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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOMM - Meeting Minutes - 76 - 9-19-1956 - COMMISSIONERM-1NI TE Bo0K 1 0 1 130ARD IYF"'QOUNTY COMMISSIONE �C ASHIN13TON CflUNTY,,-PENNSYLVAN A FRANCIS E. PETT AZZA, Commtssib NERs MCNON.ANtLA PU.LI.NIN. CO Motion by Mr. Lane, seconded by Mr. Mazza, that the County Controller be authorizeL to advertise for bids for the purchase of a Two -Way F.M. Radio Communication System, which is to be used by Civil Defense in the County of Washington. Bids to be received by the County Control- ler in his Office in the Courthouse, Washington, Pa., until 1.1:,00 a.m., Daylight Savings'Time, Friday, Npv;ember 1956, and opened immediately thereafter in the Office of the County Commissioners. Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Mr. Lane, seconded by Mr. Mazza, that the County Controller be authorize3 to advertise for bids for doing work in connection with the construction of the Tannehill Bridge, Chartiers Creek #29 located in Canonsburg Borough and Cecil Township, Washington County. Bids to be received by the County Controller in his Office in the Courthouse, Washington, Pa., until 11:00 a.m., Daylight Savings Time, Friday, October 5, 1956, and opened immediately thereafter in the Office of the County Commissioners. Motion carried unanimously. There being no further business to come before the Board at this time, the meeting adjourned. THE FOREGOING MINUTE MD AND APPFDVED.- Septe ter6., 1956 AT ief Clerk M. 76 Office of the County Commissioners Washington, Pa., September 19, 1956 Board of County Commissioners in special session for the purpose of opening bids for the sale of 120,000.00 1956 Bonds to establish, construct and provide for air navigation facilities within the County of Washington. Those present at the meeting being Commissioners Pettit, Mazza, Controller Elish and County Solicitor Docktor. adopted: In accordance with the aforementioned advertisement the following action was taken,. Motion by Mr. Mazza, seconded by Mr. Pettit, that the following resolution be RESOLUTION WERFAS, pursuant to public notice by advertisement given according to law, the following bids have been received for the purchase of the issue of bonds of the County of Wash- ington, Pennsylvania, in the sum of One Hundred Twenty Thousand ($1.20,000) Dollars, dated October let, 1954 and known as "Issue of 1956 Bonds." Name of Bidder Interest Premium Moore, Leonard & Lynch, et. al. 3 1/8% $465.60 Blair & C©,, et. al. 3 % 372.00 Singer, Deane & Scribner, et. al. 3 % 361.00 McJunkin, Patton & Co, Chaplin & Company 3 % 517.56 AMID WHEREAS it appears that McJunki.n, Patton & Co., Chaplin & Company with their bid of par, accrued interest and a premium of $517.56 for 120 bonds is the highest responsible bidder; I-Vg MINUTE BOOK 80AREY-O°F'COUNTY COMMISSION-E S� jW�ggAS-H,INGTON COUNTY; PENNSYLVANIA FRANCIS E. PETTI.VtiraiiCYF1A•ZZA, COMMISSIONERS NOW, THEEEFORE, BE IT FMLVED,• that the said bonds be issued to bear interest at the rate of 3 % per annum and are hereby awarded and sold to McJunkin, Patton & Co., Chaplin & Company in accordance with their aforesaid bid, subject to the approval of the authorizing pro- ceedings by the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania, and the Treasurer is directed to deliver the said bonds to the said purchaser upon the receipt of the purchase price as specified in -said bid. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the checks accompanying the bids of the unsuccessful bidders be returned to them by the Chief Clexic: Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Mr. Mazza, seconded by Mr. Pettit, that the following resolution provid. ing for the issue and sale of $120,000.00 issue of 1956 bonds be adopted: 04 t) 1911101 ($1 ZOVV11011111111111111TI 1,4111111 1" li MUMS., it is necessary that the County of Washington, Pennsylvania, shall borrow money and incur an indebtedness in the sum of One Hundred Twenty Thousand ($120,000,00) Dollars for the following purpose: To establish, construct and provide for air navigation facilities within the County of