HomeMy Public PortalAbout07428 O R D I N A N C E NO. 7428
AN ORDINANCE, accepting the certified results of the
special election called by The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District on March 8, 1988.
WHEREAS, on the 23rd day of December, 1987, the Board
of Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District did adopt
Ordinance No. 7358, calling a special election in The Metropolitan
St. Louis Sewer District on the proposition to approve a schedule
of rates, rentals and other charges for sewer and drainage
services in the District, and
WHEREAS, said election was duly held on the aforesaid
8th day of March, 1988 by the Board of Election Commissioners of
the City of St. Louis, Missouri, and the Board of Election
Commissioners of St. Louis County, Missouri, respectively, and
WHEREAS, the ballots furnished for and used at said
special election were in substantially the form as set forth in
the aforesaid Ordinance No. 7358, as adopted by this Board, and
WHEREAS, said Board of Election Commissioners of the
City of St. Louis, Missouri, on the 16th day of March, 1988, did
certify to this Board of Trustees the results of the aforesaid
election, and
WHEREAS, said Board of Election Commissioners of St.
Louis County, Missouri, on the 16th day of March, 1988, did
certify to this Board of Trustees the results of the aforesaid
election, and
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WHEREAS, this Board of Trustees has now canvassed the
returns of said election, as certified by the Board of Election
Commissioners of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, and the Board of
Election Commissioners of St. Louis County, Missouri,
respectively, and
WHEREAS, it appears upon said canvass, that at said
election there was cast a total of Seventy-eight Thousand Eight
Hundred Fifteen (78,815) votes on the aforesaid proposition in the
City of St. Louis, Missouri, of which Thirty Six Thousand Seven
Hundred Twenty-eight (36,728) votes were cast "Yes", and Forty Two
Thousand Eighty-seven (42,087) votes were cast "No"; and there was
cast a total of Two Hundred Two Thousand Four Hundred One
(202,401) votes on the aforesaid proposition in St. Louis County,
Missouri, of which One Hundred Fourteen Thousand Four Hundred
Forty-two (114,442) votes were cast "Yes", and Eighty Seven
Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty-nine (87,959) votes were cast "No",
and
WHEREAS, more than one-half of all of the votes cast on
the aforesaid proposition were cast in favor thereof;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT:
Section One. The proposition as submitted to the
qualified electors in the City of St. Louis, Missouri, and St.
Louis County, Missouri, as set forth more particularly in said
Ordinance No. 7358, at a special election held on the 8th day of
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March, 1988, was assented to by more than one-half of the
qualified electors of the District voting on said proposition at
said election, the total vote on said proposition having been One
Hundred Fifty-one Thousand One Hundred Seventy (151,170) votes for
said proposition to One Hundred Thirty Thousand Forty-six
(130,046) votes against said proposition, and the Board of
Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District hereby
accepts the results of said election as certified by the Board of
Election Commissioners of the City of St. Louis, Missouri, and the
Board of Election Commissioners of St. Louis County, Missouri,
respectively; and that the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan
St. Louis Sewer District is authorized to establish by ordinance
the schedule of rates, rentals and other charges to be collected
from all the real property served by the sewer and drainage
facilities of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District set forth
in the aforesaid proposition.
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The foregoing Ordinance was adopted April 13, 1988.