Resolution 2237 - Emergency - Budget Transfer411
AMOLUTAN M 2237
DICIARING My In" IT is
2(' ",. IN TXCES3 OW THE AMOUNT PITUDED & TT& CUj N
0111 or '�J)out the year 1933 the City of Kalislell, with the aid
of W, p, A, Mds diverted Spring (,rook I to regutlz channel to the
Qst part of MlWell, Kwtarm, to a new courae running westerly al.on,'
the southerly boundary of the Areat 'Northorn Railway Ocanpany
beginning at a point near the imtersection of nth Ave. Kest, with the,
southern bcwndary of the said Great Northern Railway Gc)mpany rigglt-Of-way
an,,j, ruinn.ing westerly under and across Meridian Road and continuing to
Ashley Greskj t1s; said diversion chmonel was an open ditch of a,..pproximatoly
5 ft. bottom width and 15.4 ft, depth and was cr'-,hocK.1 and braced with Ins
in order to hold the ban1,s in, place; and
In t1le course of time the said lot-; cribbing rotted and weakuned
and uonmwnced breaking away, the City of Kalispell, during the year 2952,
comBenced replacing said log cribbing witb cement pipe, 60 inches in
diameter, in cooperation with the Gount-y of Flathead, vho r.an rl.tatatcacl a
portion of such cement pipe. That said oem,ent pipe has heretofore Men
laid for a distance of approximateQ, 200 ft. eas MIT from a point vlmre
said channel crosses under Somers Dranch of 'Northern Rail-wKv; that
there remains qproxiPotely 460 ft. of said pipe to lay in order to replace
all of said. c-ribbing to •Jcrid.ian Road, and
WHEREAS, Irrigation of the land adjacent to the gooth, bank of said uhannel
has softened the earth bordering and constituting it south bani, of said
channel resniting in several recent breaks in said cribbing which resulted
in paxtial obstruction of said 60 inch concrete pine; and
SAPTAS, he, danger still exists 4nid seld cribbinr, is con!;Inuing: L,o st'ill
further wealcen and a more sen`leaus cohlapse, is LTU-iLine'lit; alid
TREK AS, Should a sufficient amount of' sa-.,:l wark oavc in as to
completely block said channel anJ ,iipa would 1:)c no place, for U'n
water of Spring Creek to go except down through tip westerly part of
Kalispell near the old natural channal which exiau'. bofoi--e 8@JiA Creek
was diverted as aforesaid which woiild ca-,,ise such property an the wasi,
side of Kalispell, as well as the City of Kalispell great and irreparable
dalaye; mid
WHEREAS, It was impossible to provide for the necessary funds for ti'lis
work in the regular budRat recently adopted; and
WHEREAS, It is estimated that it will require 6,000.00 to coniplct;e the
installation of said concrete piptand 4i,.s restore sal (.1hannel to a
condition of usefulnoss; and
hHEREAS, It is to the hest interest of the CUT of Kalispell to imutediately
lay such pipe and thereby preserve said channel, as well as protec't the
property in the westerly part of Kalispell, as well as CiLy of Kalis,,pell,
from great expenditures and larE; damage should said, present cribbing ,rjivo
wa,y.
NOV THMMIK BE IT MISCINED BY T11 CITY G,.)Tr-,NGjL c),�-,' CITy nF K-UIS'lPELL
UUT BY REASON OF THE FGTS STAT-E�!), ANI
ED TIC' exist, under the provisions of the law of the State of Montana
in such case, made and ywovidad, and Vaal expenditures iii an mnount of
66,000.00 in excess of the current budget for the General ;i;xpense Fund
of the Genernl Fund of the City of Kalispell is hereby authorized for the
Imrpose hersinabavu set forth, and the Clerk is 'nerploy autl-Lorized to
draw emergency warrants against the said Dind, and the City Treasurer is
authorized and directed to pay such vnrrants with any money in the said
fund t',.iat is available; and if there be not sufficient money in such fund
to pay such varrants, then the same shall. be roga—tered and bear int.erest,
and be called for payy2nt in the iiianner provided by law for other, MY
Whrrants.
Passed and approved this 8th day of September, 1953.
la. ", . Mc2ride
Mayor
TanBT---.— H. J. Himult --
GOY Clerk
I, thB undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Kalisjull, hereby certify
A& the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the R000lution duly passed
by the City Uouncil of the City of Kalispell, Nontana, at its reVular
meeting on September 8, 1953.
City Cleric of the !City of Kalispell, Montana
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