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ORDINANCE NO. B-2152
AN ORDINANCE providing for the transfer of funds of the A.E. Larson
Library Trust Fund to the Yakima Valley Regional Library;
and declaring an emergency.
WHEREAS, at a special election held on November 6, 1956,
in the City of Yakima, the electors did authorize the issuance of Gen-
eral Obligation Bonds by the City of Yakima in the sum of $400,000.00
for the purpose of providing funds to be used with like funds from the
II Rural County Library District of Yakima County, Washington, for the
purpose of buidling a new regional library buTHing within the City of
Yakima, said library to be for the use and benefit of the citizens of
the City of Yakima, and
WHEREAS, certain funds are required for the purpose of
paying for the rental of temporary library space while a new regional
library is being constructed for the purpose of paying costs of move-
ing books, equipment and supplies from the old regional library build-
ing to the temporary library quarters and back to the new regional
library building after construction is completed, and
WHEREAS, in 1934 the City of Yakima established what is
known as the A.E. Larson Library Trust Fund, said Fund to be used for
the improvement of the Yakima Public Library, and
WHEREAS, the attorney General of the State of Washington
has ruled in an opinion dated March 20, 1957, that said Fund can be
used for the payment of moving costs and for the payment of rental of
temporary space while a new regional library is being constructed, and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of Ordinance No. B-2035
passed and approved the 10th day of June, 1957, the sum of $12,000.00
was transferred from the A.E. Larson Library Trust-Fund to the Yakima
Valley Regional Library, $3,000.00 of which remains unemcumbered, and
II WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of the Yakima Public Lib-
rary on April 3, 1958, has, by resolution, requested additional funds
for the purpose of paying expenses above set forth, and
WHEREAS, it is deemed to be in the best interests of the
City of Yakima to permit the expenditure of said amounSor the purposes
set forth hereinabove,
NOW, TH
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. That the City Treasurer is hereby authorized
empowered and directed to transfer from the A.E. Larson Library Trust
Fund to the Yakima Valley Regional Library the sum of $5,550.00 for the
purpose of paying the expenses as hereinabove set forth.
Section 2. This ordinance is one to provide for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health and
safety, and an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this ordin-
ance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its passage,
approval and publication as provided by law and the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COMMISSION, signed and approved this
16th day of April, 1958.
ATTEST: J.A. SMITH ( S E A L ) JOE K. ALDERSON
CITY CLERK MAYOR
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, full and correct
copy of Ordinance No. B-2152 entitled AN ORDINANCE providing for the
transfer of funds of the A.E. Larson Library Trust Fund to the Yakima
Valley Regional Library; and declaring an emergency.", as passed on
the 16th day of April, 1958, and that the same has been publiShedas
required by law.
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