HomeMy Public PortalAbout02516 O R D I N A N C E NO. 2516
AN ORDINANCE levying special benefit assessments
against all land benefitted by the construction of sewers within
the boundaries of Subdistrict No. 384 (Hue Vista) 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. 2284, adopted on the 13th day of
April, 1972 not less than three weeks after a public hearing
thereon held at 8:00 o'clock p.m. on the 14th day of March, 1972
at the Des Peres City Hall, 1019 North Ballas Road, St. Louis
County, Missouri, pursuant to notice thereof published in the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat on the 21st day of February, 1972, 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. 384 (Hue Vista) of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; and
(2) By Resolution No. 1268, adopted on the 15th day of
September, 1972, did declare the necessity of an improvement
consisting of the construction of lateral sanitary sewers in an
area designated Subdistrict No. 384 (Hue Vista) 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. 384; and
(3) Did cause to be duly called and held a public
hearing at the Des Peres City Hall, 1019 North Ballas Road, St.
Louis County, Missouri, at the hour of 8:00 o'clock p.m. on the
4th day of October, 1972, at which public hearing all persons
interested in such improvement were given an opportunity to be
heard; and
(4) By Resolution No. 1297, adopted on the 18th day of
October, 1972, 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.
1278; and pursuant to said direction, plans and specifications for
the improvement were prepared and the Board of Trustees did
approve the same on the 30th day of November, 1972, and proper
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notice to contractors for bids was published in the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat on the 31st day of January, the 7th and 14th days
of February, 1973; and
(5) By Ordinance No. 2398, adopted on the 5th day of
March, 1973, did confirm a contract with Gampco Incorporated, as
the lowest responsible bidder, pursuant to bids for construction
of such improvement received and opened on the 22nd day of
February, 1973, 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 2nd day of March, 1973; 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 Seventy-eight Thousand
Two Hundred Forty-two and 29/100 Dollars ($78,242.29);
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 Seventy-eight Thousand Two Hundred Forty-two and 29/100 Dollars
($78,242.29) are hereby levied on all land whether public or
private but exclusive of streets, roads and alleys, in Subdistrict
No. 384 (Hue Vista) of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District,
as bounded in said Ordinance No. 2284. 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
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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
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.
Section Four. The completion and acceptance of the
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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 January 9, 1974.