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ORDIMAUCE NO. 202
d? ORDI€JAl?CE CHLLIltG A SPECIAL ELECTIOM IU TEE CIIY 03' LODI
POR TKF: PURPOSK Od SUBMITTIIJG TO TEE dUCTORS OF SAID CITY
THE PROPOSITION OF INCURRING A BOHDED INDEDTZDKESS OF SAID CITY IN THE PRIIJCIPAL AIdOUbT OP $1520,000, FOR TEZ ACQUISI-
TION, CONSTRUCTION iiBD COI6PLETION 01 T€E Li'OLLOWII?G MLJNICIP-
U IXP3OVdUdNT, TO WIT: A HYDRO-ELECTHIC GENECRATIOU SYSTEM,
INCLUDING LAUDS ,RIGHTS 02' \tAY, ZASEI<YEBTS, DAN, PENSTOCK,
POYbER PLANT rUID BUILDING, TRAl4SIIISSION LINES, COIJDUITS,
VvIRES, POLES, SUB-STr4TIONS, TRANSFORIIERS, DYlJAUOS, IbfOTOHS,
SWITCKES, MACEIBERY, WPURATUS , PIXTURXS, EQUIPIKETFJ! AND
OT&X STRUCTURES, WORKS, RIGHTS U?D PROPERTIES, TJECESSARY
OR CONVIlVIEBT TO GiClURATZ ELECTRICITY TO SUPPLY SAID CITY
AHD ITS INHddITAUTS 'irITH ELECIRICITY $03 LIGHT, HEAT AND
I POYYXR, PROVIDED THAI SAID BONDED IItDEB'l'ZDNESS SliLLL NOT BE IITCURR~D OH CSZATZD UBLESS A GHAW OF I~IONXYS Iii AID 037
SUCH IbIPROVEi,WT, SATISFACTORY 'M THZ CITY COUiJCIL, IS IVMDE
BY THE UNITED STATES 03' &,ERICA OR BlTY BGZIJCY OF TXZ
UiJITZD STATES GOVERlTMEXU; DECLBIlJC TEX ESTILUTED COST
OF SAID IJLJUUICIPAL IIdPROVEI.'d€?T, TI53 AIJOUUT 0.3' PRINCIPAL 03'
SAID IBDZBTEDNBSS I0 BE IlJCULIRED THERX'OR, AND THE NU-
IMJIuI RaTE OF IBTdREST TO BE PAID TI€EREO€J; FIXING TILE DATE
O$ SAID ELECTION, THE IILUUJJER OZ iiOLDI1lG ThT SfdE, ZSTBdLISH-
ING ELECTION PRECIIJCTS AND POLLIUG PLACES 309 SiiID ELECTIOlJ
81\11) APPOI16TIBG BOARDS OF ELECTIOU THZ?.d?OX, dU'U PROVIDING
303 KOll1C.E THERdOP. ---_-
VaLTRZAS the City Council of the City of Lodi by
resolution passed and adopted at a regalar meetinn of Said City
Council on the 19th day of bIarch, 1934, by affirmative vote of
more than two-thirds of all of its members, did determine that
the public interest and necessity demand the acquisition, con-
struction and completion of the municipal improwment kereir$-
after mentioned, and did furtker determine tke cost of said I
proposed municipal improvement will be too great to be paid out
of the ordinary annual income and revenue of said municipal-
ity, which resolution was duly entered on the, minutes of said
meetinp: of said City Council, and is now on file and of record
in the Clerk's office of said City; and
WHEREAS, this City Council is authorized to expend
the funds of said City for the purpose aforesaid, but no suck
furids are now available and it is necessary that the City of
Lodi incur and create a bonded indebtedness for said purpose;
provided that said bonded indebtedness shall not be incurred or created unless a grant of moneys in aid of such improvement,
satisfactory to the City Council, is made by tke United States
of America, or any agency of the United States Government,
LODI DO OHDAIlJ AS 7OLLBYfS:
NO#, THERETORE, THE CITY COUbCU OF Ihd CITY OF
Section lL That a special municipal election be and
is hereby ordered and will be held in said City of Lodi on
bIonday, tke 23rd day of April, 1934, at which election shall be
submitted to the qualified electors of said City the proposition
of incurring indebtedness of said City in the principal sum of
$250,000 for the object and purpose of. acquiring, constructing and completin,p a municipal improvement of the City of Lodi,to wit:
A hydro-electric generation system, including lands, rights of
sion lines, conduits, wires, poles, substations, transformers,
dgmamos, mot ors, switches, machinery, apparatus, fixtures, equip- ment and other structures, works, rights and properties, necessary
Or convenient to generate electricity to supply said City and
its inhabitants with electricity for light, heat and poiver; provided that said bonded indebtedness shall not be incurred
or created unless a grant of moneys in aid of suck improvement, satisfactory to the City Council, is mbde by the TJriited States
of America Or mY agency af the United States Gotrernment.
