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ORDINANCE NO. B -1244
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 Fifth Avenue South from Lenox Avenue to Viola Avenue;
also Logan Avenue from Seventh Avenue South to Tenth Avenue South, in the City of
Yakima, shall be improved by grading, ballasting, surfacing and constructing concrete
curbs and gutters; and to be constructed in full accordance with the plans and specifi-
cations prepared by the City Engineer and filed with the City Clerk. The property to
be benefited by this improvement consists of the following:
Beginning at the intersection of Lenox Avenue and 5th Avenue South;
thence westerly along Lenox Avenue to a point midway between 5th
Avenue South and 6th Avenue South; thence southerly and parallel
with 5th Avenue South to Viola Avenue; thence easterly along Viola
Avenue to a point midway between 5th Avenue South and 4th Avenue South;
thence northerly and parallel with 5th Avenue South to Lenox Avenue;
thence westerly along Lenox Avenue to the point of beginning; also,
beginning at the intersection of Logan Avenue and 10th Avenue South;
thence southerly along 10th Avenue South to a point midway between
Logan Avenue and Mead Avenue; thence easterly and parallel with Logan
Avenue to 7th Avenue 5 thence northerly along 7th Avenue 6 outh
to a point midway between Logan Avenue and Viola Avenue; thence
westerly and parallel with Logan Avenue to 10th Avenue 'outh; thence
southerly along 10th Avenue South to the point of beginning.
Section 2. There is hereby created a Local Improvement District, to be
called Local Improvement District No. 721, 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. 721 ", 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 andexpense of said improvement; which bonds shall be redeemed by the collect-
ion of special assessments to be levied and assessed upon the property within said
district, payable in 10 equal annual installments, with interest at the rate 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 14th day of
May, 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. B-1244 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 pay-
ment therefor, and creating a, special fund. ", as passed on this 14th day of May, 1951,
and that same has been published as required by law.
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CITY CLERK