Washington. THEFMORE, BE IT FESOLVED by the Board of County Comdssioners of the County of Washington, as follcws:- Section 1. That the indebtedness of the County of Washington be and it is hereby increased by the amount of One Hundred Twenty Thousand ($120,000) Dollars for said purpose by an issue of general obligation bonds of the said County. Section 2. Said bonds shall be in coupon form, numbered consecutively from One (1) to One Hundred Twenty (120), both numbers inclusive, each in the principal sun of One Thousand ($1,000) Dollars, dated and bearing interest from the first day of October, 1956, at the rate of three 0%) per centum per annum, payable semi-annually on the first day of the months of April and October in each year during the term of said bonds which shall mature in numerical order and be paid as follows:- Ten bonds, Ten Thousand ($10,000.00) Dollars on October lst in each of the years 1957 to 196% both inclusive. The principal and interest of said bonds shall be payable at the Office of the County Controller of said County in the City of Washington, Pennsylvania. Said bonds shall also provide that the County of Washington will pay or refund any tax (except gift, succession or inheritance tax) legally levied or assessed upon said bonds or upon the debt secured thereby under any present or future law of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl- vania. Section 3. Said bonds are hereby declared to be general obligations of the County of Washington, and shall pledge the full faith and credit of the County. - Section 4. The period of usefulness of the improvements for which the said bonds are to be issued is twenty (20) years. Section 5. The form of said bonds and the coupons thereto annexed shall be sub. stantially as follows.- U 1 u MINUTE•$o0-K :9 BOARD OF 013UNTY CCIMMISSILiNERU CM& HINGTON COUNTY; -PEMNSYLVAN!A•. FRANCIS E. PETTF7, J ztA, Commissickints roNowcaxsLA .u®usnino Co g UVM ED STATES OF AHERTCA CGHMONtrd±ALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA COUNTY OF WASSHINGTON Issue of 1956 Bond No. $1,000.00 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PF1ESENTS, that the County of Washington, in the Commonwealtk of Pemsylvania, is indebted and promises to pay to the bearer, or, if registered, to the register- ed owner hereof, the sum of One Thousand ($l, OOO.00) Do11a rs, lawful money of the United States of America on the first day of October, 19 , at the office of the County Controller of said County in the City of Washington, Pennsylvania, with interest thereon from the date hereof, until this bond shall be fully paid, at the rate of three { %) per center per' annum, payable semi-annuaT ly at the office of said County Controller on the first day of the months of Apra) and October of each year, upon presentation and surrender of the annexed coupons as they severally become due and to pay or refund any tax, except gift, succession or inheritance tax, legally levied or asses:.- ed thereon or upon this bond or upon the debt secured hereby under any present or future law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and for the true and faithful payment of this bond and the interest and taxes thereon as aforesaid, the faith, credit, taxing power and resources of the County of Washington are hereby irrevocably pledged. This bond is one of a series of one hundred twenty (120) bonds of like date, amount and tenor, except as to the date of maturity; numbered consecutively from one (1) to one hundred twenty (120) both inclusive; amounting in the aggregate to the sum of One Hundred Twenty Thousand (120,000.00) Dollars, issued in accordance with the Act of General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, approved the twenty-fifth day of June, A. D. 1941s P. L. 159, as amended, and by virtue of resolutions of the Board of County Commissioners of said County and the sworn statement of authorized officers thereof, as appears of record in the Office of the Clerk of Court of Quarter Session of Washington County, Pennsylvania. It is hereby certified that all acts, conditions and things required to be or be done, happen and be performed precedent