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AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA,
CALLI~ A SPEOIAIl MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE HELD IN SAID CITY OF
ARCADU ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 192&, AND SUBMITTING TO THE Q.UALI-
FIED VOTERS OF SAID CITY A CERTAIN PROPOSITION OOR THE ISSUANCE
Am> S!LE OF BONDS OF SAID CITY OF ARCADIA IN THE AMOUNTS AND OOR
THE Pl1RPOSES IN SAID ORDINANCE STATED, AND APPOINTING THE OFFICERS
OF SAID ELECTION AND FIXING THEIR COMPENSATION AND DESIGNATING
THE PRECINCTS FOR .AND THE POLLING PLACES FOR HOLDING SAID ELECTION.
WHEREAS the Board of Trustees of the City of Aroadia, at a
regular meeting of said Board, held on the 3rd day of November,
1920, by a vote of two-thirds of all its members, duly passed and
adopted a Resolution deolaring that the publio interest and
neoessity demand the aoquisition, oonstruotion, extension and oom-
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pletion by said City of Aroadia, of a oertain revenue produoing
munioipal improvement, to-wit:
Water works for developing, supplying ani distributing water
for domestio, irrigation and other purposes to said City of Aroadia,
and to,the inhabitants thereof, inoluding the aoquisition, oonstruo-
tion, extension and oompletion of the munioipal water system now
owned and operated by said Oi ty of Aroadia, by aoquiring land by
pur<<hase and otherwise, for developing water, by laying new pipe
lines, putting down wells, oonstruoting pumps, reservoirs, pump
houses, booster pumps, tanks, water mains, oonduits, laterals and
other maohinery and apparatus neoessary for said work and improve-
ment, inoluding the aoquisition of water rights, easements and
rights of way in oonneotion with said water system and that the
estimated oost thereof is $183,750.00.
WHEREAS said Resolution was approved by the President of the
Board of Trustees of said City of Aroadia on said 3rd day of
November 192&, and
WHEREAS the estimated oost of said revenue produo;ing munioi-
pal improvement is $183,750.00, and suoh oost is and will be too
great to be paid out of the ordinary annual inoome and revenue of
said City,
NOW THEREFORE the Board of Trustees of said City of Aroadia
do ordain as follows:
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SECTION 1: That a speoial munioipal eleotion be and the
same is hereby oalled to be held in said City of Aroadia on Tuesday,
Deoember 7, 1926, for the purpose of submitting thereat to the
qualified voters of said City the proposition of inourring on the
part of said City of Aroadia, of a bonded indebtedness for the
several purposes set forth in said Resolution and hereinafter stated.
SECTION 2: That said proposition to be voted on at said
eleotion so to be held as aforesaid, is as follows, to-wit:
The issuing of bonds of the City of Aroadia, in
the sum of $183,760.00, in aooordanca with the provisions of an aot
of the Legislature of the State of California, entitled "An Aot
authorizing the inourring of indebtedness by oities, towns and
munioipal oorporations for munioipal improvements and regulating
the aoquisition, oonstruction or oompletion thereof", beooming a
Law February 26, 1901, and 811 Aots amendatory thereof and supple-
mentary thereto, and with the General Inoorporation Aots of the
State of California for Cities of the S1xth'Clas~, for the purpose
of the aoquisition, oonstruotion and oompletion and extension by
said City of Aroadia of a oertain revenue produoing munioipal
improvement, to-wit:
The aoquisition, oonstruction, extension and
oompletion of the munioipal water system now owned and operated by
said City of Aroadia, by aoquiring land by purohase and otherwise,
for developing water, bylaying new pipe lines, putting down wells,
oonstructing pumps, reservoirs, pump houses, booster pumps, tanks,
water mains, oonduits, laterals and other maohinery and apparatus
neoessary for said work and improvement, inoluding the aoquisition
of water rights, easements and rights of way in oonneotion with said
water system, and that the estimated oost thereof is $183,760.00.
That if the propOSition of inourring the indebted-
ness for said purposes so submitted at suoh eleotion reoeives the
requisite number of votes, to-wit: two-thirds of the votes of the
qualified voters of said City voting at said eleotion, bonds of said
City of Aroadia in said sum of $183,760.00 shall be issued and sold
for the purpose of aoquiring, oonstruoting, extending and oompleting
said revenue-produoing munioipal improvement.
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Said bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exoeeding five
(5) per oent per annum. p~able semi-annually. and the prinoipal
and interest thereof shall be p~able in lawful money of the
United States of Amerioa.
