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r i, OLUTION
A F.ESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR IBi€'ROVE1v21dTS OF PORTIONS OF COLLEGE
AVEIME IN TINE CITY OF LUBBOCK TitMP S, Pd"D DIRECTIPG 1JFi.EPAF rsTIOIt OF PDUZ
AI'D SPEC11''IC?1TIONS.
BE I1T RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TIMS, T13AT:
I
Public recissity exists that the following portions of College
Avenue in the City of Lubbock be improved as provided, to-wit:
from 1,PL 4th Street to South Edge of ties of P & SF Railroad
(go y from Yorth Edge of ties of P & S F Railroad to SPL Auburn Street
`e 1 from SPL Auburn Street to SPL Cornell Street
from SPL Cornell Street to Exist. Pavm t t. on Clovis Road
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Said portions of College Avenue shall be improved by raising,
grading and filling sane, by installing concrete curb and gutters, by
!! installing stoic. sewers and drains :-There necessary, by installing a
compacted caliche base, and by surfacing with quadruple asphaltic
surface treatment (penetration type).
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The City Engineer is hereby directed to supervise the prepara-
tion of plans and specifications for, such improvements.
IV
Such improvements in each unit shall be paid for in the
following manner:
(a) Railways using, occupying or crossing any portion of said
College Avenue shall be assessed for and shall pay for all of the cost
of the work in the area between their rails and tracks, double tracks,
turnouts and switches, and two feet on each side thereof.
(b) The abutting property and owners thereof shall pay and
shall be assessed for all the cost of constructing curbs in front of
such improvements, after deducting the suns to be paid by the railroad
under sub-paragraph (a) above, provided that such part of the costs
assessed to the abutting property oi4ners thereof shall not exceed 90f
of the cost of the improvements plus the cost of the curb, and further
provides that if it shall appear at the hearing to be had before final
assessment is wade that the special ben'Lfits to such property by way
of enhancement value thereof by means of such improvements will not
aggregate such proportion of the cost as specified above, then there
shall be assessed and be paid by such abutting property and -the owners
thereof, a lesser amount not to exceed the benefits.
(c) the remaining cost of said improvements, after deducting
the sums finally assessed against 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, Texas
and the County of Lubbock, Texas.
V
The amounts assessed against and to be paid by railways and street
railways for work between rails and tracks and 2 feet on each side thereof
shall be paid -on estimates or statements on or before ten days after acceptance
of the improvements in the unit in which the railway lies, by the City Commis-
sion and shall bear interest from date due and until paid at the rate of 6%,
annum. The amounts assessed against and to be paid by the abutting property
and the owners thereof shall be payable in three ec,ual installments: the first
of which shall become due on or fefore 10 days after completion and acceptance
of the improvements in the unit on which the property abuts by the City
Commission; the second and third one .sLnd two years respectively after comple-
tion and acceptance of the improvements in the unit upon which the property
abuts, by the City Commission, and shall bear interest from the date of comple-
tion and acceptance until raid, at the rate of six percent per annum, payable
annually, with -provisions that if default be made in the payment of any
installment promptly as the same matures: then at the option of the holder of
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 attorneys
fees and costs of collection, if incurred., all under and in accordance u-ith
the Charter, and amendments thereto, now in force in this City..
VII
This Resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after
its passage.
PASSLT AND APH OVED THIS 12TH DAY OF APFIL, 1951.
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Cit Secretary
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City A torney
APPP,MTED ASTO'COP;TEPIT:
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