HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - City Council - Regular - 4/25/1947Lubbock, Texas
April 25, 1947
RECESSED REGULAR I.IEETING.
The City Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas, met at 11 A.I.I. in
Recessed Regular Session, recessed from regular meeting of April 24,
1947, at the regular meeting place in the City Hall, the following
Members thereof being present, to -wit:
L'ayor C. A. Bestwick, Commissioners 111. B. Price, J. Ray Dickey, John
Spikes, City Attorney Vaughn E. Wilson, City Manager homer A. Hunter,
City Secretary Lavenia Williams.
Absent: Commissioner F. Ii. Childress.
THE STATE OF TEf.AS
COUNTY OF LUBBOCK Q
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CITY OF LUBBOCK
BE IT RMELMRED, that on this 25th day of April, A. D. 1947,
the City Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas, convened in Special
Called Session at the regular meeting place thereof in the City Hall
Building in the City of Lubbock, Texas, pursuant to notice issued by
the I::ayor on the 24th day of April, 1947, said meeting being provided
for in Ordinance No. 811, and *4iith the following menbers present, viz:
C. A. Best,A;ick 1.1afor and -'residing Officer
77. B. Price Commissioner
J. Ray Dickey Comm ss io n,: r
John Spikes Commissioner
Lavenia Williams City Secretary
with Commissioner F. H. Childress absent because of illness, said
members constituting a quorum of the Governing Body of the City of
Lubbock under Section 15, Article 9, Chapter 1, of the Charter of the
City of Lubbock, whereupon the following business was transacted:
Commissioner 17. B. Price called for a second reading of
Ordinance No. 811, pertaining to election for a Public Library Bond
Issue, the same being approved and adopted on first reading on the
24th day of April, 1947, which ordinance was then read in full by the
Secretary.
Commissioner J. Ray Dickey made a motion that said Ordinance
No. 811, providing for an election to determine whether or not bonds
of said City shall be issued in the aggregate sum of o, 500,000.00, be
passed on second readin(, and finally approved and adopted according
to its terms.
The motion was seconded by Conmissioner John Spikes and pre-
vailed by the following vote:
AYE;: Commissioner TN. B, Price, J. Ray Dickey, John Spikes
and mayor -Commissioner, C. A. Iaest*dick.
NOES: Ivone
?Jhereupon Layor C. A. Bestwick declared said Ordinance Igo. 811,
in all things duly passed.
The Ordinance as passed is as follows:
ORDINANCE 1,10. 811
AN ORDINANCE BY THE CITY C011-.ISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK,
TEXAS DETERMINING THE CESSITY FOR TIIE �R ECTION, CONSTRUCTION, EQUIP-
PING AND I,,AINT xINIivG A CERTAIN PUBLIC BUILDIivG TO BE SITUATED IN T-H�.,
CITY OF LUBBOCK, LUBBOCK COUNTY, T 1AS, AND TO BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE
OF MM CONSTITUTING A PUBLIC LIBRARY; DETERP:INING THE ADVISABILITY OF
SUBI.ITTING TO TI-Lj E PROP'.;RTY T,'MjAYING VOTERS OF SAID CITY, WHO O'^TN TAX-
ABLE PROPERTY ''TITHIN SAID =7 .AITi) ';'Ii0 MWE LULY RENDERED THE SATIE FOR
TAXATION, PROPOSITION13 RELATING TO THE ISaU"iNCE OF TIE !-.EGOTI"i.BLE
INTEREST E3EkRINJG COUPON BONDS OF S4ID CITY TO FIN -WE I1U.,'H IllriPROVETIENT
AND CONSTRUCTION; PROVIDING FOR AN ELECTION UPON 7EE QUESTION OF
AUT;iORIZING AN AGREGATE .VIOUiU OF 50O,000.00 OF THE BONDS OF SAID
CITY FOR S'UC11 PURPOSES; PRESCRIBING THE PLACE AND TIKE OF HOLDING
SAID ELECTION:, THE �UALIFICATION OF VOTERS, THE PURPOSES OF THE BONDS,
T.HE AI OUNTS T_'-1EREOF, ` 1-iE INTEREST DATE TIiEREON 4ND :3UBYITTING THEE
PROPOSITION OF TilvLEVY, ASSESSI-EhT, AND COLLECTION OF AD VALOREM,' T:1XES
ANNUALLY, WHILE SAID BOIV-DS OR AhTf OF '7 ii?1I ARE OUTSTAI`TDING TO _AY THE
INT3RE.;T ON ANvv PROVIDE A SINKING FUIdL 1POR THE REDELPTION OF S'1ID BONDS'
AS THE SAI.IE P.IATURES -.10 ACCRUES; PRESCRIBING TII'E 1,ArI7_ ITT. OF SAID BON•.•.-DS-,
Tt. E I1AI1q'_PR OF HOLDING SUCH ELEC^_ION, D.ECL:IRING AN E12RGENCY, AND
SETTIidG at'E CI_'%.L LEETIiM,- DATE FOR SE CX"TD R ADIi�G .
