ORD CC 04/29/1929 - Avenue L improvementshot. L,
AN ORDINANCE LEVYING AN ABSESSIM11T FOR i'A!`-.T
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,,11LriU;A$0 heietofores to -wit, on the4x-th day o, July,
1929,, an Ordinance --as duly adopted by the City Council of the City
of Hantsvillep ordering and directing the improvement of Avenue Ll
from the North line of .1"A'leve-1-th Street to the South line of Twelfth
��trcetp �tnd from the 1;outh line of' Fourteenth :.street to "Seventeenth
Street# to connect ..rith the concrete bevement at the intersection
of Avenue L and Seventeenth Streets as more fully set forth in
said Resolution or Ordinance, duly adopted and entered of record
by the oaid City Council# to ahich reference is here made for full
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particulars; and,
f if th
4HER;-;A3t an Amended ordinances bearing date the
day of Augmeto 1928, was entered of records providing for said
street improvement, to vihich reference is also mde; ands
W15T1RU4A8# pursuant to .:aid ordinance or Rcsolutiong
specifications for raid imnrovements were pre-oared by ..).K.Caldwellp
City Ens,ineerp and filed with the City Council, and approved and
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adopted by it, and, after an advertisement duly n,-We for bids for
the perforrmance of aid vork, as required by law, arid after bids,
so aftertised for, were duly received, opened tcurl considered by
the said Councils Contract for ostid improvem.nts was xtiarded by the
said City Councii. to Tibbetts Construction Company, -nd there after
said Tibbetto Construction Comp�xny entered 'nto a Contract rvith the
City of 111,intovillep Texas,, bearing date the 13th day of s,_v-utstq 1928p
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and executed a. Bond with Southern Surety Company, as surety thereon,
dated the 13th -lay of ,august, 1928, and said Contract and Bond were duly
approved by the City Council of the City of Huntsville, Texas, by an
Ordinance bearing date the 15th day of ,august, 1928; and,
WIMNREAS, thereafter, in compliance ;tith the Law and Ordinances
of said City, the City Engineer filed with the City Council his state -
ment or Report, showing the names of the property owners on said
streets, within the said limits above named, the description of their
property, the number of front feet owned by eachp the total cost of
said improvements, the cost thereof per front foot and the cost to
each �Jroperty owner; and also the estimated cost of said improvements
to the City of Huntsville and to Walker County, said statement
possessing all the other requisites specified in the Ordinances of
said City of Huntsville, applicable thereto; and,
dHEF -ZAS, after the filing of said statement with the City
Council, the sam was duly examined and approved, and a Resolution
or Ordinance was passed by said City Council, determining the necessity
of making an assessment for part of the cost of said improvements
against the abutting property owners and their property, fixing a
time and providing for a hearing to said property ovAters, their
a.gentsand attorneys, and that such property owners, their agents and
attorneys should be heard as to the benefits accruing to their property
by reason of said improvements and as to any error or invalidity in
said proceedings, or as to any matter or thing connected with said
improvements, said Resolution or Ordinance being duly adopted in
compliance with the Laws of the State of Texas Lnd the Ordinances of
said City of Huntsville, and Notice of said hearing vias -iven to
the abutting property owners, as required by law; and,
t'MEREAS, on the 31st day of Aug=ust, 1928, after due and
lawful notice by publication and otherwise had been given, as
required by law, said hearing to property owners was ;given, and
evidence and ,protests ', -ere heard, and a further hearing ,as given,
upon additional notice to certain nece: nary parties, not included
in the ori=ginal notice, on the eiaht�.�th day of January, 1929, at
which time the hearing was extended, when the interested property
owners were given further hearing with reference to said improvements,
and the benefits resulting therefrom, and the ourdens, if any,
resulting to the abutting property owners; ,:znd,
WHEREAS, at the conclusion of said hearing and after
all interest parties desiring to contest the proceedings, or in any
m-anner wishing to be hard, were heard, and all matters of error,
