HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - City Council - Regular - 11/24/1926November 24,1926.
ATTEST:
City ecretar$r.
City Commission met in called session at to A.M. for the purpose of granting A.J.MoMahan
and Associates extension of time on Gas Franchise and purchasing 61 Acres of land North-
east o: town and selling of lots 3 and 4 in Block 127 with the following present:
Mayor Pink L. Parrish, Commissioners W.S. Posey, J.O.Jones and A.V. Weaver, Attorney
E.L.Klett, Superintendent of Utilities W. H. Perkinson, Secretary F.W. Groce.
Absent: J.H. Hankins.
Motion made by Mr. Posey, seconded by Mr. Jones, carried unanimously that the following
resolution be passed and signed by Mayor and City Secretary:
"A RESOLUTION EXTENDING TIME FOR COMPLETION OF GAS
MAINS AND DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM UNDER FRANCHISE
GRANTED A.J. MCMAHAN AND ASSOCIATES:
WHEREAS heretofore, to -wit, on or about the 17 day of June A.D. 1926, the City
Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas, granted to A.J. McMahan and associates a franchise
for the construction of a system of pipe lines for the sale and distribution of natural
gas to the citizens of the pity of Lubbock, and
WHEREASO in said ordinance by Section 13 thereof it was provided that such distri-
bution systems should be completed and the said A.J. McMahan and his associates, or
assigns, should be prepared to serve gas to consumers in the City of Lubbock by January
1st, 1927; and
WHEREAS, owing to the inability of the said A.J. McMahan and his associates to
secure deliveries of pipe necessary to the completion of their said pipe line and dis-
tribution systems they are unable to complete said system by January lat, 1927, as pro-
vided in said ordinance granting said franchise; and
WHEREAS, said delay has been occasioned by causes beyond the control of the said
A.J. McMahan and his associates:
NOW, THEREFORE,, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas,
that the said A.J. McMahan, George R. Broadwell'and H.A. Tipton, be and they are hereby
granted an extension of ninety days from and after the first day of January, A.D.,1927, with-,
in which to complete their said distribution system in the City of Lubbock, Texas, and
to be prepared to serve gas to consumers in the City of Lubbock, Texas.
And upon motion of Commissioner N.S. Posey, seconded by Commissioner J.O.Jones, it
was moved before the said City Commission of the City of Lubbock that said resolution be
passed, and said motion having been put Commissioners Posey, Jones, Heaver, and Mayor
Parrish voted in favor of the passage and adoption of said resolution, and the said
motion was thereupon declared to have carried and the said resolution in all things duly
adopted.
IN TESTIMONY 9HEREOF, witness our hands this the 24 day of November, A.D.,1926.
Attest:
F.1. Groce
City Secretary. "
Pink L. Parrish
Mayor,
Motion made by Mr. Jones, seconded by Mr. Posey, carried unanimously that the City pur-
chase from S. N. Jackson the sixty-one(61) acres Northeast of City, and pay therefor
49500.00 as follows: $4000.00 cash out of the City Park Fund, assume balance of $3000.00
on said 61 acres and execute time warrants in equal amounts due one and two years, six
(6%) per cent interest, and as an additional consideration a deed to Lots 3 and 4, Block 127
of the Overton addition to the town of Lubbock in Lubbock County, Texas, to be conveyed by
the City by and through Pink L. Parrish, Mayor, and F.W. Grace, Secretary, to said S.N.
Jackson.
FURTHER ordered that City Attorney E.L.Nlett pass on the title to abstract and deed
to said 61 acres.
Motion made by Mr. Jones, seconded by Mr. �, carried unanimously that the City
Commission be adjourned.
READ AND APPROVED this day of November, A.D. ,1926.
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MAYOR
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