HomeMy Public PortalAbout01347 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1347
AN ORDINANCE levying special benefit assessments
against all of the land benefited by the construction of sewers
within the boundaries of Subdistrict No. 232 (Duchess-Count) 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. 1132, adopted on the 2nd day of
April, 1964 not less than three weeks after a public hearing
thereon held at 8:00 o'clock p.m. on the 24th day of February,
1964 at the Thomas Elementary School, 10335 Viscount Drive, St.
Louis County, Missouri, pursuant to notice thereof published in
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the 29th day of January, 1964, at
which public hearing all persons interested were give an
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opportunity to be heard, did establish and prescribe the
boundaries of a subdistrict designated Subdistrict No. 232
(Duchess-Count) of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; and
(2) By Resolution No. 715, adopted on the 14th day of
May, 1964, did declare the necessity of an improvement consisting
of the construction of lateral sanitary sewers in an area
designated Subdistrict No. 232 (Duchess-Count) 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 streets, roads and alleys within in such Subdistrict
No. 232; and
(3) 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 o'clock p.m. on the
1st day of June, 1964, at which public hearing all persons
interested in such improvement were given an opportunity to be
heard; and
(4) By Resolution No. 722, adopted on the 10th day of
June, 1964, did determine hat 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. 715; and pursuant to said
direction, plans and specifications for the improvement were
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prepared and the Board of Trustees did approve the same on the
12th day of October, 1964, and proper notice to contractors for
bids was published in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat on the 20th,
and 27th days of January and the 3rd day of February, 1965; and
(5) By Ordinance No. 1280, adopted on the 25th day of
February, 1965, did confirm a contract with E. F. Merkel, Inc., as
the lowest responsible bidder, pursuant to bids for construction
of such improvement received and opened on the 11th day of
February, 1965, 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 18th day of February, 1965; 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 Ten Thousand Eight
Hundred Fifty-one and 89/100 Dollars ($10,851.89), which sum is
the total of the following two 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 Forty-four
and 70/100 Dollars ($3,344.70) which sum is properly recoverable
from the contractor, and
(2) Contract items in the sum of Seven Thousand Five
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Hundred Seven and 19/100 Dollars ($7,507.19);
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
Ten Thousand Eight Hundred Fifty-one and 89/100 Dollars
($10,851.89) are hereby levied on all land whether public or
private but exclusive of streets, roads and alleys, in Subdistrict
No. 232 (Duchess-Count) of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District, as bounded in said Ordinance No. 1132. 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 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 amended by
Ordinance No. 849 effective November 14, 1962, and said Bills
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shall mature at the times and shall be the rate of interest
prescribed by said Ordinance No. 97.
Section Three. 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 and attest the same in accordance with said Ordinance No.
97 as amended; to use 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 offices 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 Forty-four and
70/100 Dollars ($3,344.70) heretofore advanced from the funds of
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District as a charge against the
said Subdistrict No. 232 (Duchess-Count).
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 June 14, 1965.