way, easements, dam, penstock, power plant and building, transmis-
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That the estimated cost of said proposed municipal improvement
is'the sum of $520,000 agd the amount of the principal of said
indebtedness proposed to be incurred for said municipal improve-
ment is the sum of $j520,000.
Section 2. That the said City Council proposes to
issue and sell bonds of said City of Lodi in the said amount
of $520,000 €or the object and purpose specified in the said
proposition set forth in Section 1 of this ordinance, iP two-
thirds of the qualified electors voting at said special election shall vote in favor of said proposition. Said bonds shall be
negotiable in form and of tke character known as serial, and
shall bear interest at a rate notexceeding five (5)
per cent per annum, payable semiannually.
Secf&onL3. That the said City Council does hereby
submit to the qualified electors of said City of Lodi at said special municipal election the said proposition ?et forth in
Section 1 of this ordinance, and designates and refers to said proposition in the form of ballot hereinhfter prescribed for use
at said election.
hereinafter desiqnlated shall be opened at six o'clock A.IL of
said day o€ election and shall be kept open cfontinuously there-
after until seven o'clock P.LI. of said day of election, when the polls shall be closed (except as provided in Section 1164 of the
Political Code), and the election officers shall thereupon proceed to CiLnvass the ballots cast thereat.
Section 5. That said special election shall be held
and conducted, and tkc votes thereat canvassed, and the returns
thereof made, and the result thereof ascertained and determined
as herein provided; and in all particulars not prescribed by this ordinance said election shall be held as provided by law
for the holdinp: o$ municipal elections in said City, The
returns of said election shall be made out and signed by the election officers and shall be by them deposited with the Clerk of said City, together mith the ballots cast at said elec- tion; and this City Council shall meet and canv&ss said returns
on bionday, the 30th day of April, 1934 (being the first Monday
after said election), at the hour of eight o'clock, P.1~1.;
and if upon suck canvass it shall be found that at least two- thirds of tke qualified electors of said City, voting at said
election, voted in favor of said proposition, then bonds of
said City of Lodi in the amount specified in sciid proposition, to wit, b520,OOO will be issued and sold by said City for the
purp 0s e there in men t ioned , -- Section 6. ?or the conduct of said special election, the City of Lodi is hereby divided into four
special election precincts. The territory embraced within each of said precincts, the pollinq places therein, an.d tke election
officers appointed to conduct said election thereat are as follows, to wit:
Section 4. That the polls' at the polling places
SPECIAL PvItJl~ICIPAL dOUD ELZCTION P'IHCT NO. 1
(consistinq of Precincts Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5 and 14
of said City of Lodi, as now established of record by the 9oard of Supervisors of the County of San Joaquin, State of California, for general State and county election
purposes 1
Polling Place: City Hall, Pine Street at Pleasant Are.
Inspector: Henry P. likeaton Judge : Amelia L. Barzellotti
Clerk: Jessie id. Yubbs Clerk; Ora B. Villinger.
