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RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF PORTIONS OF AVENUE A FROM
45TH STREET TO 60TH STREET WITH THE OUTERMOST CONCRETE CURB AND GUTTER IN THE CITY
OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS AND DIRECTING THE PREPARATION OF PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF LUBBOCK, TEXAS, THAT:
I.
Public necessity exists that the following portions of Avenue A in the City
of Lubbock, be improved as herein provided, to -wit:
East Side of Avenue A from its intersection with the South Property Line of 45th
Street to its intersection with the South Property Line of 60th Street, known
and designated as Sub -Unit Number 1 of Unit Number 2192.
West Side of Avenue A from its intersection with the South Property Line of 45th
Street to its intersection with the South Property Line of 60th Street, known and
designated as Sub -Unit Number 2 of Unit Number 2192.
II.
Said portions of Avenue A shall be improved by raising, grading, filling
and widening same, by installing concrete curb and gutters, by installing storm
sewers and drains where necessary,, by installing a compacted caliche base, and by
surfacing with a hot -mix asphaltic concrete surface. The improvements to be
provided for herein shall consist only of the outermost curb and gutter on said
portions of Avenue A.
The City Engineer is hereby directed to prepare plans and specifications
,for said outermost curb and gutter portion of such improvements.
IV.
Such curb and gutter in each unit shall be paid for in the following
manner:
(a) The abutting property and owners "thereof shall pay and shall be ass-
essed for all the cost of constructing the curb and gutter abutting such respectiv
property provided that if it shall appear at the hearing to be had before final
assessment is made that the special benefits to such property by way of enhancemen
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 benefi
(b) The remaining cost of said curb and gutter improvements; after deduct
ing the sums finally assessed, and against abutting property and the owners there-
of 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 three equal installments; the first of which
shall become due on or before 20 days after completion and acceptance of the curb
and gutter improvements in the unit on which the property abuts, by the City
Council and shall bear interest from the date of completion and acceptance until
paid, 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 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 1105 B Revised Civil Statutes of Texas as amended by
Chapter 281 Acts of the 52nd Legislature.
VII.
This resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after its
s- II passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS 12TH DAY 0
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La enia Lowe, City S cretary
APPRO ED:
'Samuel W. Wahl, City Engineer
APPROVED:
red 0. Senter, Jr., Cit tt ney
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