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RESOLUTION NO. 401
WHEREAS the City of Seward at special emergency meeting of July
8, 1964 formally approved settlement of its claim for fire insur-
ance on its electric generation plant, garage-warehouse and con-
tents in the total sum of Three Hundred Forty-one Thousand One
Hundred Fifty and 75/100 ($34l,150.75) Dollars, segregated as
follows:
Diesel Generation Building . . . . . . . .
Equipment, Furniture and Fixtures therein .
Frame Garage-Warehouse Building . . . . . .
Distribution Materials & Supplies con-
tained in Garage-Warehouse... ....
$ 35,000.00
291,150.75
10,000.00
, 5.000.00
$ 341,150.75
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WHEREAS the Office of Emergehcy Planning has pledged its finan-
cial assistance to pay for the cost of replacing said generation
faoility including full integration with the City's distribution
system over and above the amount of said fire insurance settle-
ment as pertains to the generation facility, or the sum of
$336,150.75; and
WHEREAS the City of Seward by its Resolutions No. 364 and 387
and by Agreement dated April 3, 1964 has requested and authorized
the U. S. Army Engineers, Alaska District, to reconstruct all
City facilities destroyed in the March 27, 1964 disaster; and
WHEREAS the replacement of said generation facility is consid-
ered and declared to be of the utmost importance and of the most
urgent need due to the possibility of electric outage caused
by failure of the transmission line which traverses over fifty
miles of rugged mountainous terrain and which is presently the
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RESOLUTION NO. 401 (Cont.)
only source of electric power to the City of Seward and surround-
ing area;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Seward intends,
and hereby so declares this intention, to disburse up to the sum
of Three Hundred Thirty-six Thousand One Hundred Fifty and 75/100
($336,150.75) Dollars toward the replacement of its standby emer-
gency generation facility and the land therefor; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that an emergency does exist due to the
March 27, 1964 earthquake, seismic waves and fire and therefore
as provided by Section 12.2 of the Home Rule Charter, the require-
ments of Section 12.3(c) of the Home Rule Charter are hereby
waived for the purpose of authorizing design and emergency pro-
curement of said standby generation facility including immediate
purchase of first unit by the U. S. Army Engineers, Alaska Dis-
trict, under existing Federal regulations for the City of Seward,
said facility to meet the following requirements of the City of
Seward:
1. 3,000 KW diesel, portable or semi-portable, generation unit/sf.
2. No. 1 to be of a type requiring no building to house, but
rather to be outdoor units with hurricane fencing to
enclose.
3. Manual control operation.
4. Dead load pickup.
5. Expandable facility.
This Resolution to be in full force and effect immediately upon
passage and approval. Passed and approved by the Common Council
of the City of Seward, Alaska, this 20th day of July, 1964.
Attest: ~ ~
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City Clerk-Treasurer
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erry . tockton
Mayor
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