 18th
day of March, 1958, which contract was formally executed by the
Contractor and by the Executive Director and the Secretary-
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Treasurer on behalf of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District
on the 7th day of April, 1950, and
WHEREAS, the construction of said improvement is hereby
accepted upon the Executive Director's determination that said
improvement has been completed satisfactorily by the contractor
and that the entire cost thereof amounts to One Hundred Thirteen
Thousand Eight Hundred Eight and 61/100 Dollars ($113,808.61),
which sum is the total of the following three components, to wit:
(1) An advancement from the General Fund of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District to cover the expense of
engineering, inspection, preparation of plans and contracts, and
other costs of supervision, in the sum of Nine Thousand Seven
Hundred Seventy-eight and 91/100 Dollars ($9,778.91), which sum is
properly recoverable from the contractor, and
(2) Contract items in the sum of Ninety-eight Thousand
Three Hundred Fifteen Dollars ($90,315.00) and
(3) Extra work properly chargeable under the contract
in the sum of Five Thousand Seven Hundred Fourteen and 70/100
Dollars ($5,714.70), and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to provide for the levy of
special benefit assessments on the lots or parcels of ground in
said Special Benefit Subdistrict Number 20 and for the
preparation, execution, issuance and delivery of Special Tax Bills
evidencing said levy;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. Special benefit assessments in the sum of
One Hundred Thirteen Thousand Eight Hundred Eight and 61/100
Dollars ($113,808.61) are hereby levied on all lands, whether
public or private, exclusive of public streets, roads and alleys
within Special Benefit Subdistrict Number 28 (Norwood Manor) of
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, as bounded in said
Resolution No. 125, which is hereby determined and declared to be
the area benefitted by such improvement. Said levy is for the
entire cost of construction of said improvement to serve said
benefitted area and said sum shall be levied ratably by area upon
the lots or parcels of ground within said benefitted area, whether
pubLic or private, in the proportion that the area each such Lot
or parcel of ground bears to the said entire benefitted area,
exclusive of public streets, roads and alleys.
Section Two. There are hereby authorized and ordered to
be prepared, issued, registered, recorded and delivered to the
aforesaid contractor, as soon as practicable, Special Tax Bills
evidencing the levy of the special benefit assessments provided in
Section One hereof. Said bills shall be prepared on the standard
Special Tax Bill form of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District
as provided by Ordinance No. 97 adopted September 4, 1956, and
said Bills shall mature at the times and shall bear the rates of
interest prescribed by said Ordinance No. 97.
Section Three. The Executive Director, the Director of
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Finance and the Secretary-Treasurer are hereby authorized end
directed to cause the Special Tax Bills herein described to be
prepared and to execute, certify and attest the same in accordance
with said Ordinance No. 97; to cause the same to be registered in
the offices of the Director of Finance and of the Secretary-
Treasurer; to cause the same to be recorded in the office of the
Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis County, Missouri; and thereupon to
deliver the said Special Tax Bills to the said contractor,
PROVIDED, however, that concurrently with delivery and prior to
completion thereof, said contractor shall pay to The Metropolitan
St. Louis Sewer District the aforesaid sum of Nine Thousand Seven
Hundred Seventy-Eight and 91/100 ($9,778.91) heretofore advance
from the General Fund of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District
as a charge against the said Special Benefit Subdistrict No.28
(Norwood Manor).
Section Four. The completion and acceptance of the said
storm sewer and the immediate need for the issuance and delivery
of said Special Tax Bills in payment thereof create an emergency
within the meaning of the Plan and this Ordinance shall be in full
force and effect from and after its passage.
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The foregoing Ordinance was adopted August 11, 1958.