East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-05-06
NOTICE OF PROPOSED CHAHTH
AMENDMENT.
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and parcels Of land should pay on ac-
count Of the benefits TO be derived
from such proposed improvement, and
the City Surveyor shall file such plans
and specifications and estimates In
the office Of the Recorder Of The City
of Pendleton. II the Council shall
find such plans, Specifications and es-
Inmates to be satisfactory, 1t shall ap-
prove the same and shall determine
the boundaries of the district bene-
fitted and to be assessed for such i'm
provement and the action Of the
Council in the creation of such an
assessment district shall be final and
conclusive. The Council shall by
resolution declare its purpose Of max
ing such Improvement, describing the
same and including such engineers
estimates Of the probable total cost
thereof, and also defining the boun-
daries of the assessment district to
be benefited and assessed therefor.
The action Of the Council in declaring
its intention to improve any street or
streets or any part or parts thereof,
| directing the publication Of notice
| thereof, approving and adopting the
| plans and Specifications and esti-
mates Of the City Surveyor, and de-
termning the district benefited and
to be assessed therefor, may all be
done in one and the same act.
30 The resolution Of the Council
declaring its purpose TO improve the
street shall be published for period
shall also be published Herewith a
notice that the Surveyors estimate Of
.he proportion of the cost of said
work to be charged against each lot
part Of lot and parcel of land is or
file in the office of the City Record
er, and a copy Of such resolution, to-
gether with the report of the Sur
veyor, showing the probable percent
age Of benefit to be assessed agains
each lot, part Of lot and parcel o
land within such district, shall b.
kept Of record in the office of tn
City Recorder.
4) Within ten days from the dat
- Of the first publication Of the motto
required to be published in the pre-
ceding section, the owners Of 80 pc
cent or more in area of the propert
within such assessment district ma
make and file with the City Recorde
. a written objection or remonstranc
:, against such proposed improvement
i. and such objection or remonstranc
shall be 4 bar 10 any further proceed
ing in the making of such improve
ment for a period of six months, VI
less the owners of one-half or MOI
4 of the property affected as aforesai
% shall subsequently petition thereto
(5) If no such objection or r.
- monstrance be made or flied with II
Recorder within the time designate
the Council shall be deemed to ha'
acquired Jurisdiction to order the In
!. provements to be made, and Il
=. Council may thereafter by ordinan
provide for making such !mprov
+, ment, which shall conform in all pa
ticulars to the plans and specific
tions previously adopted.
~ (6) When the improvement
,e any street is ordered the Record'
upon instruction from the Comm
or Council, shall Immediately invite pr
of posals for making the same, in a
j. cordance with ordinance provide
which proposals shall be opened
,a the presence of a majority of t
~ Common Council and the contra
awarded to the lowest responsit
"a bidder for either the whole of sa
H. Improvement or such part thereof
40 will not materially conflict with t
n completion of the remainder there'
The Common Council shall have t
II right to reject any or all propose
Is received. If all proposals shall
v rejected the Common Council sht
: have power by resolution duly adoI
"a ed, to order that such improvsmel
,d or any portion thereof, may be ma
is under the direction of the Comm
a., Council by purchasing the materif
and hiring the labor therefor, 7
Common Council shall have the po
er to provide for the proper inspe
&, tion and supervision of all work do
q under the provisions of this artic
or and to do any other act to secu
the faithful carrying out and the col
-, pletion Of all contracts, and the ma
80 ing of all improvements in strict col
80 pliance with the ordinances a.
specifications therefor, and shall ha
"a power to direct that the cost of sa
improvements, or any portion ther
- of, shall be paid for by the City.
80 CD Upon the signing OF the co
tract, or upon the determination
~ Improvement under its own super
- sion by purchasing the material a
0N the Common Council TO make ss
OF ten days in some newspaper to
49, designated by the Council, and the
-, hiring the labor therefor. or as so
thereafter as is reasonably conve
lent, the Common Council shall pr
coed to apportion and assess the CT
-, of making such Improvement up