Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-12-07
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council of the city of Ashland, Ore
gon, duly adopted on the 9Th day
of December, 1916, and approved by
the Mayor of said city on the same
day, the following proposed amend
ment to the Charter of the city OF
Ashland will be submitted to the
legal voters of said city for their ap-
pr0yal or rejection at special elec-
tion to be held on the said 18th day
of December. 1916. to-wit:
AN ACT
An Act to amend Article XIX of
the Charter of the city of Ashland,
Oregon. said Charter being that GER
tain Act of the Legislative Assembly
OF the state of Oregon, filed in the
office of the Secretary of State, Octo-
Der 14th 1898, entitled IAN Act to
ament an act, entitled An Act to in
corporate the City of Ashland, jack
son county, Oregon, and define the
power thereof, filed in the office of
Secretary of State, February 25th,
1895, amending the same, as amend
ed by all acts subsequent thereto,
either of the Legislative Assembly
of the state of Oregon, or by vote
of the qualified electors of the city
of Ashland, Oregon, to abolish the
Ashland Park Commission, created
by Section 2, of Article XIX of the
Charter, as said Article XIX was
added to and made part of the
Charter, by an amendment, made eff
fective by the proclamation of the
Mayor of said city, on the 18th day
of December, 1908; to confer upon
the common council of the city of
Ashland, Oregon, certain powers and
requiring of said council, certain
duties, heretofore required of and
performed by the said Ashland Park
Commission, under and by virtue of
said Article XIX of the Charter, and
the amendment thereof; to require
that the common council levy tax
annually, of not more than two mills
on the dollar of the taxable property
of the city, al the same time the
council makes its levy for general
city purposes, the fund thereby Gre
ated to he segregated and known as
the Ashland Park Fund, and to be
expended only in the protection,
maintenance, beautifying and improv-
ing of the public parks of the city,
and the growing timber and other
Improvements thereon, and the pay
nent of any present Indebtedness now
nNictinU auaingt gotI AL, M
Park Commission; directing that the
said Ashland Park Commission make
full, true and complete report of
all moneys received and disbursed
by 1t during the past year, as well
es all otner matters and things per-
tanning to the operation, present con-
dition and equipment of said public
parks, and file the same with the
City Recorder, on or before the 1st
day of January, 1917, and at the
same time deliver over to the city
council, all books, contracts, deeds,
money or other public property now
in the possession of SAID Ashland
Park Commission, and repeating all
Charter provisions, ordinances and
resolutions of the said city of Ash
land in conflict herewith.
BE 1T ENACTED BY THE PEO-
PIE OF THE CITY OF ASHLAND.
OREGON:
That Article XIX, as said Article
was added to and made a part of the
Charter of the city of Ashland, be-
coming operative by the proclamation
of the Mayor of the said city on the
18th day of December, 1908, be
amended to read as follows.
Section /. That the Ashland Park
Commission of the city of Ashland,
as created under and by virtue of
Article XIX of said Charter of Ash
land, be, and the same is hereby
abolished. Provided, however, that
the members of said Commission, as
now constituted, shall perform their
duties as set out in said Article XIX,
until the 1st day of January, 1917,
at which time they shall make full,
true and complete report of all mon
eys received and disbursed by the
Commission during the past year, as
well as all other matters and things
pertaining to the operation, present
condition and equipment of said pub
lie parks, and file the same with
the City Recorder on or before the
1st day of January, 1917, and at the
same time the Commission shall de-
liver over to the city council all
books, contracts, deeds, money or
other public property, now in the
possession of the members of said
Commission by virtue CT their Of
flee.
Section 2. The common council of
the city of Ashland shall, from and
after the 1st day of January, 1917,
have the entire jurisdiction, manage
ment and control of all the public
park lands now owned by the city of
Ashland, or which it may hereafter
acquire for park purposes, and shall
employ such means as may be neces-
airy to protect the growing timber.
shrubs, flowers, plants or other i'm
provements on any of said park lands,
from injury or destruction by fire
or otherwise, and shall maintain, i'm
prove and beautify said public parks.
Section 3. All lands now owned
by the city of Ashland, excepting
its streets, alleys and plaza, and also
excepting such land as are now own
ed by 1t for the purpose of taking
rock for street purposes, city pound,
hitching grounds, reservoir sites, sep
tic tanks, public market sites and
such lands as have been taken over
by the city on account of public as
sessment), and all lands owned by
said city bordering upon or adjacent
to Ashland Creek, and extending into
the Ashland Forest Raserva and all