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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1926_08_11 Town Board Minutes 71 SPECIAL I=MNG OF THE TOWN BOARD TOWN Or MAMARON"ECK held August 11th., 1926. The meeting was called to order by Supervisor - Burton at 9. 30 P.M. PRESENT: Supervisor Burton, Justices Collins, Howell, Leeds Town Clerk Sherman Counsellor Gamble. ABSENTL: Justice Boyd. Supervisor Burton called the meeting; to order and stated that the meeting had been called for the purpose of holding a public hearing to take action upon a petition heretofore filed with the Town Board by the Board of Sewer Commissioners of Sever District No.l of the Town of Mamaroneck, requesting the Town Board to issue and sell j.50,000 principal amount of sewer bonds for the construction of Contract No.; within said Sewer District NO-1 The Clerk read the notice stating the time, place and purpose of such hearing and such other information as is required by law and presented a copy of said Notice, together w: with an affidavit of posting of such ncticd in at least four - of the most public places within said district at 21 days prior to such meeting and an affidavit of publication of such notice once in each of the four weeks i.r:rediately preceding — the week in which the hearing was held in the Daily Times, a newspaper published in the County and having general circulation in the District, there being no newspapers published in said District. Uppn motion, duly seconded, it was RESOLVED, that the notice of public hearing be and the same hereby is ni all respects approved, and it was further RESOLVED, that a copy of the notice and of the affidavits of posting and publication be filed with the Clerk in the Town records. The Supervisor stated that the meeting could now proceed to hear all interested persons present. No one being present who wished to be heard either for or against the said petition, an motion, duly seconded, it was RESOLVED, that the hearing be now closed... _- Ur. Justice Collins moved and Mr.Justice Howell seconded the adoption of the following resolutions which was unanimously adopted: WHEREAS, a petition for financing a public district has been filed with this Board by the Sewer Commissioners of Sewer District No.1 of the Town of Mpama.reneck, which has heretofore been duly established and extended and of which maps and plans have been duly filed, as extended and as required by law, and F � iAS, before taking any action on such petition, a public hearing has been granted by this Board with full opportunity to all interested persons to be heard, after notice stating the time, place and purpose of such hearing and containing a description of the said district had been given by this J Board, by posting such notice in at least four of the most public places within said district at least twenty-one days prior to such hearing and by publishing once in the week in each of the four weeks immediately proceeding the week in which such hearing was held in two newspapers published in the County and having a general circulation in the District, there being no newspaper published in said District, now, therefore, RESOLVED, that this Board hereby determines that it is in the public interest to grant in whole the relief sought in the petition referred to in the recitals hereof, namely, the financing of sewer district No. 1 of the Town of Mamaroneck by the issuance of Sewer District Bonds of the Town in the aggregate principal amount of eighty thousand dollzs ($80, 000) for the financing of cost of construction of contract No. 8 of the sewer system of the said district; and further determines that all the property,property owners and interested persons within the said public district are benefited thereby and that - all the property or property owners benefited are included therein. The Supervisor reported that he had been advised by Counsel of the Westchester Union Water Works,#1 that word had been received from the conservative commission that its report in relation to the water district is favorable. A petition from Mr.H.MWiliiams was received and read signed by the property owners residing on Edgewood Avenue, requesting the improvement of said street between Murray Avenue and Chatsworth Avenue. The communication and petition were ordered placed on file and the matter referred to the Superintendent of Highways. Communications from the Westchester Lighting Company were received and read in relation to the resolutions heretofore adopted pertaining to the installation of lights on Monroe and Fifth Avenues and the removing of a lighting pole and changing of lights in The Rockingstone, on Rocking- stone Avenue. The communications were ordered placed on file and the matters referred to Mr.Coles, Superintendent of ervisor, who were authorized to take Highways, and the Sup , the same up with Mr. Graham of the Westchester Lighting Company. The matter of the dead and street at Spruce Road in the Woods of Larchmont as reported by Justice Leeds was referred to the Superintendent of Highways and the Supervisor for their report. Upon motion, the meeting adjourned at 10 P.M. Town Clerk. