The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-03

| Passed May 2, 1917. -
Attest: w. D. NlcKETs, "
City Clerk.
May 3. 1917.
oRDINANCE NO. 659S.-An ordi.
nance providing for the improve
ment of Grant Avenue from Soutt
18th Street to South 18th street;
creating Local improvement Dis
| trict No. 40il; providing for 6
special fund for the payment of the
cost of said Improvement by special
assessment upon property within
said district benefited thereby; pro-
yiding for the issuance of local i'm
provement bonds; and declaring an
emergency.
WHEREAS, an initial resolution
adopted by the Council of the City
Of Tacoma, March 2Sth, 1917, declar-
ing the intention of said Council to
make the Improvement hereinafter
described and fixing Monday, April
16, 1917, as the time for hearing OBJ
jections to the making of said inn
prOVement, was duly published as
provided by law; and
WHEREAS, on said 10th day of
April, 1917, said time of hearing was
continued TO April 23rd, 1917; and
WHEREAS. prior to the ed day
of April, 1917, the Commissioners of
Public Works of said City submitted
to said Council the estimated cost
of said Improvement in he sum of
So, 043.20, and n statemen. of the
proportionate amount thereon which
should be borne by the property
within the proposed assessment dis
trict, in the sum of $6,0i3.20. and
a statement of the aggregate as
Lao - II lot
clusive of Improvement, within said
district. according to the valuation
last placed upon it for the purpose
of general taxation, in the sum of
3d. $4,000; and a diagram or print
showing thereon the lots, tracts or
parcels of land and other property
which will be specially benefited by
said Improvement, and the estimated
amount Of the cost and expense Of
the Improvement to be borne by each
lot, tract or parcel of land within
said district; and
WHEREAS, on said 2Srd day of
April, 1917, all remonstrances
against the making Of said improve
ment Were overruled by the Coun-
ell; NOW. THEREFORE,,
BE 1T ORDAINED BY THE CITY
OF TACOMA:
Section i. That Grant Avenue
from South 18th Street to South
14th Street be improved by grading
to the established grade with a
roadway twenty-four feet in width
and laying down on said roadway an
asphaltic pavement on a concrete or
crushed rock base with concrete
curbs and cutters. and extending to
curb lines the necessary sanitary
sewer connections: according to the
plans and specifications prepared
therefor by the City Engineer, now
on file in the office of the Commits
sioner of Public Works.
Section 2. That the real property
to be benefited by said Improvement
and which is hereby created Local
District No. 4041, Is
described as follows:
All the lots in Blocks 1898 and
1884. Bakers Second Addition to, Ia
coma;
All the lots in Blocks 1888 and
Lots 1 to inclusive, in Blocks
1888 and 1894
Del Norts Addition to the city
of Tacoma.
All of said property being in the
City of Tacoma, Pierce County,
Section 3. An assessment is
hereby levied upon the several lots,
tracts and parcels of land in said
Local Improvement District for the
purpose of defraying the cost of
said improvement, in accordance
ington and Ordinance No. 1911 of
said City.
Said assessment so levied upon
said lots, tracts and parcels of land
may be paid either in
cash. without interest, before the
issuance of bonds, or. in ten equal
annual installments, together with
interest on the whole sum so
at six per cent. per annum;
and each year after the issuance of
the bonds hereinafter provided for
one of such installments, together
with the interest due thereon and
on all installments thereafter to be-
manner provided by law and the
charter and ordinance of the City
Of Tacoma for the collection of
assessments for local improvements.
Section 4. A special fund Is here
by created to be called Local Inn
provement Fund, District No. 4O41,
which shall consist in the aggregate
Of the several amounts assessed,
levied and collected upon the sew
eral lots and parcels of land in said
local improvement district for the
purpose of defraying the cost and
expense of said Improvement. Out
Of said fund shall be paid the bonds,
interest thereon, and the cost OF
said improvement, and no part of
said fund shall become the property
OF the City of Tacoma, but shall be
treated as a special trust fund for
the purpose herein indicated.
Section S, The Commissioner of
Public Works is hereby ordered to
proceed with said Improvement by
letting a contract for the construc-
tion of the same, after inviting bids
therefor in the manner provided by
the City Charter, and make out and
certify to the Council an assessment
roll, charging the cost and expense
Of said Improvement against said
lots, tracts and parcels of land in
the manner provided by law.
In calling for bids the Commits
sioner of Public Works shall state
that the contractor doing the work
shall agree to accept at par the
ordinance In payment of the same,
and shall have no claim whatever
on account thereof against the City
of Tacoma except solely upon said
bonds, the special assessment made
and the fund hereby created.
Section 9. Under the provisions
of Chapter 9S of the Laws of the
State of Washington of 1911. and
this Ordinance. there shall be is
local Improvement bonds against
said district amounting in the ag-
to a sum equal to the
amount of said assessment remain
ing unpaid at the time OF their is
suance, but not in excess of the
cost and expense of said improve
ment, which bonds shall bear inter-
est at the rate of six per ceLt. per
annum from the date of their is
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