HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - City Council - Regular - 8/15/1927RECESSED REGULAR MEETING, Lubbock, Texas, August 15, 1927.
Ordinance
No. 386 re-
pealed.
Ordinance
iNo. 387 con-
solidating
the offices
of City Sec-
retary and
!City Treas-
'urer .
The City Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas met at the regular
meeting place in the City "all at 1:30 P. M. in regular session re-
cessed from August 11, 1927, the following members thereof being pres-
ent, to wit:
Mayor Pink L. Parrish, Commissioners J. H. Hankins, W. S. Posey, J. 0.
Jones and A. V. Weaver, City Attorney E. L. Klett, City Manager W. H.
Perkinson, and City Secretary G. W. McCleary.
Minutes of Regular Meeting July 28, 1927 and of Recessed Regular Meet-
ings of August 1 and 5, 1927 were read and upon motion made by Mr.
Hankins, seconded by Mr. Weaver, they were unanimously approved.
(Ordinance No. 386, closing that portion of Fourth Street between the
Santa Fe Railroad Right of Nay and Avenue I, was passed to be effective
when the 'West Texas Compress Company pays the City $550.00 as a consid-
eration for the closing of said portion of said street, and as said sum
had not been paid August 27, 1927, the City Commission repealed said Or-
dinance and ordered that same be left off the record and instructed
that Mr. T. M. Nowlin, Manager of the West Texas Compress Co., be re-
quested to return to the City the copy of said Ordinance delivered to
him by the City Secretary through error, the Secretar being out of
the room at the time the agreement was made that the 650.00 would be
paid as stated above.)
There was offered for consideration and passage by the City Commission
an Ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE CONSOLIDATING TH-: OFFICES OF CITY
li SECRETARY AND CITY TREASURER; AND DECIA.RING AN EMERGENCY.
Said Ordinance was read in full by the City Secretary and upon motion
made by Mr. Posey, seconded by Mr. Weaver, said Ordinance was passed
by the following vote:
Yeas: Commissioners Posey, Weaver, Hankins and Jones
Nays: None
Mayor Parrish then declared said Ordinance passed, being Ordinance No.
387 of record in Ordinance Book No. 1, page 319 of the Minutes of the
City Commission.
Upon motion made by Mr. Posey, seconded by ter. Jones, carried unani-
mously, G. W. McCleary was appointed City Secretary and Treasurer,
effee ti ve Se tember 1, 1927, his $25.000.00 Surety Bond to be changed
to cover as City Secretary and Treasurer.
Purchase of
City Manager W. H. Perkinson had letters from J. D. Adams and Co.
Russell
and from the Russell Grader Manufacturing Co. quoting prices on their
Super Re-
graders and searifiers and upon motion made by Mr. Weaver, seconded
by Mr. Jones, carried unanimously, Mr. Perkinson was authorized to
liance Grader
purchase the Russell Super Reliance 12 ft. Blade Grader and Scarifier
and Scar-
and
for $2108.00 F.O.B. Lubbock, less E% discount for cash.
a
ifithorized.
Upon motion made by 1111r. Jones, seconded by Mr. Hankins, carried unani-
mously, City Attorney Klett was instructed to take necessary legal
Necessa-ry
steps to have the P. & S. F. Railway Co. rut subways at crossings on
gal steps
legal
Broadway and Avenue H, as ordered last January, the one on Broadway
taken
be taken
to be put in first.
to putto
in
Subways on
Upon motion made by Mr. Weaver, seconded by Mr. Jones, carried unan-
Broadway &
imously, the City Commission adjourned.
Avenue H.
Read and approved this '"°'" day of October, A. D. 1927.
Mayor
ATTEST :
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Ci� G
sty Secretary