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ORDINANCE NO. B -1242
AN ORDINANCE providing for the improvement of certain property by grading, ballasting,
surfacing and constructing concrete curbs and gutters; establishing a
Local Improvement District, providing for the method of payment therefor,
and creating a special fund.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. That Thirteenth Avenue South from Lenox Avenue to Mead Avenue;
also Prasch Avenue and Viola Avenue from 12th Avenue South to 14th Avenue South, shall
be improved by grading, ballasting, surfacing and constructing concrete curbs and
gutters, and to be constructed in full accordance with the plans and specifications
prepared by the 'City Engineer and filed with the City Clerk. The property to be bene-
fited by this improvement consists of the following:
Beginning at the intersection of Thirteenth Avenue South and Lenox
Avenue; thence easterly along Lenox Avenue to a point midway between
Thirteenth Avenue South and Twelfth Avenue South; thence southerly
and parallel with 13th Avenue South to a point midway between Hamm
Avenue and Prasch Avenue; thence easterly and parallel with Prasch
Avenue to 12th Avenue South; thence southerly along 12th Avenue
South to a point 156 feet south of Viola Avenue; thence westerly and
parallel with Viola Avenue to the east line of Lot 3, Baldwin Replat;
thence southerly and parallel with 13th Avenue South to Mead Avenue;
thence westerly along Mead Avenue to a point midway between 13th Avenue
South and 14th Avenue South; thence northerly and parallel with 13th
Avenue South to a point 153 feet south of Viola Avenue; thence westerly
and parallel with Viola Avenue to 14th Avenue South; thence northerly
along 14th Avenue South to a point midway between Prasch Avenue and
Hamra Avenue; thence easterly and parallel with Hamm Avenue to a point
midway between 14th Avenue South and 13th Avenue South; thence norther-
ly and parallel with 13th Avenue South to Lenox Avenue; thence easterly
along Lenox Avenue to the point of beginning.
Section 2. There is hereby created a Local Improvement District, to be
called Local Improvement District No. 720, which said district shall include all of
the property described and set forth in Section 1 hereof.
Section 3. All of the cost and expense in connection with the making and
construction of said improvement, including the cost and expense of engineering,
inspection, advertising, publication of notices and all other expenses incident thereto,
shall be levied and assessed upon all of the property embraced within said Local
Improvement District in accordance with the special benefits conferred thereon, in the
manner provided by the laws of the State of Washington and the Ordinances of the City
of Yakima; and said City shall not be liable in any manner for any portion of said cost
and expense of said improvement.
Section 4. All of the aforesaid construction work shall be in accordance
with the plans, profiles, specifications, maps and detailed drawings which have been
prepared by the City Engineer, filed with the City Clerk, and which are hereby approved
and adopted.
Section 5. All of the work necessary to be done in connection with the
making of said improvement shall be done and made by contract upon competitive bids;
and the City shall have the power to reject any and all bids.
Section 6. There is hereby created a special fund, to be called "Local
Improvement Fund, District No. 720 ", into which shall be placed all sums paid on
account of the aforesaid special assessments, including all interest and penalties
thereon; and, in the event of the sale of Local Improvement Bonds by this City, all
premiums and interest on said bonds issued for said improvement.
Section 7. Bonds bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum,
payable on or before 12 years from date of issuance, shall be issued in payment of the
cost and expense of said improvement; which bonds shall be redeemed by the collection
of special assessments to be levied and assessed upon the property within said district,
payable in 10 equal annual installments, with interest at therate of 4 per cent per
annum, interest payable annually; under the mode of "payment by bonds" as defined by
the statutes of the State of Washington and the Ordinances of the City of Yakima.
Section 8. This ordinance is one relating to local improvements or
assessments therefor, and shall become effective immediately upon its passage, approval
and publication as provided by City Charter.
- PASSED BY THE CITY 'COMMISSION, signed and approved, this 23rd day of
April, 1951.
ATTEST: PEARL BENJAMIN ( S E A L ) _ G. W. BURNS
CITY CLERK MAYOR
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of
Ordinance No..8 -1242 entitled "AN ORDINANCE providing for the improvement of certain
property by grading, ballasting, surfacing and constructing concrete curbs and gutters;
establishing a Local Improvement District, providing for the method of payment there-
for, and creating a special fund. ", as passed on this 23rd day of April, 1951, and
that same has been published as required by law.
CITY CLERK