invalidity and inequality, or other things connected therewith, ��hich
iexe called to the attention of the City Council, having been heard
and considered, the Evidence in the premises, and being of the opinion
from the evidence that the arse .snents hereinafter mode and the
charges hereby declared against the abutting property owners and their
property are just and equitable, and that, in each case, the assessment
made against each parcel of property is less than the especial
benefits accruing to said property, by reason of the enhanced value
thereof, caused by said improvement# and the City Council having
considered the racts and adopted the rule of apportioninient set forth
below, and the division of the cost of the improvements between said
;roperty owners and their property as just and equitable and producing
a substantial equality, considering benefits arising from said
improvements and burdens imposed thereby, and said improvements
having been completed in accordance with the terms of the Contract
herein mentioned, and having been accepted by the City Engineer of
the City of Huntsville, and also having been forrially accepted by the
City Council of said City, on behalf of the City of Huntsville:
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THEREFORNv BE rX OPWI,19.10 13Y THI; CITY COUNCIL OF Ta, CITY OF HTLTTSVIi_,1,Eg
IN COUNCIL ;��C;MMLL➢:
1--That,, in pursuance of the Resolution ard na
Ordi nce
adopted by the City Council, authorizing the improvement of said :streets,
bet'veen the limits hereinabove n.=,edp and in pursuance of the Re0olution
adopting the Re" port of the City Engineer computing the cost of paving
said street and fixdd against the abutting property owners on the
basis named in said ReBolutio np and by virtue of the powers conferred
on aid City with reopect to street improvementat under and by virtue
of the Laws of the State of Texas„ Chapter 9, Title 288 of the Revised
Civil Statutes of Texas of 1925, 1nd the Ordinances and 1'�;esolutions of
said City applicable thereto, and$ in accordance with Chapter 106 of
toe General Laws of the State of Texas# enacted by the Fortieth Legis-
lature of Texast at its first called oession in 1�-271 there is and
ohall be hereby levied and asseosed a,-ainst each owner of )roperty
belo,a mentioned and a,ainst hi-,!, or her propertyp below 3e,.,,cribed9 the
several sums of money belo,-i mentioned anti itemized for --. vin d c, rbs
pa I g an i -
'and the total amount thereof set op-:osite the name of each person and
his or her property, the n-cmes of said property oNvnerzp the description
of their property ?.n the 2everal amounts assessed against s m I
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their property, as corrected by the ._laid City Councill being, as
follovist to-witt
List of property owners and amount of a sessments on Avenue L, between
the North line of Eleventh street and the South line of Tuelfth Street,
upon complation of the improvement and re-port ol. the City Engineer to
the City Council, recomriending he acceptance of said improvements
Tom Ball, Jr, j, M.,R*Ball and f rant
feet on the .,,,,eat side of ;,venue LoPart Lot 7.
in Block 3,
51 front feet Asphalt Pavement; at St,4*50
238,9 Square Feet Sidewalk, at
51 Lin,Feet Curb and Stepp at ', 0,84
Total
J.W@Thomason--24 front feet on the ` =west
side of avenue L, Part Lot 7, Block 3.
24 front feet Asphalt Pavement, at 4�4*50
40,8 Square Feet Sidewalk, at $0.25
24 Lin, Feet Cufb and Stepat «84
Total
F.11.3mith-24 front feet on
of Avenue L# Part of Lot 8,
24 front Peet Asphalt Pavem
`3.2 Square Feet Sidewalk
24 Lin.Feet Curb and Step,
2.29 * 50
5.y.72
".2.84
�e332.06 =i,'=332*06
'41`x.00
10,20
20,16
X138.36
the iest side
Blo ck 3.
ent , at ��4.50 $108*00
f'A .25 10.80
at 84 20g16
:ti otal 138.96 V138.96
Gabe Smitherg EollieSmither and Miry A.
9mither-38.5 front feet on the '4est aide
of Avenue Lp, Part of Lot 8, Block 3,
38*5 front feet .,asphalt Pavement# at.$,4,50
73*2 Square Feet Sitewalkj at U*25
38.5 Lin*Feet Curb and Step, at 0*84
Total
J,R,,King,26 fron# Seat on the 'lest Side
of Avenue Ll part of Lots 8 and 9, Block
30
26 front feet Asphalt Pavement$ at
62,1 Square Peet Sidewalk at, *25
26 Lin*Feet Curb and Step, at •84
Total
3173.25
18.:50
5"le
v223*89
$119000
15952
Z154.36 154 * 36
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Gibbs Brothers & Company -25.63 front
feet on the '..eat side of wenue L;Part
Lot 99 Block 3.
