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t r i ORDIt'IAN E NO. 2635 An Ordinance providing for emergency expenditures in the Water System of the Department of Public Works of the City of 'lIverett, establishing a revolving fund which permits delinquent water customers to perform labor in payment of bills four months or more past due, authorizing an account to be known as the "later Arrearage Relief Fund", making provision for issuing erfer ,ency warrants therefor, and declaring an emergency. ',s}-i[�,RRAS, a large number of water customers of the Water System of averett are now in arrears, the sum total of which will aggregate many thousands of dollars, and said customers do not have and. are unable to pay said delinquent water bills, all of which are not less than four months in arrears at this time and there is very grave likelihood that the same will be a total loss to the city, due in a measure to the economic conditions now existing; and '11 :RYAS, the regular water department crew is depleted in cumbers and there is much necessary work required at this time in the performance of needed improve- ments upon the water system, which work can be performed by delinquent water cus- tomers and payment therefor credited upon the customer's bill for water due the City, thereby conserving any cash outlay by its water department; and WIlL RJ'AS , no provision was made in the 1935 budget of the City for payment of such work, and it is contemplated the issuance of emergency warrants to such water customer in payment of work actually performed by him at the regular wage can be made, which warrant will be immediately assigned by such payee to the City in pay- ment of indebtedness due its water department, and it is further contemplated that such method shall only apply to customers in arrears not less than four (4) months and not to current bills; and :'if�'� Water ,._r�RZAS , a fund to be designated as "The Arrearage Relief Fund" should be established into which a revolving fund of approximately l ftee Thousand ( 15,000) Dollars, or such sum as may be necessary for this use, shall be paid for this pur- pose,likewise , there shall be established a separate payroll known as "The Water Arrearage Pay Roll" and such employees enrolled thereon shall be known and desig- nated as "The Water Arrearage Crew"; and. t1R R. AS, that after such employee has earned enough to defray his delinquent water bill due the water department, his employment therewith shall cease ; pro- vided, should such customer incur a further delinquency at a subsequent time, no- thing herein shall be construed as preventing his then being again employed to work such other arrearages out, and -1-