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE TOWN BOARD TOWN OF MAMARONECK held August 11,1926. The meeting was called to order by Supervisor --- Burton at 8.45 P.M. PRESENT: Supervisor Burton Justices Collins,Howell and :Leeds Town Clerk Sherman. Mr. Collins moved and Mr. Howell seconded the adoption of the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted: WHEREAS, the Board Board of the Town of Mamaroneck has, in the manner provided by law and by resolutions dated June 11, 1923 and February 18, 1925, respectively, extended Sewer District No. 1 of the Town of Mramaroneok, and WHEREAS, the Board of Sewer Commissioners of Sewer District No. 1 of the Town of Mamaroneck has heretofore filed in the office of the Town Clerk maps and plans of such district, as extended and as required by law, and has reported to the Town Board the amount of cost of construction of Contract No. 9,Section C in Larchmont Gardens, of the Sewer System, determined as required by law, the said report of said cost reading as follows: Board of Sewer Commissioners Sewer District No. 1 Town of Vamaroneck,N.Y. Post HfficeAddress: Larchmont,N.Y. July 6th, 1926 Town Board Town of Mamaroneck 8 Elm Street Mamaroneck,N,Y. Gentlemen: We beg to advise you that this Commission has recently opened bids for the construction of Contract No. 9 Section C in Larchmont Gardens of the Sewer System in Disttict No. 1, Town of Mamaroneck. Based on these bids we here- with respectfully report to you that the cost of construct- ion thereof will beupwards of $80, 000.00. We therefore respectfully request that you immediately authorize and direct the issue and sale of bonds for the aforesaid amount, to-wit: $80, 000. Respectfully yours, BOARD OF SEWER COMMISSIONEERS SEWER DISTRICT NO. 1 OF THE TOW OF MAMARONECK, R.H.Stevens, Chairman W. I,Palmer H.R.Mi tchell. 'V7 WHEREAS, after the filing of the said report or petition, this Board has duly granted a public hearing aftet due notice and has duly made the determination required by the General District Law being Chapter 470 of the laws of 1926, now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, by the Town Board of the Town of Mamaroneck,weetchester County,New York: Section 1. $80, 000. Sewer District Bonds of the Town of Mamaroneck shall be issued pursuant to the provisions of the Town Law, constituting Chapter 62 of the Consolidated Laws of the State of New York, and Chapter 422 of the Laws of 1922 of the State of New York. Said bonds shall be dated July 1, 1926 shall bear interest at the rate of four and one half per centum(41/2f) or four and one quarter per centum (41/4%) per annum payable semi-annually on the first days of January and July in each year, shall be 80 in number, numbered from 1 to 80, inclusive,and shall be of the denomination of $1, 000.each, and shall mature in the principal amount of $2, 000. on July 1 in each of the years 1931 to 19700 both inclusive, and shall be in sub- stantially the following form: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA STATE OF NEWYORK COUNTY OIL WESTCHESTER TOWN OF MAMARONECK No* $ 1,000. SEWER DISTRICT N0.1 BOND SERIES F. The Town of Mamaroneck in the County ofWestchester a municipal corporation of the State of New York hereby acknowledges itself indebted and for value received promises to pay to the bearer of this bond or if it be registered, to the registered holder, on the first day of July 19269 the sum of one thousand dollars ($1, 000.00) and to pay interest thereon at the rate of four and one percentum (41/ %) per annum, semi-annually on the first days of January and July in each year from the date of this bond until it matures, upon presentation and surrender, as they severally mature, of the coupons therefor annexed hereto, or if this bond be registered, then to the registered holder. Both principal and interest of this bond are payable in lawful money of the United States of America at the office of the United States Mortgage & Trust Company,New York City. This bond may be converted into a registered bond, as provided by the General Municipal Lsw, and be registered on the books of the Town Clerk and thereafter is transferable only upon presentation to the said Town Clerk thereof with a written assignment duly acknowledged or proved. Upon presentation hereof, with such assignment, the Town Clerk will note such transfer on this bond and on said books. This bond is one of an issue of $80, 000.Sewer District No. 1 bonds, except as to maturity, numbered from 1 to 80, inclusive, maturing in order as numbered, $20000, on duly 1 in each of the years 1931 to 1970, both inclusive, issued pursuant to the provisions of the Town Law, constitut- ing Chapter 62 of the Consolidated Laws of the State of New York, and a resolution, of the Town Board of the Town of Mamaroneck, duly adopted August 11, 1926. It is hereby certified and recited that all conditions, acts and things required by the constitution and statues of the State of New York to exist, to have happened and to have been performed precedent to and in the issuance of this bond exist, have happened and have been performed, and that the issue of bonds of which this is one, together with all other indebtedness of said Town of Mamaroneck is within every debt and other limit prescribed by the constitution and laws of said State. In witness whereof the Town of Mamaroneck, in the County of Westchester, has caused this bond to be signed by its Supervisor and the corporate seal of said Town to be hereunto affixed and attested by its Town Clerk and the coupons hereto attached to be authenticated by the facsimile signature of its Supervisor, and this bond to be dated the first day of July, 1926. Supervisor. (corporate seal) Attest: Town Clerk. (FORM OF COUPON) No, The Town of Mamaroneck in the County of Westchester a municipal corporation of the State of New York, will pay to the bearer on the first day of 019 , the sum of Dollars ($ ), in lawful money of the United states of America at the office of theUnited States Mortgage and Trust Company,New York City, being six months' interest then due on its Sewer