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2573ORDINANCE NO. 2573 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, ORDERING, CALLING, PROVIDING FOR AND GIVING NOTICE OF A SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD IN SAID CITY ON NOVEMBER. 5, 1968, FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUBMITTING TO THE QUALIFIED VOTERS OF SAID CITY A PROPOSITION TO AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF ELECTRIC REVENUE BONDS AND CONSOLIDATING SAID ELECTION WITH A STATEWIDE GENERAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON SAID DATE. WHEREAS, the Charter of the City, in Section 1210 thereof provides as follows: "Bonds which are payable only out of such revenues as may be specified in such bonds may be issued when the City Council by ordinance shall have established a procedure for the issuance of such bonds. Such bonds, payable only out of revenues, shall not constitute an indebtedness or general obligation of the City. No such bonds payable out of revenues shall be issued without the assent of a majority of the voters voting upon the proposition for issuing the same at an election at which such proposition shall have been duly submitted to the qualified electors of the City. "It shall be competent for the City to make contracts and covenants for the benefit of the holders of any such bonds payable only from revenues and which shall not constitute a general obligation of the City for the establishment of a fund or funds, for the maintaining of adequate rates or charges for restrictions upon further indebtedness payable out of the same fund or revenues, for restrictions upon transfer out of such fund, and other appropriate covenants. Money placed in any such special fund, for the payment of principal and/or interest on any issue of such bonds or to assure the application thereof to a specific purpose shall not be expended for any other purpose whatever except for the purpose for which such special fund was established and shall be deemed segregated from all other funds of the City and reserved exclusively for the purpose for which such special fund was established until the purpose of its establishment shall have been fully accomplished. NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Anaheim, California, DOES ORDAIN as follows: Section 1. That a special election be held and the same is hereby called to be held in said City on November 5, 1968, for the purpose of submitting to the qualified voters of said City pursuant to said Charter Section 1210, quoted in the recitals hereof, the proposition hereinafter set forth of issuing electric revenue bonds of said City in the principal amount stated in the ballot proposition hereinafter set forth and for the object and purpose set forth in said ballot proposition. Section 2. That the estimated cost of the acquisition, construction and financing described in said ballot proposition is the sum of $8,650,000. The esti- mated cost includes all engineering, inspection, legal or other fees incidental to or connected with the authoriza- tion, issuance and sale of the bonds, and the costs of printing the bonds and other costs and expenses incidental to or connected with the authorization, issuance and sale of the bonds. Section 3. That the maximum rate of interest to be paid on said indebtedness shall not exceed six per cent (60) per annum, the actual rate or rates of interest on said bonds to be determined at or prior to the time of the sale or sales thereof. Said interest shall be payable semiannually except that interest for the first year may be made payable at the end of said year. Section 4. That the manner of holding said elec- tion (including, without limitation, the time when the polls shall remain open) shall be the manner provided in the County of Orange by or pursuant to law for the holding of the statewide general election to be held in said county on November 5, 1968, and the procedure for voting for or against said proposition and for counting said votes shall be the procedure provided by or pursuant to law in said county for voting upon measures at said statewide general election. Section 5. That on the ballots to be used at said special election, in addition to any other matters 2. required by law, there shall be printed substantially the following: PROPOSITION (ELECTRIC YES . REVENUE BONDS): To acquire, con- struct and finance additions to and improvements of the works of the City for supplying the City and its in- . - habitants with electric energy, shall NO the City of Anaheim issue electric revenue ponds in the principal amount . of eight million six hundred fifty . thousand dollars? - Section 6. That, if the proposition so submitted receives the requisite number of votes, to wit, a majority of the votes of the qualified electors voting on such proposition, electric revenue bonds of said city, in not exceeding the principal amount stated in such proposition, may be issued and sold for the object and purpose set forth in such proposition pursuant to said Section 1210 of the Charter of the City and pursuant to an ordinance which shall establish a procedure for the issuance of such bonds. Section 7. That the special election hereby called for the date hereinbefore specified shall be and is hereby ordered.consolidated with the statewide general election to be held on said date, and within said city the precincts, polling places and officers of election for the special municipal election hereby called shall be the same as those provided for said statewide general election. The Board of Supervisors of Orange County is hereby requested to order the consolidation of the special municipal election hereby called with said statewide general election, and 3. said Board of Supervisors is hereby authorized to canvass the returns of said special municipal election, and said elections shall be held in all respects as if there were only one election, and only one form of ballot, namely, the ballots used at said statewide election, shall be used. Said Board of Supervisors shall certify the results of the canvass of the returns of said special municipal election to the City Council of said city which shall thereafter declare the results thereof. A proposition submitted by this ordinance shall be designated on the ballot by a letter printed on the left margin of the square containing the description of the measure, as pro- vided in Section 10231 of the Elections Code. Section 3. That except as otherwise provided in this ordinance, the election called hereby shall be conducted as provided by law for other municipal elections in said city. Section 9. That the City Clerk shall cause this ordinance to be published, wi hin 15 days after its adoption, WENArk in The Bulletin, a newspaper published at least 6 days a week in the City. The City Clerk shall also publish the notice entitled "Measure To Be Voted On" in substantially the form and manner set forth in Elections Code Section 22835 once a week for 2 successive weeks. In such notice the synopsis of the measure to be voted on shall be the ballot proposition hereinbefore set forth. 4. STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF ORANGE ss. CITY OF ANAHEIM I, DENE M WILLIAMS , City Clerk of the City of Anaheim , a orn a, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that -the foregoing or inance was introduced and read at a - - - - - - regular meeting of the City Council duly- held on the 3rd day of September , 19_68, and thereafter at a regular meeting of said City Council duly held on the 10th day of September , 19 68., was reread, duly passed and affopTed by said -City — 16uncil and signed and approved by the Mayor of said city, and that said ordinance was passed and adopted by a vote of more than two-thirds of the members of said City Council, to wit: (SEAL) AYES: Councilmen Dutton Schutte. Clark and Peblev NOES: Councilmen None ABSENT: Councilmen Kre'n 1_" � - -')x �.. � � city cierk or tne My o Anaheim, California. I, DERE M.WILLIAMS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original Ordinance No, 2573 and was published once in the Anaheim Bulletin on the 16th day of September, 1968. 1 r City Clerk 6,