East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-04-24
NOTICE OF PROPOSED CHARTER
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. If 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-
| termining the district benefited and
| to be assessed therefor, may all be
done in one and the same act
(3) The resolution Of the Council
| declaring its purpose to improve the
street shall be published for a period
shall also be published Herewith a
notice that the Surveyors estimate Of
the proportion of the cost OF said
work to be charged against each lot,
| part of lot and parcel of land is on
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 against
each lot, part of lot and parcel of
| land within such district, shall be
| kept of record in the office of the
City Recorder.
(D Within ten days from the date
of the first publication Of the notice
required to be published in the pre-
ceding section, the owners of so per
cent or more in area of the property
make and file with the City Recorder
a written objection or remonstrance
against such proposed Improvement
and such objection or remonstrance
shall be a bar to any further proceed
| ing in the making of such improve
ment for a period of six months un-
less the owners Of one-half or more
| of the property affected as aforesaid
shall subsequently petition therefor.
| (5) If no such objection or re-
monstrance be made or filed with the
Recorder within the time designated,
| the Council shall be deemed to have
| acquired jurisdiction to order the i'm
| provements to be made, and the
Council may thereafter by ordinance
provide for making such improve
| ment, which shall conform in all par
| tculars to the plans and specifica-
tions previously adopted.
| CO.. When the improvement Of
any street is ordered the Recorder,
upon instruction from the Common
Council, shall Immediately invite pro-
posals for making the same, in ac-
cordance with ordinance provided,
which proposals shall be opened in
the presence Of a majority of the
Common Council and the contract
| awarded to the lowest responsible
bidder for either the whole of said
Improvement or such part thereof as
will not materially conflict with the
! completion of the remainder thereof.
The Common Council shall have the
right to reject any or all proposals
| received. If all proposals shall be
rejected the Common Council shall
have power by resolution duly adopt
ed, to order that such Improvement
or any portion thereof. may be made
under the direction Of the Common
Council by purchasing the materials
and hiring the labor therefor The
Common Council shall have the pow
er to provide for the proper inspec-
ton and supervision of all work done
under the provisions OF this article
and to do any other act to secure
the faithful carrying out and the COM
pletion OF all contracts, and the max
ing OF all improvements in strict com
pliance with the ordinances and
specifications therefor, and shall have
power to direct that the cost of SAID
improvements, or any portion there
of, shall be paid for by the City.
CD Upon the signing of the CON
tract, or upon the determination o.
Improvement under its own supervi
sion by purchasing the material ant
the Common Council to make sale
OF ten days in some newspaper to b,
designated by the Council, and ther,
hiring the labor therefor, or as sool
, thereafter as is reasonably conven
, lent, the Common Council shall pro
. ceed to apportion and assess the cos
) OF making such Improvement upol
, the lots, parts OF lots and parcels o
; land within the assessment district, 1,
: accordance with the special and pc
c cuiar benefits derived by each lot
!, part of lot and parcel of land. N