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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 112454E - Approve Plans_Specs. - City Engineer - Paving Improvements, Flint Ave - 11_24_1954 i RESOLUTIOrr 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 Flint Avenue from 40th Street to 42nd Street, have requested permission to have pavement improvements constructed on the aforementioned Flint Avenue, and the paving of said Flint Avenue is needed to provide access to the area during its construction period, and the City Engineer het approved the plans and specification for such improvements, and, WHEREAS, Haversham Inc, and the other owners of the property abutting on the herein described 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 specifications 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 $4926.21, the total cost not over $5172.52, and the City's share in connection therewith would not exceed $1221.60, leaving the property ownerts portion not to exceed $5172.52, 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 $1221.60 has been duly budgeted and is available, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY C(NOUSSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK: Section 1. THAT, the City Engineer be and he is hereby authorized to ap- - prove plans and specifications for paving on the streets herein described, provide 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 Unit No, 1681 Flint Avenue from 40th Street to 42nd Street The City Engineer is further authorized and directed to duly .inspect said paving construction on said Flint 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 ouch improvements by the City Ca iesion, the City Engineer is authorized to pay the contractor in f full and final payment of the Cit l e 'share of the cost of the Abovementioned improvements a sum not to exceed $975.29 Which is the City share U221.60 leas 6246.31 engineering, leaving the amount due the contractor from the property owners not to exceed $3950.92. r�- Section 2. This authority is conditioned that Haversham, Inc. and the other owners 9f abutting property and the contractor will pay for all material and labor and costs incidental to such constructions 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 Haversham, Inc. and other owners of 'abutting property will cause such paging 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 FFiint Avenue and the property of the City of Lubbock, without any liability whatsoever, except for the payment of a sum $975*29 to the contractor upon' completion of paving improvements and acceptance by the City Caisson of the City of Lubbock, On motion of Commissioner Forrest , seconded by Commissioner Thomas # the foregoing resolution was unanimously passed by the City Commission this 74T97day of November Murrell R. Tripp: Mayor ATTEST e Lavenia Lowe, City.Secretary I, W. B. Rushing, representing Haversham, Inc. 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, Haversham, Inc. Kerr and MiddletonBY Approved: W. B. Holmes, City Engineer Approved: Vaughn E. Wilson, City Attorney