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SPZCILL IuIUUIC IPLL BOND ELdCTIOlJ PAECIIJCT NO. 2
(consisting of Precincts Nos, 3, 6 and 7
of said City of Lodi, as now established of record by the
Board of Supervisors of the County of San Joaquin, State
of California, for general State and county election
purposes 1
Polling place: 105 South School Street.
Inspector: Augustus G. Corson
Judge : Lena G. IlacDonald
Clerk: Edith K. Henning
Clerk : IJeta E. Shattuck.
SPECIAL MUNICIPAL BE3UD EUCTION P3.ECIMCT NO. 3
(consisting of Precincts Nos. 10, 11 and 13
of said City of Lodi, as now established of record
by the doard of Supervisors of the County of San Joaquin,
State of California, for general State and county elec-
tion purposes)
Polling Place: 1,Irs.S. Siegalkoff's garage, rear
Inspect or: Ploren ce iZcLach1an
Judge : Bira T. Weaver
Clerk: Maude i3. denton
Clerk: Clara L. 'suatson.
of No. 124 East Pine Street
SPECIAL i?IUl?ICIPBL SONI) SUCTIOIJ PRSCINCT 140. 4
(consistina of Precincts Nos. 8, 9 and 12 -
of said City of Lodi, as now established of record by
the 30ard of Supervisors of the County of San Joaquin,
State of California, for general State and county elec-
tion purposes)
Polling Place: 606 South Central Avenue
Inspector: Olive C. Vfelch
Judge : William J. darnes
Clerk : Sara Vi. 'ifright
Clerk: Esther C. Twing
Section 7,. All persons qualified to vote at municipal
elections in said "ity of Lodi upon the date of the election
herein provided for sht~ll be qualified to vote upon the
proposition hereby submitted at said special elect ion.
elect ion shall haverprinted thereon the following:
SPECIAL NUHICIPAL BOND ELdCTIOlJ
Section 0. The ballots to be used at said special
CITY OF LODI
APRIL 23, 1934
To vote for or against a proposition
stamp a cross in the voting square after the word "Yes" or after tke word
"IJO '' .
- INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS:
All marks except the cross (X) are Porbidden. All
distir.,mishing marks or erasures we forbidden and make the
ballot void. If you wronP;ly stamp, tear or deface this bsllot,
return it to the Inspector of Election and obtain another.
PHOPOSITIOM: Shall the City of Lodi incur a
cipal sum of ;$520,000 for tke object and purpose of acquiring, constructing and complet- :
in the following municipal improvement, to wit: : YES :
A hydro-electric generation system, including lands, rights of way, easements, dam, penstock, :
power plant and building, transmission lines, conduits, wires, poles, substations, trans- formers, dynamos, motors, smitcbes, machinery, apparatus, fixtures, equipment and other structures, works, rigkts and properties, necess- : NO :
ary or convenient to generate electricity to supply said City and its inhabitants with
electricity for light, heat and power; provided :
that said bonded indebtedness shall not be in- curred or created unless' a grant of moneys in
aid of suck ixhprovenient, satisfactory to the City Council, is made by the United States of
America or any agency of the United States Government ?
hereby submitted and for incurring said bonded indebtedness shall
stamp a cross (X) in the blank space opposite the word lYES" on
the ballot to the riaht of said proposition, and to vote against
said proposition and against incurring said indebtedness shall
stamp a cross (X) in the blank space opposite the word '%Or'
on the 'orllot to the ripht of said proposition.
directed upon the passage and adoption of this ordinance to
publish tke same once a day €or at least seven (7) days in
"Tke Lodi Sentinel (which is a newspaper publisbed at least six (6) days a week in said City of Lodi) and such publication shall constitute
notice of said election. No other notice of the election hereby called need be given.
Section 11. This ordinance shall be forthwith entered upon the minutes of this City Council and in tke Ordinance
Book of said City. This ordinance skall take effect from and
after its passage and approval.
bonded indebtedness in the prin-
Section 9. Each voter to vote for said proposition
Section 10. The Clerk of the City of Lodi is hereby