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VEER 'LS, the City Commission of the City of Lubbock affirmatively
finds that it is advisable and to the best interest of said City that
certain improvements, additions and enlargements be rude for the pur-
pose of erecting, constructing, equipping and maintaining a public
library building in accordance with the recommendations, estimates,
suggestions and requests heretofore considered by this Commission and
the Lubbock Public Library association and hundreds of interested
citizens of said City; and,
7EEARE_'S, it is deemed advisable and necessary that the regotiable
interest bearing coupon bonds of said 6ity should be issued for the
purpose of financin_; the cost of such improverents, erection, construc-
tion and e-;uipping such public buildings, and that it is necessary and
expedient that an election be held within and for said City of Lubbock
for the purpose of submitting to the legally qualified resident property
tax -paying voters of said City, who o-n property subject to taxation
therein and who have duly rendereu- the same for taxation, the propositions
to determine whether or not such bonds shall be authorized for said pur-
poses and rhether or not ad valorem taxes shall be annually levied,
assessed and collected against all property within the City of Lubbock
for the redemption of said bonds at r.aturity and for paying the interest
thereon as itaccrues..
N017 TttEREFO TP , be it ordained by the City Cor.mission of the City of
Lubbock, Texas:
I.
That an election be held within and through.-)ut the boundaries of
the City of Lubbock, Texas on the fourth Saturday in YLay, the same
being the 24th day of Y-ay, 1947, such date being not less than 15 days
nor more than thirty days from the date of this ordinance, at which
time there shall be submitted to the resident qualified property tax-
paying voters of lubbock, Texas, who otvn property subject to taxation
with said : ity and who have duly rendered the same for taxation, the
following specific propositions:
PROPOSITION
Shall the City Commission of the City of Lubbock be authorized to
issue the negotiable interest bearing coupon bonds of said City to the
amount of ;500,000.00 bearing interest at a rate'not exceeding three
and one-half percent (3-1/20) , per annum from date and maturing at such
time or tines as may be deemed most expedient by the City Commission
serially not later than twenty-five (25) years from their date, for the
purpose of erecting, constructing, equipping and maintaining a public
library building in the City of Lubbock; and shall there be annually
levied, assessed and collected, while said bonds or any of then are
outstanding, an ad valorem tax upon all taxable property--ithin said
City sufficient in amount to pay the annual interest on said bonds and
to provide a sinking fund to pay the principal thereof as the same
matures.
II.
Said election shall be held under the provisions of and in strict
conformity TMiith the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas, includ-
ing Chapter I, Title 22, Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas,
and the provisions of the Charter of the City of Lubbock, and all acts
amendatory, complementary and supplemental thereto. 411 p- rsons who
are legally qualified resident property taxpaying voters of the City of
Lubbock, Texas, -who ourn property in said City subject to taxation and
whd have duly rendered the s-me for taxation, shall be entitled to vote
at said election.
III.
The ballots for said election shall have written or printed there-
upon the following, to-imit:
PROPOSITION
For the issuance of the library building bonds and the levying of
taxes in payment thereof.
Against the issuance of the library building- bonds and the levying
of taxes in payment thereof.
III (a)
Each voter shall mark out with black ink or pencil one of the f ore-
goino expressions, thus leaving- the other as indicatinC his vote on
the proposition.
