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O R D I N A N C E NO. 3170
AN ORDINANCE, appropriating Eight Million One Hundred
Fifty Thousand Dollars ($8,150,000.00) from the Mississippi River
Construction Fund to pay for the construction of Lemay Wastewater
Treatment Plant - Grit and Screenings Facilities, Contract PA-60,
in St. Louis County, Missouri.
WHEREAS, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has
agreed to a seventy-five percent (75%) grant in aid of
construction, upon receipt of such funds from said source they
shall be placed in the Mississippi River Construction Fund and are
hereby appropriated to pay the costs incurred by said Contract PA-
60; and
WHEREAS, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources
has agreed to a fifteen percent (15%) grant in aid of
construction, upon receipt of such funds from said source they
shall be placed in the Mississippi River Construction Fund and are
hereby appropriated to pay the costs incurred by said contract
PA.60; and
WHEREAS, the District is obligated to pay ten percent
(10%) of the estimated total construction costs of said project,
the general conditions of which require that interest be paid on
any payment for construction made more than thirty (30) days after
the approval by the engineers; and
WHEREAS, to avoid paying said interest, it is deemed
advisable to appropriate from District funds sixty (60) days'
payments in excess of the ten percent (10%) the District is
obligated to pay, which sum is Two Million Dollars
($2,000,000.00);
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. The sum of Two Million Dollars
($2,000,000.00) is hereby appropriated from the Mississippi River
Construction Fund to pay the District's share for the
construction of Lemay Wastewater Treatment Plant - Grit and
Screenings Facilities, Contract PA-60 and to be used as needed as
an advance payment to the contractor of amounts due and owing
under such contract, but not yet received from aforesaid grants in
aid of construction.
Section Two. The sums of money to be received from the
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency for its seventy-five percent
(75%) grant and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources
fifteen percent (15%) grant for this project shall be placed in
the Mississippi River Construction Fund and are hereby
appropriated to pay the costs incurred by Contract PA-60, the
estimated total cost of which is Eight Million One Hundred Fifty
Thousand Dollars ($8,150,000.00). Such funds shall also be used
to repay the District for any sums advanced by it over and above
its share of such costs.
Section Three. This Ordinance, being an appropriation
Ordinance, shall become effective immediately upon its enactment.
The foregoing Ordinance was adopted December 1, 1976.