HomeMy WebLinkAboutR1970-11 Public Works Fund - Remodeling County Court House in Eagle + A + • • RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF EAGLE, IN THE STATE OF COLORADO, RELATIVE TO THE PUBLIC WORKS FUND, CHANGING THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH SAID FUND WAS CREATED, SUPPLEMENTING FUNDS ON HAND BY AN ANNUAL TAX LEVY, AND FIXING THE TIME FOR A PUBLIC HEARING • WHEREAS, by Resolution of the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Eagle passed and approved the 5th day of October, 1964, a Public Works Fund was created in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 36, Article 3, Section 2 of Colorado Revised Statutes, 1963, for the purpose of providing funds "for the construction of a Court House annex and necessary remodeling of the County Court House at Eagle", the cost thereof having then been estimated at Seventy-five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00), requiring an annual tax levy of one mill for a period of five years, commencing with the fiscal year 1965; AND, WHEREAS, said five years in which said tax levy of one mill have been made, have passed, only a small portion of the purposes for which said fund was created have been performed, and there is presently available in • such fund an amount slightly in excess of Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000.00) which is inadequate under present conditions to accomplish the purposes con- templated at the time said Resolution was passed, or to accomplish the purposes now desired; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, pursuant to the provisions of aforementioned Statute, as amended, that the original stated purposes for which said Public Works Fund was created, be changed in order that said Fund may be used for the remodeling, alteration and improvement of the County Court House located on Block 28, in the Town of Eagle, Colorado, and for the construction of an addition thereto, or such other building at aforesaid site, as may be necessary to relieve congested conditions presently prevailing in said County Court House, and steadily becoming more acute, at an estimated cost of Three Hundred Sixty 411/ Thousand Dollars ($360,000.00); that the annual tax levy required to supple- ment the amount on hand in said Public Works Fund in order to accomplish aforesaid purposes is one mill; and that said levy shall be made for six con- secutive years, commencing with the levy to be made in the year 1970 for the fiscal year of 1971; and -1- . • • BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a public hearing thereon be held at the County Commissioners office in the County Court House in the Town of Eagle, Colorado, on Monday, the 26th day of October, 1970, at 1:30 o'clock P. M. • READ, CONSIDERED, PASSED AND APPROVED at a special meeting held this 14th day of October, 1970. THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF EAGLE IN THE ST TE OF COLORADO 7 BY: - / A4 �< airman and Commissioner ik Commissi er - 4 ej242° Commissioner ATTEST: rk f the Board • -2-