The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1931-08-20

WINIFRED CAMPBELL,
8:20-27 City Clerk.
ORDINANCE NO. 296
An ordinance creating LOCAL
Improvement District No. % and
providing for the improvement of
Kennewick Avenue from Washing
ton Street to Cascade Street,
Washington Street from the South
Line Of Kennewick Avenue East
to State Highway No. and Ben
ton Street from Washington Street
to State Highway No. 8, by the
construction and installation of
an Ornamental Lighting System
along and upon said streets; and
providing mode of payment for
said Improvement.
The City Council Of the City of
Kennewick do ordain as follows:
Section THAT Kennewick
Avenue from Washington Street
to Cascade Street, Washington
Street from the South line of
Kennewick Avenue East to State
Highway No. 8 and Benton Street
from Kennewick Avenue to State
Highway No. 8 shall be improved
by the installation of an orna-
mental lighting system along and
upon said portions of streets, and
by performing such other work
as may be necessary in connection
Herewith, according to the plans
and specifications prepared under
the direction of the Public I'M
provement Committee, and on file
in the office of the City clerk;
which said plans are hereby
adopted.
Section 2.That fifty percent of
the entire cost and expense of
making said improvement includ-
ing all necessary and incidental
expenses shall be borne by and
assessed against the property in
cluded in the assessment district
hereinafter created, and the re-
naming fifty percent of such
costs shall be borne by the City
of Kennewick. The said City shall
not be liable in any manner for
any portion Of the costs of said
improvement beyond fifty percent
there of other than such guaran-
tee as required by law for five
percent of the Indebtedness charg-
ed against said Improvement Dis
trict.
Section 3.-There is hereby
created and established a local
Improvement District, to be call
ed Local Improvement District
No. 23", which district shall in
clude all the property between the
termini Of said Improvement abut-
ting upon, adjacent, vicinal or ap-
proximate to the said portions Of
streets to be improved, as here
in provided, to distance back
from the marginal lines thereof,
as follows: All plated property
abutting upon the portions Of the
streets to be improved to the CEN
ter of the abutting blocks; all UNI
plated property to q distance
back from the marginal lines of
such street the same as the plat
ted property Immediately adjac-
ent thereto; all property cornering
on the termini of said improve
ment between the iitersecting
streets forming such corner back
to the arc Of a circle $50 feet
from slch corner.
Section IA special fund is
hereby created to be known as
Local Improvement Fund, Dis
trict Number %" which fund shall
consist of all amounts assessed,
levied and collected upon the sew
eral lots, tracts or parcels Of land
of said Local Improvement Dis
trict No. %, for the purpose of
defraying one-haH of the entire
cost and expenses Of said inn
provement and out Of said fund
shall be paid on-haf Of the entire
cost and expense of said improve
ment, and no part Of said fund
shall be or become the property
of the City of Kennewick, but shall
be construed as a special trust
fund for the purpose indicated.
Section 5-The Public Improve
ment Committee of the City Coun-
Gil of said city is hereby direct
ed to advertise for bids for max
ing said improvements in the
manner provided by law, reserv-
ing to the city the right to re-
ject any and all bids and do the
work under its own supervision.
In case a satisfactory bid is re-
ceived and accepted the contract
for said Improvement shall pro-
vide that the same shall be COM
pleted in all things in accordance
with the plans and specifications
for said Improvement, and shall
also provide that the contractor
doing the work shall agree to ac-
cept at par the bonds issued in
pursuance Of this ordinance, pay
able by said Local Improvement
District or issued by the City Of
Kennewick for it's one-haf por-
ton of the expense Of said inn
provement unless the said City