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ORD 62-117 CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION OF WATER SERVICE ORDINANCE NO. 117 AN CRDINANCE providing for the construction and installation of an extension of water distribution service, providing for its subsequent operation, maintenance and control, establishing its costs and providing a mode of payment, providing terms, provisions, covenants and obligations of the Town incident to said payment, creating a special fund, providing for ~he sale of warrants, declaring an emergency and authorizing an emergency expenditure in connection therewith. WHERFAS, the Town of Winslow has been and is operating a municipally owned water system and in the judgment of its council it is in the best interest of the public health, safety and welfare that water service be extended at the earliest practicable tin~ so as to reach and serve the area abutting on both sides of Franks' Avenue from the intersection at Woods Street, West a distance of approximately 500 feet and both sides of Lovell Street from the intersection at Franks Avenue North a distance of approximately 300 feet, all within the limits of the Town of Winslow, and WHEREAS, no general indebtedness is to be incurred by the Town of Winslow in the acquisition, construction, installation, main- tenance or operation of such extension, and WHEREAS, it is intended that such extension, the reasonable cost of which is estimated to be $2,000.00, shall be paid for by the proceeds of a'sale of revenue warrants, which warrants in such principal amount shall be a claim only against the special fund herein created. E IT ORDAII~13 by the Town Council of the Town of Winslow in regular session as follows: SECTION l: There shall be constructed and installed at the earliest practicable time, an extension of the Town of Winslow water distribution line from the existing line at the intersection of Franks Avenue and Woods Street West along Franks Avenue a distance of approximately 500 feet, thence North along Lovell Street a distance of approximately 300 feet, all in accordance with engineer's preliminary drawings heretofore received. SECTION 2: The ~ cost of doing all the foregoing, it is estimated, will not be in excess of $2,000.00, which shall be produced by the issuance of revenue warrants of the Town of Winslow as authorized by this ordinance. SECTION 3: The Town of Winslow is hereby authorized to sell and to issue its warrants as hereinafter described, in the principal amount and not in excess of $2,000.00, which warrants shall bear interest at the rate of four percent (4%) per annum payable annually after date, to pay the cost of the construction of such construction project. Said war- rants and interest thereon shall not constitute an indebtedness of the Town of Winslow but shall be payable and paid solely out of and from a fixed amount of the earnings and revenues from said system of water. SECTION 4: That there be and is hereby created a special fund of the Town to be known as '~inslow October 1st, 1962 Water Revenue Warrant Redemption Fund", which fund is to be drawn upon for the sole purpose of paying the principal of and interest on the water revenue warrants authorized herein. From and after the date of issue of said warrants, and as long as any of the same are outstanding and unpaid, the Town Treasurer shall set aside and pay into said Warrant Redemption Fund out of the Water Revenue Fund of the Town created by Ordinance No. 22, at least thirty days prior to the respective dates on ~hich the interest or principal and interest of said warrants shall become due, amounts sufficient to pay such principal and interest. SECTION 5: Said Warrant issue, not in excess of $2,000.00 shall be dated October l, 1962, shall be in denomination of $250.00 each, shall be numbered I to 8 inclusive, shall bear interest at the rate of 4% per annum until paid, shall be callable on thirty days notice and mature within 5 years from date of issue. Said warrants shall be payable at the office of the Town of Winslow in Winslow, Kitsap County, Washington, and shall be signed for the Town of Winslow by the Mayor thereof and attested by the Clerk of the Town, and consistent with the provisions herein elsewhere made the said warrants and the interest thereon shall be payable only out of the special fund herein created. Said warrants- and the interest thereon thus issued against the fixed amunt of revenues and special fund shall be a valid claim of the holder thereof only as against said fixed amount of revenues and said special fund (after first deducting the cost of operation and maintenance of the extended portion of the system as heretofore provided and after deducting that part of revenues which may have theretofore been committed by ordinance) and the money required hereby to be paid therein shall not constitute an indebtedness of the Town of Winslox within the meaning of the 5onstitution and the laws of the State of Washington, and each warrant shall state on its face that it is payable from said Special Warrant Redemption Fund of October 1st, 1962, and shall name this ordinance which created such special fund by reference to its n~mber. The Town Council does hereby state and certify that in creating such special fund and in setting aside and providing for the payment into such special fund of the amounts necessary for the payment of the principal and interest of the warrants, that this Town Council has taken into consideration and has had due regard to the costs of operation and maintenance of the extended p~ion of this system as heretofore provided, and to all portions and parts of revenue previously pledged as a fund for the payment of bonds, warrants or other indebtedness, and the Town Council will maintain rates adequate to service such warrants and maintain the extended portion of the system as heretofore defined in sound financial condition. ~ECTION 6: It is further covenanted and ordained that the Town Council, until all of said warrants and the interest thereon shall have been fully paid, shall not reduce the rates required by it for use of the extended portion of the system as heretofore defined, or of the water system itself, so that the gross revenues shall be insufficient to permit the making of payments into said special fund as hereinbefore required, and that if at any time such gross revenues shall not be sufficient to pay the costs of operation and maintenance ~and service such other obligations' as to which the Town has heretofore become committed, and the charge upon revenues hereby created in favor of the warrants herein authorized, then the said Tov~n shall increase its rates to such revenues in an annunt as will be sufficient to provide for the payment of all such costs of operation and maintenance and for the servicing of the debt created hereby; and that in order to preserve the priority of this special fund, the Town of Winslow shall not create or permit to be created so long as any of said warrants shall be outstanding and unpaid, any indebtedness or charge whatsoever which shall be a charge against the revenues of the water system superior to the charges created by this ordinance and that any future charge or special fund indebtedness which may be created by the Town of Winslow made payable out of the revenues of the water system shall constitute a charge and lien subject to the charge and lien created by this ordinance. SECTION 7: The To~n Council is authorized under RCW 35.39,030 to invest inactive funds by the purchase of its own utility revenue warrants and the Town officials are hereby authorized and directed to invest $2,000.00 of presently inactive funds in the L. I. D. Guaranty Fund by the purchase of $2,000.00 of October 1, 1962 Water Revenue ~arrants. SECTION 8: The moneys derived from the sale of said warrants shall be used solely for the purpose provided herein, and the proper officials of the Town are hereby authorized and directed to do everything necessary for the execution, sale and delivery of said warrants and for the prompt construction and installation of said extension to the water system of the Town out of the proceeds of the sale thereof. SECTION 9: This ordinance is declared to be one necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety of the people of the Town of Winslow, Washington. An emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance is hereby declared to be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval snd publication as provided by law. SECTION lO: If any section, sub-section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this ordinance. PAS~ED unanimously by the Council of the Town of Winslow, Washington, and approved by its Mayor at a regular meeting held on the 18th day of September, 1962. /.' '~--~/ :~