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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1970-1205 ORDINANCE NO. /26.5 AN ORDINANCE relating to local improvement districts; specifying pro- cedures for awarding contracts for local improvement district projects; and for preparing and confirming local improvement district assessment rolls; amending Sections 8.12.055 and 8.12.075 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code; and declaring an emergency. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section 1. Section 8.12.055 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "8.12.055 Division of contracts -- Lowest bidder-- Notice -- Deposit with bid. The City Council may provide that all the work to be done in any Local Improvement District shall be let in one contract or at its option, it may provide that the work in any Local Improvement District be subdivided and separate and dis- tinct contracts be let for each subdivision thereof. All local improvements to be made by contract shall be let to the lowest and best bidder therefor. Before awarding any such contract, or contracts, the City Clerk shall publish a notice, as required by the City Charter, in consecutive issues in the official news -. paper of the city, the last publication of which shall be at least ten days before the letting of such contract or contracts, inviting sealed proposals for such work, and the plans and specifications whereof must at the time of publication of such notice, be on file in the office of the City Clerk, subject to public inspection. Such notice shall state generally the work to be done and shall call for proposals for doing the same to be sealed and filed with the City Clerk on or before the day and hour named therein. All bids shall be accompanied by cash or a certified check payable to the order of the City Treasurer for a sum not less than five (5) per cent of the amount bid, or by a surety bond executed by a surety authorized to do business in the State of Washington in which the city is named as obligee in the said sum of five (5) per cent of the amount of the bid and no bid shall be considered unless accompanied by such deposit or by such surety bond. If in the judgment of the City Council the work should be done by the city by day work and under the super- vision of the City Manager, it is hereby empowered to proceed with the work irrespective of all such bids, and in such case all bids shall be rejected." Section 2. Section 8.12.075 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: "8.12.075 Assessment roll -- Notice -- Hearings -- Procedure for confirming. (1) Upon completion of the improvement there shall be filed with the City Clerk an assessment roll prepared by the City Engineer, which shall contain the description of each lot, tract, parcel of land or other property to be assessed; the amount to be charged, levied or assessed against the same, and the name of the owner thereof, if known, but in no case shall a mistake in the name of the owner be fatal when the description of the property is correct. (2) The City Council upon receipt of such assessment roll shall fix a date of hearing thereon and direct the City Clerk to give notice of such hearing and time and place thereof. Such notice shall, in addition to specifying the r, •, time and place of hearing on such roll, notify all persons who may desire to object thereto, to make such objections in writing and to file the same with the City Clerk at or prior to the date fixed for such hearing, and said notice shall be published at least five times in a daily newspaper, if the official city newspaper is published daily, or at least two times in a weekly newspaper, if the official city newspaper is published weekly; Provided, that at. leas f fif= teen days must elapse between the date of the last publica- • tion thereof and the date fixed for such hearing. The City Clerk shall also mail notice of such hearing to the owner or reputed owner of the property affected whose name appears on the assessment roll at least fifteen days before the . date fixed for such hearing. At the time fixed for Such hearing the City Council shall sit as a board of equaliza- tion for the purpose of considering such assessment roll, and at such hearing or hearings will consider such objec- tions made thereto, or any portion thereof; Provided, that said objections are made in writing and filed with the City Clerk at or before the time fixed in said notice of such hearing, and will correct, revise, raise, lower, change or modify such roll or any portion thereof, or set aside such roll and order that said assessments be made de novo, as to said City Council shall appear just and equitable; and then said City Council shall proceed to confirm the same by ordinance. (3) The ordinance confirming any assessment roll shall levy and assess against each lot, tract, parcel of land or other property appearing upon such roll the amount charged against the same. Upon the enactment of such ordinance, the roll shall be delivered by the City Clerk to the City Treasurer with his certificate that the same has been duly approved by ordinance, and annually thereafter in the case of assessments payable by the mode of "Payment by Bonds ", he shall extend the installments of principal and interest upon the unpaid balance shown upon said approved roll." Section 3. This ordinance is one to provide for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and wel- fare of the people of the City of Yakima and an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and by the City Charter. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this 24th day of February, 1970. (. ATTEST: Ma or / /Wa24:1.—/a / Y City Clerk - 2 -