HomeMy Public PortalAbout02281 O R D I N A N C E NO. 2281
AN ORDINANCE levying special benefit assessments
against all of the land benefitted by the construction of sewers
within the boundaries of Subdistrict No. 378 (Cory 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. 2180, adopted on the 30th day of
June, 1971 not less than three weeks after a public hearing
thereon held at 8:00 o'clock p.m. on the 8th day of June, 1971 at
the Harrison Elementary School, 8129 Albin Avenue, St. Louis
County, Missouri, pursuant to notice thereof published in the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat on the 17th day of May, 1971, 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. 378 (Cory Place) of The Metropolitan
St. Louis Sewer District; and
(2) By Resolution No. 1225, adopted on the 29th day of
July, 1971, did declare the necessity of an improvement consisting
of the construction of lateral sanitary sewers in an area
designated Subdistrict No. 378 (Cory 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 land
benefitted by such construction, whether public or private,
exclusive of streets, roads and alleys within such Subdistrict No.
378; and
(3) Did cause to be duly called and held a public
hearing at Harrison Elementary School, 8129 Albin Avenue, St.
Louis County, Missouri, at the hour of 8:00 o'clock p.m. on the
18th day of August, 1971, at which public hearing all persons
interested in such improvement were given an opportunity to be
heard; and
(4) By Resolution No. 1230, adopted on the 29th day of
October, 1971, 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.
1230; and pursuant to said direction, plans and specifications for
the improvement were prepared and the Board of Trustees did
approve the same on the 29th day of October, 1971, and proper
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notice to contractors for bids was published in the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat on the 30th day of November, 1971, and the 7th and
14th days of December, 1971; and
(5) By Ordinance No. 2258, adopted on the 6th day of
January, 1972, 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 22nd
day of December, 1971, 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 5th day of January, 1972; 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 Twenty-four Thousand
Nine Hundred Seventy-nine and 95/100 Dollars ($24,979.95), 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 One Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty-five
and 60/100 Dollars ($1,965.60), which sum is properly recoverable
from the contractor, and
(2) Contract items in the sum of Twenty-three Thousand
Fourteen and 35/100 Dollars ($23,014.35), and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. Special benefit assessments in the sum
of Twenty-four Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy-nine and 95/100
Dollars ($24,979.95) are hereby levied on all land whether public
or private but exclusive of streets, roads and alleys, in
Subdistrict No. 378 (Cory Place) of The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District, as bounded in said Ordinance No. 2180. 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
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
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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 Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty-five
and 60/100 Dollars ($1,965.60) heretofore advanced from the funds
of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District as a charge against
the said Subdistrict No. 378 (Cory 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 March 30, 1972.