HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 264ORDINANCE NO. :2 G z/ -
AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
CITY OF AZUSA ORDERING, CALLING, PROVIDING FOR AND GIVING
NOTICE OF A SPECIAL UUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE HELD IN SAID
CITY ON TUESDAY THE 15TH DAY OF STARCH, 1927, FOR THE PURPOSE
OF SUBh:ITTING TO THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF SAID CITY THE PRO-
POSITION OF INCURRING A BONDED INDEBTEDNESS BY SAID CITY FOR
THE FOLLOWING MINICIPAL IMPROVEMENT, TO -WIT: THE ACQUISI-
TIOY AND CONSTRUCTION OF A CITY HALL, INCLUDING THE ACQUISI-
TION OF NECESSARY LANDS AND THE ACQUISITION OR CONSTRUCTIOIi
OF THE NECESSARY BUILDING, STRUCTURES, EQUIPI;TENT AND FURNI-
TURE THEREFOR; PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUE OF BONDS FOR SAID
PURPOSE AND DETERMINING AND FIXING THE 11AXIMY, RATE OF IN-
Tk.'REST'OF SAID BONDS; PROVIDING FOR THE LEVY OF A TAX FOR
THE PAYi3ENT OF SAID BONDS; AND PROVIDING FOR AND DESIGNAT-
ING AN ELECTION PRECINCT, DESIGNATING THE POLLING PLACE AND
APPOINTING ELECTION OFFICERS FOR SAID ELECTION.
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of the City of
Azusa, in the County of Los Angeles and State of California,
by Resolution No. 944, adopted by a vote of more than two-
thirds of all its members at a regular meeting of said Board
of Trustees held on lTonday, the 3rd day of January, 1927,
at the regular meeting place of said Board in the Council
Chamber thereof in the City Hall of said city at the north-
east corner of Foothill Boulevard and Alameda Avenue in
said city, did determine and declare that the public in-
terest and necessity of said city demanded the acquisition
and construction of a city hall, including the acquisition
of the necessary lands and the acquisition or construction
of the necessary building, structures, equipment and furni-
ture therefor, and that the estimated cost of said improve-
ment is the sum of Seventy-five Thousand Dollars (75,000.00)
providing that no greater portion thereof than the sum of
Twenty-five Thousand Dollars (?25,000.00) shall be expended
for the acquisition of the necessary lands;
WHEREAS, the estimated cost of said municipal im-
provement is the sum of Seventy-five Thousand Dollars
075,000.00) and such cost is and will be too great to be
paid out of the ordinary annual income and. revenue of said
city; and
WHEREAS, said Resolution No. 944 was duly examined
and approved by the President of the Board of Trustees of
said city on the said .3rd day of January, 1927, and the adop-
tion of said resolution was duly certified to by the City
Clerk of said city and the entry of the adoption of said re-
solution 4+r€3s made in the minutes of said meeting and the said
resolution., together with the certificate of the said, City
Clerk, has been entered in the book of resolutions of said
city;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Trustees of the City
of Azusa do ordain as follows:
Section 1. That a special municipal election be
and the same is hereby ordered and called to be held in the
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said City of Azusa on Tuesday, the 15th day of I,farch, 1927, and
that at said special municipal election there shall be submitted
to the qualified voters of said city the proposition of incurr-
ing a bonded indebtedness for the purpose set forth in said
Resolution No. 944, adopted or. the said 3rd day of January,
1927, namely: the acquisition and construction of a city hall,
including the acquisition of the necessary lands and the ac-
quisition or construction of the necessary building, structures,
equipment and furniture therefor, the estimated cost of which
is Seventy-five Thousand Dollars (�75,000.00),of which no
greater portion than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.003
shall be expended for the necessary lands.
Section 2. That the object and purpose for which
said indebtedness is proposed to be incurred is as follows:
the acquisition and construction of a city hall, including
the acquisition of the necessary lands and the acquisition
or construction of the necessary building, structures, equip-
ment and. furniture therefor.
Section 3. That the total estimated cost of the
said acquisition and construction of said city hall, includ-
ing the acquisition of the necessary lands and the acquisi-
tion_ or construction of the necessary building, structures,
equipment and furniture therefor, is the sum of Seventy-five
Thousand Dollars (t75,000.00) of which no greater portion than
Twenty-five Thousand Dollars 425,000.00) shall be expended
for the necessary lands; and that said sum of Seventy-five
Thousand Dollars ($750000.00) is the amount of the principal
of the indebtedness to be incurred for said municipal improve-
ment, and that the maximum rate of interest to be paid on
said indebtedness is five per cent. (5%) per annum, payable
semi-annually, which rate shall not be exceeded in the issuance
of bonds for such indebtedness.
That if the proposition to incur the said indebted-
ness for said purpose so submitted at such election receives
the requisite number of votes, to -wit: two-thirds of the votes
of the qualified voters of said city voting at such election.,
bonds of the said city in the amount of Seventy-five Thousand
Dollars (075,000.00) shell be issued and sold for the purpose
of acquiring and constructing said municipal improvement;
said bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding five
per cent. (5%) per annum, payable semi-annually, and the princi-
pal and interest thereof shall be payable in lawful money
of the United States of America.