District No. 1 Bond, dated July 1,1926 bearing number Supervisor (FORM OF M DORSMERNT) CONV...RSION CXRTIFICA'PR We hereby certify thatupon the presentation of the within bond with a written request by the owner thereof for its conversion into a registered bond, we have this day cut off and destroyed coupons attached thereto, numbered from to inclusive, of the amount and value of Dollars R each, amounting in the aggregate to (Dollars($ ;, and that the interest at the rate of per centum ( %) per annum payable semi-annually on the first days of January and July in each year, as was provided by the coupons, as well as the principal, is to be paid to legal representatives, successors or assigns, at the office of the United States Mortgage and Trust Company,New York City, the place stated in the coupons. Dated, 19 Supervisor Town Clerk RBGIST-RATION CERTIFICATE It is hereby certified that the within bond was this day registered in the name of the payee above named in the books kept in the office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Mamaroneck, in the County of Westchester,New York. and is transferable only upon presentation to said Town Clerk with a written assignment duly acknowledged or proved, at which time the name of the assignee shall be - entered hereon and in said books by said Town Clerk, In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand _.._ this day of 919 . Town er . Transfers of this bond have been registered as follows: Date of Name of Registered Holder Registered by Registration EEE Section i. The Town of Mamaroneck hereby covenants to pay the principal and interest of the said bonds as the same shall become due by levying and collecting an assess- ment or assessments on property of the district at such time or times and in such amounts as may be necessary therefor. The Town of Mamaroneck further covenants that in ease of a default in carrying out the terms of the fore- going covenant the said Town will raise by tax upon all the taxable property in said Town from time to time a sum or — stuns sufficient to pay the principal and interest of said bonds as the same shall become due. Section 3. The said bonds authorized by this ,� resolution shall be sold upon sealed proposals upon notice published not less than five or more than thirty days before such sale, at least once in The Daily Times, which is designated the official newspaper of the Town for the purpose of such publication, and also in The Bond Buyer, a financial newspaper published in the City of New York. Section 4 Said notice of sale shall be in substantia ly the following form: TOWN OF MAMARONECK, NEW YORK NOTICE OF SALE $80, o00. SE6PL+'R DISTRICT NO. 1 BONDS. Sealed proposals will be received by the Town Board of the Town of Mamaroneck, in the County of Westchester,New York, og August 25th, 1926, at 8.30 p.M. (Daylight Saving Time, at No. 8 Elm Street,Mamaroneck,New York, for the purchase of $80, 000 Sewer District No. 1 Bonds of said Town. All of said bonds will be of the denomination of $1, 000. each, will be dated July 1, 1926 and will mature $2, 000 on July 1 in each of the years 1931 to 19700 both inclusive. Bids will be received for bonds bearing interest at the rate of both four and one quarter per centum (41,.4%) and four and one half per centum (41/2%) per annum. Bids for bonds bearing interest at the rate of four and one half per centum (41/2%) per annum, will not, however, be consider*i if any legally acceptable bid is received for bonds bearing interest at the rate of four and one quarter per centum (41/4%) per annum. Interest on said bonds will be payable in lawful money of the United States of AmericaX at the iffice of the United States Mortgage & Tuvot Company} New York City, The bonds will be coupon bands with the privilege of registration as to both principal and interest. The right is reserved to reject all bids and any bid not complying with the terms of this notice will be rejected. The bonds will not be sold for less than par and in addition to the amount bid the successful bidder must pay accrued interest at the rate borne by, the bonds from the date of the bonds to the date of payment of the purchase price. All bidders are required to deposit a certified check payable to the order of the Town of Mamaroneck, for two per centum of the amount of bonds bid for, drawn upon an incorporated bank or trust company. Checks of un- successful bidders will be returned upon the award of the bonds. No interest will be allowed upon the amount of the cheek of a successful bidder and such check will be re- tained to be applied in part payment for the bonds or to secure the Town against any loss resulting from the failure of the bidder to comply with the terms of his bid. Proposals should be addressed to the Town Clerk Mamaroneok,N.Y. and enclosed in a sealed envelope marked on the outside "Proposal for Sewer District No. 1 Bonds"* bonds will be prepared under the supervision of the Unit Stgage and Trust Company, which will certify as to the genuineilese of the signatures of the officials --- and the seal impressed thereon. The successful bidder will be furnished with the opinion of Messrs. Hawkins, Delafield & Longfellow, of New York City, that the bonds are binding and legal obligations of the Town, payable in the first instance from assess-ments and not from a general town tax, which, however, may be levied if there is a shortage in primary fund. By order of the Town Board of the Tomn of Mamaroneck. Dated, August 11, 1926. GEORGE W. BURTON, SUPERVISOR. Mamaroneck, Frederick M. Sherman, Town Clerk, New York. Upon motion, the meeting adjourned at 10.45 P.1%