HomeMy Public PortalAboutR0935 R E S O L U T I O N NO. 935
A RESOLUTION to declare the result of a special
election held in the Watkins Creek Trunk Subdistrict of The
Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District on April 11, 1967.
WHEREAS, heretofore, to wit: On the 3rd day of March,
1967, 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 Watkins Creek Trunk
Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District on
Tuesday, the 11th day of April, 1967 for the purpose of submitting
to the qualified electors of said subdistrict the following
proposition:
PROPOSITION Shall the general obligation bonds of the Watkins Creek Trunk Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District be issued in the amount of Nine Hundred Thirty-five Thousand ($935,000) Dollars to provide funds for the purpose of constructing a sanitary trunk sewer system 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, March 20, 27 and April
3 and 10, 1967, 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 11th
day of April, 1967, 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
14th day of April, 1967, 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 four hundred
fifty-six (1,456) votes on the aforesaid proposition of which one
thousand seventy (1,070) votes were cast "FOR THE BOND ISSUE" and
three hundred eighty-six (386) votes were cast "AGAINST THE BOND
ISSUE"; and
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:
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Section One. That the following proposition, to wit:
PROPOSITION Shall the general obligation bonds of the Watkins Creek Trunk Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District be issued in the amount of Nine Hundred Thirty-five Thousand (935,000) Dollars to provide funds for the purpose of constructing a sanitary trunk sewer system within and for said Subdistrict, including all expenses necessarily incidental thereto?
as submitted to the qualified electors of the Watkins Creek Trunk
Subdistrict of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District at a
special election held on the 11th day of April, 1967, 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 Watkins 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.
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The foregoing Resolution was adopted May 4, 1967.