IV
That said election shall be held at tTroo places to wit: At the
Central Fire Station Building atthe corner of 10th Street and .avenue
"J" which shall be designated Box No. 1; and at the Senior nigh
School Building on 19th Street between Avenues 'IT" and "LT", which is
hereby designated as Box No. 2, in the City of Lubbock, Texas, and
the presiding judge and clerks of said election shall be as follo7q,s,viz:
Box No. 1, at the Central Fire Station Building:
Glenn Bess, Presiding Judge
R. Bush Smith, Clerk
!V. E. Ballevn, Clerk
J. L. Eurfee , Clerk
Knox Thomas, Clerk
and the presiding judge and clerks of Box i�'o. 2, at the Lubbock Senior
High School Building, sha.1l be:
H. D. Woods, Presiding; Judge
George Foster, Clerk
J. C. Royalty, Clerk
I.:rs. Geo. Berry, Clerk
I,rs. Frank I.iaddox, Clerk
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That notice of said election shall be given by posting a sub-
stantial copy of this ordinance at the City Hall Building and at two
other public places in the City of Lubbock and such notice shall also
be published on the same day in each of two successive weeks in a
newspaper of general circulation published within the City of Lubbock,
the date of the first publicatiDn to be not less than fourteen (14)
days prior to the date set for said election:
The i.1ayor and City secretary shall cause such notices to be
prepared and posted and published and shall make due returns t4e re -
of to this Commission.
VI.
Ir,mediately after said election has been held, the officers
holding the same shall make returns of the result thereof to the City
Secretary of the City of Lubbock, for canvassing by the City COmmis-
sion and shall return the ballot boxes to the City Secretary for safe
keeping.
The manner of holdinE; such election and canvassing and making
returns thereof shall be governed by the general election laws of the
State of Texas, when not in conflict with the provisions of the here-
inabove mentioned statutes, and the City Commission will furnish
the necessary ballots and other election supplies requisite for said
election.
VI I.
That it being affirria_tively found by the City Commission of the
City of Lubbock, that there is wide public demand and urgent need to
proceed Tvith the matter of providing for the construction, equipping;
and maintenance of a public library building within said City in
order to make the same convenient for the public at large and to pre-
serve, promote and protect the public welfare of the citizens of
Lubbock, creates an emergency and public necessity, requiring suspens-
ion of the rules, and demanding that a special meeting be held on
the 25th day of April, 1947, for a second reading; of this ordinance
,,A;hich shall take effect and be in f-)rce iim,,edi-:.tely on said date of
its second reading, passage .and adoption. IT IS SO JRDERED:
Pas:ed, ap;1roved and adopted on first reading by unanimous vote
of the City Commission this the 24th day of April, 1947.
Passed, ap.roved and adopted on second reading; by unanimous vote
of the City Commission this 25th day of April, 1947.
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I.;, l or, :ity Df Lubbock,Texas
__Lavenia "filliam�s______ -----
City Secretary, City of Lubbock, Texas
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P. Hotion by Cora:iissioner Dickey, seconded, carried, that the base
C g , -1hich was in-
creased Lay 14, 1945, from "120".00 to .r150.00 per month, be reduced,
effective Tray 1, 1947, from ?150.00 to ,:120.00 per month.
I.:otion by Commissioner Dickey, seconded, carried, tl�a.t base salaries
of P-)lice Departr.ent and Fire Departnent employees of the amity of
Lubbock be increased from 4135.00 per month to �140.00 per month,
effective I -.ay 1, 1947.
I:otion by 'onnie inner Price, seconded, carried, to authorize publi-
cation of notice s folloTA�s :
NOTICE Oi+� OF CITY BUDGET
Notice is hereby given that at w:50 o'clock P.Ii. , I -ay 22, 1947,
in the City offices of the Uity Commission, on the secona floor of
the City Nall, Lubbock, Texas, there will be held by said City Cor,-
missi:)n a public hearing on budget of said .ity for the fiscal -ear
beginning njjril 1, 1947 and endinE� Larch 31, 1948, b�' ordar of the
City Commission April w5, 1947.
G. A. 1'estvlick
I lay or
Lavenia Williams
City Secretary.
No further business coming up for consideration, the City �;ommi,3sion
adjourned.
Read and approved this the 8th day of __Kay ..... 1947.
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