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HomeMy Public PortalAboutR0904 R E S O L U T I O N NO. 904 WHEREAS, the District has heretofore adopted Ordinance No. 1304 establishing the Watkins Creek Trunk Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District and delineating the boundaries thereof; and WHEREAS, it is the sense of the Board of Trustees of The District that it is necessary, in the interest of the public health of the District, that improvements be made in the subdistrict established by Ordinance No. 1304, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT that an improvement in the Watkins Creek Trunk Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is necessary in the interest of the public health, and that the improvement shall consist of a sanitary trunk sewer system extending from the northern terminus of the Mississippi River Interceptor Sewer of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District near the intersection of Interstate Highway 270 and Riverview Blvd., then extending westwardly and northwestwardly therefrom up the Watkins Creek valley to a point near Parker Road. Such sanitary trunk sewer system to be of sufficient size and capacity to provide adequate sanitary sewer service for the estimated ultimate population of the Watkins Creek Trunk Subdistrict. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the probable cost of such improvement is estimated to be One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000.00), based upon preliminary plans prepared for that purpose available to this Board, and upon the advise of the Executive Director. That the payment of the entire cost shall conform with the requirements of Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 of the Eighty-ninth Congress, under which the United States is authorized to make a grant in aid not exceeding 50% of the construction cost and the remainder must be paid by such subdistrict. That the part of the cost to be paid by such subdistrict, which is Nine Hundred Thirty Five Thousand Dollars ($935,000.00), shall be derived from the sale of general obligation bonds, payable both principal and interest by and from an annual tax on all taxable tangible property within such subdistrict, provided such bonds are authorized by a vote of the registered voters in the Watkins Creek Trunk Subdistrict at an election to be hereafter held for that purpose in accordance with the Plan of the District. The foregoing Resolution was adopted December 8, 1966.