to and in the issuance of this bond or in the creation of the debt of which it is evidence have been done, happened and been performed in regular and due form and manner as required by law and that this bond, together with all other indebtedness of the said County of Washington is not in excess of any constitutional or statutory limitation and that an annual tax sufficient for the payment of all future debt service charges on the issue ct bonds of which this bond is a part, has been properly levied and assessed and that -said tax is not in excess of any legal Limitation. This bond shall pass by -delivery or it may be registered in the name of the owner at the office of the County Controller in the City of Washington; such registration being noted hereon by the said County Controller. After such registration, no transfer shall be valid unless made at said office by the registered owner in person or by an attorney duly authorized and similarly noted hereon. This bond,'shall, however, be discharged from registration by being in lake manner transferred to bearer and thereafter shall be transferable by delivery; but it shall continue subject to successive registration and transfer to bearer as aforesaid at the ooi.orl of the holder. The transferability of the coupons by delivery shall not be affected by registration of the bond. o0 MlNUTE- 13ooK BCtARD OF -COUNTY COMMISSIONE SSB t C1 g WASHINGTO,N' COUNTY, PEt4NSYLVANtA FRANCIS E. PETTI , Wme 1_U4*, 1' FIA,ZZA, COMMISSIONERS IN 'WITNESS WHEREOF, the County of 'Washington has caused this bona to be properljv executed by its County Commissioners or a majority of them and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed, and to be countersigned by the County Controller of said County, and has also caused the coupons hereto attached to be authenticated with the facsimile acg'' signature of the. --- _ County Controller as of the date the first day of October, 1956, A. D,, Countersigned: - Peter E1ish County Controller 10 County of Washington Francis E. Pettit, Chr. John Mazza County Commissioners FORM OF COUPON The County of Washington, Pennsylvania, will pay to bearer at the office of the County Controller of said County in the City of Washington, Pennsylvania, on the first day of ., 19 , fifteen and noA00 (15.00) Dollars, in lawful money of the United States of America, free of State taxes, being six months' interest on its Issue of 1956 Bond, dated October 1, 1956, and numbered . Date of Registrar FORM OF REGISPRATION In Mhose Name registered County Controller County Controller V Section 6. The said bonds shall be signed by the County Commissioners or a majority of them and countersigned by the County Controller and the corporate seal of said County sahll be affixed thereto. The Coupons shall be authenticated with the lithographed fac- simile signature of the County Controller. The Treasurer shall deliver said bonds to the purchaser and receive payment therefor on behalf of the County after sale of the bonds in the manner re- quired by lair. Section 7. There is hereby levied and assessed upon all persons and property subject to taxation for County purposes an annual tax in each of the following fiscal years of so many mills as will yield amounts sufficient for the payment from time to time of interest covenanted to be paid on said bonds and the principal thereof at maturity: Year Amount 1957 i3,600.00 1958 13,300.00 1959 13,000.00 1960 12,700.00 1961 12, 4.00.00 1962 122100.00 1963 11,BOO. 00 1964 ll, 500.00 1965 11,200.00 1966 109900.00 1967 1.0,600.00 1968 $10,300.00 1 n MINUTE BooK 81 $©ARD Df -CCIUNTY E13MMI"SSI0NE.RS WASHINCTC3N COUNTY' PENNSYLVANIA- FRANCIS E. PETTY . LiYwo�.