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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 012727A - Street Improvements - City Engineer - Multiple Locations - 01/27/1927 Best Available Scan 0 o►2"IZ'iA LUBBOCK NEW FORIi 10. 1 AI1ENDING. RESOLUTION A MiDIIG RESOLUTION HERETOFORE PASSED f BY THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, AND PROVIDIYiG FOR II.,TROVEr_,., IT OF PORTIONS OF TEXAS AVETITT.E AND SUNDRY OTHER STREETS AID AVIMUES, IN THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, AND DIRECTING PREPARATION OF PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS: a'IIIEREAS , the Governing Body o the City of Lubbock hereto- fore, on they day of , 1926, duly passed and adopted a resolution enti e , "RESOLUTION PROVIDIIIG FOR I1,1PROVE 2INT OF PORTIONS OF TEXAS AV= -,v AND SUNDRY OTHER STREETS AND AVINUES IN THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, A14D DIRECTING PRE- PARATION OF PLANS Al`SD SPECIFICATIONS"; and, AIEREAS, it is deemed advisable and necessary that the streets and avenues therein ordered improved be arranged in units or districts, and numbered as hereinbelow set forth, in lieu of the arrangement and numbering as set forth in said original resolution: THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS; THAT, I. Said original resolution omitting the caption and enact- ing clause thereof, be and the same is hereby amended so that same shall hereafter be and read as follows: -I- Public necessity exists that the following portions of streets and avenues in the City of Lubbock, Texas, be improved as herein provided, to -wit: TEXAS AV1TUE (Formerly Avenue I) from its intersection with the Y orth property line of 14th Street to its intersection with the forth property line of 16th Street, known and designated as Unit or District I;o. 1. TEXAS AVEg7,JE (Formerly Avenue I), from its intersection with the South property line of 16th Street to its intersection with the South property line of 19th Street, known and designated as Unit or District o. 2. AVENUE G, from its intersection with the Iorth property line of 10th Street to its intersection with the center line of 8th Street, known and designated as Unit or District Io. 3. EIGHTH STREET, from its intersection with the East property line of Avenue H to its intersection with the center line of Avenue G, known and designated as Unit or District iso. 4. NINETEEP?TH STREET, from its intersection with theViest property line of Texas Avenue, to its intersection with the center line of Avenue I:°, known and designated as TJnit or District ;o. 5. -1- r olZI21k N DTETEEIITH STREET, from its intersection with the center line of Avenue Tei, to its intersection with the Last property line of Avenue (,, mown and designated as Unit or District IIo. 6. I;INETEEtTTH STREET , from its intersection with the Last property line of Avenue Cv, to its intersection with the East property line of College Avenue, known and designated as Unit or District iso. 7. SIXTEENTH STR:�ET, from its intersection with the ;Vest property line of Avenue Q. to and including the intersection thereof with Avenue X, known and designat- ed as Unit or District I -o. 8. AVEM�IUE X, from its intersection with the South line of the intersection of 16th Street from the East to its intersection with the :'orth line of the inter- section of 16th Street from the lest, Down and designated as Unit or District No. 9. SIXTE`T�ITH STREET from and including the intersection thereof with Avenue X, to its intersection with the Last property line of college Avenue, known and designated as Unit or District ,0. 10. AVIZIUE H, from the South line of the right-of-way of Panhandle & Santa Fe Railroad to its intersection with the South property line of Fourth Street, Down and designated as Unit or District I1"o. 11. AV-=U,H, from its intersection with the South property line of 4th Street to its intersection with the ITorth property line of First Street, known and designated as Unit or District 11o. 12. -=-2-- oi2-I27A 1herever in the foregoing it is ordered that streets or avenues be improved to the center of intersection with some other street or avenue, it is the intention that the entire intersection be improved, and that half of the cost of such intersection be prorated to one such street or avenue and the other half to the other such street or avenue. II. Said portions of streets and avenues shall be improved by raising, grading, and filling safe, and by installing concrete curbs and gutters, and storm sewers and drains where necessary, and by paving with one of the following types of material on proper foundation, to -wit: (a) Vertical Fibre Brick, (b) Rock Asphalt, (c) Warrenite Bitulit hic. (d) e z9tf et'e f L' the exact type of pavement to be determined by the Commission of the City of Lubbock