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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 032455C - Approve Plans/Specs. - City Engineer - Paving Improvements, Peoria Ave - 03/24/1955M RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the City Commission has heretofore determined that the City would contribute the customary city portion of frown ten (10) to forty (40) per cent of the cost of street pavi.ngimprovements, as determined by side and front property to be constructed in accordance with the standard City of Lubbock street plans and specifications as approved by the City Engineer, and the owners of property abutting Peoria Avenue from lst alley south of 46th Street to lst alley, -south of 48th Street, have requested permission to have pavement improvements constructed j on the aforementioned Peoria Avenue, and the paving of said Peoria Avenue is needed to provide access to the area during its construction period, and the City Engineer has approved the plans and specifications for such improvements, and, WHEREAS, Carl Clawson and the other owners of the property abutting on the herein described avenue will contract separately with a competent contractor for the above street improvements, and said improvements will be constructed in accordance with the abovementioned plans and specifications under the supervision of the City Engineer, and the said owners desire that the City contribute its customary share towards such paving, and, WHEREAS, the contract cost of the ,paving improvements will; not exceed $4378.62, the total cost not over $4708.50, and the City's share in connection therewith would not exceed $843.75, leaving the property owner's portion not to exceed $3864.75, such costs being well within the current prices for paving obtained by competitive bidding, and that such payment to be made by the City is reasonable fair and just to the abutting property owners, the City and all other persoIns affected thereby, and that the sum of $843.75 will be duly budgeted in j 1955-1956 Budget; THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY ODI+aSSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK: Section 1. THAT, the City. Engineer be and he is hereby authorized to approve plans and specifications for paving on the streets herein described, provided that such plans. and specifications meet the usual requirements for paving on streets -within the corporate limits of the City of Lubbock; said streets being as follows, to -wit: Unit No. N -S 176 Peoria Avenue.from its intersection with'alley north of 47th Street to its intersection with the alley.south of 48th Street. The City Engineeris further 4tuthorized and directed to duly inspect said paving construction on said Peoria Avenue and to,require strict compliance with the approved plans and specifications, and upon completion of said paving, and upon final approval --by the City Engineer and acceptance of such improvements by the City Comanission, the City Engineer is :authorized to pay the contractor in full and final payment of the Cityts share of the cost of the abovementioned improvements a sum not to exceed.$513'.87 which is the 'City share $W-75 less $329.58 engineering,'leaving'the amount due the contractor from the property owner not to exceed :$3864.75. Section 2. This authority is conditioned that Carl Clawson and the other owners of abutting property and the contractor will pay for all material and labor and costs incidental to such construction ,' indemnify'the city of Lubbock against any costs, clai�msor damages of every nature pertaining thereto, and that i jl the Contractor furnish the City Engineer with acceptable evidence that the contractor and his'sub-contractors, if any, are adequately covered by public liability and property damage insurance policies, that the said Carl Clawson and other owners of hutting property will cause such paving to continue to be done according to the approved plans and specifications, and that upon completion thereof and final approval of the City,Eagineer, all improvements designated here- in shall be a permanent part of said ,Peoria Avenue' and the property of the City of Lubbock, without any liability'whatsoever, except for the payment of a sum l $513087 to the contractor after December 15, 1955• Cn motion of Commissioner akcr seconded by Commissioner Thomas the foregoing, resolution was unanimously passed by the City Commission this _day of .M =a lRurrela ppPI ATTEST I, Carl Clawson, representing myself and the remaining owners of abutting property on the abovementioned streets, and Kerr and Middleton, Contractor., do hereby accept and agree to fully abide by the foregoing provisions for the considerations therein stated. Carl Claswon HY_s-t—"- Kerr' d Middleton By Approved: W. B. Holmes, City. Engineer Ap owed; Vaughn E. Wilson, City Attorney