HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 278-1924 - Improving Ave Q. - 12/11/1924ORDINANCE NO. 27 8
ORDINANCE .APPROVING AND ADOPTING PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR IMPROVEMEN'IS
OF PORTIONS OF AVENUE Q DIRE<m:NG ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the present condition of the portions of street hereinafter
mentioned endangers public health and safety, and it is imperative that
the improvement of such street be proceeded with, and such facts create
an emergency; and,
WHEREAS. such portions of streets have been ordered improved and
Plans and Specifications therefor have been filed. such streets being as
follows:
AVENUE Q, fr~ its intersection with the South
property line of Sixth Street to its intersection
with the North property line of Main Street, and
from its inter section with the South property
line of Main Street to its intersection with the
North property line of Broadway Street, known and
designated as District or Unit No. 18.
AVENUE Q, from its intersection with the South
property line of Broadway Street to its intersection
with the North property line of Thirteenth Street
and from its intersection with the South property
line of Thirteenth Street to its intersection
with the North property line of Nineteenth Street,
known and designated as District or Unit No. 19.
The Plans and Specifications for such improvements having been
filed by the Engineers and having been fully examined and approved.
'ffiEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY mE CITY OF LUBBOCJ:; '!HAT
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The said Plans and Specifications be and they are herepy adopted and
approved.
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That the City Secretary be and he is hereby directed to advertise
for competitive bids for the making and construction of such improvements,
which advertisement shall be published at least twice in a newspaper published
in and of general circulation in the City of Lubbock; and the first of such
advertisements shall be made a t least five days before the date stated
therein for the receipt of bids.
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The present condition of the said streets endangers public health
and safety and contract for th~ making of said improvements cannot
be let until bide have been advertised for, and such facts constitute and
create an emergency and an urgent public necessity requiring that the rules
and Charter. provisions providing for Ordinances to be read more than one
time or at more than one meeting be suspended, and that this Ordinance
be passed as an emergency measure, and such rules and Charter provisions
are accordingly sU5pended, and this ordinance is passed and shall take
effect as an emerqenoy measure, and shall be in full force and effect
immediately after its passage,
Passed and approved, this 11th day of December, A.D. 1924.
ATTEST
J. R. Germany,
City Secretary.
F. R. Friend,
Mayor, City of Lubbock