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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0579 OrdinanceORDINANCE NO AN-ORDINANCE,PROVIDING FOR THE ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION AND TD FACILITIES BY INSTALLATION OF A WATER FILTRATION PLANT All AND FOR THE CITY OF PASCO, BEING AN ADDITION TO THE -EXISTING ITMICIPAL WATER SYSTEM OF SAID CITY., THE COMPLETED WORKS .OF WHICH SHALL BE WITED;CONTROLLED AND OPERATED BY SAID CITY, THE FOREGOING ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION AND -INSTALLATION BEING EXPRESSLY SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS OF PASCO AT A SPECIAL ELECTION HEREIN PROVIDED FOR: SETTING FORTH, PRESCRIBING AND DETAILING THE PLAIT OF SAID WATER FILTRATION PLANT AND FACILITIES-:: PROVIDING FOR THE SALE OF AN ISSUANCE OF THE GE11TERAL OBLIGATION NEGOTIABLE SERIAL COUPON BONDS OF THE CITY OF PASCO IN THE TOTAL PRINCIPAL I AMOUNT OF $132,000.00, THEREBY INCURRING,A-MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS IN THAT AMOUNT, IN.-. ORDER TO PAY S0 TENCH OF THE COST OF SAID COMPLETED WORKS: AND PROVIDING FOR THE PAYhWT OF SAID BONDS . AND THE INTEREST THERE - 011 -BY APPROXIMATELY EQUAL ANNUAL TAX LEVIES, SUCH ANNUAL LEVIES I S TG BE IN EXCESS OF THE TAX LEVY LIMITATION UPON TAXABLE PROPERTY, INWASHINGTON CITIES EXPRESSED IN THE WASHINGTON STATUTE AND WASHINGTON CONSTITUTION: STATING THE TOTAL ESTIMATED COST OF SA -ID WORKS: STATING ,OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS OF MONEYS FOR THE PAY- MENT OF THE TOTAL COST THEREOF BY THE CITY OF PASCO AND BY THE STATE OF WASHINGTON: DECLARING.. THE TIME SAID BONDS SHAIIRUNI THE APPROXIMTE..LIFE OF SAID WORKS, THE NATURE AND DETAILS OF SAID BOND ISSUE, THE MAXIMUM RATE OF INTEREST WHICH SAID BONDS SHALL BEAR, AND THEIR MODE AND TIMES OF PAYMOT: PROVIDING THAT THE PROPOSITION OF THE FOREGOING PLAN, THE MOD4,10F PAYMENT THEREOF AND THE LEVYING OF SAID EXCESS ' ANNUAL TAXES ABOVE PRO- VIDED FOR SHALL BE SUBMITTED TO A. SPECIAL ELECTION HELD WITHIN THE CITY OF PASCO IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE GENERAL ELECTION ON NOTIBER 5TH) 1946, WHICH SHALL BE,NOTICED AME HELD AS PROVIDED HEREIN AND- BY STATUTE:— PROVIDING Ta"BALLOT TITLP11- INCORPORAT-w ING THE PROPOSITION'S THUS; TO BE SUBMITTED 'AT SAID tL�ECTION: LIMITING THS :USE. 'OF - THE MONEY_ PROCEEDS OF. - THE 'SALE OF SAID BONDS SOLELY TO THE FILTRATION PLANT PURPOSE: REQUIRING THE DIMINUTION'k OFTHTE USE OF BOND PROCEEDS TO BE USED IN THE EVENT OF THE RECEIPT OF OTHER FUNDS M11 OTHERSOURCES IN LIEU THEREOF: DE- CLARING THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE-IN]YEBTEDNESS WHICH SHALL 'BE ,INCURRED BY SAID BOND ISSUE: PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATIONOF THIS ORDINANCE, AND THE GIVING OF -NOTICE OF SAID ELECTION*. WHEREAS, it is immediately vital to the health of the inhabitants of the City of Pasco that the municipal water supply of .said city be purified by.filtration and other treatment; NOW, THEREFORE., THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO DO, ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. That, subject.to the approval by the qualified electors of Pasco of the proposition hereinafter.described at a special election hereinafter orderedg there shall be acquired, constructed, and installed, or caused to be constructed and in- stalled, by the City of Pasco, a municipal water filtration plant and facilities, the works of which.,upon such acquisition, con" and installation, shall be owned, operateds and con- trolled by the City of Pasco; which shall consist of the following as -..'additions to, and.conneoted with, the municipally owned water system of Pasco, viz.: I A water filtration plant.for the treatment and purifica- tion of.Columbia.River water, consisting of mixing, settling and storage basins, filters, accessories and piping, pumps, con- trols, and a building to house the same. The plant will be located on property now owned'by the City of Pasco in.Blooks•6 and 10, Riverside Addition, in the City of Pasco. The water filtration plant will include the necessary structures, chemical dosing equipment -$•mixing machines, floccu- lator, filters, collecting pipes, auxiliary equipment for wash- ing and mechanical control, equipment for applying chlorine and ammonia, a clear water well, and high service pumps to deliver the filtered water into the existing distribution system, all, of which will provide for removal of - most of the sediment and impuri.ties.of raw water by,chemical dosing, mixing, flocculation, coagulation and settling, for filtration. of the water and for application`of chlorine and ammonia to remove all possible chance for contamination, for storage of the water in a clear wager well (covered-res.ervoir)'until.delivered to the existing' distribution system, and for pumping the water from the clear water well into the existing distribution system. The water filtration plant will have a capacity.of approx- imately six million gallons per day, and will..be of such design.,• ...as to permit, with additional filters, future increase of capa- city. The:existing'pumping plant