ORDINANCE NO. 297.

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An ordinance approving the whole cost of the improvements made in and for Sanitary Sewer District No. 5, in the city of Grand Junction, Colorado, pursuant to Ordinance No. 178, as amended, and pursuant to the resolutions and proceedings of the city council, adopted pursuant to said ordinance No. 178 as amended, approving the apportionment of said cost to each lot or tract of land in said district; assessing a share of said cost against each lot or tract of land in said district and prescribing the manner for the collection and payment of said assessment.

Whereas, the City Council and municipal officers of the city of Grand Junction, in the state of Colorado, have complied with all the provisions of law relating to certain improvements in Sanitary Sewer District No. 5, in the city of Grand Junction, pursuant to Ordinance No. 178 of said city, as amended and pursuant to the various resolutions, orders and proceedings taken under said ordinance, and

Whereas, the City Council has heretofore caused to be published the notice of completion of said local improvement in said Sanitary Sewer District No. 5 and the apportionment of the cost thereof to all persons interested and to the owners of the real estate which is described therein said real estate comprising the district of land known as Sanitary Sewer District No. 5 in the city of Grand Junction, Colorado, which said notice was caused to be published in The Daily Sentinel, the official news paper of the city of Grand Junction (the first publication thereof appearing October 19, 1920, and the last publication thereof appearing October 29, 1920); and

Whereas, said notice recited the share to be apportioned to and upon each lot and tract of land within said district assessable for said improvements and recited that complaints or objections might be made in writing to the council and filed with the clerk within thirty days from the first publication of such notice, to wit, on or before and up to the 22d day of November, 1920, and recited that such complaints would be heard and determined by the council at its first regular meeting after said thirty days and before the passage of any ordinance assessing the cost of said improvement; and

Whereas, the City Council has duly confirmed the statement prepared by the City Council and certified by the mayor, showing the whole cost of said improvements and the apportionment thereof heretofore made as contained in that certain notice to property owners in Sanitary Sewer District o. 5, duly published in The Daily Sentinel, the official newspaper of the city, and has duly ordered that the cost of said sewers and improvements in said Sanitary Sewer District No. 5 be assessed and apportioned against all of the real estate in said district in the proportions contained in the aforesaid notice, except as to Lots one (1) to eighteen (18) inclusive in block two (2) in Crawford's Subdivision on which lots the assessment has been waived; and

Whereas, From the statement made and filed with the city clerk by the city engineer, it appears that the whole cost of said improvement is the sum of seven thousand four hundred thirty-six and 37-100 dollars ($7,436.37), said amount including six per cent additional for cost of collection and other incidentals, and including interest to the 28th day of February, 1921, at the rate of six per cent per annum on the bonds heretofore sold to raise funds for the construction of said improvements; and

Whereas, From said statement it also appears that the city engineer has apportioned a share of the said whole cost to each lot or tract of land in said district, in the following proportions and amounts severally, excepting therefrom the assessment on said lots one (1) to eighteen (18) inclusive in said block two (2) of Crawford's Subdivision, to-wit:

Sanitary Sewer District No. 5--description and apportionment, City of Grand Junction.

(Note--Wherever in the following descriptions the numbers of the first and last lots of a series of lots are mentioned, they shall be taken to include the first, the intermediate and the last named lots and the amounts given shall be for each lot.)

Crawford's Sub-division.

Richard D. Mobley's first Sub-division.

Grand River Sub-division.

Revised Sub-division of Old Nursery Co. tract.

Lot 1, $117.27; lots 2 to 5, $39.06; lot 6, $67.56; lot 7, $10.53.

Adopted and approved the 10th day of December, A. D. 1920.

/s/ Chas E. Cherrington

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Mayor.

Attest:

/s/ J. F. Whittaker

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Acting City Clerk

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I hereby Certify that the foregoing ordinance entitled "An ordinance approving the whole cost of the improvements made in and for Sanitary Sewer District No. 5, in the city of Grand Junction, Colorado, pursuant to ordinance No. 178 as amended, and pursuant to the resolutions and proceedings of the City Council, adopted pursuant to said ordinance No. 178, as amended, approving the apportionment of said cost to each lot or tract of land in said district; assessing a share of said cost against each lot or tract of land in said district and prescribing the manner for the collection and payment of said assessment," was introduced and read at a regular adjourned meeting of the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, held on the 10th day of December, A. D. 1920, and that the same was published in full in The Daily Sentinel, a daily newspaper published and in general circulation in said city, at least ten days before its passage.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said city this 10th day of December, A. D. 1920.

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Acting City Clerk

(SEAL)

Published Dec. 14, 1920.