Ordinance No. 68-63 PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO CHARTER
CITY OF TIGARD, OREGON '
F Ordinance No. 68-63
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AN ORDINANCE AVTHO-MING AND AFFROVING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CHARTER
OF THE CITY OF TIGARD OREGON BY ADDING TO CHAPTER IX THEREOF A NEW
SECTION NUMBERED 1142", AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE-.QF GENERAL.OBLIGATION
BONDS OF THE CITY WHEREWITH TO FINANCE THE COST OF STREET IMPROVE-
-MPNTS, ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY FOR CITY HALL SITE, ACQUISITION
AND DEVELOPMENT OF REAL PROPERTY FOR PARK AND PLAYGROUND PURPOSES,
PREPARA'T'ION OF PLANS FOR CONSTRUCTION TO ALLEVIATE DRAINAGE PROBLEMS
INCLUDING PLANS FOR STORM DRAINS WITHIN THE CITY, CALLING A SPECIAL
ELECTION AT WHICH TFiE PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT SHALL BE SUBMITTED
TO THE VOTERS, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
THE CITY OF TIGARD ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: That there is hereby approved, authorized and adopted an
amendment to the Charter of the City of Tigard, by adding
thereto a new section numbered 1142" of Chapter IX, reading as follows:
"Section 42. The City of Tigard ta, and it is hereby,
empowered and authorized to construct, reconstruct, finance,
maintain, repair and improve public streets, roads anacquire
highways (except state highways) within the City; t
real property for a new city hall site; to acquire
t prepare
develop real property for parks and playgrounds;
engineering plans for alleviation of flooding and drainage
problems and to prepare engineering plans for storm drains
within the City. The City of Tigard and the Council thereof
be, and they are, hereby authorized to perform any and all
acts necessary and desirable to accomplish and carry out the
foregoing and, without limiting the foregoing general auth-
ority, the City of Tigard and the Council thereof be, and
they are hereby, specifically authorized and empowered, in
order to provide funds wherewith to accomplish and carry out
the foregoing, to approve, issue and sell general obligation
bonds of theCity to mature within twenty (20) years from
the date thereof and bearing interest at such rates and with
such other terms and conditions as may be approved by the
Council of the City of Tigard, in a total sum not to exceed
$750,000.
f2The City of Tigard be, and it is hereby, authorized
without limitation, and subvect only to outstanding bonds
for which previous pledges existto pledge the general
credit and taxing power of the City for the repayment of
such bond issue.
"Any and all matters that may require the action or
of the City Council in connection with the activities
( hereby authorized, shall be approved either by ordinance or h
by resolution of the City Council."
Section 2: A special election is hereby fixed and called to be held
on she 23rd day of September, 1968 between the hours of
$t00 a.m.Yand 13:00 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time, in theCouncilRoom
of the Tigard City Hall, for the purpose of submitting to the legal
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voters the question of approval or rejection of the foregoing charter
amendment, and said election on said question shall be held in accord-
ance with the provisions of the Charter of the City of Tigard and the
applicable election laws of the State of Oregon.
Section 3: The City Recorder be, and she is hereby authorized and
directed to cause to have published in the Tigard Times,
a newspaper published and of general circulation in the City of Tigard,
Oregon, notice of said election in the issues thereof on September 5,
12 and 19,1968, and shall further post notices thereof in three public
places in the City of Tigard, Oregon.
Section 4: The following persons are hereby designated to serve as
Clerks of said election, who shall take an oath to support
the Constitution of the State of Oregon and of the United States, and
to faithfully perform the duties of said offices: Dixie Klock, Chair-
man, Beulah Butterfield, Virginia Hanes, Lena Nunnenkamp, Viola Larson
and Jean Sauder.
Section 5: The official ballot title for the foregoing measure as it
shall appear upon the official ballot used at the special
election to be held on September 23, 1968, is hereby provised, auth-
orized and approved as follows:
City of Tigard, Oregon
Charter Amendment Submitted to the Voters
by the City Council: Vote YES or NO
Purpose:
An amendment to the Charter of the City of
Tigard, adding a new section nranbered 1142"
of Chapter IX, authorizing the issuance of
general obligation bonds of the City for the
purpose of construe ting, reconstructing,
financing, maintaining, repairing and 3m-
proving public streets_ roads and highways YES
51. (except state highways? within the City;
acquiring real property for a new city hall
site; acquiring and developing real property
for parks and playgrounds; preparing engin- El
eering plans for alleviation of flooding and NO
drainage problems and preparing engineering
plans for storm drains within the City; in
a sum not to exceed $750,000., and pledging
the City's general credit and taxing power, sub=
ject to outstanding bonds for which previous
pledges exist, for the repayment of said bonds
Including principal and interest thereof.
Section 6: Inasmuch as there is urgent need for street road and
highway improvements(except state highways; within the
City of Tigard, and urgent need for acquisition of lands for city
hall site and for park and playground purposes, and it is immediately
necessary to prepare plans to overcome drainage problems within the
City and to provide plans for storm drains, and it is necessary for
the peace, health and safety of the City that .this amendment to the .
City Charter be submitted to the voters without delay, an emergency
is hereby declared to exist, and this ordinance shall take effect
immediately upon its passage by the Council and approval bytheMayor.
PASSED: By unanimous vote of all Council members present, after
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being read three times by title and number, and by
sections once, this 29th day of August, 1968.
Recorder City of� gard
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APPROVED: By the Mayor, this 29th day of August, 1968.
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