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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 1153 - LID #25 (Local Improvement District) - Payment of AssessmentsCITY OF TUKWILA WASHINGTON ORDINANCE NO. I/S. ORDINANCE RE METHOD OF PAYMENT OF ASSESSMENTS OF LOCAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 25 AND AMENDING ORDINANCES NO. 322 AND 1146. WHEREAS, it is necessary for the City of Tukwila to make certain changes in the method of payment of the assessments in Local Improvement District No. 25 in order to issue Local Improvement District Bonds for the payment thereof NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON, DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: 1. Section 3 of Ordinance No. 1097, as amended by Section 2 of Ordinance No. 1146, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 3. The assessment roll as approved and confirmed shall be filed with the Finance Director of the City of Tukwila for collection. The initial thirty -day collection period for payment without penalty, interest or cost has been waived by all property owners. Therefore, the unpaid assessments may be paid in ten equal annual installments with interest thereon hereby fixed at a rate of %s% per annum. The first installment of assessments on said assessment roll shall become due and payable during the thirty -day period succeeding the date one year after the date of publication of this ordinance and annually thereafter each succeeding installment shall become due and payable in like manner. Interest upon the whole unpaid sum shall be charged at a rate of//4% per annum and each year thereafter one of said installments, together with interest due on the whole unpaid balance, shall be collected. Any installment not paid prior to the expiration of said thirty -day period during which such installment is due and payable shall thereupon become delinquent. All delinquent installments shall be subject to a charge for interest at a rate of 12% per annum and for an additional charge of 5% as a penalty levied upon both principal and interest due upon such installment or installments. The collection of such deliquent installments will be enforced in the manner provided by law. 2. Section 5 of Ordinance No. 837, as amended by Section 3 of Ordinance No. 1146, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 5. Local Improvement District warrants shall be issued in payment of the cost and expense of the improvements, such warrants to be payable out of the "Local Improvement Fund, District No. 25" hereinafter created, to bear interest from the date thereof at a rate to be hereafter fixed by ordinance, not to exceed 12% per annum, and to be redeemed in cash, and /or by Local Improvement District bonds herein authorized to be issued, such interest bearing warrants to be hereafter referred to as "Revenue Warrants Such bonds shall bear interest at a rate to be hereafter fixed by ordinance, not to exceed 12% per annum, shall be payable on or before 12 years from the date of issuance, the life of the improvements ordered being not less than 12 years, and shall be issued in exchange for and in redemption of any and all revenue warrants issued hereafter and not redeemed in cash within a period not to exceed 60 days after the first publication by the Finance Director of notice that the assessment roll for Local Improvement District No. 25 is in his hands for collection. The bonds shall be redeemed by the collection of special assessments to be levied and assessed upon the property within said district payable in ten equal annual installments with interest at a rate to be hereinafter fixed by ordinance, not 2 exceeding 12% per annum under the mode of "payment by bonds" as defined by law and the ordinances of the City of Tukwila, Washington. In the case of default in the payment of any assessment when the same shall become due, there shall be added interest at a rate to be hereafter fixed by ordinance not to exceed 12% per annum and a penalty of 5 or the maximum penalty allowed by law, whichever shall be less, which shall also be collected. The exact form, amount, date, interest rate, and denomination of said warrants and bonds shall be hereafter fixed by ordinance of the City Council. Said warrants and bonds shall be sold in such manner as the City Council shall hereafter determine. 3. Section 10 of Ordinance No. 322 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 10. In all cases where bonds are issued to pay the cost and expense of a local improvement, the ordinance levying the assessments shall provide that the sum charged against any lot, tract, and parcel of land, or other property, or any portion thereof, may be paid during the thirty -day period allowed for the payment of asessments without penalty or interest and that thereafter the sum remaining unpaid may be paid in equal annual installments. The number of installments shall be less by two than the number of years which the bonds issued to pay for the improvements are to run. Interest on the whole amount unpaid at the rate fixed by the ordinance shall be due on the due date of the first installment of principal and each year thereafter on the due date of each installment of principal. The first installment shall become due and payable during the thirty -day period succeeding a date of one year after the date of first publication of the Treasurer's notice, as provided in Section 9 hereof, and annually thereafter each 3 Ap'roved as to Form 44444( 2, [Pi City Attorney succeeding installment shall become due and payable in like manner. If the whole or any portion of any assessment remains unpaid after the first thirty (30) day period herein provided for, interest upon the whole unpaid sum shall be charged at the rate of 12% per annum, and each year thereafter one of said installments, together with interest due upon the whole of the unpaid balance, shall be collected. Any installment not paid prior to the expiration of the thirty -day period during which such installment is due and payable shall thereupon become delinquent. All delinquent installments shall be subject to a charge for interest at the rate fixed on the unpaid balance of the roll and to an additional charge of five (5) per cent penalty levied upon both principal and interest due on such installment or installments. PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON, at a regular meeting thereof this �2 day of a 1980. ATTEST: PUBLISHED RECORD CHRONICLE April 25, 1980 4 Clerk