HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 311-A-1925 - Letting Contract And Making Provision For Payment Of Indebetedness Incurred - 07/06/1925ORDINARCE NO. 311-A
LUBBOCK 'SPECIAL FORK :rm. 5, FOR
tmiTS 34 to 38
ORDINANCE lETTING CONTRACT AliD UAXING ~OVISION FOR PA'D!ENT OJ'
IlmEBTEDHESS IBOURRED THER:E»Y., .uDl DECLARmG AJI EMERGEWCY.
WHEREAS, the City of Lubbock baa heretofore ordered that
portionsot 13th Street, Avenue 'r,AVenue I, 9th Street, and Av~nue x.
designated by Units Nos. 34 to 38 inclusive, be improved by paving,
-=tnd otherwise, as shown in the proceedings in connection with web
im.J>rovements, and. plans and speci:ticationa were prepared, :filed and
approved, a.nd bids advertised f~r,. and ~1d of the Panhandle Conatruction
Company was received on the ?th .day of ~uly, l925,,and same has been
duly considered and is tound and ·d~te~ned to be 'he lowest bid and
the best bid and the moat advan~ageous ~o the City and the owners ot
property abutting the proposed improvements' and,
WHEREAS, ~he present condition of sald stree ts and places endangers
health and safety,. and 1 t is necessary that the improvement thereof be
proceeded with while the weather will permit• and such facts constitute
a nd create an emergency•
THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LUBBOCK, 1'EXAS
THAT:
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The said bid of Panhandle Const~ct~on Company .be• 'and the same .is ,
hereby accepted• and the contrac t is awarded to Panhandle Construction
Company.
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The r~rm of suoh contrRct embraced in the specifica tions heretofore
adopted by the CitY' and approval, and which is alrea dy executed by
Panhandle Construction Campany and d~ted the day o~ 3uly , A.D.
1925, be a nd the same is hereby in all things approved, a nd the .ayo~
is hereby directed and authorized to execute~ in the n~e of the
City, ·and tbe City Secretary to att~st same an~ impFess thereon the
corporate seal.
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For the purpose of paying the City"a part ot the cost of aai d improve-
ments, funds therefor are hereby appropriated out o~ the available
funds, and there is hereby levied and shall be assessed and collected
tor the yea r 1925 a tax of and at the rate of ¢ on the '100.00
valua tion of all taxable propert7 in the City of Lubbock, Tex a s~ an~ ·
said tax at s a id rate, or eo mcub as shall be necessa ry, shall be
annuall y levied• asseaaed and collected while any o~ such indebtedness
and sums. either principal or interest. 1a outsta nding and unpaid• and
the proceeds o~ such tax shall be kept and held in a sacred fund and
applied to the purpose of paying HjiiOJ a net itJdebtednesa incurred by such
contract, and to none other.
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The facts recited 1nthe preamble hereto constitute and create a.n
emergency and an urgent public necessity requiring that the rules an~
cbarter'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 and take e:tfect as an emergency measure, and such rules
a nd proVisions are accordingly suspended and this ordinance is passedas
a nd shall t a ke effect as an emergency measure, and sb,.3.ll be in full
force a nd effect immediately from and atter its passage.
Passed and approved this 6th day of J'uly• A.D. 1925 ..
F.R.~riend Kayor.ity ot Lubbock,
Texa s.
ATTESTs
l.R.Germany. City Secretary.