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• 2602- OFDIN a NO. An Ordinance providing for emergency expenditures in the 'later System of the Department of Public Works of the City of Tarerett, 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 "Water Arrearage Relief Fund", making provision for issuing emergency warrants therefor, and declaring an emergency. WHEREAS , a large number of water customers of the Water System of Everett 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 Ci- ty, due in a measure to the economic conditions now existing; AND WHEREAS, the regular water department crew is depleted in numbers and there is much necessary work required at this time in the performance of needed im- provements upon the water system, which work can be performed by delinquent wa- ter customers and payment therefor credited upon the customer's bill for water due the City, thereby conserving any cash outlay by its water department; _'ND -HIEREAS , no provision was made in the 1934 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 payment of indebtedness due its water department, and it is further con- templated that such method shall only apply to customers in arrears not less than four (4) months , and not to current bills; AND WHEREAS, a fund to be designated as "The Water Arrearage Relief Fund" should be established into which a revolving fund of approximately Thirty Thou- sand ( '30 ,000) Dollars, or such sum as may be necessary for this use , shall be paid for this purpose; likewise , there shall be established a separate pay-roll known as "The Water rrearage Fay Roll" and such employees enrolled thereon shall be known and designated as "The Water Arrearage Crew" ; AND WHEREAS, that after such employee has earned enough to defray his delin- quent water bill due the water department, his employment therewith shall cease ; provided, should such customer incur a further delinquency at a subsequent time , nothing herein shall be construed as preventing his then being again employed to work such other arrearages - out . THE CITY OF EVERE T DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. That a public emergency exists which could not reasonably have bean foreseen at the time o£ the making of the budget for the year 1934, to-wit ; in October, 1933; that said emergency has been caused in the Department of Pub- lic Works, more particularly the 'later System thereof, by reason of the fact that economic conditions are such that the regular water department crew is de- pleted in numbers and exceedingly large numbers of water customers are unable to pay their water bills, which was not foreseen or anticipated would continue for so long a period ; that the City Council believes that a plan should be effected, furnishing employment to delinquent water customers , to be applied only to such customers in arrears for not less than four (4) months and not for current bills , and that all warrants drawn in payment of indebtedness for such labor or services as herein described be immediately assigned by the payee to defray the payment -1-