ORDINANCE 128916
ORDINANCE N0. 128
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, ORDERING THE LAYING OUT AND
OPENING OF CERTAIN NEW PUBLIC STREETS
WITHIN THE SAID CITY, TO BE DESIGNATED
^ AND KNOWN AS ACACIA AVENUE AND OAK AVENUE,
BETWEEN THE WESTERLY BOUNDARY OF THE CITY
OF EL SEGUED09 CALIFORNIA, AND THE WESTERLY
BOUNDARY OF THE J. H. FISHER'S SUBDIVISION
IN SAID CITY, AND SYCAMORE AVENUE FROM TIM
Nk EASTERLY LINE OF MAIN STREET TO THE 13STERLY
LINE OF PENH STREET, WITHIN THE SAID CITY,
APrOINTING THREE COMMISSIONERS TO ASSESS THE
BENEFITS AND DAMAGES, TO HAVE GENERAL SUPER -
VISIjN OF THE PROPOSED WORK AND PRESCRIBING
THEIR POWERS AND BUTIES.
The Board of Trustees of the City of E1 Segundo,
California, does ordain and determine as follows:
SECTION ONE: WHEREAS the Board of Trustees
of the City of Bl Segundo, California, did on the 9th
day of April, A. D., 19269 pass its Resolution of Inten-
tion No. 1309 declaring its intention to order the fol-
lowing work and improvement to be done, to wit:
That certain new public streets to be known as
Acacia Avenue and Oak Avenue, within said City, be laid out
and opened to a width of Fifty Feet (501) between the
westerly Boundary of the City of E1 Segundo, California,
and the westerly boundary of the J. H. Fisher's Subdivision
in said City, and that a certain new public street
to be known as Sycamore Avenue, within said City, be laid
out and opened to a width of Fifty Feet (501) from the
easterly line of Main Street to the westerly line of Penn
Street, within the said City, under the provisions of that
certain act of the legislature of the State of California,
entitled, "An Act to provide for laying out, opening,
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extending, widening, straightening or closing -up in whole
or in part, any street, square, lane, alley, court or place
within municipalities, and to condemn and acquire any
and all land and property necessary or covenient for
that purpose". Approved March 6th, 18899 and all amendments
thereof and additions thereto; and which said resolution
described the lands and premises necessary to be taken
therefor and specified the lands to be affected or bene-
fited b; said work and improvement, and to be assessed
to pay the damages, costs and expenses thereof; and
AREAS, The Street Superintendent of the City
of $1 Segundo, did thereupon cause notice of the passage
of the said resolution to be posted in the manner and
as required by law, and did also cause a notice similar
to the one posted, as aforesaid, to be published in the
"E1 Segundo Herald ", a weekly newspaper, published and
circulated within the said City of El Segundo, as re-
quired by said Resolution No. 1309 by four successive
insertions therein, to wit: in the issues of April 16th,
23rd, 30th and May 7th, 1926; all of Which was done in
the manner and as required by law; and did also cause
to be posted and kept posted for a period of four success-
ive weeks, a notice similar in substance in three of the
most public places in such City, which said public places
have heretofore been fixed by order of the Board of Trustees
of the City of B1 Segundo, California, and reference is
hereby made to said order for further particulars regarding
said places and manner of posting, all of which was done
in the manner and as required by law, and
AREAS, no objections have been filed against
said proposed work and improvement and more than ten days
have elapsed from and after the expiration of the time of
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the publishing of said notice of the passage of said
Resolution and the Board of Trustees of the City of E1
Segundo have thereby acquired jurisdiction to order the
said work as proposed in said resolution to be done;
HOW, THEREFOR$, it is hereby ordered that said
work and improvement be done as aforesaid and as specifi-
cally described in said Resolution of Intention Ho, 130,
SECTION TWO: Arnold F. 8itzgerald, A. D.
Butters and H. H.,Heaston are hereby appointed as Commis-
sioners to assess the benefits and damages, and to have general
supervision of said proposed work and improvements until
the completion thereof in compliance with the law. For
their services as such Commissioners, each of them shall
be paid at the rate of $1.00 per hour, provided however,
that such compensation shall in no case exceed $200.00
per month and shall not continue for a lmnger period than
six months unless extended by order of the Board of
Trustees of the City of Al Segundo. Such compensation
shall be added to and be chargeable as a part of the
expenses of the work or improvement.
SECTION THREE: Before commencing their duties
as such commissioners each of them shall file with the Clerk
of the Board of Trustees an affidavit to the effect that he
will faithfully perform the duties of the office of a com-
missioner as the same are prescribed by law, and shall also
file with the clerk of the Board of Trustees a bond to the
State of California in the sum of Five Thousand Dollars
($59000) to faithfully perform the duties of a commissioner
as the same are prescribed by law. The Board of Trustees may
at any time remove any or all of the said commissioners
for cause, upon reasonable notice to such commissioner or
commissioners and a hearing thereon, and shall fill any
vacancies occuring among such commissioners for any cause.
