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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 2096 - Prepare Plans & Specifications - City Engineer - N Quaker Ave Paving - 08_08_1985LDH:ck Resolution #2096 August 8, 1985 RESOLUTION Agenda Item #15 A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR IMPROVEMENTS OF PORTIONS OF N. QUAKER AVENUE IN THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS AND DIRECTING PREPARATION OF PLANS AND SPECIFICA- TIONS. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS THAT: Public necessity exists that the following portion of N. Quaker Avenue in the City of Lubbock be improved as herein provided, to -wit: N. Quaker Avenue from Clovis Road (U.S. Highway 84) to Loop 289. II. Said portion of N. Quaker Avenue shall be improved by raising, grading, land filling same, by installing concrete curb and gutters by installing storm 'sewers and drains where necessary, by installing a compacted asphalt stabili- zed base and by surfacing with four (4) course penetration type or 1-112" hot mix type asphaltic surface treatment. III. The City Engineer is hereby directed to prepare plans and specifications for such improvements. IV. Such improvements in each unit shall be paid for in the following manner: STREET IMPROVEMENTS: (a) The abutting property and owners thereof shall pay and shall be assessed for all the cost of constructing curbs in front of such respective property and a part of the remaining cost of such improvements provided, that such part of the cost assessed to the abutting property or owners thereof will not exceed 90% of the cost of the improvements plus the cost of the curb, and further provided that if it shall appear at the hearing, to be had before final assess- mentis made, that the special benefits 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. (b) The remaining cost of said improvements after deducting the sums finally assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof under sub -paragraph (a) above, shall be paid by the City of Lubbock. The amounts assessed against and to be paid by the abutting property and the owners thereof shall be payable in five (5) equal installments, the first of which shall become due on or before 20 days after completion and acceptance of the improvements in the unit on which the property abuts by the City Council; the second , third, fourth and fift'D installments shall become due one, two, three, and four years respectively after completion and acceptance of the improvements in the unit upon which the property abuts, by the City Council and shall bear interest from the date of completion and acceptance until RESOLUTION Page 2 paid, at a rate not to exceed eight percent per annum on street improvements, 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 shalib:e_afirst 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, and in accordance with the provisions of Article 1105B Revised Civil Statutes of Texas as amended by Chapter 281 of the 52nd Legislature, and most recent amended by Chapter 176 Acts of the 60th Legislature. VII. This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. PASSED AND APPROVED THIS 8TH DAY OF AUGUST 1 85. Alan H ry, Mayo ATTEST: nett-e Boyd, City Secretary APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: arry Hof fUgAj'Dirlectolf/of Transportation APPROVED AS TO FORM: j n U. Koss, jr., Uity Attorney