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RESOLUTION
WH , on the 15th day of Jane, 1937, the City of Canton employed Wood,
Walraven and Tilly as Engineers to make all necessary surveys, plans and speci-
e fications, and to supervise the construction of a sewage treatment plant and
interoepting sewers for the City of Canton; and
WHEREAS, in partial fulfillment of said contract with the City of Canton the
said Engineers made preliminary surveys and prepared a preliminary estimate of
cost of the construction of a sewage treatment plant, intercepting sewers and
appurtenant structures, and on January 3, 1938, submitted to the City Council an
estimate of cost of approximately $249,000 as the City's share of certain improve-
ments provided that said improvements be carried out as a WA pro5eot; and
'alms, such estimate of cost was based upon the minimum number of ewers
and the cheapest sewage treatment plant that could be constructed by the City of
Canton and still comply with the requirements of the Illinois State unitary
Water Board; and
WE REAS, at a later meeting of the City Council the Mayor of Canton was
authorised to execute said application to the TA on the basis of the estimate
prepared by the said Engineers; and
WEB, following the filing of such application the City Council deemed
it advisable end to the beet interest of the City of Canton that additional sewers
be constructed along the various streets in the City of Canton and that a more
modern and more expensive sewage treatment plant be constructed to avoid the
possibility of reconstruction frozen time to time as the Illinois State Sanitary
Water Board might request; and
WHERE, a new estimate of oost was prepared on the basis of the addition to
the original project incorporating the additional sewers to be constructed and the
more expensive type of sewage treatment plant and was found to be in the sum of
$175,000 as a maximum to be furnished by the Ctty of Canton; and
WHEREAS, the said Engineers requested the City of Canton to issue and sell
bonds in such an amount that there would be the amount of $175,000 Which could be
applied to the construction of the said sewerage improvements; and
WHEREAS, when the City of Canton bad issued and sold bonds both for the
construction of the sewerage improvements and the waterworks improvements, the City
of Canton did on the 16th day of August, 1938, adopt a resolution authorising
$175,000 from such funds to be set aside in a separate account for use only in the
construction of said sewerage improvements; and
WHEREAS, it has been found that the governing body of the City of Canton failed
to comply with the wording of said resolution adopted August 16, 1938, and that
there now remains in the combined waterworks and sewerage funds an amount which,
if all applied to the sewerage improvements together with the amount Which has
heretofore been expended on the said sewerage improvements, would amount to $169,400
or $5,600 less than the amount required to complete said improvements; and
WHEREAS, it was publicly made Down at the time that the waterworks improvement
was let by contract that there would not be sufficient funds to pay for all the
costs involved in the construction of said waterworks improvement; therefore
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Canton in regular session
assembled this 7th day of November, 1939, that there at this time be set aside and
deposited in the bank in a separate account, an amount which together with all
monies which have heretofore been expended on the construction of said sewerage
improvements, will total $175,000 from the funds derived from the sale of combined
water and sewer bonds and the accumulated funds of the Canton Water Department,
and that said funds so set aside shall be used solely and only for the construction
of said sewerage improvements.
Dated at Canton, Illinois, this 7th day of November, 1939.
THE C,Y OF CANTON, ILLINOIS
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Mayor
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