HomeMy Public PortalAbout00406 O R D I N A N C E NO. 406
AN ORDINANCE levying special benefit assessments
against all of the land benefited by the construction of sewers
within the boundaries of Special Benefit Subdistrict No. 65 (Green
Slope Drive) 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. 221, adopted on the 17th day of
December, 1958, did declare the necessity of an improvement
consisting of the construction of lateral sanitary sewers in an
area designated Special Benefit Subdistrict No. 65 (Green Slope
Drive) of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, and did
provide that the entire cost of such improvement shall be paid for
by special tax bills or other evidence of special benefit
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assessments levied on all land benefited by such construction,
whether public or private, exclusive of public streets, roads and
alleys within such Special Benefit Subdistrict No. 65; and
(2) Did cause to be duly called and held a public
hearing at the Thomas Elementary School, 10335 Viscount Drive, St.
Louis County, Missouri, at the hour of 8:00 P.M. on the 7th day of
January, 1959, at which public hearing all persons interested in
such improvement were given an opportunity to be heard; and
(3) By Resolution No. 228, adopted on the 22nd day of
January, 1959, 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.
221; and pursuant to said direction, plans and specifications for
the improvement were prepared and the Board of Trustees did
approve the same on the 22nd day of July, 1959, and proper notice
to contractors for bids was published in the St. Louis Post-
Dispatch on the 24th day of September and the 1st and 8th days of
October, 1959; and
(4) By Ordinance No. 339 adopted on the 22nd day of
October, 1959, did confirm a contract with Karsten Equipment Co.,
as the lowest responsible bidder, pursuant to bids for
construction of such improvement received and opened on the 16th
day of October, 1959, 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 21st day of October, 1959; 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 Twenty-eight Thousand
Five Hundred Forty-seven and 10/100 Dollars ($28,547.10), which
sum is the total of the following three components, to wit:
(1) An advancement from the General Funds of The Metro-
politan 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 Four Thousand Five
Hundred Eight and 49/100 Dollars ($4,508.49), which sum is
properly recoverable from the contractor, and
(2) Contract items in the sum of Twenty-three Thousand
Four Hundred Sixty-one and 21/100 Dollars ($23,461.21), including
fees for connection to private sewers, and
(3) Extra work properly chargeable under the contract
in the sum of Five Hundred Seventy-seven and 40/100 Dollars
($577.40);
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. Special benefit assessments in the sum of
Twenty-eight Thousand Five Hundred Forty-seven and 10/100 Dollars
($28,547.10) are hereby levied on all land whether public or
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private but exclusive of public streets, roads and alleys, in
Special Benefit Subdistrict Number 65 (Green Slope Drive) of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, as bounded in said
Resolution No. 221. Said levy is for the entire cost of con-
struction of said improvement to serve said benefited area and
said sum shall be levied ratably by area upon the lots or parcels
of ground within said benefited area, whether public or private,
in the proportion that the area each such lot or parcel of ground
bears to the said entire benefited 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 after the Executive
Director shall have determined that said contractor has fully
performed under said contract, 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
Finance and the Secretary-Treasurer are hereby authorized and
directed to cause the Special Tax Bills herein described to be
prepared and to execute, certify and attest the same in accordance
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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 Four Thousand Five
Hundred Eight and 49/100 Dollars ($4,508.49) heretofore advanced
from the General Fund of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District
as a charge against the said Special Benefit Subdistrict No. 65
(Green Slope Drive).
Section Four. The completion and acceptance of the
said improvement 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.
The foregoing Ordinance was adopted on June 2, 1960.