The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-12
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS.


freeholders charter be amended so as TO read as
follows:
convenience may require the city council is hereby
authorized and empowered to order the whole or
any part OF the streets lanes alleys. squares or
places of the city graded or regarded 10 the official
grade, panked or replanked, paved or repaved.
nlacadamized remacadamized. grayeled or re
grayeled piled or replied. capped or recapped. and
to order sidewalks, sewers, mauholes. culverts,
curbing and crosswalks to be constructed or re.
paired therein, and 70 order any all work to be
whole any portion OF the streets, sidew alks,
lanes, squares alleys or places and the city coun.
Gil may levy and collect assessment upon all
lots or parcels of land benefited by such improve
ments to defray the cost and expense thereof,
which assessment shall bebome a lien upon all
property liable therefor.
subdivision =. The city council shall by general
ordinance provide the manner IN ~aich the atore-
said Improvements may De made, ana prescribe
all needul regulations for the exercise by the city
of the power granted and contained in the fore
going subdivision of this section; provided, that in
an cases in which the cost OF such Improvement is
be betrayed by the collection OF special assess
ment upon the properly benef ed the following
PROCEEDINGS shall be taken. viz: There must he
presented to the board Of public works written
petition setting forth the street or streets alley
alleys squares or places or parts thereof to be
improved, the nature OF the Improvement, the
mode of payment and the fact that the signers
owners Of property be benefited 10 the aggregate
amount Of majority of the assessment TO be levied
for such Improvement according to the transfer
books in the office of the county auditor. If the
board of public works find the facts set forth in
said petition TO be true they shall cause an eSti-
mate Of the cost of such improvement to be made
and transmit the petition. together with all papers
and information in their possession touching such
Improvement with the estimated cost thereof and
their recommendation thereof, TO the city council.
Provided, that no grade shall be changed when
any AUDITING owner or owners have built or made
improvements on any street highway or alley, I'M
less such pettjon shall be signed by the owners of
n majority of the frontage on the street. highway
alley within the distric. to be affected.
The city council shall have full authority TO con-
slider all matters in relation 10 such proposed inn
provement, and may authorize or refuse the
same IL their discretion proyiding that the
works shall not have authority to further
proceed in the matter of such improvement when
ever the estimated actual cost OF any work or
Improvement contemplated or ordered to be done
by the city council and chargeable n lien under
the provisions of this article against any lot lots
parcel or parcels of land, shall exceed one-half of
the total assessed valuation OF the lots parcels OF
land contained In such assessment district as the
same appears upon the last annual assessment
roll made for the ievying of taxes for municipal
purposes, in which case such Improvement shall
not be granted unless the same be so modified that
the cost thereof will not exceed such one-half Of
the aforesaid valuation.
The action and decisions ofthe city council as TO
ali matters passed upon by them in relation to the
rejection or the granting of such petition shall be
final and conclusive
Subdivision 8. said general ordinance shall also
provide for the establishment of a local improve
ment district, to be called local Improvement dis
:rict No. - which shall include all the property
between the terinini of said improveme abutting
upon, adjacent or proSimate TO the street. alley.
place or square proposed TO be improved to a dis
hundred and twenty feet. and all property included
within said limits of such local improvement dis
trict shall be considered and held TO have 'front.'
age upon such Improvement and shall be the prop
erty benefited by such local improvement, and
sha be the property to be assessed TO pay the cost
thereof, which cost shall be assessed upon
all Of said property so benefited in proper
ton TO the frontage thereof upon such i'm
provement, one foo. of frontage or the equivalent
thereof. viz: One hundred and twenty square feet
of superficial to be taken the unit by which
to determine the amount of frontage for which
each of said lots parcels parts thereof benefited
aforesaid shall be assessed aforesaid. Provided
that in case OF rectangular blocks AUDITING upoi,
said street proposed to be improved and having a
depth back from said street of less than TWO hun
dred and forty t240) feet, the line of the assess
said block or blocks.
