Explanation
BACKGROUND: This Ordinance is to levy a special assessment upon the lots and lands benefited by the installation of a high pressure sodium street lighting system with ornamental poles and underground wiring in the Miami Avenue area, including Miami Avenue from Broad Street to Long Street.
All costs of the street lighting system now have been assembled, the final assessment report prepared, and now the assessing Ordinance should be passed.
Emergency action is requested in order that the assessment process may be completed prior to the street lighting notes becoming due.
Title
To authorize the Director of Public Utilities to levy a special assessment upon the lots and lands benefited by the installation of a street lighting system with underground wiring and ornamental poles in the Miami Avenue area, and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, property owners have submitted a petition for a high pressure sodium street lighting system with ornamental poles and underground wiring in the Miami Avenue area, including Miami Avenue from Broad Street to Long Street; and
WHEREAS, Ordinance 1105-2008, passed July 14, 2008, authorized the installation of said street lighting system under the assessment procedures; and
WHEREAS, all costs of the street lighting system now have been assembled, the final assessment report prepared, and now the assessing ordinance should be passed; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Division of Power and Water (Power), Department of Public Utilities, in that it is immediately necessary to levy a special assessment upon the lots and lands benefited by the installation of a street lighting system with ornamental poles and underground wiring in the Miami Avenue area, in an emergency manner in order that the assessment process be completed prior to the street lighting notes becoming due; for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety; now...
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