HomeMy Public PortalAbout00750 O R D I N A N C E NO. 750
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the District to use $175,000.00
from the funds in escrow in the City of Florissant, Missouri, to
construct a sewer in the City of Florissant, Missouri, to be known
as the "Brinwood Relief Sewer" and to assess a $100.00 per lot
connection charge to the users thereof to repay such cost of
construction.
WHEREAS, under agreement between the City of Florissant
and The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, approved by the
Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri a $200.00 per lot
escrow deposit was charged for lots connecting into the sewer
formerly of the City of Florissant, the purpose of which escrow
deposit was to guarantee complete sewage disposition, and which
funds shall be used to pay for the Florissant homeowners' pro rata
share of the cost of the Coldwater Creek Trunk Sewer and treatment
plant; and
WHEREAS, there exists an area outside the boundary of the
City of Florissant and of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District
which has no trunk sewer, which flows by gravity into The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District which creates a menace to the
public health of its own area and to the City of Florissant and a
portion of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and which
could be served by a proposed trunk sewer to be known as the
"Brinwood Relief Sewer", the cost of which is estimated at
$175,000.00; and
WHEREAS, all of these aforesaid funds will not be used
for several years, but a portion thereof could be advanced now to
construct such Brinwood Relief Sewer to solve a menace to the
public health of the citizens of the Florissant area, which funds
could be repaid as property to be served by such relief sewer is
connected thereto; and
WHEREAS, subject to the approval of the Circuit Court of
St. Louis County, the District and the City of Florissant are
desirous of so using a portion of such funds;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. That the Executive Director be and is hereby
authorized to use $175,000.00 of such escrow funds to pay a portion
of the construction cost of said Brinwood Relief Sewer, subject to
prior approval of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County.
Section Two. The District is hereby authorized to make a
connection charge of $100.00 per house, or the equivalent, to every
house that connects into or uses said Brinwood Relief Sewer, prior
to such connection, said sums to be repaid upon receipt into the
aforesaid escrow funds.
The foregoing Ordinance was adopted May 7, 1962.