28.63 front feet Asphalt PaVOTient at 4`14.50
31. Square Feet side4.alk at *25
25.63 Lin.Feet Curb and Step at .84
Total
Estate of 11,CoM.,'3yrde
Eowootters) Guardian.-39 front feetpPart
Lot 91 Block 3.
39 Front Feet Asphalt Pavement� at
,A, 50
1333,3 Square Feet Sidewalk at 25
39 Lin*Feet Curb and Step, at 84
Total
Walker County- -
228.7 Front Feet asphalt Pavementgat 'iF'4,50
Total Assessment
1 115*33
,4
79*75
21,53
216.61 4216.61
W
333*32
32*76
,�b41. 58 '541* 58
t'2774997
List of property owners and amount of assessments on Avenue L, between
the South Lino of Fourteenth Street and Seventeenth Street, upon
completion of the paving and report of the !engineer to the City
Council, recomtnending the acceptance of --aid improva,-lento
F,ao_t Side:
Mxs,,.ToD*ITance--135 front feet on
the ]IL.Ast side of -venue L9 Part Of
Lots 245 and 246 Block No.29.
135 Front Feet, at ITV3.7275 %?503.21 ,'503.21
Christian Church__J.',W*Olirjhintj 'ince Smith,
G*L,Clark9 J.I-I*Sriith and J.L.Clark#Trusteea--
165 front feet on the side of
,.venue L# I'art of Lots 11o.2459246j`!48 and
.149, Block Nlo.2V. at $4.7775 IV' 738.29 _M8,29
ZT.GeA 11ford--102 Front
Feet on
the East
side of Avenue L9 Part
of Lots
248 ana 1.49
B lock '11o,290
at $4o77ib
�487.31
X487.31
M.rs,V*H,Pace--110 Trout
Feet on
the mast
side of Avenue-Lo i-art
of Lots
251 and
2,',2,, Block 30,
at 'i'30275
41' .03
x410.03
Front
Feet on
the E"ast
side of Avenue L,ilart
of Lots 251,252,
254 -nd 255, Block 30,
at I; i4.7775
-"496.36
-4(j6,.86
L91-I.Bush,.-169 Front Feet
on the
Iast
side of Avenue Lo Part
of Lots
254 and 2350
Block 300
at .�_14,7775
','�3`.J7,40
.
07,40
J.D*Black--80 Front Feet on the I a_st
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side of kvenue L,. Part of Lots 257 and 353,
Block 31, at V4.7775
H,F,Estill--Part of Lots 257 and 258#
Block 31--
67 Front feet, at jM.7775
81.5 Front Fcetv at 3,7275
Total
33 2.20 38 2.2 0
79
623*88
�623.88
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Huntsville Steam Laundry-67.5 Front Feet
on the Last side of Avenue L. at OP3.7275 :`251.61 r >251.61
Grace 7'; filler 'Jarnerg-136 Front Feet on
the 'E'ast side of Avenue Lo Part of Block 310
City of Ifuntxvillep at 50G, 94
12 Front Feet at
w3.15
Total 544.74 544.74
C,K.Mardyp RoEeWatson and
Paddock--65 Front Peet on the '<;,aet
side of ,'venue Lf at IZI'3.7275 $242.29) n242*29
dZet Side
Ttrs*C.K*Rardy--13 Front Feet on the west
side of wenue Lp Part of Lot Ilo.3V ,
Block No.44, at X3.7275 43.46 43.46
MrseV-'.,J.Fain--105 Front Feet on the
vest Side of avenue L at "i'3.7275 391.39 x1391.39
I I
;-,,R,I4arner--150 Front Feet on the west
Side of Avenue L, of Lot 449 and North
%
one-half of Lot 450, Block 48, at $3,7275 ti, `559.13
Earl Huffor-1127 Front Feet on the *-.,,est
Side of .'*venue L. of Lot 4229 'Block 46,,
and Part of i.ot 421, Block 46, at $3.7275 -A73,39 4 7 3. 39
'-'state of ',;*A*Easthamp 14,CoM., Byrde E.