Said assessment district shall for the purpose of
said assessment, be divided into four Subdivisions
parallel to the center line of the street alley pro-
posed TO be improved, each thirty feet in width
and beginning with the one nearest to the mar
ginal line of said street to be numbered respectively
first second, third and fourth. Each front foot or
its equivalent area in the first subdivision thirty
feet wide nearest TO the street to be improved
shall be assessed 40 per cent of the total amount
to be assessed against each front foot its equiva
lent; the second subdivision thirty feet wide be-
tween thirty and sixty feet back from the street
shall be assessed % per cent of the total amount
to be assessed against each front foot or its equiv
alent; the third subdivision thirty feet wide be-
tween sixty and ninety feet back from the street
shall be assessed 20 per cent of the total amount
TO be assessed against each front foot its equiva
lent; and the fourth subdivision between ninety
and one hundred and twenty feet back from the
street snail De assessed 10 cent. OF the tOtal
amount to be assessed against each front foot its
equivalent
All assessments levied upon lands OF the United
States, state of Washington, state university,
county of King the city of Seattle or any sch DOL
district shall be paid by the city of Seattle out of
its general road fund.
Subdivision 4. In all cases of special
assessment for local Improvement of
any kind against any property, persons or
have failed to be valid in whole or in part, because
for want of FORM insufliciency, informality ir-
Hon char
provisions governing such assessment, the city
council shall be and hereby authorized to
enforce their collection in accordance with the
provisions of laws ordinances existing at the
time the re assessment is made.
And it is further provided that whenever for any
Cause, mistake or inadvertence the amount
sessed shall not be sufficient 10 pay the of the
Improvement made and enjoyed by the owners of
property in the local assessment district where the
is made. that it shall he lawful. and the city
council is hereby directed and authorized 10 make
re-assessments on all the property in said local
sessInent district sufficient to pay tor such i'm
provement, such re-assessment 10 be made and
collected in accordance with the provisions of the
law or ordinances existing at the time of its levy
Resolved, That section Of article VII. of the
freeholders charter be amended so as TO read as
Sec 8. There shall be two modes of making pay
ment for such local Improvement, to-wit: I'm
mediate payment" and payment by bonds" The
mode TO be adopted shall be the mode pc
ttioned for. The mode OF immediate pay
ment' shall be follows: After the city
council has by ordinance or joint resoli-
tion ordered or authorized the making of any
local Improvement and not more than twenty days
after the contract therefor has been let as herein
after provided the board of public works shall
report TO the council an assessment roll
shall contain the description of each lot,
parcel of land part thereof 10 be assessed with
the number of feet frontage charged to each, the
total frontage in the district frontage be deter
mined provided in section of this article the
sary incidental expenses, the rate per front foot.
the amount of each assessment and the name of
the owner of each lot parcel of land part thereof
II known. but IN no case shall mistake in the
name of the owner be fatal where description of
the property is given. together with the amount
charged TO street crossings
The council on receipt of such roll and assess
ment shall cause potice thereofto be published in
the official newspaper of the city for ten coGsecu-
such roll has been filed and requiring them TO APP
pear at time fixed. not less than fifteen days from
the date of such notice and make objection thereto.
the council shall at the time fixed consider any
and all objections made, and shall make such
rectlons of such roll as it deems just, and shall
thcn deduct the amount OF such cost assessed
against street crossings, which shall be paid from
the general road fund ofthe city and shall then by
ordinance approve such roll and shall levy and AS
sesS the amounts thereof against each parcel and
lot and declare the same q lien thereon and shall
direct he CITY clerk to deliver the roll to the city
comptroller. who shall forthwith deliver to the city
treasurer a certified copy thereof upon receipt of
which the treasurer shalt proceed to collect the
same as other city taxes are collected; provided,
that such treasurer shall give ten DAYS notice in
the official newspaper land shall mail q
copy of such noice to the owner of
the property assessed when the postoffce ad-
dress of such owner is known, but the failure to
mail the same shall not be fatal when publication
thereof is made) that such roll has been certified
him for collection. and that unless payment is
made within thirty DAYS from the dale " such no
tee such assessment shall become delinquent and
shall bear interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per
annum until paid. and If not paid before such as
sessment shall have become delinquent a renalty
OF per cent. shall be added, and the sums deii-
quent shall be entered on the annual tax roll for
the current year against each lot and parcel SO de-
llnquent, and with the interest collected other
taxes, separate account being kept thereof and If
not paid within the tiTue fixed for the payment OF
city taxes, shalt collected such taxes are col
lected. together with such additional charges or
penalties as are authorized 10 he charged and col
leCted on other delinquent taxes, and each lot or
parcel delinquent shall he sold for the amount of
such assessment with interest and costs. at the
time and in the manner and by III. same authority