HomeMy Public PortalAboutR0342 R E S O L U T I O N NO. 342
A RESOLUTION to declare the result of a special
election held in the Coldwater Creek Trunk Subdistrict of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District on August 30, 1960.
WHEREAS, heretofore, to wit: On the 28th day of July,
1960, 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 the Coldwater Creek Trunk
Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District on
Tuesday, the 30th day of August, 1960, for the purpose of
submitting to the qualified electors of said subdistrict the
following proposition:
PROPOSITION Shall the revenue bonds of the Coldwater Creek Trunk Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District be issued in the amount of Ten Million Nine Hundred Eighty-six Thousand Dollars ($10,986,000), to provide funds for the purpose of constructing a sanitary trunk sewer system and a sewage treatment system 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, August 8, 15, 22 and
29, 1960, in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and in the St. Louis
Post Dispatch, newspapers of general circulation in 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 30th
day of August, 1960, 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, the
6th day of September, 1960, 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 twelve thousand nine hundred
forty-two (12,942) votes on the aforesaid proposition of which
seven thousand eight hundred sixty-eight (7,868) votes were cast
"FOR THE BOND ISSUE" and five thousand seventy-four (5,074) votes
were cast "AGAINST THE BOND ISSUE"; and
WHEREAS, more than four-sevenths of all of the votes
cast 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:
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Section One. That the following proposition, to wit:
PROPOSITION Shall the revenue bonds of the Coldwater Creek Trunk Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District be issued in the amount of Ten Million Nine Hundred Eighty-six Thousand Dollars ($10,986,000), to provide funds for the purpose of constructing a sanitary trunk sewer system and a sewage treatment system for said Subdistrict, including all expenses necessarily incidental thereto?
as submitted to the qualified electors of the Coldwater Creek
Trunk Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District at
a special election held on the 30th day of August, 1960, was
assented to by more than four-sevenths 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 the
Coldwater Creek Trunk Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis
Sewer District 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 shall hereafter be prescribed by this Board. The foregoing Resolution was adopted October 7, 1960.