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AN ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING FINANCIAL AID TO STREET
IIVIPROVEKENT DISTRICT NO. 567 AND CURB AND GUTTER
IMPROVMI,IENT DISTRICT NO. 568 IN ORDER TO CONSTRUCT
A DRAINAGE, STRUCTURE ETH THE IMPROVEMENTS MADE BY
SAID DISTRICTS V'JHICH V1ILL DRAIN SEVERAL BLOCKS OF
PROPERTY IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF LITTLE ROCK; FINDING
THE NECESSITY F OR SUCH A STRUCTURE AND AID; DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES;.
l iF ,; :,8t2* e - Improv otaent District No. 567 and Curb and
Gutter Improvement District No. 568 have been organized for the purpose
of grading, draining, curbing, guttering and paving West 20th S treet
from Cedar to Lewis Street, Lewis Street from West 20th to West 29th
Streets, and West 29th Street from Lewis to A sher Avenue, amounting
to some twelve and one -half blocks of pavement; and
WHEREAS, each district is limited by law to an expenditure of
forty per centum (40%) of the assessed valuation of the property in
j each district, and the total which both districts are allowed to
spend according to their said assessed valuation amounts to X47,000,
which is actually 80% of the assessed valuation of the. property in
the 'area to be improved; and
WHERF,AS, there runs along Lewis Street for some six blocks a
large open drainage ditch which drains approximately 100 city blocks
in the southwest part of the City of Little Rock, and said ditch has
in the past, due to large and heavy rains, enlarged itself until it
has,in some parts of it, washed away abutting property, including
parts of Lewis Street and the property of private owners; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary that this ditch and the waters running
through it be confined to prevent further erosion and flooding and to
insure proper drainage before it would be safe and possible to pave.
Lewis Street h
this ditc
, and the estimated cost of confining h
waters to concrete pipe would amount to X17,169, and said districts
can spend only $5169 of this amount and pave the streets also and
keep within their statutory limit of expenditures, leaving a total of
$122000 needed to complete their improvements; and
WHEREAS, it would be grossly unjust and unfair to require
twelve and one -half blocks of property owners to pay for a drainage
structure that would benefit some 100 city blocks of the city; and
Ab
WHEREAS, it is possible that the cost of improving the streets
in said districts will not amount to the present estimated cost and
that said districts may be able to contribute more than 45169 to the
drainage costs; and
WHEREAS, said d istricts have agreed to expend the full amount
to which they are limited in making said improvements and to contribute
4i said legal limit over
and above the cost of grading,, curbing, guttering and paving said
streets, and in consequence tWe amount required in aid from the City
of Little Rock may be reduced ifs the cost of .improving said streets
doesnot amount to the present estimate of cost; and
WHEREAS, the City of Little Rock should correct and improve
this faulty drainage condition -,Xor the benefit of some 100 city blocks
of citizens;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the C ity ounc it of the C i ty
of Little Rock, Arkansas:
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated from any funds what-
soever of the City of Little Hock available for this purpose the sum
of Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000), to the use and benefit of Street
Improvement District No. 567 and Curb and Gutter Improvement District
No. 568, both of the City of Little Rock, to be used in whole or in
part in constructing a drainage structure along and under Lewis Street
between Viest 20th and VYest 29th Streets and along and under that
portion of v-est 29th Street to be improved by said Districts.
Section 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed.
Section 3. Due to the fact that the City of Little Kock is.
in dire need of improved streets in this southwestern part of the
city, -and due to the present and urgent necessity of proper drainage
along Lewis Street to prevent the further flooding and erosion of
private and public property, and due to the hazard Lewis Street
constitutes to fire - fighting ecp ipment, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, and this ordinance shall take effect and be in
force immediately from and after its passage.
Passed: June 26 , 1950.
Attest: Approved
Mayor
it. Clerk