Resolution 2022-10RESOLUTION NO. 2022-10
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS AUTHORIZING
INITIATION OF CONDEMNATION PROCEEDING TO ACQUIRE A PERMANENT UTILITY
EASEMENT FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF A SANITARY SEWER TRUNK LINE UPON CERTAIN PROPERTY SITUATED IN WALKER COUNTY, TEXAS.
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF WALKER
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WHEREAS The Huntsville City Council desires to promote the health, safety and welfare of its citizens andprovide utility service; and
WHEREAS The City of Huntsville maintains a sanitary sewer main across the easement property. The linewas installed approximately 40 years ago and is in poor condition.
WHEREAS Due to increased residential and commercial development the line is reaching its load capacity. The line must be replaced with a larger one to provide for future development. This will require awider easement for installation and maintenance of the replacement line.
WHEREAS Council has determined need to provide adequate wastewater services to promote growth andmaintain sanitary conditions is in the public's best interest.
WHEREAS A certified Appraisal of the easement property has been made and an initial offer has been madeto the Owner.
WHEREAS The Texas Government Code requires that before a governmental entity such as the City can initiate a condemnation proceeding by filing a petition the City must authorize the proceeding at apublic meeting by a record vote.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE,
TEXAS that:
SECTION 1: The City Council has authorized, by public vote, at its regular public council meeting on
� /� , 2022, the use of the power of eminent domain to acquire: l) a strip of land, forty ( 40) feet in width,7ontaining 3.523 acres of land, more or less, situated in the JESSE PARKER LEAGUE, Abstract No. 36 and
the WILEY PARKER LEAGUE, Abstract No. 37, Walker County, Texas, and being out of and upon a called 488.63
acre tract described in a Deed from Dorothy Thomason Family Partnership, LTD. to Edwin E. Thomason and wife,
Sandy S. Thomason, dated June 2, 2006, recorded in Volume 753, page 20 I, Official Public Records of Walker
County, Texas. 2) being a strip of land, twenty (20) feet in width, containing 0.778 acre of land, more or less,
situated in the JESSE PARKER LEAGUE, Abstract No. 36 and the WILEY PARKER LEAGUE, Abstract No. 37,Walker County, Texas, and being out of and upon a called 488.63 acre tract described in a Deed from Dorothy
Thomason Family Partnership, LTD. to Edwin E. Thomason and wife, Sandy S. Thomason, dated June 2, 2006,
recorded in Volume 753, page 201, Official Public Records of Walker County, Texas, more particularly described
by metes and bounds in Exhibit "A" and shown on a Plat in Exhibit "B", attached hereto and incorporated herein
for all purposes.