','.,00tterst Guardian# and D.D#Eastham--
79 Front Feet on the 'aest Si,Ie of Avenue
Lp Parts of Lots 4149 415, 417, 418, 420
and 121p Block 46, at ',' 3.7275 �'M'394.47
Wb-Ashford--211 Front Feet on the West
side of avenue L, being all of Lots No.
419 -Ana 4209 Block 46, at X3.7275 786.50 '1 1;786.50
Church of Christ 9 4C-,'W`*Rixp Lee Rix, '-ob
O'Bannono Happy Rambo a-nf! 7,,.arsluil Rix#
Trustees-100 Front Feet on tine iest side
of 'venue L, being all of Lot No.402,
Block 3-To.44t at '1 3.7275 372.75 ;,372,75
A.A,Keisler--102 Front Fect on the iect
Side of Avenue LO being all of Lot 114o.
4019 Block 111).44, at 13.7275 X380.21 X330.21
J.RiolUiloonp � -I*C,,wileono J.R,,,wilsont
Jr., and G.CoWilson, N,CX.j by J.R.
'4ilsonv Guardian.-98 Front Feet on the
,.est side of Avenue L. being all of
Lot NO*400, Block No.44p wt
, $3.7275 365* 30 3C
I!*N#Curtis,--102 Front Feet on the West
side of Avenue Lp being-pa-tt of Lot No.
399, Block No.44p at $3.7275 ;1'-,330.21 38 0. 2 1
Total Assessment 14th to 17th St
Total Assesonent llth to 12th at. 2774.97
Total As2eosment ;,12364,60
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The final estimate of the Engineer for Tibbetts Construction Company
for paving on Avenue L from Fourteenth Street to Seventeenth :street,
and from Eleventh Street to Twelfth Street, in the City of Runtevillet
Texas# bein , as follov-�zp to-wits
Item unil � Wantit_v price Amount
Fourteenth Street to Seventeenth Street
Concrete Pavement
011Y 6034,1
2,25
��13576*72
Int. Conc*Curb
LF 2633,5
.55
1448.42
411 Sidewalk
2 3488.0
.20
6✓, 7.60
Catch Basins
2
38.50
77.00
Force Account as Per
Bills Attached
Total
32.78
Engineering Cost o:t
51"" of 9132,98
/0
456,65
Eleventh Street to Twelfth Street
Cold Rolled Uvalde SY 3043*3
190
2733.97
50 Sidewalk 1-2-P 2135,0
. 2135
501,72
Comb,Step and Curb IF 228*1
"so
182.48
Int,Conc*Curb LF 1100
.55
6*05
Force Account as Per Bills .'Atached
51.43
F,ngineering Cost or 5% of 3480.65
174903
Total
Z� 19943,85
Less Amount Assessed to Abutting Property
12 64.60
Difference
757�:,*25
Less Previous Payments
5746.95
Amount Due Contractor on This Lstimte
1832*30
SECTION II—That the several sums above mentioned in
Section It herein aeseased ao-ainst said property owners respectively,
and their property, are herei,yp together with costs of'collection thereof,
including reasonable attorneys fees if incurred, declared to be a lien
upon said respective parcels of property against which the same are
assessed and levied# and a per--onal liability or charge a,,,,ainat the
owner thereof and that the said lien shall beafixed and prior lien
upon 'aid property, superior to all other liens, claims or titles#
except for lawful ad valorem taxes; that the sums so assessed el-la-11
be payable as followsp to-wit:
payable
five equal installments# the first payable in cash within
thirty days after the completion of said imrprovement and its acceptance
by the City; the second on or before one year fron the date of such
acceptance; the third on or before two years from said date; thefourth
on or before three years from said date, the fifth on or b fore four
years from said date; de: erred payments :hall bear interest at the rate
of eight (8) er cent per annum from !ate of acceptance, pay,-,tble
annually, with the provision that if default be mde in the payment
of any installment of principal or interest when due, the iihole of oaid
assessment upon said default shall be at once due and-lxiyableg at the
option of the said Tibbetts Construction Company, or aseigneg provided
that said property owners sfiall have the rig-lit and are hereby .'.',,-iven the
option to pay any or all of ,-,aid deferred payments before naturityp by
pwjn,ent of principal and accrued interest*
SECTION III--Tbat the City of Huntsville sliall not ' be in any
a-inner liable for the payment of any sun hereby Iusessed againat any
,,)roperty owner or his ,property; but thit the said Tibbetts Construc - ion
