HomeMy WebLinkAbout1980-2420 CREATING A VOLCANO EMERGENCY FUND & ITS PURPOSE & SOURCES OF REVENUE. ORDINANCE NO. d L)
AN ORDINANCE relating to funds and accounts; creating a Volcano
Emergency Fund, designating its purpose and
sources of revenue, and providing for expenditures
therefrom; enacting Chapter 3.50, "Volcano Emergency
Fund ", and Sections 3.50.010, 3.50.020 :and .50.030
thereof as a new chapter and new sections of 3 the City
of Yakima Municipal Code; and declaring an emergency.
WHEREAS, because of the eruption of the Mount St. Helens
volcano on May 18, 1980, and the resulting ash fallout with its
severe adverse social and economic impact on the people of the City
of Yakima and its environs, the City Council of the City of Yakima
does hereby find and declare an emergency to exist of the nature
contemplated by Article VI, Section 2, of the Yakima City Charter,
so that this ordinance shall become immediately effectively as pro -
vided in Section 2 of this ordinance, now, therefore,.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. Chapter 3.50, "Volcano Emergency Fund ", and Sec -
tions 3.50.010, 3.50.020 and 3.50.030 thereof, are hereby enacted
as a new chapter and new sections of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code, to read as follows: -
"Chapter 3.50
VOLCANO EMERGENCY FUND
3..50.010 Fund created -- Purpose. There is created a
special fund to be known as the Volcano Emergency Fund.
The money in the fund shall be used to pay expenses of
any nature incurred by the City as a result of the emer-
gency created by the eruption of the Mount St. Helens
volcano on May 18, 1980, and the resulting ash fallout.
3.50.020 Source of funds. Money to be deposited
in the Volcano Emergency Fund shall consist of revenue
received by the City as emergency funds, however desig-
nated, from state and federal grants and loans and from
any other sources, because of the Mount St. Helens volcano
eruption and the resulting ash fallout; and from alloca-
tions and transfers of money from any available source
to such fund as may be made from time to time by the Yakima
City Council.
3.50.030 Expenditures. Expenditures from the
Volcano Emergency Fund shall be made only for the purpose
specified in Section 3.50.010. Money from such fund may
be expended pursuant to an ordinance appropriating money
for specified expenditures, pursuant to other authoriza-
tion of. the City Council or pursuant to other authority
granted by applicable laws for the expenditure of such
emergency fund."
Section 2. 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 day
of /> , 1980.
Wee‘
Mayor
ATTEST:
r, • r City Clerk
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