will be modified and adapted in structure.and-equipment as necessary to provide for pumping raw water from the. Columbia River against a low head to the water filtration plant located in said Riverside Addition and, if ,practicable, to permit the transfer of one or more of the high head pumps from the existing pumping plant to the filtra- tion plant for use in high service pumping of filtered water from the clear water well of the filtration plant.into the existing distribution.system. , Pipe lines will be laid, to connect the, fi.ltration,plant with existing pipe line's so that raw water from the existing 18 inch trunk lines can be carried to the filtration plant and so that filtered water can be delivered from the 'clear- water well of -the -filtration plant to the existing distribution system. Said connections will be made at points near to the intersection of 12th (Chelan) Street and West "B" Street in said city, said intersection being adjacent to said'_`property owned by.the City of .Pasco and on which the-fil'tration plant will be constructed; and in order to pay so 'much'of the -cost to the City of Pasco of the" foregoing plan, which` is for, and shall include., capital purposed only, the City ­0f, Pa'$co shall `sell. and, i-stsue its gen- era.l. obligation negotiable serial coupon bonds in the principal amount of 4132,000.00 and provide for the payment of the bond principal and interest by approximately equal annual tax levies in excess of the tax levy limitation.upon ffashington cities expressed in the. Statute and Constitution of the State of Wash- ington. Section 2. The cost of said water filtration plant and facilities to all sources, according to the estimate of this city council, will be 4300,,000.0.09 of which aggregate estimated. amount the sum of :58,372.26 has been allocated to the City of Pasco by the State of Washington in aid of the foregoing pro- posed work, which amount thus allocated will be.transf erred by the. State of Washington to the City of Pasco when the -proposi- tion expressed by this ordinance shall have been adopted by the -2- ;� i. w people of Pasco at the election hereinafter required; and upon the agreement of the'City of Pasco to use said sum of 4y58,372.26 in ',furthering the foregoing . purposes expressed in Section 1 hereof, This city, by its city council, has heretofore agreed and~does hereby agree to use said sum of $58,372026 for the furthering and accomplishment of the foregoing purposes expressed in Section 1 'hereof, together also with the proceeds of the bond issue of $132,000.00 proposed hereby. The City of .Pasco shall also contribute ..Q109,627.74 out of its available funds and out of funds mad available by the' issuance of revenue bonds, otherwise authorized, -to the accomplishment of the foregoing project. Section 3, The proposed bond issue of $132,000.00 shall run for a .period of, twenty ( 20 ) years from date of issue thereof, which period of twenty (20) years, it has been and is determined by this city council, is (in view of the controlling law and all other material circumstances) as nearly equivalent, as is pos- sible or pre-eticable, to the -life of said improvements and works, which life is found and stated by this city council to be approx- imately'twenty years. Section 4.. Said proposed bond issue of $1321000.00 shall consist of 132 bonds of the denomination of X1,000.00 each, num- bered from One.(1) to One Hundred Thirty-Two.(13'2)9 both inclu- sive, shall be serial in form and shall run, as provided herein- before, erein- bofore, for twenty ( 20 ) years after date hereof, shall bear interest -(which shall be evidenced by interest coupons attached' to each.bond) payable semi-annually after date of, said bonds at. a rate, or rates, whether singly or wholly, of not in excess of three per centum (3%) per 'annum; and said bonds shall mature and be .payable serially and annually within said period of twenty 20) years in their numerical order, commencing at the end of the second year after date of said bonds, and thereof ter, annually,, in such annual ammounts, as nearly as practicable, until and including to the end - of the said twentieth :year after. date,.as gill, together with interest on all of said bonds at any time outstanding and unpaid,.be met.'by approximately equal annual tax levies for the payment thereof; each of which annual tax levies may, and if,necessary in any year, shall, be in excess of any statutory or constitutional limitations. The officials now or hereafter charged by law with the duty -at any time of levying taxes for the payment -Of said bonds and interest'thereon,`shall, in the manner provided by law, make annual levies upon'all of the taxable property within said city sufficient in amount to meet the annual payments of bond princi- pal and§ the semi -annual payments of interest on said bonds accruing ;and .Maturing as above provided, ,-as provided. by existing law, an -d shaving always . in mind -the;., power and authority of the city to have levied said "excess tax levies," according to the result of the special election herein ordered.