HomeMy Public PortalAbout01918 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1918
AN ORDINANCE levying special benefit assessments
against all of the land benefitted by the construction of sewers
within the boundaries of Subdistrict No. 322 (Country Life Acres)
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. 1670, adopted on the 30th day of
October, 1967 not less than three weeks after a public hearing
thereon held at 8:00 o'clock p.m. on the 26th day of September,
1967 at the Weber Elementary School, 300 North New Ballas Road,
St. Louis County, Missouri, pursuant to notice thereof published
in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on the 1st day of September, 1967,
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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. 322
(Country Life Acres) of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District;
and
(2) By Resolution No. 972, adopted on the 2nd day of
February, 1968, did declare the necessity of an improvement
consisting of the construction of lateral sanitary sewers in an
area designated Subdistrict No. 322 (Country Life Acres) 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 benefitted by such construction, whether public or
private, exclusive of streets, roads and alleys within such
Subdistrict No. 322; and
(3) Did cause to be duly called and held a public
hearing at Weber School, 3'00 North New Ballas Road, St. Louis
County, Missouri, at the hour of 8:00 o'clock p.m. on the 26th day
of February, 1968, at which public hearing all persons interested
in such improvement were given an opportunity to be heard; and
(4) By Resolution No. 981, adopted on the 7th day of
March, 1968, 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. 972, and pursuant to said
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direction, plans and specifications for the improvement were
prepared and the Board of Trustees did approve the same on the
24th day of October, 1968, and proper notice to contractors for
bids was published in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat on the 18th and
25th days of February, and the 4th day of March, 1969; and
(5) By Ordinance No. 1868, adopted on the 3rd day of
April, 1969, did confirm a contract with Gampco Incorporated,
Contractors Engineers, as the lowest responsible bidder, pursuant
to bids for construction of such improvement received and opened
on the 12th day of March, 1969, 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 27th day of March, 1969; 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 Ninety-five Thousand
Forty-three and 62/100 Dollars ($95,043.62), 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 Twenty-nine Thousand Eight Hundred
Ninety-four and 81/100 Dollars ($29,894.81), which sum is properly
recoverable from the contractor, and
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(2) Contract items in the sum of Sixty-five Thousand One
Hundred Forty-eight and 81/100 Dollars ($65,148.81),
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
Ninety-five Thousand Forty-three and 62/100 Dollars ($95,043.62)
are hereby levied on all land whether public or private but
exclusive of streets, roads and alleys, in Subdistrict No. 322
(Country Life Acres) of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District,
as bounded in said Ordinance No. 1670. Said levy is for the
entire cost of construction of said improvement to serve said
benefitted area and said sum shall be levied ratably by area upon
the lots or parcels of ground within said benefitted area, whether
public or private in the proportion that the area each such lot or
parcel of ground bears to the said entire benefitted 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
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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-
Treasure 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 Twenty-nine Thousand Eight Hundred Ninety-
four and 81/100 Dollars ($29,894.81) heretofore advanced from the
funds of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District as a charge
against the said Subdistrict No. 322 (Country Life Acres).
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 26, 1969