ORDINANCE NO. 884

 

AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS AND CREATING AN EMERGENCY

 

 WHEREAS, since the 1953 Budget was passed and adopted, additional expenses have been incurred for the construction of a Police Heating Plant, for the purchase of traffic lights, for garbage cooking, for the purchase of express free way right of way, for payment on the North Avenue storm sewer and Mesa Avenue storm sewer, for Cloud Seeding, for employment of a Water Production Engineer and for construction of additional water mains;

 

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

 

 Section 1. That there be and is hereby appropriated out of the unexpended general funds of the City, the following amounts:

 

A.

To the Police Department

$2,000.00

 

B.

To the Health Department

600.00

 

C.

To the following sub-departments of the Highway Department, the following amounts:

 

 
 

1. Traffic

7,500.00

 

 

2. Opening of streets

8,660.00

 

 

3. Widening of streets

9,000.00

 

 

4. Mesa Avenue storm sewer

1,000.00

 

 Section 2. That there be and is hereby appropriated out of the unexpended balance of the Waterworks Fund, the following amounts to the following sub-departments of the Water Department:

 

A.

Watershed (Cloud Seeding)

1,500.00

 

B.

Watershed (Production Engineer)

6,500.00

 

C.

Watermain extension

6,000.00

 

 Section 3. The City Council hereby finds and determines that the above special appropriations are necessary in order to continue the work of the various departments, and that the passage of this Ordinance is necessary for the preservation of the public health, peace and safety, and it is therefore passed as an emergency ordinance, to take effect immediately upon passage and final publication.

 

 Passed and adopted this 18th day of November, 1953.

 

/s/ Harry O. Colescott

President of the Council

 

ATTEST:

 

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

 

 I HEREBY CERTIFY That the foregoing emergency ordinance, entitled, "AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS AND CREATING AN EMERGENCY," was introduced, read, passed, numbered 884 and ordered published by the unanimous vote of the members of the City Council of the City of Grand Junction, Colorado, at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 18th day of November, 1953.

 

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this 19th day of November, 1953.

 

/s/ Helen C. Tomlinson

City Clerk

 

Pub Nov. 20, 1953