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AN ORDINANCE
To Approve the Construction of a Local Improvement Known as
Evanston Special Assessment No. 1532
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EVANSTON, ILLINOIS:
SECTION 1: A local improvement shall be made within the City of
Evanston, County of Cook, and State of Illinois, the nature, character, locality and
description of which is as follows, to-wit:
That the unimproved public alley in the block bounded by Hayes Street on
the north, Payne Street on the south, Crawford Avenue on the west, and Prospect
Avenue on the east, in the City of Evanston, be improved by excavating, constructing
the necessary drainage system and paving with 8" Portland Cement Concrete
Pavement, to a width of fourteen feet (14’).
SECTION 2: The Recommendation (Exhibit A) of the Board of Local
Improvements of the City of Evanston, Illinois, of this Ordinance, and the Estimate of the
Cost (Exhibit B) of said improvement made by the Engineer of said Board, both
attached hereto, be and the same are hereby approved and by reference thereto made
a part hereof.
SECTION 3: Said improvement shall be made and the cost thereof,
including the sum of Two Hundred Seventy Three Thousand Six Hundred Sixty Six and
30/100 Dollars ($273,666.30), being the cost of making and collecting the Assessment
and all other expenses as provided by law, shall be paid for by Special Assessment in
accordance with the Illinois Municipal Code, Chapter 65, Section 5/9-2-1, et seq.
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SECTION 4: One Hundred Thirty Six Thousand Eight Hundred Thirty
Three and 15/100 Dollars ($136,833.15) of the cost of said improvement shall be
allocated by the City; and the remainder of the cost, One Hundred Thirty Six Thousand
Eight Hundred Thirty Three and 15/100 Dollars ($136,833.15) will be allocated as
private benefit.
SECTION 5: The aggregate amount to be assessed and each individual
assessment shall be divided into ten (10) installments in the manner provided by law,
and each of said installment shall bear interest at the rate of Four and 00/100 percent
(4.00%) per annum from sixty (60) days after the date of the first voucher issued on
account of work done upon said proposed improvement.
SECTION 6: That, for the purpose of anticipating the collection of the
installments of said assessment levied against the real estate benefited thereby,
general obligation bonds have been issued, up to One Hundred Thirty Six Thousand
Eight Hundred Thirty Three and 15/100 Dollars ($136,833.15) of which are payable by
the City, homeowners pay up to One Hundred Thirty Six Thousand Eight Hundred Thirty
Three and 15/100 Dollars ($136,833.15) of which are payable out of said installments,
bearing interest at the rate of Four and 00/100 percent (4.00%) per annum, payable
annually and signed on behalf of the City of Evanston, Illinois, by its Mayor and attested
by its City Clerk and its corporate seal affixed thereto; and each interest coupon
attached to said bonds shall likewise be executed by and shall bear the official or
facsimile signature of the same officers who signed said bonds and who, if facsimile
signatures are used, do adopt by their execution of said bonds as and for their proper
signatures their respective facsimile signatures appearing on said coupons; and that
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said bonds shall be issued in accordance with and shall be in all respects conform to
the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, knows as the
“Illinois Municipal Code,” effective July 1, 1961, and the Amendments thereto.
SECTION 7: That Edgar Cano, President of the Board of Local
Improvements of the City of Evanston, Illinois, be and he is hereby directed to file a
Petition in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, praying that steps may be taken to
levy a Special Assessment to pay the cost of said improvement in accordance with the
provisions of this ordinance and in the manner prescribed by law.
SECTION 8: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 9: If any provision of this ordinance or application thereof to
any person or circumstance is held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such invalidity
shall not affect other provisions or applications of this ordinance that can be given effect
without the invalid application or provision, and each invalid application of this ordinance
is severable.
SECTION 10: The findings and recitals contained herein are declared to
be prima facie evidence of the law of the City and shall be received in evidence as
provided by the Illinois Compiled Statutes and the courts of the State of Illinois.
SECTION 11: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after its passage, approval, and publication in the manner provided by law.
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Introduced: April 14, 2025 Approved:
Adopted: April 28, 2025 __________________________, 2025
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Daniel Biss, Mayor
Attest:
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Stephanie Mendoza, City Clerk
Approved as to form:
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Alexandra B. Ruggie, Corporation Counsel
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Exhibit A
Recommendation
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Exhibit B
Estimate
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