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ORDINANCE NO. B -1555
AN ORDINANCE providing for the expenditure of funds not budgeted, for services and expens
es in connection with the Lenox Avenue overpass and pertaining to court
litigation in connection therewith and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. That an emergency exists requiring an expenditure of an addition-
al $9,000.00 to defray certain expenses incurred for legal and engineering services rend-
ered and costs incurred in connection with the Lenox Avenue overpass and court litigation
pertaining thereto; it appearing that funds therefor were not appropriated by or included
in the 1954 budget, and that it was impossible at the time of making said budget to have
reasonably foreseen the need for such additional moneys for such purposes. That it was
contemplated that said expenses would be paid from the proceeds of sale of the $400,00001
Lenox Avenue overpass bond issue which. was heretofore approved by vote of the people, but
the same has been unexpectedly and unavoidably delayed by an appeal to the State Supreme
Court which has been taken by one intervening taxpayer and wife in the test case involv-
ing the test case involving the legality of said bond issue.
Section 2. The City Treasurer is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed
to issue emergency warrants upon the city street fund for said purposes, in a sum not to
exceed $4,359.60, upon the presentation of proper vouchers therefor, and including the
following bills pending:
Preston, Thorgrimson & Horowitz, $2,320.$$
Tunstall & Hettinger, 506.00
Elwood Hutcheson • 60.40
Section 3. The City Treasurer is also hereby authorized, empowered, and
directed, pursuant to Resolution No. C -1116 adopted by the City Commission on April 12,
1954, to take and transfer from the City Street Fund to the Lenox Avenue overpass fund
a sufficient sum for the payment and redemption of the. outstanding warrants heretofore •
issued in the total sum of $4,640.40 upon the Lenox Avenue overpass fund which was creat-
ed by Ordinance No. B -1470, said warrants having been heretofore issued for the purposes
hereinabove stated.
Section 4. That said city street fund shall be later reimbursed for all
sums taken pursuant to this resolution as soon as possible after the issuance of said
Lenox Avenue bond issue out of the proceeds of sale thereof.
Section 5. This ordinance is one providing for the expenditure of funds not
budgeted, and an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this ordinance shall become
effective immediately upon its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and
the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COMMISSION, signed and approved this 26th day of April,
1954.
ATTEST: PEARL BENJAMIN G. W. BURNS
City Clerk tS E A L) Mayor
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of Ordinance
No B -1555 entitled "AN ORDINANCE providing for the expenditure of funds not budgeted, for
services and expenses in connection with the Lenox Avenue overpass and pertaining to
court litigation in connection therewith, and declaring an emergency." as passed this
26th day of April, 1954 and that same has been published as required by law.
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