�.i r, J>r1H2�`I MAIc''ZA, Commisa at4mies il 1 L� MONONOAN6LA PV.LI.NINO CO which takes are sufficient for and shall be applied exclusively to said debt service charges as the same shall from time to time become due and payable. The collection of said tax shall com- mence with the fiscal year beginning 1957 being the first fiscal year following the issue of said bonds. Section 8. There is hereby established a sinking fund for the payment of the bonds hereby authorized. All moneys realized from the taxes hereby levied shall be paid into the sinking fund hereby created as collected and shall be applied exclusively to the payment of lie principal of said bonds at maturity and to interest and State tax thereon meanwhile to which purposes they are hereby irrevocably pledged. Section 9. There is hereby appropriated and transferred from the General Funds of the County the sum of 61,800.00 for the purpose of meeting the requirements of this issue of bonds for debt service charges pending the collection of the tax levied for tlh&'purpose and such amount so appropriated and used shall be repaid to the General Fund out of the proceeds of the tax levied for the year 1957. Section 10. It is hereby declared that the debt to be incurred hereby, together with the existing net debt of the County is not in excess of a1V constitutional or statutory limitation and the County Commissioners, or a,majority of them, and the County Controller are hereby directed and authorized to prepare, verify and file with the Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Washington County, the statement required by the Act of Assessmbly, approved/June 25th, 1941, P. L. 159, as amended, to do and perform all other acts proper in conncection there- with. Section 11. All resolutions or parts of resolution not in accord with this , resolution are hereby repealed insofar as they conflict(herewi.th* I PASSED this 19th day of September, 1956. Francis E. Pettit, Ch. /a/ John Mazza /a/ .ATTEST: Commissioners Joseph Di Filippo /s/ Chief Clerk Motion carried unanimously. Motion by Mr. Mazza, seconded by Mr. Pettit, that the following statement in res Increase Of Indebtedness Of The County Of Washington, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, be adopted: IN RE: INCREASE OF IVDEBTE VESS } NO. Session, 1956 OF THE COUNTY OF WASEiINGTON, � COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSILVANIA. } STATEMENT We, FRANCIS E. PETTIT, WILLIAM J. LANE, and JOHN MAZZA, County Commissioners or a majority of them, and PETER. ELISH, Controller of the County of Washington, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, make the following statement under oath in compliame with Section 209 of the Act of Assembly° of the Commonwealth of Pemsylvania, approved the 25th day of June, 1941., P. L. 159: as amended. 82 MINUTE B,,00i< E313ARD OF'COUNTY CO.MMISSIONEI�S,,_ W_ASHINGTON COUNTY, PEr4NSYLVAt41A FRAN cis E. PETTI?, Vi .a -"WC., .t(3Ht4-t,4A :ZA, COMMISSIONrRS A1lR4AJ:) 1)J JAWA ^ FIRST: The present actual indebtedness of the said County of Washington is as follows: Gross Liabilities $ 919,000.00 The presently authorized by unissued bonds aggregate $ 120,000.00 Total Gross Liabilities $12039.000.00 Lawful Deductions (a) Cash held in any sinking fund for the payment of the principal of the out- standing debt. 109,042.53 (b) The portion of the delinquent taxes on real estate for the year 1955 and prior years which the County can certainly and promptly realize and enforce as quick asserts and no part of which is treated as current revenues for the payment of current expenses. 105,000.00 (e) Current revenues applicable within the current fiscal year to the payment of the debt above set forth. $ 134,484.36 (d) ,Amount of surplus cash not specifically appropriated to any other purposes. $ 22,946.21 Total Deductions 371,473.10 The Net Debt of the County is $ 667,526.90 The gross amount of debt authorized, and of debt issued and outstanding with the assent of the electors is $ none The amount of the net debt of the County authorized and issued and outstanding without the assent of the electors is $ 667,526.90 SECOM: The amount of the assessed valuation of the property taxable by the County as last determined by the Board of Revision is $11.97,839,720.00. TRIM: The amount of bonds to be issued included above is $120,000.00. FOURTH: The said bonds were authorized by a Resolution duly adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of all the members of the Board of Commissioners of the County of Washington duly recorded upon the minutes of the said Board at a meeting held on the 19th day of September, 1956, at which a quorum was present.. which has been recorded according to law. FIFTH: The form, number and date of maturity of the said bonds and the annual tax levied for their payment at maturity and of the interest meanwhile are set forth in the Resolu- tion aforesaid, a true and correct copy of which is attached and made a part hereof. