HomeMy Public PortalAboutR0596 R E S O L U T I O N NO. 596
A RESOLUTION to declare the result of a special
election held in the Mississippi River Subdistrict of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District on November 6, 1962.
WHEREAS, heretofore, to wit: On the 27th day of
September, 1962, 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 Mississippi
River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District on
Tuesday, the 6th day of November, 1962, for the purpose of
submitting to the qualified electors of said subdistrict the
following proposition:
PROPOSITION Shall the general obligation bonds of the Mississippi River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, be issued in the amount of Ninety-five Million Dollars ($95,000,000.00), to provide funds for the purpose of constructing a system of sanitary interceptor sewers and sewage disposal and treatment plants and works 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, October 15, 22 and 29,
and November 5, 1962, 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 6th
day of November, 1962, by the Board of Election Commissioners of
the City of St. Louis and for St. Louis County, Missouri within
their respective jurisdictions; 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 of
the City of St. Louis, on the 21st day of November, 1962, and the
Board of Election Commissioners of St. Louis County, on the 26th
day of November, 1962, 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 Boards of Election
Commissioners; and
WHEREAS, it appears upon said canvass that at said
election there was cast a total of two hundred fifty-nine
thousand, seven hundred thirty-nine (259,739) votes on the
aforesaid proposition of which two hundred nineteen thousand one
hundred twenty-nine (219,129) votes were cast "FOR THE BOND ISSUE"
and forty-thousand six hundred ten (40,610) votes were cast
"AGAINST THE BOND ISSUE"; and
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WHEREAS, more than two-thirds 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:
Section One. That the following proposition, to wit:
PROPOSITION Shall the general obligation bonds of the Mississippi River Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, be issued in the amount of Ninety-five Million Dollars ($95,000,000.00), to provide funds for the purpose of constructing a system of sanitary interceptor sewers and sewage disposal and treatment plants and works for said subdistrict, including all expenses necessarily incidental there to?
as submitted to the qualified electors of the Mississippi River
Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District at a
special election held on the 6th day of November, 1962, 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 the
Mississippi River 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 November 27, 1962.