HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 1234-1952 - Setting Aside $50,000 Out Of Library Board Fund For Payment Of Park Commission - 06/26/19520-t\_ru.-! ~· ~:1-"----K"u eltL~P to-;L. 7--( P4 /U ·~:.~~<Zt;~~v. ~rr~.4~~' 0 / ORDINANCE NO. 1234 , AN ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING AND SETTING ASIDE FIFTY THOU-SAND DOLLARS ($5Q, 000) OUT OF THE LIBRARY BOARD FUND FOR PAY-MENT TO ACCOUNof OF THE PARK CGMMISSION FOR USE OF AND DEPLETION OF PARK COMMISSION lAND ASSETS, FOR BENEFIT OF LIBRARY IMPROVEMENTSl AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, on June 12, 1952 the City Commission entered into written agreement with the Park Commission, with approval of the Library Board, to secure the South 160 Feet of the tract of land constituting McCrummen 'Park, and which acquired said tract and its use for construction of the proposed library building and which agreement made provision for compensating the physical assets of the Park Commission in the manner therein providedj and, WHEREAS, the Park Commission is in immediate need of such fund to replace said area to be substantially destroyed for park purposes by immediate construction of the library building, so that other and additional lands may be acquired and improvements made for park purposes by the Park Commission, creates an emergency requiring that this Ordinance become effective on one (1) reading, the same being an appropriation ordinance and within the Charter provisions J THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK: SECTION 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of the Library Bond Fund the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50, 000). which shall be paid to and made available to the Park Commission for the purposes stated. SECTION 2. The Park Commission being in immediate need of said funds for the purposes stated in ihe preamble of this ordinance creates an emergency, and this being an appropriation ordinance within the Charter pro-visions, all rules requiring reading more than one (1) time are hereby sus-pended, and this ordinanc_e shall become effective June 12, 1952.. AND IT 1S SO ORDERED. On motion of Commissioner Carpenter , seconded by Commis-sioner Thomas , the foregoing Ordinance was unanimously pa.ss.~d by the follow~g vote of all members of the City Conimission present, thts ·:·:f.iftl\lay of June, 1952: _ . -,, Commissioners voting 11YEA11: Carpenter, Morris, Davis, Thomas a.nd -\\ "l.fu.yor Tripp Commissioners voting "NAY": None ATTEST: --~ ~-----City Se-~ retary-T-fef:s-{ffff * -.. VEW:sv (6-14-52.