HomeMy Public PortalAboutR0109 R E S O L U T I O N NO. 109
A RESOLUTION to declare the result of a special
election held in Subdistrict Number Four of the River des Peres
Watershed of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (North
Affton), August 23, 1956.
WHEREAS, heretofore, to wit: on the 25th day of June,
1956, the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District did adopt a certain ordinance calling and ordering a
special election to be held within Subdistrict Number Four of the
River des Peres Watershed of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District (North Affton) on Tuesday, the 23rd day of August, 1956,
for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of said
Subdistrict the following proposition:
PROPOSITION "Shall the general obligation bonds of Subdistrict Number Four of the River des Peres Watershed of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (North Affton area) be issued in the amount of Two Hundred Forty Thousand Dollars ($240,000.00) to provide funds for the purpose of constructing sanitary trunk sewers within and for said Subdistrict, including all expenses necessarily incidental thereto?
and
WHEREAS, the Secretary-Treasurer of this Board, acting
pursuant to the aforesaid ordinance, did give notice of said
special election by advertisement published once a week for at
least three (3) consecutive weeks, namely, on July 30, 1956 and on
August 6, 13, and 20, 1956, in the St. Louis Globe Democrat and in
the St. Louis Post Dispatch, newspapers of general circulation in
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The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, the first publication
in each of said newspapers having been made at least twenty-one
(21) days prior to the date of the election and the last
publication in each of said newspapers having been made not more
than seven (7) days prior to the date of said election, all as
shown by the publishers' affidavits now on file in the office of
the Secretary-Treasurer of this Board, and
WHEREAS, the said election was duly held on said 23rd
day of August, 1956, by the Board of Election Commissioners of St.
Louis County, Missouri; and
WHEREAS, the ballots furnished for and used at the said
special election were in substantially the form as set forth in
the aforesaid ordinance adopted by this Board: and
WHEREAS, the said Board of Election Commissioners, on
the 30th day of August, 1956, did certify to this Board of
Trustees the result of the aforesaid election; and
WHEREAS, this Board has now canvassed the returns of
said election, as certified by the said Board of Election
Commissioners; and
WHEREAS, it appears upon said canvass that at said
election there was cast a total of one thousand five (1005) votes
on the aforesaid proposition, of which nine hundred forty-eight
(948) votes were cast "FOR THE BOND ISSUE" and fifty-seven (57)
votes were cast "AGAINST THE BOND ISSUE"; and
WHEREAS, more than two-thirds of all of the votes cast
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on the aforesaid proposition were cast in favor thereof:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT, AS FOLLOWS:
Section One. That the following proposition, to wit:
PROPOSITION "Shall the general obligation bonds of Subdistrict Number Four of the River des Peres Watershed of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (North Affton area) be issued in the amount of Two Hundred Forty Thousand ($240,000.00) Dollars to provide funds for the purpose of constructing sanitary trunk sewers within and for said Subdistrict, including all expenses necessarily incidental thereto?"
as submitted to the qualified electors of Subdistrict Number Four
of the River des Peres Watershed of The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District (North Affton area) at a special election held on
the 23rd day of August, 1956, was assented to by more than two-
thirds of the qualified electors of said Subdistrict voting on
said proposition at said election; and that the Board of Trustees
of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is, therefore,
authorized to issue the bonds of Subdistrict Number Four of the
River des Peres Watershed of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District (North Affton area) in the amount and for the purpose set
forth in said proposition.
Section Two. That the aforesaid bonds shall hereafter
be issued at such time or times and subject to such terms and
provisions as prescribed by this Board.
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The foregoing Resolution was adopted February 18, 1957.