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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 157 191 RESOLUTION NO. 157 A RESOLUTION :OF INTENTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOWNEY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A STREET LIGHTING SYSTEM IN SMALLWOOD AVENUE AND OTHER RIGHTS OF WAY. DOWNEY IMPROVEMENT NO. 1. WHEREAS, the report, prepared pursuant to Division 4 of the Streets and. Highways Code (Special Assessment Investigation, Limitation, and. Majority Protest Act of 1931), covering the proposed construction of a street lighting system in Smallwood Avenue and other rights of way is on file in the office of the Clerk pf the City Council of the City of Downey and may be examined at said office. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOWNEY RESOLVES: SECTION 1. That the public interest, convenience, and necessity require, and that • it is the intention of the City Council to order, the following work to be done and improvement made to wit: First: The construction of a street lighting system to consist of 92 street lighting standards together with cables, conduits, lamps, wires, and other appliances, appurtenances, and work incidental thereto, all of which is necessary for the effective operation thereof, in IMPERIAL HIGHWAY in and Adjacent to the intersection thereof with SMALLWOOD AVENUE; and in LYNDORA. STREET between GROVETREE AVENUE and. SAMOLINE AVENUE; and in DEN STREET between SMALLWOOD AVENUE and. ORILLA AVENUE; and in BORSON STREET between GROVETREE AVENUE and. SMALLWOOD AVENUE and between SMALLWOOD AVENUE and. PARAMOUNT BOULEVARD; and in ADOREE STREET COMOLETTE STREET DEVENIR STREET, AND CONKLIN STREET between the northwesterly termini of said streets and. SMALLWOOD AVENUE and between SAMOLINE AVENUE and the southeasterly termini of said streets; and in PURITAN STREET between the northwesterly terminus of PURITAN STREET and. PARAMOUNT BOULEVARD; and in GROVETREE AVENUE between LYNDORA STREET and. BORSON STREET; and in SMALLWOOD AVENUE between IMPERIAL HIGHWAY and. PURITAN STREET; and in 192 MORNING AVENUE between BORSON STREET and. PURITAN STREET; and in SAMOLINE AVENUE between LYNDORA. STREET and. DALEN STREET and between BORSON STREET and. PURITAN STREET; and in P46) ORILLA AVENUE between DALEN STREET and. BORSON STREET; and in PARAMOUNT BOULEVARD between the northeasterly line of Lot 202, Tract No. 18511, as shown on map recorded in Book 459, Pages 13 to 17 inclusive, of Maps and the south- westerly line of Lot 200, said tract add in and adjacent to the intersection of said. PARAMOUNT BOULEVARD with PURITAN STREET. Second: The. restoring of street surface and concrete work where such work is required by the construction of the standards and conduits. Al]. of said work shall be performed in the streets and between the limits, hereinbefore designated, except where the plans indicate that said work shall be omitted. THAT SUCH WORK OR IMPROVEMENT, IT IS ESTIMATED, WILL COST THE SUM OF SIXTY-THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS ($63,525). SECTION 2. That all the work and improvements aforesaid shall be done and performed as shown on and in accordance with the plans and specifications ' 1 therefore, filed in the offic of the City C.' gc:1 in the City Hall in the City of Downey on the e .:5 day of , 1957. Reference is hereby made to said plans an. recifications for a full and detailed description of said proposed work or improvement, and said plans and specifications shall govern for all details of the proposed work or improvement and are made a part hereof. SECTION 3. That the said contemplated work or improvement, in the opinion of the City Council is of more than local or ordinary public benefit, and the Council hereby makes the expense of said work or improvement chargeable upon a district, which district the Council hereby declares to be the district benefited by the work or improvement and be assessed to pay the cost and expense thereof. A map of the district, indicating by a boundary line the extent of the territory included 1. 'the propped district approved by the Council on the day of AO' , 1957, is on file in the office of the Council. Reference 7:hereby made to the map for a full and complete descrip- tion of the assessment district,and the map shall govern for s31 details as to the extent of the assessment district. SECTION 4. That serial bonds shall be issued in accordance with Division 7, Streets r"1 and. Highways Code, to represent each assessment of fifty dollars ($50.00) or more remaining unpaid for thirty (30) days after the date of the recording of the warrant. The serial bonds shall extend over a period ending nine (9) years from the second day of January next succeeding the next October fifteenth following their date, and shall bear interest at the rate of six (6) per cent per annum on all sums unpaid, until the whole of the principal and interest is paid. The principal sum shall become due and payable in equal annual payments on the 15th day of each November succeeding the October 15th following their date until fully paid. • 193 The first interest payment shall be payable on the 15th day of May . next succeeding the April 15th or the 15th day of November next succeeding the October 15th, as the case may be, next following the date of the bonds. The following interest payments shall each be for six months interest and shall be payable on each fifteenth day of May and. November, the last interest payment coming due 45 days before the last annual payment of the principal. SECTION 5. That the proceedings for the aforesaid work or improvement shall be under and in accordance with Division 7, Streets and. Highways Code. = SECTION 6. The streets hereinbefore referred to are public streets in the City of Downey. SECTION 7. That it is the opinion of the City Council that the public interest will not be served by allowing the property owners to take the contract for the work to be done under these proceedings. SECTION 8. That /. $ the 4,,7;/ day of 1957, at the hour of 406 p.m. of said day, is the day and hour and the Chadbers of the City Council, in the City of Downey, is the place fixed by the Council when and where any and all persons having any objections to the proposed work or improvement or to the extent of the district to be assessed, or to the proposed grades to which the work is to be done, or to any or all of the foregoing, may appear before the Council and show cause why the proposed work or improvement should not be carried out in accordance with this Resolution. SECTION 9. That the Superintendent of Streets shall cause to be conspicuously posted along the line of the contemplated work or improvement and along all open streets within the district liable to be assessed, notices of the adoption of this Resolution in the manner and in the form required by law. SECTION 10. The Clerk of the City Council shall certify to the adoption of this 111.1ution : J shall cause the same to be published for two days in the , a newspaper published or circulated in the C ty of Downey, which is hereby designated for that purpose by the Council. The City Council does hereby direct the Clerk thereof to mail notices of the adoption of this Resolution of Intention to all persons owning real property proposed to be assessed for the work herein described whose names and addresses appear on the last equalized assessment roll of the County of Los Angeles or as known to the Clerk, the contents of said notices to be as required by law. The foregoing resolution was on the 246a day of 41 1957, adopted by the City Council of the City of Downey, Staten California. ATTEST: Della Doyle, City Clerk of the :ty of Downey 4 By / - / Mayor I hereby cerfiby tha the foregoing resolution was duly adopted by the City Coi of the/Ci, of Downey at a regular meeting thereof held on the ,Ap day of 04-5!- 1957, by the following vote of the Council AYES: Councilmen: f/- „N.17 NOES: Councilmen: 5 L-t/-7A-c / 0 ABSENT: Councilmen:5 /- City Clerk