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p.. RESOLUTION
WIMMASy 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 prZpperty, 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 Flint Avenue from 48th to 49th Street and 49th
Street from Elgin Avenue to Flint Avenue, have requested permission to have
pavement improvements constructed on the aforementioned streets and avenue, and
the paving of said streets and 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, R. E. Douglas and others, 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 above mentioned 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
$7732.403, the total cost not over $8,119.03, and the Cityts share in connec—
tion therewith would not exceed $1,806.75, leaving the property ownerts
portion not to exceed $6,312.28, 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 $1,806.75 has been duly budgeted and is available for such purposes;
THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMUSSION 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 1494, 49th Street from WPL Elgin Avenue to WPL Flint Avenue.
Unit 1493, Flint Avenue from SPL 48th Street to NPL 49th Street,
The City Engineer is further authorized and directed to duly inspect
said paving construction and said streets and 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 Cityts share of the
cost of the above mentioned improvements a sum not to exceed $1,420.12 which
is the City share $1806.75 less $386.63 engineering, leaving the amount due
the contractor from the property owners not to exceed $6,312.28.
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Section 2. This authority is conditioned that R. E. Douglas and the
other owners 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 that the
Contractor furnish the City Engineer with acceptable evidence that the con-
tractor and his sub-contractors., if any, are adequately covered by public
liability and property damage insurance policies, that the said Bert Douglas
and other owners of abutting 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 Engineer, all improve-
ments designated herein shall be a permanent part of said street and the
property of the City of Lubbock, without any liability whatsoever, except
for the payment of a sum not to exceed 1;1,420.12 to the contractor.
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On motion of Com Davis
missioner , seconded by
Commissioner Carpenter , the foregoing resolution was unani-
mously passed by the City Commission this 5th day of Y ehrnar;4 1953.
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ATTEST:
Lav nia Lowe, ity Secretary
I, R. E. Douglas, representing mys&lf and the remaining owners of abutting
property on the above mentioned streets, and Kerr and 11iddleton, Contractor,
do hereby accept and agree to fully abide by the foregoing provisions for
the considerations therein stated.
R. E. Douglas
Kerr and Mi dleton
BY 1 e'
Approved:
W B. Holmes, City Engineer
ved:.
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Vaughn t. Wilson, City Attorney