HomeMy Public PortalAbout00830 O R D I N A N C E NO. 830
AN ORDINANCE levying special benefit assessments against all
of the land benefited by the construction of sewers within the
boundaries of Subdistrict No. 156 (Stafford Estates) of The Metro-
politan 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 Ordinance No. 602, adopted on the 31st day of August,
1961, not less than three weeks after a public hearing thereon
held at 8:00 o'clock p.m. on the 2nd day of August, 1961 at the
Mesnier Elementary School, 6930 Weber Road, St. Louis County,
Missouri, pursuant to notice thereof published in the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch on the 11th day of July, 1961, at which public
hearing all persons interested were given an opportunity to be
heard, did establish and prescribe the boundaries of a subdistrict
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designated Subdistrict No. 156 (Stafford Estates) of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; and did amend the
boundaries thereof by Ordinance No. 753, adopted on the 28th day
of May, 1962; and
(2) By Resolution No. 453, adopted on the 25th day of
September, 1961, did declare the necessity of an improvement con-
sisting of the construction of lateral sanitary sewers in an area
designated Subdistrict No. 156 (Stafford Estates) of The Metro-
politan 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 Sub-
district No. 156; and
(3) Did cause to be duly called and held a public hearing at
the Mesnier Elementary School, 6930 Weber Road, St. Louis County,
Missouri, at the hour of 8:00 p.m. on the 17th day of October,
1961, at which public hearing all persons interested in such
improvement were given an opportunity to be heard; and
(4) By Resolution No. 465, adopted on the 30th day of
October, 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.
453; and pursuant to said direction, plans and specifications for
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the improvement were prepared and the Board of Trustees did
approve the same on the 23rd day of April, 1962, and proper notice
to contractors for bids was published in the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat on the 30th day of April and on the 7th, and 14th days of
May, 1962; and
(5) By Ordinance No. 762 adopted on the 28th day of May,
1962, did confirm a contract with Latta Bridge Company, Inc., as
the lowest responsible bidder, pursuant to bids for construction
of such improvement received and opened on the 22nd day of May,
1962, 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 28th day of May,
1962; 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 Forty-five Thousand
Four Hundred Seventy-eight and 20/100 Dollars ($45,478.20), 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 Four Thousand One Hundred Thirty-five
and 83/100 Dollars ($4,135.83), which sum is properly recoverable
from the contractor, and
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(2) Contract items in the sum of Thirty-eight Thousand Six
Hundred Seventy-four and 31/100 Dollars ($38,674.31), and
(3) Extra work properly chargeable under the contract in the
sum of Two Thousand Six Hundred Sixty-eight and 06/100 Dollars
($2,668.06);
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 Forty-
five Thousand Four Hundred Seventy-eight and 20/100 Dollars
($45,478.20) are hereby levied on all land whether public or
private but exclusive of public streets, roads and alleys, in
Subdistrict No. 156 (Stafford Estates) of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District, as bounded in said Ordinance No. 602, as
amended by said Ordinance No. 753. Said levy is for the entire
cost of construction 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 per-
formed under said contract, Special Tax Bills evidencing the levy
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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 Four Thousand One
Hundred Thirty-five and 83/100 Dollars ($4,135.83) heretofore
advanced from the funds of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District as a charge against the said Subdistrict No. 156
(Stafford Estates).
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 September 10, 1962.