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f 4 • ORDINANCE No. 2901. AN ORDINANCE providing for an emergency expenditure for the purpose of establishing, improving and maintaining play- grounds and ball parks ; installing lights and constructing grandstand in civic baseball park located at 17th Street and East Grand Avenue in .: verett ; pledging the City of Everett to levy in the year 1941 a tax of one mill on the taxable pro- perty in the City of Everett for the purpose of paying for said expenditure ; creating a special fund to which the proceeds of said one mill levy shall be paid ; providing that said ex- penditure shall be made by the Park Board of Everett ; providing that said expenditure shall be paid by emergency warrants drawn on said special fund, and declaring an emergency. WHEREAS, at a special election held in the City of Everett on the 5th day of T.Tovember, 1940, the voters of Everett duly adopted a proposition submitted at said election authorizing the City of Everett to levy in the year 1941 a tax of one mill in addition to the fifteen mills authorized by Chapter 2 Laws of 1939 of the State of Washington, for the purpose of establish- ing, improving and maintaining playgrounds and ball parks , in- stalling lights and constructing grandstand in the civic baseball park located at 17th Street and East Grand Avenue in Everett ; and WHEREAS, it is desired to make the authorized expenditures immediately; and WHEREAS, it is estimated that said one mill levy for said purposes will produce revenue in excess of 12 ,608.81. NOW, THEREFORE , THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1 : That a public emergency exists and the amount of expenditure therefor could not have been reasonably foreseen at the time of making the budget for the year 1941, to-wit : In October 1940; that said emergency has been caused by reason of the fact that at a special election held in the City of Everett on November 5 , 1940, the voters of the Uity of Everett duly adopted a proposition providing that the City of Everett be authorized to levy in the year 1941 a tax of one mill in addition to the fifteen mills authorized by Chapter 2, Laws of 1939 of the State of Washington, for the purpose of establishing, improving and maintaining playgrounds and ball parks ; installing lights; constructing grandstand in the civic baseball park located at 17th Street and East Grand Avenue in Everett. That there is hereby appropriated for the purpose of installing, lights , constructing grand stand and improving the civic baseball park located at 17th Street and East Grand Avenue in Everett, the sum of 10,086.40, and there is hereby appropriated for the purpose of establishing, improving and maintaining other play grounds and ball parks the sum of 2, 521.60. •