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ORDINANCE NO. 1266 -------
AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE IMMEDIATE LETTING OF CON-
TRACTS FOR INSTALLA.TION OF TOILETS AND OTHER FACILITIES AT THE
LUBBOCK TRANSIENT LABOR CAMP, LOCATED WEST OF NORTH AVENUE
"H11 NEAR THE YELLOW HOUSE .CANYON; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY •
WHEREAS, the enlargement of health and related facilities at the Tran-
sient Labor Camp, located west of North Avenue H, is imperative to eliminate
and prevent extremely unsanitary conditions at said camp, which conditions
have existed substantially since its original construction due to inadequacy of
toilet facilities; and,
WHEREAS, the Commissioners Court and the City Commission have
jointly agreed, as provided by law, to equally defray the expense of furnishing
necessary facilities in the interest of public health at the earliest possible
time, due to the fact that each fall especially and at other ti.Ines during the year,
' Lubbock is visited by thousands of itinerant cotton pickers and other laborers
requiring such facilities and the need for such improvements at the camp being
immediate and imperative that existing conditions be eliminated without delay,
creates an emergencyi THEREFORE,
B.E IT .ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
SECTION 1. The Director of Public Works and the City Engineer are
hereby authorized and directed to immediately let a contract for the installation
of necessary sanitary sewer facilities, toilet facilities, lights, a~d oth·er facili-
ties indicated by the plans and specifications submitted by Atcheson & Atkinson,
Architects, and designed for the purpose of extending and enlarging the existing
facilities at the Lubbock Transient Labor Camp, expenditure for this purpose
being estimated at approximately Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20, 000). Local
contractors doing the ·type of work indicated by the plans and specifications
shall be immediately contacted and sealed bids accepted by 1he City Engineer
for letting by the City Commission, as in other cases.
The fact that extremely unsanitary conditions exist at the location men-
tioned and require immediate improvement and construction and installation of
sanitary and other facilities to avoid increasing the hazards incident thereto as
the flow of transient labor begins to attend this camp within ihe next thirty (30)
days, creates an emergency, requiring that all rules relating to the passage of
ordinances be suspended, and this o;rdinance shall beoome effective on its
passage.
AND IT IS SO ORD.ERED.
On motion of Commissioner Morris , seconded by Commis-
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sioner __ c_a_r .... p_en_t_e_r_ ...... ______ , the foregoing Ordinance was approved and
passed this 20th day of August , 1952 by the following vote: -------------~~--
Commissioners voting 11YEA": Morris, Carpenter, Davis and Mayor Tripp
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Commissioners voting nNAYtt• N _ . one
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(8-18-52)