Company, or assigns# shall look solely to the said persons -and their
property for the payment of the zai,.A sums* but the said City of Hunts-
ville shall exercise qll of its powers under the Lavrs of the state of
Texa ; and its Ordinances necessary or proper 406-o said in and enforce the
collection of the oaid sums, and, if default shall be made in the pay-
ment of Aany of said .,urns hereby Ussesoed a_ ainsat arjy of said property
owners and their property, collection thereof shall be at ti,,e option
of the ;aid Tibbetts Construction Company, or assigns, in any Court
Itivin - jurisdiction thereof p entirely at the cost and expense -°f the
said Tibbetts Construction Company*
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SECTION IV--That# for the purpose of evidencing the --everal
Sums 1);:Lyable by oaid property owm.ra and the time and terms of paymentp
and to aid in the enforcement theieofp assignable certificates shall be
issued by the City of Huntsville to the said Contractor, or assignap
upon completion and acceptance of the caid work of inprovenentg which
shall be executed by the )a yor and shall be made payablle to the said
Tibbetts Construction Company, or aooignsp .,Thich Certificate shall
declare the said amounts and the time and t.rms of payment tilexcof# and
the L.!..dd rate of interest -myable thei:eong ,_-tnd shall contain the name 6f
the owner or owners and the description of his or her property by Lot
and Block Numbcrp or front feet thereof, or such description as my
otherwise identify the --are with reference to any other i'acts and if
said property be owned by an estate, then the de: cri,Aion thereof# as
so owned, shall be sufficient, and the a .id Certificate shall further
rovide that, if default shall be made in the payment of any installment
of principal or interest thereon 1,,hen auct then, at the option of the
said Tibbetts Construction Conpanyp or assignsp being t..c holder thereof,
the whole o1P -,,,aid assez,sizient oball at once become due and payablet and
shall `)e collectible, FAth reasonable attorneys foes and costs, if
incurred, and the said Certificate shall further set forth and evidence
the .said -Dersoral liability of the ovmer and the lion upon his premises
and shill provide that, if default shall be made in the payment thereof,
the ,pane may be enforced by suit) in any Court havin,,,; jurisdiction, and
the raid Certificate shill further recite that the )roceedings -.-Ath
reference to makingr said improvements having been mul,
rly hadq in
comp - iance with the terms of the Laws of the State of Texas, and Yvith
Chapter 9 of Title 28 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas of 1925
and Chapter 106 of the General Laves passed by the Fortieth Legislature
at its First Called Session and the ordinances and Rcl�olutionz of said
City of 11untsvillev and that all prerequisites to the fixing of the
lion and claim of personal liability evidenced by such Certificates have
been performed, which recitals cYu.11 '0c evidence of the f,acts so recited,
!-,nd no further proof thereof shall e req:.Airedt and the —lid Certificates
shall further provide that the City of Huntsville challo �vhcn requested
so to do by the 1-jolder of said Certificates# aid in the collection thereof,
but the City of ibnt..,ville shall in nowirie be liable to the k101L!er of
said Certificates In any manner for the payment of the am,)unt evidenced
by said Certificates or for any costs or expenses in the premises*
UECTION V—there being a public emergency �equiring that
this Ordinance be passed finally on the d�,Ite of its introduction, and -
the -jame Irving been referred to the rtpe-c-� Committee on Sweet
Pam. , and by it referred back to the City Council with recor=endation
that the same be adopt ed p this Ordinance shall 'De f inally '-,assed on
the date of its introduction, 'his the T h <ay of .7)1192 I
YAYORg CITY OF MTT, VILT 9 TEK%3.
ATTESTs
7TTY MURLTAMRIT.