HomeMy Public PortalAbout01977 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1977
AN ORDINANCE levying special benefit assessments
against all of the land benefited by the construction of sewers
within the boundaries of Subdistrict No. 255 (Lambert and Fee Fee)
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
anti 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. 1375, adopted on the 26th day of
August, 1965 not less than three weeks after a public hearing
thereon held at 8:00 o'clock p.m. on the 15th day of July, 1965 at
the Pattonville High School, 11055 St. Charles Rock Road, St.
Louis County, Missouri, pursuant to notice thereof published in
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on the 21st day of June, 1965, at
which public hearing all persons interested were given an
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opportunity to be heard, did establish and prescribe the
boundaries of a subdistrict designated Subdistrict No. 255
(Lambert and Fee Fee) of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District; and
(2) By Resolution No. 825, adopted on the 4th day of
November, 1965, did declare the necessity of an improvement
consisting of the construction of lateral sanitary sewers in an
area designated Subdistrict No. 255 (Lambert and Fee Fee) 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. 255; and
(3) Did cause to be duly called and held a public
hearing at the Pattonville High School, 11055 St. Charles Rock
Road, St. Louis County, Missouri, at the hour of 8:00 o'clock p.m.
on the 30th day of November, 1965, at which public hearing all
persons interested in such improvement were given an opportunity
to be heard; and
(4) By Resolution No. 832, adopted on the 13th day of
January, 1966, 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.
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825; and pursuant to said 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
Post-Dispatch on the 23rd and 30th days of December, 1968 and on
the 6th day of January, 1969; and
(5) By Ordinance No. 1840, adopted on the 23rd day of
January, 1969, did confirm a contract with Meiners Plumbing
Company, as the lowest responsible bidder, pursuant to bids for
construction of such improvement received and opened on the 14th
day of January, 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 22nd day of January, 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 One Hundred Twenty-
nine Thousand Five Hundred Sixty-six and 44/100 Dollars
($129,566.44), which sum is composed of the following four
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 Eighteen Thousand Two Hundred Nineteen
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and 83/100 Dollars ($18,219.83) which sum is properly recoverable
from the contractors, and
(2) Contract items in the sum of One Hundred Eleven
Thousand One Hundred Ninety-nine and 80/100 Dollars ($111,199.80),
and
(3) Extra work properly chargeable under the contract
in the sum of One Thousand Forty-six and 81/100 Dollars
($1,046.81); and
(4) A deduction in the sum of Nine Hundred Dollars
($900.00) for liquidated damages;
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
One Hundred Twenty-nine Thousand Five Hundred Sixty-six and 44/100
Dollars ($129,566.44) are hereby levied on all land whether public
or private but exclusive of streets, roads and alleys, in
Subdistrict No. 255 (Lambert and Fee Fee) of The Metropolitan St.
Louis Sewer District, as bounded in said Ordinance No. 1375. 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
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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 4th, 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 Eighteen Thousand Two Hundred
Nineteen and 83/100 Dollars ($18,219.83) heretofore advance from
the funds of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District as a charge
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against the said Subdistrict No. 255 (Lambert and Fee Fee).
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 December 11, 1969.