1888 - 22 Levy & assess special tax to improve Blossom Park

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ORDI~ANCE N0.1888 ByErs. V~itt '~ ORDINANCE determining to proceed with, and levying and assess~ ~pecial tax to pay the cost and expense of improving Blossom Park ~venue from Detroit Avenue to Cedarwood Avenue by paving same with brick or b~tuminous concrete, or sheet asphalt, or bitulithic, or cement concrete, doing any and all grading, draining and curbing incidental and necessary ~hereto, and authorizing the Mayor and Director of Finance to issue bonds in the sum of $39,978.00 in anticipation of the collection of said special tax to provide a fund for the payment of the portion of the cost and expense of said improvement for which said special tax is levied. BE tT'0RDAINED by the COuncil of the City of Lakewood, State of Ohio, three-fourths of all members thereof concurring: section.l: 'That it is hereby determined to proceed with the 'improve- ment of Blossom Park Avenue from Detromt AvenSe to Cedarwood Avehue by paving same with brick ~r bit~ninous concrete, or sheet asphalt, or bitulithic, or cement concrete, doing any and all grading, draining and curbing incidental and necessary thereto in accordance with Resolution No. '1987 passed April 3, 1922 and in accordance with plans~ specifica~ions, estimates and profiles here- tofore approved and now on file in the office of the Director of Public Works,' Section 2: That all claims for damages resulting from said improve~ ment shall be judicially inquired into after the completion thereof, and that the Director~of PUblic Works be and he is hereby authorized and directed to enter into contract for said improvement in the manner provided by law, which improvement, in accordance with Article Section 16 of the Charter~has been estimated by the Director of Public Works to have a life of 20 years. Section 3! That for the purpose o~ paying the cost and expense of said improvement there is hereby levied and assessed a special tax upon the several lots and parcels of land designated in and in accordance with Estimated Assessment No. ~ll as made for tha~ purpose by the Director of Financs and recommended to this Council by the Board of Revision ~f Assessments. Said estimated assessment was made on the basis of speOial benefits conferred by said improvement on the several parcels of land therein described and the same is hereln confirmed, adopted and approved,' Section $: That the owners of the several l~ts or parcels of land in-. cluded in said assessment Shall pay the amounts from them severally due as shown by Column No.~3 of said Estir~%ted Assessment No. ~ll to the City Treasurer on or before thirty days fro~ {he date of the passage of this ordinance, at their option, and in default thereof said specmal assessment with interest at the rate of ~per cen%um per annum, upon deferred payments, shall be payable to the County Treasurer in 9 annual installments with the regmlar taxes of 1922 to 1930 botk inclusive,- Section %: That to provide a fund for the ~.y~,*~{',~E the pertiion of the cost and expense for which the special assesc~.~ent herein is levied for said improvement, The Mayor and Director of Finance be and they ar hereby authorized to iasue 9 bonds of the City of Lakewooa. Ohic in the aggregate sum of $39,978.00 of which bonds one bond in the sun~ of $$,$$2.00 shall be due and payable on October l, 1923 and one bond in the sum of $,$,$$2.00