` Section 5. Theforegoing proposition of the issuance of said bonds for the foregoing inclusive purpose and" of making payment of said bonds and interest thereon by said "excess levies" for the foregoing purpose, .shall be submitted to the qualified voters ofthe City of Pasco for their approval and ratification or rejection at a special election within said city which is hereby called and ordered to be held within said city on Tuesday, November 5th2.19469 in conjunction with the general election to be held on said date; and the clerk of this city council, the City Clerk of'Pasco, Washington, is hereby required forthwith to certify to the Election Board of Franklin County, Washington, the proposition which is to be submitted at said election in the form of a "ballot title," together with the request of. the city council that the Election Board of Franklin County, Washington, shall also call said special election and do and cause to be .done all.further things.necessary'to the holding:, and conduct of said election, placing said ballot title, as hereinafter set forth,,upon the official ballots for said election, and in.all other respects -to do and act as.required by law. Section-O; The proposition thus to be submitted to the qualified voters of Pasco shall be the "Ballot Title" which will be placed upon each of the-official ballots for said election in substantially the following form PROPOSITION "SHALL THE CITY OF PASCO CONSTRUCT ,A. GRATER FIL- TRATION PLANT AT AN ESTIPIATED COST OF $3002000.00,9 AND FOR.THAT CAPITAL PURPOSE ONLY BECOME INDEBTED AND `ISSUE GENERAL OBLIGATION NEGOTIABLE SERIAL COUPON,BONDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $1329000.00 TO-BEAR: YES [� INTEREST NOT EXCEEDING THREE PER CEIiTUM (3%) PER. ATOI7 ! AND- TO BE PAID IN FULL IN TWENTY (20 ) YEARS, WITH PRINCIPAL MATURITIES PAYABLE C011�,ENCING .AT THE END OF THE SECOND YEAR AFTER DATE OF SAID BONDS AND THEREAFTER ANNUALLY AT THE END OF EACH FURTHER YEAR.. TO .Th-E END OF THE T"vlEMETH YEAR, AND I+MT AND PAY THE PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST THEREOF BY APPROXIMATELY NO C] ` EQUAL A10TUAL TAX LEVIES IN EXCESS OF ANY STATUTORY AND CONSTITUTIONAL LI11ITATIONS2 ALL A.S PROVIDED BY ORDINANCE NO. The Notices.of said election, and the Official Ballots° 'thereat, shall include substantially the foregoing Ballot Title and sufficient additional explanatory language to explain fully the foregoing Proposition, together with proper instructions to the voters, in order to enable the votersfavoring the said Propo- .sition, and those opposed thereto, to vote "YES" and "NO" thereon,-- respectively. .Section 7. The money proceeds of the sale of said bonds shall be used solely for the purpose of paying the cost of the construction and installation of said water.filtration plant and .facilities and for no other purpose. Section' 8. It is .the intention of this city council, in the event any additional funds are-made available to the city for..the foregoing purpose by the United States Government, or. any agency thereof, or by any other source, to be used for the construction or installation of the foregoing water filtration .facilities as described in this ordinance, to accept and to use such additional funds, and in the event that such additional funds are thus accepted and used by this city, the amount of said bond proceeds.to be.used in. 'aid of the construction and installa tion of the foregoing project-will be reduced accordingly. Section 9. The total indebtedness incurred hereunder shall, as far as the percentages thereof shall. permit or require, be a part of. than indebtedness which, with the assent of;-the voters, maybe incurred for supplying such.city'with an improved. water system under the Constitution and Laws of the State of Washington, in excess of five per centum and up to ten per centum of the assessed value of the taxable property in such.city. Any part of such indebtedness which may not be incurred within such limits shall constitute a part of that indebtedness which, kith the assent of the voters, may be incurred for general municipal purposes in.excess of one and one-half per centum and up to five per centum.of the assessed value of the taxable property in said city. Section 10. In addition to the Notice of Election pub- lished by the Franklin County Election -Board this ordinance shall be printed in full in the "Pasco Herald," a•newspaper published in said city, within the period of time within which said Notice of Election is required by law to be published, . Section 11. This .ordinance upon its passage and approval, shall be published once in the "Pasco Herald," a newspaper pub- lished .in said city, and shall be in full force and effect at the expiration of five days from and.after the date of such pub- lication;. _t ATTEST Adah M. Perry, City Cle k Ordinance introduced: Sep ember 3, 1946 Ordinance Given its First Reading: September 3, 1946 Ordinance Given its Second Reading: September 17, 1946 Ordinance Given its Third Reading: September, 1946 Ordinance Passed by City Council and Approved by Mayor: September 1946. The foregoing Ordinance approved as to form -before passage: City Attorney, September 1946 r -5-