HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - City Council - Regular - 8/5/1948RECESSED REGULAR MEETING.
Lubbock, Texas
August 5, 1948.
The City Commission of the City of Lubbock, Texas, met at 2 P.M.
in recessed regular session, recessed fromi regular meeting of July 22,
1948, at the rep-ular meeting- place in the, City Hall, the following
members thereof being present, to -wit:
Mayor W.H. Rodgers, Commissioners W.B. Price, Clr rence K. Whiteside,
City Secretary Lavenia Williams.
Absent: Commissioner E.K. Hugstedler, Jr., and Commissioner John Spikes,
City `Manager 1,1.'R. Smlth , Jr.
Others present in the meeting were: Messrs. Charley Guy, O.W. Ribble,
L.E. Davis, Homer D. Grant , and A.B. Davis , Manager of Lubbock Chamber
of Commerce.
The letter of July 20, 1948, from the Chief of Real Estate Division,
Department of the Army, Corps of engineers, Henry K. Shadel,
41buquerque, New Mexico, was read, and considered by the Commission.
Whereupon a motion was made by Uommissioner Whiteside, seconded by
Commissioner Prue, carried unanimously, that the telegram o f September
28, 1945, said telegram ,reading as follows:
"The Commanding- General, Army Air Forces
Attention: Major General Charles Chauncey, Chief of Air Staff
UVashington, D.C.
Dear Sir: This is to certify tind guarantee that the City of Lubbock,
owner of all land upon which Lubbock Arri�ppy Air Field is located, will tender
title, in fee simple, to the United States Army Air Forces said property
if the Army Air Forces operate thereon A permanent installation. It is
understood, however, that if and when the Army Air Forces may see fit to
cease operations on said land that its ownership will revert to the present
owner, to -wit: the City of Lubbock.
O.W. Ribble, I ayor, City of Lubbock"
be reaffirmed, and the U.S. Engineer's letter answered to that effect
giving him the further information that the City has legislative authority
to so convey the lands ait owns at the Lubbock Air Force Base as set out
in Section 1269H, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, which provides as
follows:
Section 1A. That the governing body of any incorporated h,O�ty in this State
--- is hereby empowered to acquire by purchase --- and thereafter lease or
sell to the Federal Government tracts of land either within or without the
corpoaate limits of such city and ► ithin the county in which such drty is
situated ---
The foregoing article was amended in 1947, to include the following in
Section la:
« --- The governing body of any incorporated city in this State, shall
have the power to sell, convey or leash all or part of any airport or
property connected therewith, heretofore established or that may, be
,hereafter established; also any land which has been or may be acquired
under the provision- of this act, to the United States of America for any
purposes necessary for National Defense, or for airmail purposes or any
other public -purposes --- 11
No further business coming up for consideration, the City Commission
Read and approved this the 12 day of _Au7ust , 194$.
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City Secr ary.