SECTION 3:
That for the purpose of p~ing the prinoipal
and interest of suoh bonds. the Board of Trustees of the City of
Aroadia shall at the time of fixing the general tax levy and in
the manner for suoh general tax levy provided. levy and oolleot
annually eaoh year until there shall be a sum in the Treasury of
said City set apart for that purpose to meet all sums ooming due
for prinoipal and interest on suoh bonds. a tax suffioient to p~
the annual interest on suoh bonds and also suoh part of the
prinoipal thereof as shall beoome due before the t1me for fixing
the next general tax levy; provided however. that if the maturity
of the indebtedness oreated by the aforesaid issue of bonds be
made to begin more than one year after the date of the issuanoe
of suoh bonds. then the tax for the purpose of p~ing the prinoipal
and interest of the bonds. the maturity of whioh is so deferred,
shall be levied and oolleoted at the t 1me and in the manner afore-
said, annually eaoh year suffioient to pay the interest of suoh
indebtedness as it falls due. and also to oonstitute a sinking fund
for the payment of the prinoipal thereof on or before maturity.
Said tax shall be in addition to all other taxes levied for munioi-
pal purposes and shall be oolleoted at the same time and in the
same manner as other munioipal taxes are oolleoted. and be used for
no other purpose than the payment of said bonds and aooru.tng interest.
SECTION 4:
That the ballots to be used at said eleotion shall
oontain the follOWing proposition to be voted for by the qualified
voters of said, City of Aroadia at suoh eleotion so oalled and to be
held on Tuesday. the 7th d~ of Deoember 1926, to-wit:
"Shall bonds of the City of Aroadia in the sum of $183.750.00,
be issued for the aoquisition. oonstruotion, extension and oompletion
of the munioipal water system now owned and operated by said Ci~y of
Aroadia. by aoquiring land py purohase and otherwise. for developing
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water, by laying new pipe lines. putting down wells. oonstruoting
pumps, reservoirs, pump houses, booster pumps. tanks. water mains.
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oonduits, laterals and other maohinery and apparatus neoessary
for said work and improvement, including the aoquisition of
water rights, easements and rights of way in oonneotion with
said water system.
Opposite said proposition and to the right thereof on
said ballot the words nyes" and ~o" shall be printed on separate
lines, with voting squares, and said ballot shall be so printed
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as to give eaoh voter a olear opportunity to designate by stamping
a oross (X) in the blank enolosed spaoe on the right of and after
eaoh of said words "Yes" and "No" his Wish or ohoioe upon said
proposition, and said ballot shall be printed substantially in the
following form:
No.
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INSTRUCTION TO VOTERS.
To vote for the proposition stamp a oross (X) in the voting
square to the right of and apposite the word nyes". To vote
against the proposition stamp a oross (X) in the voting square to
the right of and opposite the word "No".
"ALL MARKS EXCEPT THE CROSS (X) ARE FORBIDDEN."
"ALL DISTINGUISHING MARKS OR ERASURES ARE FORBIDDEN AND MAKE
THE BALLOT VO ID" .
If you "WRONGFULLY STAMP, TEAR OR DEFACE THIS BALLOT" return
it to the Inspeotor of Eleotion and obtain another.
Shall bonds of the City of Aroadia in the sum of $183,760.00
be issued for the aoquisition, oonstruotion, extension and oomple-
tion of the munioipal water system now owned and operated by said
City of Aroadia, by aoquiring land by purohase and otrerwise, for
developing water, by laying new pipe lines, putting down wells,
oonstruoting pumps, reservoirs, pump houses, booster pumps, tanks,
water mains, oonduits, laterals and ot'her maohinery and apparatus
neoessary for said work and improvement, inoluding the aoquisition
of water rights, easements an,d rights of way in oonneotion with /
said water system.
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fhat said ballot shall be in all other respeots in aooord-
anoe with the General Eleotion laws of the State of California,
in so far as said General Eleotion Laws apply to munioipal
oorporations.