SECTION FOUR: The slid commissioners shall then
proceed to view the lands described in the Resolution of
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Intention and may examine witnesses on oath to be administered
by any one of them. They shall then determine the value
of the land and the damage to the improvements and pro-
perty affected, and also the amount of the expenses incident
to said work or improvement, and having determined the same
shall proceed to assess the same upon the district to be assess-
ed as the same is fixed in said Resolution of Intention in
proportion to the benefits to be derived from the said
work or improvement including the real property of any
railroad company within said distriot, if such there byr,
and any or all public property within said district if each
there be. For this purpose the said commissioners shall
have power to employ each assistance, legal or otherwise, as
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they may deem necessary and proper, and to incur such other
expenses as they may deem necessary. All each charges and
expenses shall be deemed expenses of said work or improvement,
and shall be a charge only upon the lands devoted to the
particular work or improvement as provided by the act here-
inbef ore mentioned.
SECTIOS FIVE: All payments, both for the land
and improvements taken or damaged and for the charges and
expenses shall be paid by the City Treasurer upon warrants
drawn upon said funds from time to time, signed by said
commissioners or a majority of them. All each warrants shall
state whether they are issued for land or improvements taken
or damaged, or for charges and expenses and that the demand is
payable only oat of the *oney in said fund, and that the
City of Bl Segundo shall in no event be liable for the failure
to collect any assessment made by virtue of these proceedings
and the act under which the same are taken, nor shall said
warrants be payable out of any other fund, nor be a claim
against the City of B1 Segundo.
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the westerly boundary of the City of
and the westerly boundary of J. H. F
in said City, and Sycamore Avenue to
(501) from the easterly line of iQ *in
line of Penn Street, within the said
E1 Segundo, California,
fisher's Subdivision
a width of Fifty Feet
Street to the westerly
City, if the property
owner or owners against vhioh said assessments are made or
levied shall so elect. Said improvement bonds shall be
in the form and shall be issued in the manner and under
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the circumstances, and said election of such property owners
shall be made in the form and within the time, as provided
under that certain act of the State of California, entitled:
Un Act lFnoviding for the issuance of improvement bonds to
WO represent certain special assessments for public improvements
under the 'Street opening act of 18891, and providing for the
effect and enforcement of such bonds ", approved May 24th, 1921
and all amendments thereof and supplements thereto.
SECTION EIGHT: This ordinance shall be published
once in the El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper published
and circulated in the City of 21 Segundo, California; the:"
City Clerk shall also cause to be posted and kept posted
{ for a period of one week from and after the date of the
said publication a copy of this ordinance and the same
shall thereupon and thereafter be in Rill force and effect.
Passed, approved and adopted this day of
June , A. D., 1926.
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President of e Board of rus ees
AT :ST: of the City of 31 Segundo, California
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
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- CITY OF EL SEGUNDO
I, VICTOR D. MoCARTHY, City Clerk of the City
of E1 Segundo, Califorbia, do hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the Board of Trustees of the
said City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being
Ordinance go. 128 , was duly passed and adopted by the said
Board of Trustees, approved and signed by the President
of said Board, and attested by the City Clerk of said City,
all at a regular meeting of the said Board held on the
18th day of June , A. D., 1926, and that the same
was so passed and adopted by the following vote;
AYES: TRUSTEES: Gerow, Kriamel, Love and Binder. _
NOES: TRUSTEES: None.
ABSENT: TRUSTEES: Cannon
(SEAL)
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City Clerk of the City of
91 Segundo, California.
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Clesk's Certificate
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF 109 ANGELES ) 33.
CITY OF BL SEGUNDO )
I. Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City
of El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the whole
number of members of the Board of Trustees of the said City
is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No.
1289 is a full, true and correct orig1nal Of
=rcnance No. 72A of the said City of SI3egando , entitled:
*AN ORDINA.NCB OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, ORDERING THE LAYING OUT AND
OPENING OF CE -iTAIN NEW PUBLIC STREETS
WITHIN THE SAID CITY, TO BE DESIGNATED
AND KNOWN AS ACACIA AVENUE AND OAK AVENUZ,
BETWEEN THE WESTERLY BOUNDARY OF THE CITY
OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, AND THE WESTERLY
BOUNDARY OF THE J. H. FISHER'S SUBDIVISION
IN SAID CITY, AND SYCAMORE AVENUB FROM THE
EASTERLY LINE OF MAIN STREET TO THE WESTERLY
LINE OF PENN STREET, WITHIN THE SAID CITY,
APPOINTING THREE COMMISSIONERS TO ASSESS THE
BENEFITS AND DAMAUS, TO HAVE GENERAL SUPBR-
VISION OF THE PROPOSED WORK AND PRESCRIBING
THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES.*
which was duly passed and adwpp" by the said Board of
Trustees, approved and signed by the President of said Board,
and attested by the City Clerk of said oity, all at a
regular meeting of the said board held on the 18th_ day of
June , 19869 and that the same was so passed
and adopted by the following vote;
AYES: TRUSTEES Gerow, Kritmmel, Love and Binder
BOBS: TRUSTEES None ;
ABSENT: TRUSTEES Cannon
I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the
provisions of Section 878 of Act 6838 of the General haws
of the State of California (Deering 1923 Edition) that the
foregoing Ordinance No. inn was duly and regularly published
according to law and the order of the Board of Trustees of
said city in the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper
printed, published and circulated within the said city, and that
the same was so published therein on the following date_,
to-wit:— July 2nd, 1926 .
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said city this
6th day of July 1, 1926
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