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OITOTNANITE Nn_ 11-1254
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 15th Avenue South from Mead Avenue to a. point 125.7 feet
south of Prasch Avenue, and Hamm ,venue from 12th Avenue, South to 14th Avenue South;
also Prasch Avenue and Viola Avenue. from 14th Avenue South to 16th 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
benefited by this improvement consists of the following:
Beginning at the intersection of 12th Avenue South, and Hamm Avenue;
thence southerly along 12th Avenue South to a point 147 feet south
of Hamm Avenue; thence westerly and parallel with Hamm Avenue to
14th Avenue South; thence southerly along 14th Avenue South to a point
306.79 feet south of Viola Avenue; thence westerly and parallel with
Viola Avehue to a point midway between 14th Avenue South and 15th
Avenue South; thence southerly and parallel with 15th Avenue South to
Mead Avenue; thence westerly along Mead .Avenue to a point midway be-
tween 15th Avenue South and 16th Avenue South; thence northerly and
parallel with 15th Avenue South to a point 321.7 feet south of Viola
Avenue; thence westerly and parallel with Viola Avenue to 16th Avenue
South; thence northerly along 16th Avenue South to a point 314.3 feet
north of Prasch Avenue; thence easterly and parallel with Prasch
Avenue to 14th Avenue South; thence northerly along 14th. Avenue South
to a point 145 feet north of Hamm Avenue; thence easterly and parallel
with Hamm Avenue to 12th Avenue South; thence southerly along 12th
Avenue South to the point of beginning.
Section 2. There is hereby created a Local Improvement District, to be
called Local Improvement District No. 723, 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 there-
to, shall be levied and assessed upon all of the property embraces 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 call "Local
Improvement Fund, District No. 723, 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 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 cola-
, ection 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 llth day of
June, 1951.
ATTEST: PEARL BENJAMIN ( SEA L ) G. W. BURNS
City Clerk Mayor
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of
Ordinance No. 'B -1254 entitled "AN ORDINANCE providing for the improvement of certain
property by grading, bllasting, 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 the llth day of June, 1951, and that
same has been published as required by law.
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