SEcnlilN 5:
That for the purpose of said special munioipal
eleotimn, the whole of said City of Aro~dia, whioh was last
established and divided into six eleotion preoinots, designated
by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles, State of
California, for holding General Eleotions, as Aroadia Preoinots
Nos. 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 respeotively, shall be oonsolidated into
two (2) election preo1Dots, desoribed as follows, to-wit:
Aroadia Preoinot No. 1 shall oomprise and inolude all that terri-
tory in said City whioh lies north and east of a line drawn as
follows, to-wit: beginning at a point in the oenter of Huntington
Drive at its interseotion with the westerly boundary line of said
Ci ty of Arcadia, thenoe running eaater:l.y along the oenter of said
Huntington Drive to the oenter of Santa Anita Avenue; thenoe
south along the oenter of said Santa Anita Avenue to the oenter
of Duarte Road: thenoe easterly along the center of said Duarte
Road to the oenter of First Avenue: thence south along the oenter
of said First Avenue to the center of Valnett Avenue: thence
easterly along the oenter of said Valnett Avenue to the oenter of
Seoond Avenue: thenoe south along the oenter of said Seoond
Avenue to the southern boundary line of said City of Aroadia, on
Azusa Road.
PRECINCT NO. 2 shall oomprise all of that territory
on said City of Aroadia whioh lies south and west of said line
Just hereinbeforedesoribed. Said Preoinot No.1 shall be known
and is hereby designated as Consolidated Preoinot No. 1 of the
City of Aroadia, and said Preoinot No. 2 shall be known and is
her.by designated as Consolidated Preoinot No. 2 of the City of
Aroadia, for the purpose of said speoial munioipal eleotion.
The polling plaoe of said Consolidated Preoinot No.1, shall
be at the City Hall situate on the northwest oorner of First
Avenue and Huntington Drive in said City of Aroadia, and the follow-
ing qualified voters of said City of Aroadia, are hereby appointed
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the offioers at said special eleotion, for said Consolidated
~ecinot No., 1, to-wit:
Graoe Newhall, Inspector: Samuel J. Wilson, Judge:
Burch A. Baldwin" Clerk and Graoe D., Strauser, Clerk.
The polling place of said Consolidated Preoinot No.2
,shall be at 120D South Baldwin Avenue, in said City of Arcadia,
and the following qualified voters of said City of Arcadia, are
hereby appointe~ the offioers at said Special Election for said
Consolidated Preoinot NO.2, to-wit:
G~EVeri~t_Canda~, Inspeotor; Cornelius M. Roberts, Judge;
Samuel ~. Alden, Clerk: and Graoe D. Ransburg, Clerk.
That the oompensation to be paid to eaoh of said offioers
of eleotion for all servioes by eaoh of said offioers to be
rendered at said Speoial Munioipal Eleotion shall be and the
same is hereby fixed at the sum of($6.00) Six Dollars.
SECTION 6:
That the polls for said eleotion shall be
opened at the hour of six 0 'olook in the morning of the day of
said eleotion and shall be kept open until seven o'olook in the
evening of the same day, when the polls shall be olosed, exoept
as provided in Section 1164 of the Poli.ioal Code of the State of
California.
SECTION 7:
That said special munioipal eleotion shall
be held in every manner, other than herein speoifioally set forth,
wholly in acoordanoe with the eleotion laws of the State of
California, insofaras said eleotion laws are applioable to
munioipal eleotions in Cities of the Sixth Class.
SECTION 8:
This Ord inanoe is urge ntly required for the
immediate prewervation of the public health, peaoe and safety, as
the fUture welfare, oonvenienoe and necessity of the inhabitants
of said City of Aroadia require an extension, addition to and
enlargement of the present water system now owned and operated
by said City of Aroadia, in order to supply said inhabitants with
an adequate supply of water for domestio, irrigation and other
purposes, and suoh supply of water ,is immediately required and oan
only be aoquired by the issuanoe and sale of said bonds.
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SECTION 9:
The City Clerk shall oertify to the adoption
of this Ordinanoe and shall o~use the same to be published onoe
a week for two suooessive weeks in the Aroadia News, a weekly
newspaper, published, printed and oircrulated in said 'City of
Aroadia, and hereby designated for that purpose, and thereupon
and thereafter the same shall take effeot and be in foroe.
No other notioe of said eleotion need be given than that
above provided for.
The foregoing Ordinanoe was adopted at a Regular Meeting
of the Board of Trustees of the City of Aroadia, held on the
24th d,*" of November, 1926, by the .affi rmative vote of at least
four Trustees, to-wit:
AYES:
Trustees: Hawk, Multer, SOhermerhorn, E. E. Williams
i~n I. ~ Wil11ams.
NOES: None
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ABSENT: lIJeBe .T.'"P. WllL;~m~
and s~ed and ,approved this 24th d,*" of November, 1926.
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