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we) the -County Commissioners or a majority of the:q and Controller of the County of Washington, being authorized by the said Resolution to prepare, verify and file the above statement, have hereunto set out hands and affixed the seal of the Board of Commissioners of the County of Washington, this 20th day of September, 1956. ( SEAL) Francis E. Pettit., Chr• s John Mazza s William J. Lane s Commissioners Peter E'lish Controller Motion carried unanimously. The following bid from the William G. Johnston Company was received.for the printing of the 120 bonds. MI. U"TE,BooK 83 ,BoA°Ro OF' COUNTY- COMMISSt13NERS- .. WASH1,N13T(3N CQUNTY� PENN'SY'LVANIA FRANCISE.PETlf,14 iiyabIRPfMA'ZZA,Comm,80...... MONONOANt LA rYf LIfMIN6 CO - WILLIAM G. JOHNSTON l+{iMPANY POST OFFICE Box 6759 PITTSBUR13i 12, PENNSYLVANIA August 29, 1956 Mr. Peter Elish, County Controller Courthouse Washington, Pa. Dear Mr. Elish: We wish to submit our proposal for the printing of your forth -coming issue of bonds as noted below: County of Washington. $1.20,000 Bond Issue to be sold September 19, 1956. Quantity 120 Denomination r 000 Date of Issue 10/l/56 Maturity Dates 10/1/57-68 Price Other specifications: Colors available for borders Blue, Green or Orange. Bonds to be printed in book form on steel -engraved border blanks. All stock used is 100% rag bond; 24 lb. for bond faces and 20 lb. for coupons. If awarded the order for printing these bonds, we would need a copy of the bond text, a list of the maturity dates and amounts and specimen signature(s) of the official(s) moose facsimile signature(s) will appear on the coupons. Proof would be cleared through your solicitor or bond counsel. Delivery is normally within 7-10 working days from OK of proof. We are amcious to cooperate fully in regard to commitments for closing of the bond; if time is short we will make every effort to deliver as required. The F. Englert Lithographing Company is currently being conslidated with the William G. Johnston Company and the preparation of your bonds will be handled by personnel who have been producing hands for more than forty years. Hoping for the opportunity of serving you, we remain Sincerely, WILLIAM G. JOHNSTON COMPANY John J. Maloney /s/ John J. Maloney Motion by Mr. Mazza, seconded by Mr. Pettit, that the WILLIAM G. JOHNST0N COMPANY, Post Office Box 6759, Pittsburgh 12, Pennsylvania, be awarded the contract for the printing of the 120 bonds for the $120,000.00 1956 Bond Issue of the County of Washington, for the total price of 118.00; this being the lowest and only bidder. Motion carried unanimously. At this time, Mr. Elish and Mr. Docktor, left the meeting and the following regular business was conducted. Motion by Mr. Mazza, seconded by Mr. Pettit, that a refund voucher in the amount of $34.96 be made payable to Lee -Norse Co., 751 Lincoln Avenue, Charleroi, Pennsylvania, dud to a duplicate payment of the 1956 County Tax. On August 1, 1956 the amount of $32.87 was paid on property assessed in the name of Lee -Norse Co., situate in North Charleroi Borough and described as House & Garage, Lot, 50 Lincoln Avenue. On August 1, 1956 the amount of $34.96 was paid on said property by Lee -Norse Co., but under the name of Anthony T. & Mary DiBuono, thus causing a duplication of payment. Therefore, The Tax Claim Bureau is authorized to prepare said refund voucher in the amount of $34.96 made payable to Lee -Norse Co., 751 Lincoln Avenue, Charleroi, Pennsylvania. Motion carried. Motion by Mr. Mazza, seconded by Mr. Pettit, that a. refund voucher in the amount of $48.60 be made payable to Pittsburgh Home Savings & Loan Association, 438 Wood Street, Pitts- burgh 22, Pennsylvania due to a duplicate payment of the 1956 County Tax, On August 1, 1956 the