HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 051255E - Approve Paving Plans/Specs. - City Engineer - Utica Avenue - 05/12/1955RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the City Commission has heretofore determined that the City
would contribute the customary city portion of from ten (10) to forty (40)
per cent of the cost of street paving improvements, 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 UTICA AVENUE 37th STREET to ALLEY
8'MWEEN 37th & 38th STREET have requested pCrmisssion to have pavement
improvemeants'eonstructed on the -aforementioned UTICA AVENUE and the paving
of said UTICA 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, J. L. DAVIS AND THE OTHER owners of the property abutting
on the herein described streets and 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 speci-
fications 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
$ 1316.690 the total cost not over $1382.52, and the Citylss share in cop-
nection therewith would not exceed $ 814.76, leaving the property owner's
portion not to exceed $ 567.76, 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 persons affected thereby, and that the sum of $ 567.76
will be budgeted in the '1955-1956 Budget .
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMtISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
Section 1. THAT, the City Engineer be and he is hereby authorised to
approve plans and specifications for paving on the streets herein described,
provided that such plans and'sspecifications 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 1785; Utica Avenue from South Property Line of 37th
Street (East Leg) to South Property pine of
Alley between 37th & 38th Street
The City Engineer is further authorized and directed to duly inspect said
paving construction on said UTICA 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 Commission,'the City Engineer is authorized to pay
the contractor in full and final payment of the City's share of the cost of
the abovementioned improvements a sun not to exceed $ 501.93 which is the
City share $ 567.76 less $ 65.$3 engineering, leaving the amount due the
contractor frasi the property owners not to exceed $ 814.76.
Section 2. This authority is conditioned that J. L. DAVIS AND THE OTHER
OE^1NERS 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, claims or damages of every nature pertaining thereto, and
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that 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
J: L. DAVIS and other owners of abutting property grill cause such paving
to continueto be done according to the approved plans and specifications,
and that upon completion thereof and final approval of the City Engineer, all
improvements designated herein shall be a permanent part of said UTICA AVENUE
and the property of the City of Lubbocko without any liability whatsoever
except for the payment of a sum 501.93 to the Contractor after December 15,
1955.
.On motion of Commissionet ThnI IR seconded by
Commissioner or-!;st the foregoing resolution was unanimous];
passed by the Ci y Commission this day Of-- 4 i= . 19_�5 _•
ATTEST:
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I, J. L. DAVIS, representing myself and the
property on the abovementioned streetsi and
INCORPORATED, Contractors do hereby accept
foregoing provisions for the considerations
BY.
Approved:
W. B. Holmes, City Engineer
owed:
Vaughn E. Wilson, City Attorney
remaining owners of abutting
WEST TEXAS CONSTRUCTION
and agree to fully abide by the
therein stated!