Section 4. That for the purpose of paying the
principal and interest of said bonds, the Board of Trustees
of said city shall,at the time of fixing the general tax levy
and in the manner for such general tax levy provided., levy
and collect annually each year until such bonds are paid,
or until there be a sum in the treasury of said city set
apart for that purpose to meet all sums coming due for the
principal and interest on said bonds, a tax sufficient to
pay the annual interest on said bonds and also such part of
the principal thereof as shall become due before the time
for fixing the next general tax levy; provided, however,
that if the maturity of the indebtedness created by the afore-
said issue of said bonds shall be made to begin more than
one year after the date of the issuance of said bonds, then
the tax for the purpose of paying the principal and interest
on the bonds the maturity of which is so deferred, shall be
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levied and collected at the time and in the manner afore-
said annually each year, sufficient to pay the interest on
such indebtedness as it falls due, and also to constitute
a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof on
or before maturity; that such taxes shall be in addition
to all other taxes levied for municipal purposes, and shall
be collected at the same time and in the same manner as other
municipal taxes are collected, arA shall be used for no other
purpose than the payment of said bonds and accruing interest.
Section 5. That the special municipal election_
hereby called and ordered to be held shall be held and
Conducted and the vote thereat received and canvassed and
the returns made and the result thereof ascertained, deter-
mined and declared as herein provided, and in all particu-
lars not recited herein, according to the laws of the State
of California providing for and governing municipal elec-
tions in cities of the sixth class.
Section 6. That there shall be printed on the
ballots to be used at such special municipal election, in
addition to the other matters required by law, the follow-
ing proposition, to be voted on, to -wit:
SHALL THE CITY OF AZUSA INCUR A BONDED
DEBT IN THE SUM OF SEVl;NTY-FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($750000.00) FOR THE PURPOSE OF
ACQUIRING AND CONSTRUCTING CERTAIN 2tIUNI-
CIPAL IA.PROVELtENTS, TO -WIT: THE ACQUISI-
TION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A CITY HALL, IN-
CLUDING THE ACQUISITION OF THE NECESSARY
LANDS AND THE ACQUISITION OR CONSTRUCTION
OF THE NECESSARY BUILDING, STRUCTURES, EQUIP-
MENT AND FURNITURE THEREFOR; PROVIDED THAT
NO GREATE2 PORTION THEREOF THAN TWENTY-FIVE
THOUSAND DOLLARS ($25,000.00) SHALL BE EX-
PENDED FOR THE ACQUISITION OF THE NECESSARY
LANDS.
That opposite the above proposition to.be voted on
and to the right thereof the words "Yes" and "No" shall be
printed on separate lines with voting squares.
Section 7. That for the holding of said special
municipal election said city is consolidated into and shall
constitute, and is hereby designated and declared to be, one
election precinct, the external boundaries of which are co-
terminous with the boundary lines of said city; that said
special election precinct shall have one polling place which
shall be
In the Council Chamber of the City Iiall of
said city at the northeast corner of Foot-
hill Boulevard and Alameda Avenue in said
ci ty;
and that the following named persons are hereby appointed
election officers in said precinct for such election:
Inspector: 111. 0. Streshley;
Judges: Walter Malone and H. 0. Williams;
Clerks: S. G. Durrell, Mrs. F. L. Dingman
and firs. G. W. Hopper.
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That all of the persons above named are hereby
appointed as such respective election officers and their
compensation is hereby fired at the sum of 3ip-ht Dollars
($8.00) each for said election.
That if any of the members of said board of elec-
tion hereinbefore named are not qualified to act or fail
to appear at the opening of the polls on the morning of
such election, qualified electors present, including members
of said board, shall appoint in his or her place an elector
who is qualified, in the manner provided by the general
election laws of the State of California, who shall take
the required oath of office as provided by said general
election laws.
That the polls of said election shall be opened
at six o'clock on the morning of said election., and shall be
kept open until seven o'clock on the afternoon of the same
day, when the polls shall be closed; except and provided,
however, that if at the said hour of closing there are any
voters in the polling place, or in,the line at the door
thereof, who are qualified to vote and have not been able
to vote since appearing, the polls shall be kept open a
sufficient time to enable them to vote; but no person who
shall arrive at the polls after seven o'clock in the after-'
noon shall be entitled to vote, although the polls may have
been open when he arrived.
Section 8, The City Clerk is hereby directed to
procure all supplies that may be necessary to properly
and lawfully conduct said Special Municipal Blection.
That when the polls are closed the returns of
said election shall forthwith be made to the Board of Trus-
tees of said city and signed by the Officers of Election
and shall be by them deposited with the City Clerk, to-
gether with the Ballots cast at said election,and the Board
of Trustees of said city shall meet and canvass said returns
at the regular meeting place of said Board of Trustees in
the Council Chamber of the City Hall of said city at the
northeast corner of Foothill Boulevard and Alameda Avenue
in said city, on PSonday, the 21st day of 11arch, 1927, at the
hour of 8:00 o'clock P. M. of said day, and if upon such
canvass it shall be found that at least two-thirds (2/3) of
the qualified voters of the City of Azusa at said special
municipal election_ vote in favor of said proposition, then
the bonds of the City of Azusa in said principal stun of the
amount of Seventy-five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00), bear-
ing interest at the rate of not exceeding five per cent.
(5%) per annum, shall be issued by said city as aforesaid.
Section 9. The City Clerk shall certify to the
passage of this ordinance by a vote of two-thirds (2/3)
of all the members of the Board of Trustees of said City of
Azusa and shall cause the same to be published once a week
for two (2) successive weeks prior to said date of said elec-
tion in the "Pomotropic", a weekly neNvepaper of general cir-
culation established, printed, published and circulated in
said City of Azusa.
I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance
was duly passed by the Board of Trustees of the City of
Azusa at a regular meeting held February 7 � 1927, by the
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following vote of the Board:
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City MrIc of the City of Azusa.
Approved this 0 day of February, 1927.
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of the City of Azusa.
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