after receipt of bids. III. The City Engineer is hereby directed to prepare plans and specifications for such improvements embracing specifications for each of the said types of paving. IV. Such improvements in each Unit or District shall be paid for in the following manner: (a) Railways and street railways using, occupying-, or crossing any portion of said streets and avenues to be improved shall pay for and be assessed for all the cost of work in the area between their rails and tracks, double tracks, turn- outs, and switches, and two feet on each side thereof. (b) The abetting property and owners thereof shall pay and shall be assessed for all the cost of constructing curbs in front of such respective properties, and 90-, of the remaining cost of such improvements, after deducting the sums to be paid by railways and street railways under sub -paragraph (a) above, provided that if it shall appear at the hearing to be had before final assessment that the special benefits to such pro- perty in the enhanced value thereof by means of such improvements will not aggregate such proportion of costs, then there shall be assessed and be paid by such abutting property, and the owners thereof, the amount of such benefits. (c) The remaining cost of said improvements, after deducting the sums finally assessed against railways and street railways under sub -paragraph (a) hereof, and against abutting property and the owners thereof under sub -paragraph (b) above, shall be paid by the City of Lubbock. V. The amounts to be paid by and assessed against railways and street railways for work between rails and tracks and two feet on each side thereof, shall be payable on estimates as the work progresses, as may be provided in such specifications, and shall bear interest from date due and until paid at the rate -3- w • Iu s 4- of 7c,,o per annum. The amounts to be assessed against and paid by abutting property and the owners thereof in each unit shall be payable in six equal installments, due respectively on or before to days, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years after the completion and ac- ceptance by the city of the improvements in the unit upon which the property abuts, and shall bear interest from date of such completion and acceptance and until paid at the rate of 71'-0 per annum, payable-.fnnually, with provision that if default be made in the payment of any installment promptly as the same matures, then at the option of the holder of any such assessment or certificate issued in evidence thereof, such default shall mature the entire assessment upon which same is made. VI. Assessments shall be made and levied and shall be a first and prior lien and personal liability for principal, interest, reasonable attorney's fees and costs of collection, if incurred, all under and in accordance with the Charter, and amendments thereto, now in force in this city. VII. his resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. -Passed and approved this day of .L. D. 1927. fti 1--ayor, City of iubbock. ATTEST ♦ ---------------- city Clerk. J,' t(7 ��_ a 0�2�27� LUBBOCK NYW FOR 11TO . 6. RESOLUTION APPROVILTG CONTRACT AI`TD BOND OF PANHANDLE COT S TRUC T ION COMPANY, AND DI RLC TING THE IVILYOR TO EXECUTE SAME, AND MAKING APPROPRIATION? THEREFOR. WHEREAS, the City Commission of the City of Lubbock has heretofore ordered that portions of Texas Avenue, and sundry other streets d avenues, in the City of Lubbock, be improved by raising, grging and filling, and installing concrete curbs and gutters, any paving, and constructing storm sewers, and otherwise, and.after preparation of plans and specifications and dueadvertisement for and receipt of bids, accepted bid of Panhandle Construction Company, and awarded contract to it; and, VrHERZAS, contract of said Company for the making and construction of such improvements dated this, the a� day of January, 1927, and already executed by said Company, and together with bond for the performance of said pontract execut- o,d by said Compaj, and with�.v _ its! as Surety, this day n ere o ;e ommi ion, and havitig been examined and approved: h - THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City of Lubbock, Texas, that: I. Said contract and said bond be and they are hereby approved, and the i;ayor of the City is authorized and directed to execute same in the name of the City, and the City Secretary to attest same and impress ti:ereon the corporate seal. II. That there be and is hereby appropriated out of available funds and revenues sums sufficient to pay for and defray the part of the cost of said improvements to be paid by the City. This resole.tion shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Passed and approved this day of Jan r 1927. Mayor, City of Lubbock, Texas. ATTEST: K--------------- City Secretary.