HomeMy Public PortalAbout01530 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1530
AN ORDINANCE levying special benefit assessments
against all of the land benefited by the construction of sewers
within the boundaries of Subdistrict No. 89 (Loretta-Joplin) 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. 383, adopted on the 31st day of
March, 1960 not less than three weeks after a public hearing
thereon held at 8:00 o'clock p.m. on the 29th day of February,
1960 at the Kiel Auditorium Opera House, 1400 Market Street, St.
Louis, Missouri, pursuant to notice thereof published in the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat on the 4th day of February, 1960, at which
public hearing all persons interested were given an opportunity to
be heard, did establish and prescribe the boundaries of a
subdistrict designated Subdistrict No. 89 (Loretta-Joplin) of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; and
(2) By Resolution No. 467, adopted on the 30th day of
October, 1961, did declare the necessity of an improvement
consisting of the construction of major storm sewers in an area
designated Subdistrict No. 89 (Loretta-Joplin) 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 such Subdistrict No.
89; and
(3) Did cause to be duly called and held a public
hearing at the Notre Dame High School, 320 East Ripa Avenue, St.
Louis County, Missouri, at the hour of 8:00 o'clock p.m. on the
20th day of November, 1961, at which public hearing all persons
interested in such improvement were given an opportunity to be
heard; and
(4) By Resolution No. 474, adopted on the 7th day of
December, 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 said
improvement according to the provisions of said Resolution No.
467; and pursuant to said direction, plans and specifications for
the improvement were prepared and the Board of Trustees did
approve the same on the 14th day of June, 1965, and proper notice
to contractors for bids was published in the St. Louis Globe
Democrat on the 5th, 12th, and 19th days of August, 1965; and
(5) By Ordinance No. 1392, adopted on the 15th day of
September, 1965, did confirm a contract with Fred M. Luth & Sons,
Inc., as the lowest responsible bidder, pursuant to bids for
construction of such improvement received and opened on the 27th
day of August, 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 8th day of September, 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 Nine Hundred Three
Thousand Three Hundred Fifty-four and 31/100 Dollars
($903,354.31), 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 One Hundred Thirty Thousand Nine
Hundred Forty-nine and 11/100 Dollars ($130,949.11) which sum is
properly recoverable from the contractor, and
(2) Contract items in the sum of Seven Hundred Fifty--
one Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty and 31/100 Dollars ($751,950.31),
and
(3) Extra work properly chargeable under the contract
in the sum of Twenty Thousand Four Hundred Fifty-four and 89/100
Dollars ($20,454.89); and
WHEREAS, by Ordinance No. 1391 adopted on the 15th day
of September, 1965, funds of the Mississippi River Subdistrict in
the sum of Three Hundred Seventy Thousand Dollars ($370,000.00)
were appropriated for part of the said entire cost of said
improvement, leaving the net sum of Five Hundred Thirty-three
Thousand Three Hundred Fifty-four and 31/100 Dollars ($533,354.31)
to be paid for in special tax bills as provided in said Resolution
No. 467;
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
Five Hundred Thirty-three Thousand Three Hundred Fifty-four and
31/100 Dollars ($533,354.31) are hereby levied on all land whether
public or private but exclusive of streets, roads and alleys, in
Subdistrict No. 89 (Loretta-Joplin) of The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District, as bounded in said Ordinance No. 383. Said levy
is for the 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
shall mature at the times and shall bear 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 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 One Hundred Thirty Thousand Nine
Hundred Forty-nine and 11/100 Dollars ($130,949.11) heretofore
advanced from the funds of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District as a charge against the said Subdistrict No. 89 (Loretta-
Joplin).
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.
The foregoing Ordinance was adopted September 14, 1966.