T22-10 i
Ordinance No.T22-10
AN ORDINANCE
PROVIDING FOR THE MAKING OF A LOCAL IMPROVEMENT IN AND FOR THE CITY
OF ELGIN. KANE AND COOK COUNTIES. ILLINOIS
(Area V)
BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and City Council of the City of Elgin, Kane and Cook
Counties, Illinois:
Section 1. That a local improvement shall be made in the City of Elgin, Kane and
Cook Counties, Illinois, the nature, character, locality and description of which improvement is
as follows:
Curb and gutter, sidewalks, storm sever and street paving including
earth excavation, pavement base and surface courses, together with
all necessary appurtenances in the streets, avenues and places as follows:
WILLARD AVENUE
Forty feet .wide from the center line of Villa Street to 2,667 feet north to the south right-of-way
line of Chicago Street. and
ERIE STREET
Thirty feet wide from the east right-of-line of south Edison Avenue to 1.664 feet east to the west
right-of-way line of\Niilcox Avenue, and
ILLINOIS AVENUE
Thirty feet wide from the south right-of-sway line of Bent Street to 595 feet south to the north
riaht-of-way line of May Street, and
VAN NOSTRAND PLACE
Thirty feet wide from the east right-of-sway line of South Liberty Street to 525 feet east to the
center line of Illinois Avenue.
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Section 2. That the recommendation of the Board of Local Improvements of the City
of Elgin, providing for the improvement, and the estimate of the cost thereof made by the
President of the Board of Local Improvements, both hereto attached and made part hereof, be
and the same are hereby approved.
Section 3. That said improvement shall be made and the whole cost thereof; together
with an amount not exceeding six per cent (6%) of the estimated cost, to-wit: which is hereby
provided for to apply towards the cost and expense of making, levying and collecting said special
assessment and all other expenses allowed by law, being the amount included in the estimate
thereof, shall be paid by special assessment, in accordance with the Illinois Municipal Code,
Article 9, Division 2, and amendments thereto.
Section 4. That the aggregate amount herein ordered to be assessed against the
property and against the municipality, if any, and also the assessment on each lot and parcel of
land herein assessed shall be divided as follows:
The said assessment to pay the cost of construction of said improvement and the cost of
levying, making and collecting said assessment and all expenses allowed by law, shall be divided
into ten (10) installments, in the manner provided by the statute in such case made and provided.
So much of the aggregate amount of the assessment as represents the cost of levyin
making and collecting the special assessment and all expenses allowed by law, together with all
fractional amounts so as to leave the remaining installments of the aggregate assessment equal in
• amount and each in multiples of$100.00 shall be apportioned to the first installment of the said
special assessment. The first installment shall be due and payable on the 2"d day of January, next
after the filing of the first voucher issued on account of .work done on the said improvement.
The second installment of said assessment shall be due and payable one year thereafter, and so
on annually until all assessments have been paid.
IT IS HEREBY made the duty of the Board of Local Improvements of the City of' Elgin,
to file in the Office of the Clerk of the Court in which such assessment was confirmed, a
certificate signed by the Secretary of the Board of Local Improvements of the City of Elgin of
the date of the first voucher and the amount of the said voucher, within thirty (30) days after the
issuance of the said voucher. All installments shall bear interest until paid at the rate of seven
per cent (6%) per annum, being the rate now permitted by law. Interest on all installments shall
begin to run in accordance Nwith the provisions of the Illinois Municipal Code, Article 9, Division
2, and amendments thereto. Interest on such first installment shall be due and payable and "shall
be collected at the same time as the first installment. Interest on the second and succeeding
installments shall be due and payable and shall be collected with the installments respectively as
in said Code relating to special assessment provided.
Section 5. That for the purpose of anticipating the collection of the second and
succeeding installments of said.assessment for the cost of said improvements, the City of Elgin
shall issue bonds payable out of said installments, bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent
(6%) per annum, being the rate now permitted by law, signed by the Mayor of the City of Elgin,
• and attested to by the City Clerk of said City. Said bonds shall be issued in accordance with and
• shall in all respects conform to the provisions of the Illinois Municipal Code; Article 9, Division
2, and amendments thereto.
Section 6. That the Mayor of the City of Elgin be and he is hereby directed to file a
Petition in the Circuit Court of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, Cook County, Illinois; in the name
of the people of the City of Elgin, praying that steps be taken to levy a special assessment for the
purpose of defraying the expense of said improvement so far as the same may lawfully be done
and to ascertain what property will be benefited, in accordance with the provisions of this
ordinance; and in the manner prescribed by law.
Section 7. That all ordinances; or parts of ordinances; in conflict with this ordinance;
be, and the same are hereby repealed.
Section 8. That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its
passage and approval thereof according to law.
Ed Schock, Mayor
Presented: April 14; 2010
Passed: April 14, 2010
Omnibus Vote: Yeas: 7 Nays: 0
Recorded: April 15. 2010
Published: §t r
Attest:
Diane Robertson; City CI
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