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Home My WebLink About1971-1334 ORDINANCE NO. 1334 AN ORDINANCE of the City Council of the City of Yakima, Washington, providing for the submission to the qualified electors of the city at a special election to be held therein on November 2, 1971, of a proposition of whether or not the city should issue its unlimited tax levy general 1• obligation bonds in the principal amount of $1,100,000 for the purpose of providing funds to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing, equipping and making certain capital improvements to the fire department facilities of the city, and declaring an emergency. WHEREAS, one of the existing stations of the city fire depart- ment is old, outmoded, poorly located and inadequate to furnish the city and its inhabitants with proper fire protection; and WHEREAS, a new additional station to serve the southeast portion of the city is necessary; and WHEREAS, the fire department officials and the City Manager have prepared a plan for the acquisition, construction, equipping and making of capital improvements to the fire department facilities of the city which, when carried out, together with existing fire depart- ment facilities, will provide an adequate and complete fire department system throughout the city; and WHEREAS, in order to provide the money necessary to carry out said plan it is deemed necessary and advisable that the city issue and sell its unlimited tax levy general obligation bonds in the prin- cipal amount of $1,100,000; and WHEREAS, the Constitution and laws of the State of. Washington provide that the question of whether or not such bonds may be issued and sold for such purposes must be submitted to the qualified elec- tors of the city for their ratification or rejection; and 411 WHEREAS, it is further deemed necessary and advisable that said proposition be submitted to such qualified electors at a special elec- tion to be held at the time of the election to be held on November 2, 1971; now therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section 1 It is hereby found and declared that it is necessary for the public welfare, benefit and safety of the residents that it carry out the plans hereinafter provided. ` 1, Section 2. The city shall: A. Abandon Fire Station No. 1, acquire a site north of the central business district on the east side of the railroad tracks and construct and equip a new fire station thereon. B. Acquire a site near or on Nob Hill Boulevard in the vicinity of the railroad tracks and construct and equip a new fire station thereon. C. The above - mentioned two new stations shall be architec- turally suited to their neighborhood, sprinkler - protected with fire resistive materials and approved roof coverings, air- condi- tioned, shall have bays for apparatus large enough to house new • equipment to be acquired and space for the storage of reserve apparatus, drilling, training, eating and sleeping facilities and room for future growth. Each such station shall be construc- ted with a hose - drying tower, offstreet parking areas and land- scaping. Fire Station No. l shall have constructed, in conjunc- tion with it, fire administration offices. D. Construct and equip a five -story drill tower, together with smoke training building, a drafting pit, and other site improvements. E. Acquire two new quad pumpers and hold two existing 750 g.p.m. pumpers in reserve. 411 F. Make various miscellaneous capital improvements to exist- ing fire stations and fire department facilities. The city may make such changes in the above - described plans as the City Council may find to be necessary and advisable, either prior to or during the actual,course of construction thereof and as the - 2 - funds therefor may permit, as long as such changes do not substan- tially affect the overall plans and the fire-fighting services to be rendered as hereinabove provided. Section 3. For the purpose of providing the money necessary to acquire, construct, equip and make the improvements described in Section 2 hereof, the city shall issue and sell its unlimited tax levy general obligation bonds in the principal amount of $1,100,000. In the event the proceeds of sale of said bonds are 'insufficient to make all of the improvements hereinabove authorized, the city shall use the available funds to pay the cost of those improvements deemed most necessary by the City Council. Section 4. Said bonds may be sold in such amounts and at such time or times as deemed necessary by the City Council and as permitted by law, shall bear interest at a rate or rates as shall be fixed upon the sale or sales thereof, and shall mature serially in from two to twenty years from date of issue. Both principal of and interest on 111 said bonds shall be payable out of annual tax levies to be made upon all the taxable property within the city without limitation as to rate or amount. The exact date, form, terms and maturities of said bonds shall be as hereafter fixed by ordinance or ordinances of the city. Section 5. It is hereby found and declared that an emergency exists requiring the submission to the qualified electors: of the city of the proposition of whether or not the city shall issue such bonds for such purposes at a special election to be held therein on Novem- ber 2, 1971. The Yakima County Auditor, as ex officio supervisor of all elec- tions held in Yakima County, is hereby requested to also find the existence of such emergency, to call and conduct such special election and to submit to the qualified electors of the city the proposition hereinafter set forth. - 3 - The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to certify said proposition to the Yakima County Auditor in the following form: PROPOSITION NO. 2 FIRE DEPARTMENT FACILITIES BONDS, • 4110 $1,100,000 Shall the City of Yakima, Washington, acquire two new fire station sites and construct and equip new fire stations thereon with all necessary facilities for complete fire stations, construct and equip a five-story drill tower with necessary training facilities and acquire new fire-fighting equipment, and to provide the money therefor.-issue its general obligation bonds in the principal amount of $1,100,000, such bonds to bear interest at a rate or rates to be fixed upon the sale or sales thereof, to mature serially in from two to twenty years from date of issue and to be paid, both principal and interest, out of annual tax levies to be made upon all the taxable property within the city without limitation as to rate or amount, all as more specifically provided in Ordinance No. 1334 of the city, passed and approved September 13, 1971? BONDS, YES / / BONDS, NO / / Section 6. For the reason that the laws of the State of Washing- 0 ton require that this ordinance be certified to the Yakima County Auditor at least forty-five days prior to said November 2, 1971, elec- tion date, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health and safe- ty this ordinance shall become effective immediately upon its passage, approval and publication as provided by law. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved at a regular meet- ing of said Council held this 13th day of September, 1971. 2 , r Ale 1 Mayor ATTEST: 411 • City Clerk -4- • • , I,, MARIE DONELSON 1 the duly chosen,. qualified and acting Clerk of the City of Yakima, Washington, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the ORDINANCE foregoing is 'a true and correct copy of X.V1XXIXti No. 1334 duly adopted by the Council of said city at a regular meeting thereof held • on the 13th day of September, 1971, and approved by its Mayor on said date. City Clerk •