ORDINANCE NO. 489

 

THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO, PROVIDING FOR THE EXPENSES AND LIABILITIES OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JANUARY 1st,1932,

AND ENDING DECEMBER 31st, 1932, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY

 

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO:

 

SECTION 1. That the following sums of money or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same are hereby appropriated for the purposes of defraying the necessary expenses and liabilities of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, for the fiscal year beginning January 1st, 1932 and ending December 31st, 1932, to-wit:

 

FIRST:

For Interest and Principal on General City Bonds

$24,605.00

SECOND:

For the Contingent Fund - A special reserve to cover bank deposits in litigation

11,480.25

THIRD:

For the Miscellaneous Fund

7,628.11

FOURTH:

For Maintaining the Fire Department

14,357.00

FIFTH:

For Maintaining the Airport

350.00

SIXTH:

For Maintaining and Improving Health Conditions of the City

6,368.75

SEVENTH:

For Maintenance and Operation of Moyer Pool

3,300.00

EIGHTH:

For the Engineering Department

4,100.00

NINTH:

For Maintenance Free Public Library

4,600.00

TENTH:

For Maintaining & Improving Streets & Alleys

18,819.00

ELEVENTH:

For Lighting Streets, Alleys & Parks

15,001.44

TWELFTH:

For Salaries of Officers, Office Supplies, Printing, Fuel, Lights, and Telephone

15,504.70

THIRTEENTH:

For Maintaining and Improving the Public Parks and Cemeteries

19,080.00

FOURTEENTH:

For Maintaining the Police Department

16,933.75

FIFTEENTH:

For the Public Benefit - Donations

2,150.00

SIXTEENTH:

For Rental Fire Hydrants

5,840.00

SEVENTEENTH:

For Maintaining the Sewers

5,840.00

EIGHTEENTH:

For Principal on Water Bonds Water Sinking Fund

32,581.25

NINETEENTH:

For Maintaining and Operating, and Extending the Water System

64,949.34

TWENTIETH:

For Principal and Interest on Water Bonds Water Working Fund

23,095.10

 

SECTION 2. That for the purpose of defraying the necessary expenses and liabilities of the said City of Grand Junction, Colorado, for the fiscal year beginning January 1st, 1932, and ending December 31st, 1932, there shall be and there hereby is levied and assessed upon all the taxable property situated within the corporate limits of the City of Grand Junction, both real and personal, for the purposes of defraying the necessary expenses and liabilities and water works purposes of the City of Grand Junction, and for the payment of interest on outstanding bonds and for the payment of a portion of the bonded indebtedness of said City, a tax of thirteen and one-half mills on each dollar of said property so assessed.

 

SECTION 3. WHEREAS, Section 80 of the Charter in substance requires that, upon the adoption and filing of the budget, "the Council shall pass an ordinance, not later than the thirty-first day of December in each year, which shall be entitled, 'The Annual Appropriation Ordinance', etc."

 

AND WHEREAS The Council, heretofore and until this time, has been unable to consider said appropriation ordinance, due to litigation pending in the Supreme Court of Colorado, over the action of the State Board of Equalization, whereby the Council was prevented from an earlier consideration of such appropriation ordinance, and an emergency was thereby created:

 

THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY DECLARED That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force upon its passage.

 

Adopted and approved this 26th day of December, A. D. 1931.

 

/s/ J. C. Glassford

President of the Council

 

ATTEST:

 

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

 

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing emergency ordinance entitled, "THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION, COLORADO, PROVIDING FOR THE EXPENSES AND LIABILITIES OF THE CITY OF GRAND JUNCTION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JANUARY 1st, 1932, AND ENDING DECEMBER 31st, 1932, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY", was introduced, read, passed, numbered 489, and ordered published, by the unanimous vote of all of the members of the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, at a regular adjourned meeting of the said Council held on the 26th day of December, A. D. 1931.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this 26th day of December, A. D. 1931.

 

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk


Published December 29th, 1931