HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 081254N - Pavement Improvements - City Engineer - 47Th Street - 08_12_1954 RESOLUTION
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WHEREAS, the City Commission has heretofore determined that the City would
Copy to contribute the customary city portion of from ten (10) to forty (40) per cent of
AAlders the cost of street paving improvements, as determined by side and front property,
8-31-54 to be constructed in accordance with the Ptandard 'City of Lubbock street plans and
ispecifications as approved by the City 'Engineer, and the owners of property
abutting 47th Street from Avenue =X to College Avenue, have requested permission to
have pavement improvements constructed on the aforementioned 47th Street, and the
paving of said 47th Street 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. B. McPherson 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 con-
structed in accordance with the ebovementioned plans and specifications under the
supervision of the City Engineer, and the said owners desire that the City con-
tribute its customary share towards such paving, and..
WHEREAS, the contract cost of the paving improvements will not exceed
i $4281.48, the total cost not over t4388.52, and the Cityts 'share in connection
therewith would not exceed 4139.23, leaving the property ownerts portion not to
exceed t4249.29 of which latter amount the City now holds 02140.74 in escrow, 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 $139.23 will be duly budgeted in the 1954+-1955 budget.
THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION 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-wits
N-S Unit No.161 47th Street from Avenue K to College Avenue
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The City Engineer is further authorized and directed to duly inspect said
paving construction on said 47th Street 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 sun not to exceed 32.23 which is the City share $139.27 less $107.04 engineering
plus the abovementioned stun now held in escrow of2140,74, leaving the amount due
the contractor from the property owners not to exceed t2108.55.
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Section 2. This authority is conditioned that J. B. McPherson 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, claims or 'damages of every nature pertaining thereto,
and 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. B. McPherson
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 improvements designated
herein shall be a permanent part of said'47th Street and the property of the
City of Lubbocki without any liability whatsoever, except for the payment of a
stun 02.23 which will be due December 15, 1954, and the aforementioned stun now
held in escrow of $2140.74 which will be due upon completion and acceptance.
On motion of Commissioner Forrest , seconded by
Commissioneromaa , ' , the foregoing resolution was unanimously
passed by the City Commission this 12 h_day of August x. , 19 JU _.
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ATTEST:
Laven,fa Lowe, City cret
I, J. B. McPherson, 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. .�
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K ` d Middleton
Approved: By �' `•/
W. B. Holmes, City Engineer
A ved:
Vaughn . Wilson, City Attorney