HomeMy Public PortalAbout00632 O R D I N A N C E NO. 632
AN ORDINANCE levying special benefit assessments
against all of the land benefited by the construction of sewers
within the boundaries of Subdistrict No. 115 (Ladue Meadows
Subtrunk) 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 Section 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 Ordinance No. 478, adopted on the 22nd day of
December, 1960 not less than three weeks after a public hearing
thereon held at 8:00 o'clock p.m. on the 7th day of November, 1960
at the Weber Elementary School on Ballas Road 1/2 mile South of
Olive Street Road, St. Louis County, Missouri, pursuant to notice
thereof published in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat on the 17th day
of October, 1960, at which public hearing all persons interested
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were given an opportunity to be heard, did establish and prescribe
the boundaries of a subdistrict designated Subdistrict No. 115
(Ladue Meadows Subtrunk) of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District; and
(2) By Resolution No. 370, adopted on the 19th day of
January, 1961, did declare the necessity of an improvement
consisting of the construction of subtrunk sanitary sewers in an
area designated Subdistrict No. 115 (Ladue Meadows Subtrunk) 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 assessments levied
on all land benefited by such construction, whether public or
private, exclusive of public streets, roads and alleys within such
Subdistrict; No. 115; and
(3) Did cause to be duly called and held a public
hearing at the Weber Elementary School on Ballas Road 1/2 mile
South of Olive Street Road, St. Louis County, Missouri, at the
hour of 8:00 p.m. on the 6th day of February, 1961, at which
public hearing all persons interested in such improvement were
given an opportunity to be heard; and
(4) By Resolution No. 382, adopted on the 23rd day of
February, 1961, 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.
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370; and pursuant to said direction, plans and specifications for
the improvement were prepared and the Board of Trustees did
approve the same on the 23rd day of February, 1961, and proper
notice to contractors for bids was published in the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch on the 6th, 13th, and 20th days of March, 1961; and
(5) By Ordinance No. 530 adopted on the 6th day of
April, 1961, did confirm a contract with Faust-Smith, Inc., as the
lowest responsible bidder, pursuant to bids for construction of
such improvement received and opened on the 28th day of March,
1961, which contract was formally executed by the Contractor and
by the Executive Director and the Secretary-Treasurer on behalf of
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, on the 6th day of
April, 1961; 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-five Thousand
One Hundred Thirty-two and 13/100 Dollars ($25,132.13), which sum
is the total of the following three components, to wit:
(1) An advancement from the funds 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 Five Thousand Eight Hundred Sixty-four
and 46/100 Dollars ($5,864.46), which sum is properly recoverable
from the contractor, and
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(2) Contract items in the sum of Eighteen Thousand Five
Hundred Six and 52/100 Dollars ($18,506.52), and
(3) Extra work properly chargeable under the contract
in the sum of Seven Hundred Sixty-one and 15/100 Dollars
($761.15);
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-five Thousand One Hundred Thirty-two and 13/100 Dollars
($25,132.13) are hereby levied on all land whether public or
private but exclusive of public streets, roads and alleys in
Subdistrict No. 115 (Ladue Meadows Subtrunk) of The Metropolitan
St. Louis Sewer District, as bounded in said Ordinance No. 478.
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
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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 rate 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
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 Five Thousand Eight
Hundred Sixty-four and 46/100 Dollars ($5,864.46) heretofore
advanced from the funds of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District as a charge against the said Subdistrict No. 115 (Ladue
Meadows Subtrunk).
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
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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 October 19, 1961.