HomeMy Public PortalAbout00864 O R D I N A N C E NO. 864
AN ORDINANCE levying special benefit assessments against all
of the land benefited by the construction of sewers within the
boundaries of Subdistrict No. 151 (Breuer Place) 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 Ordinance No. 618, adopted on the 11th day of
September, 1961 not less than three weeks after a public hearing
thereon held at 8: 00 o'clock pm. on the 10th day of July, 1961 at
the Bayless Elementary School, 4532 Weber Road, St. Louis County,
Missouri, pursuant to notice thereof published in the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat on the 15th day of June, 1961, at which public
hearing all persons interested were given an opportunity to be
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heard, did establish and prescribe the boundaries of a subdistrict
designated Subdistrict No. 151 (Breuer Place) of The Metropolitan
St Louis Sewer District; and
(2) By Resolution No. 461, adopted on the 20th day of
November, 1961, did declare the necessity of an improvement
consisting of the construction of lateral sanitary sewers in an
area designated Subdistrict No. 151 (Breuer Place) 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 and benefited by such construction, whether public or private,
exclusive of public streets, roads and alleys within such
Subdistrict No. 151; and
(3) Did cause to be duly called and held a public hearing at
the Bayless Elementary School, 4532 Weber Road, St. Louis County,
Missouri, at the hour of 8:00 p.m. on the 19th day of December
1961, at which public hearing all persons interested in such
improvement were given an opportunity to be heard; and
(4) By Resolution No. 477, adopted on the 8th day of January,
1962, 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. 461; and pursuant to said
direction, plans and specifications for the improvement were
prepared and the Board of Trustees did approve the same on the 7th
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day of May, 1962, and proper notice to contractors for bids was
published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the 12th, 19th, band
26th days of July, 1962; and
(5) By Ordinance No. 814, adopted on the 24th day of August,
1962, did confirm a contract with J. E. Latta Construction
Company, Inc., as the lowest responsible bidder, pursuant to bids
for construction of such improvement received and opened on the
3rd day of August, 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 17th day of August, 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 Eighteen Thousand Nine
Hundred Eighteen and 19/100 Dollars ($18,918.19), 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 Three Thousand Three Hundred Thirty-
nine and 45/100 Dollars ($3,339.45), which sum is properly
recoverable from the contractor, and
(2) Contract items in the sum of Fifteen Thousand Two Hundred
Forty-two and 76/100 Dollars ($15,242.76), and
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(3) Extra work properly chargeable under the contract in the
sum-of Three Hundred Thirty-six Dollars ($336.00);
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
Eighteen Thousand Nine Hundred Eighteen and 19/100 Dollars
($18,918.19) are hereby levied on all land whether public or
private but exclusive of public streets, roads and alleys, in
Subdistrict No. 151 (Breuer Place) of The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District, as bounded in said Ordinance No. 618. 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
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
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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 Three Thousand Three
Hundred Thirty-nine and 45/100 Dollars ($3,339.45) heretofore
advanced from the funds of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District as a charge against the said Subdistrict No. 151 (Breuer
Place).
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.
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The foregoing Ordinance was adopted November 8, 1962.