HomeMy Public PortalAbout02931 O R D I N A N C E NO. 2931
AN ORDINANCE levying special benefit assessments
against all of the land benefitted by the construction of sewers
within the boundaries of Subdistrict No. 389 (Stoneleigh Towers)
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. 2365, adopted on the 10th day of
January, 1973 not less than three weeks after a public hearing
thereon held at 8:00 o'clock p.m. on the 30th day of November,
1972 at the Olivette City Hall, 9473 Olive Boulevard, St. Louis
County, Missouri, pursuant to notice thereof published in the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat on the 8th day of November, 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. 389 (Stoneleigh Towers) of
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; and
(2) By Resolution No. 1349, adopted on the 20th day of
June, 1973, did declare the necessity of an improvement consisting
of the construction of lateral sanitary sewers in an area
designated Subdistrict No. 389 (Stoneleigh Towers) 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. 389; and
(3) Did cause to be duly called and held a public
hearing at the Olivette City Hall, 9473 Olive Boulevard, St. Louis
County, Missouri, at the hour of 8:00 o'clock p.m. on the 12th day
of July, 1973, at which public hearing all persons interested in
such improvement were given an opportunity to be heard; and
(4) By Resolution No. 1361, adopted on the 14th day of
August, 1974, 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. 1349; and pursuant to
said direction, plans and specifications for the improvement were
prepared and the Board of Trustees did approve the same on the
27th day of March, 1974, and proper notice to contractors for bids
was published in the St. Louis Daily Record on the 4th, 11th and
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18th days of September, 1974; and
(5) By Ordinance No. 2681, adopted on the 23rd day of
October, 1974, 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 26th
day of September, 1974, 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 October, 1974; 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 property owners' share of the entire cost thereof
amounts to Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00);
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 Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) are hereby levied on
all land whether public or private but exclusive of streets, roads
and alleys, in Subdistrict No. 389 (Stoneleigh Towers) of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; as bounded in said
Ordinance No. 2365. Said levy is for the property owners' share
of the entire cost of construction of said improvement to serve
said benefitted area and said sum shall be levied against all lots
or parcels of ground within said benefitted area, whether public
or private, in equal proportion per lot or parcel of ground,
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exclusive of streets, roads and alleys.
Section Two. There are hereby authorized and ordered
to be prepared, issued, registered and recorded, 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.
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 October 15, 1975.