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ORDINANCE B -2035
AN ORDINANCE providing for the transfer of funds from 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 General 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 Rural County Library District of Yakima County, Washington, for the
purpose of building a new regional library building within the City of Yakima, said libr-
ary to be for the use and benefit of the citizens of the City of Yakima, and
WHEREAS, The City of Yakima and the Rural County Library District have here-
tofore entered into an agreement for the joint construction of a regional library building,
and
WHEREAS, certain funds are required for the purpose of paying for the rental
of temporary library space while a new regional library is veing constructed and for the
purpose of paying costs o. f moving books, equipment and supplies from the old regional
library building to the temporary library quarters and back to the new regional library
building after construction is completed, and
WHEREAS, in. 1943 the City of Yakima established what is knwon 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, the Board of Tr istees of the Yakima Public Library on June 4, 1957,
has be resolution requested the transfer of the sum of $ 12,000.00 for the purpose of
paying expenses as hereinabove set forth, and
WHEREAS, it is deemed to be in the best interests of the City of Yakima to
permit the expenditure of said amount for the purposes set forth hereinabove, NOW, THERE
F ORE,
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 Reg -
ional Library the sum of $ 12,000.00 for the purpose of paying the expenses as herein -
above 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 ordinance 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 10th day of June,
1957.
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 -2035 entitled " AN ORDINANCE providing for the -- transfer of funds from the A. E.
Larson Library Trust Fund to the Yakima Valley Regional Library; and declaring an -emer-
gency." as passed on the 10th day of June, 1957, and that the same has been published
as required by law.
Te Y CLERK