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AN ORDINANCE appropriating the sum of $10,876.00 from the Cumulative
Reserve Fund for Domestic Water Supply Development to
Account 6-88 Wells, of the Capital or Betterment classi-
fication of the 1961 appropriation for 52 - Water Depart-
ment, and declaring an emergency.
WHEREAS, in Ordinance No. B-2024-A adopted May 15, 1957, the City
of Yakima created a fund known as the "Cumulative Reserve Fund for
Domestic Water Supply Development" in accordance with Chapter 60 of
the Laws of 1941, as amended by Chapter 38 of the Laws of 1953, and
WHEREAS, in said ordinance creating said fund it was specifically
provided that any moneys in said fund should be expended only for the
following municipal purposes, to--wit:
"Said costs shall include the construction of necessary
structures, required pipe lines, pumps and piping, water
• treatment facilities, reservoirs and control equipment,
land acquisition, engineering costs, test drilling, pur-
chase of water or storage rights and/or any other costs
necessary for the purpose of acquiring a water supply and
making same a part of the domestic water distribution
system of the City of Yakima;'
and
WHEREAS, the City subsequently drilled two wells (one at Kiwanis
Park and the other on the airport) for the purpose of developing addi-
tional water supply for the City of Yakima, and
WHEREAS, the drilling of said wells is among the purposes provided
in said ordinance for the development of domestic water supply and said
wells have been completed and accepted by the City and the final pay-
ment therefor is now due, and
WHEREAS, additional moneys which could not reasonably haw: been
41 1 contemplated at the time of the adoption of the 1961 Budget are re-
quired to complete the payment due the contractor on said wells and
make the same a part of the domestic water supply of the City of Yakima,
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0 and the City Council finds that it is in the best interests of the
people of the City of Yakima to make the appropriation herein provided
and that an emergency exists of the type authorized and contemplated
by R.C.W. 35.33.090 now therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. That the sum of 510 is hereby appropriated
from the Cumulative Reserve Fund for Domestic Water Supply Development
to Account 6-88 Wells of the Capital or Betterment classification of
the 1961 appropriation for 52 - Water Department.
Section 2. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate
preservation of the public peace 9 property 9 health and , afety of the
people of the City of Yak1ma and an emergency is hereby declared to
exist and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately
0 upon its passage approval and publication as provided by law and by
the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL 9 signed and approved this' of
May 1961.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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