ORD CC 05/19/1942 - Street paving/improvements - Unit G AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AID ADOPTING THE FI11AL ESTIMATE OF N. B.
DAVIDSON, CITY ENGINEER, Or 'TF_iE STREET IMP: 0VLi P;TS AND PAVING
ON THE FOLLOWING STREETS AND PARTS uF STREETS, TO-WIT: AVENUE Tit
EXTENDING NORTH FROM THE NORTH LINE OF 22ND STREET 100 FEET: ALSO
AVENUE J FRONT THE NORTH LII; H ST 'L'• ' TO ThE SOUTH L OF
12TH STREET DESIGNATED A UNIT Id0 DER AND B' VIRTUE OF AN
0 NAV 1TOFORE ADO i THE; CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, APPROVED FEBRUARY 28, 1934, RECORDED IN VOLUME
G, PAGES 522 ET SEQ OF TIM MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF SAID CITY
AND UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDINANCE OF SAID CIT`Z COUNCIL PROVIDING
FOR FURTHER HARING TO PROPERTY OWNERS ADOPTED MAY 5, 1937, ALSO AN
ORDINANCE APPROVED JULY 6, 1937, ALSO BY VIRTUE OF PETITIONS, RESOL-
UTIONS AND ORDINANCES OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE,
TEXAS, ADOPTED OCTOBER 3, 1939, AI4D MAY 7, 1940, AND RECORDED IN
VOLUTE H; PAGES 231 al id 257 OF THE MINUTES OF ThE CITY COUNCIL OF
SAID CITY, PROVIDING FOR THE IMPROVENfNT OF ADDITIONAL uTREETS UPON
THE PETITION OF THE ABUTTING PhOPERTY OWNERS, AS FOLLOWS TO—WIT
(OTHER STREETS) AID WHICH SAID OTHER STREET IMPROVE,12hTS WZI�E MADE IN
ACCORDA14CE Y ITH PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS I}ZADE AND FURAiISHED BY THE
SAID N. B. DAVIDSON, CITY ENGINEEh, TINDER AND BY VIRTUE OF ORDINANCES
PROVIDIIG FOR THE MAKING OF SAID IMPROVEI6'IENTS AND THE PAYMEI\TT OF A
PART OF THE COST THEREOF BY ASSESSMENT AGAINST THE ABUTTING PROPERTY
00TELS AND THEIR PROPERTY AS T'0 THEIR PRO RATA PARTS OF SAID STREET
IIIPROVEIaENTS RESPECTIVELY; ALSO UNDER AND BY VIRTUE Or' Ali APPROPRIATION
OF CERTAIN PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE CIVIL WORKS ADMITiISTRATION AND/OR
THE WORKS PROGRESS ADIJIINISTRATION OR OTHER AGENCY OF THE U S GOVEFiI1-alEl T,
AND ?'IriICu SAID STREET IIVI1Pi0VcIIY IaTS ?YEJ'E I,Ub 7)E U11DEL 'THE DIRECT SUP'R—
VISION O ' SAID CITY ENGINEER, AhD TAUT BY CONTRACT, TiE CITY UNDERTAKING
T'0 PAY Ft;R Trj LABOR AT;D MATERIAL AS FUBhISFL D, AND LEVYING AI,_. ASSESS-
IE'NT FOR Trim PAYIIIIGIvT OF A FART OF SAID STREET IMPEOVEI•dENTS AGAINST THE
ABUTTING PROPERTY O$`NLhS AND THEIR PROPERTY RESPECTIVELY. AND FIXING
A CH GE AI:D LIhN AGAINST THE O:�IPaERS OF nBU=DG PROPERTY AND THEIR
SAID PROPERTY RESPECTIVELY, FIXING ThE AMOUNT OF Try; COST OF SAID
STREET IYPROVIIVIENTS TO BE PAID BY ThE CITY OF HUNTSVILLL OUT OF THE,
PROCEEDS Or' ThE SALE OF BONDS ISSUED TLER''FOR, AND PROVIDING FOR. ThE
PAYME,IiT OF A PORTION OF SAID COSTS OUT OF FUNDS PiiOVIDED BY THE CIVIL•
UtORKS ADPIIItiISTRAT10IV, Tim' WORKS PROGRESS ADLINIST'RAT'ION khD/CR OTHER
AGENCY OF THE U S GOVEREbIEIvT, A1,1D IN ADDITION THERETO TIVE CITY HAVIDIG
hLRhTOFORE VOTED, ISSUED AND SOLD CE,LTAIh STREET I1dP1'LOVEIiENT BOPIDS IN
SEVERAL SERIES DULY ALD LEGALLY ISSUED BY vIRTUE OF ELECTIONS HELD FOR
THE PURPOSE OF PAYING A PORTION OF THE COST OF SAID STREET IMPLOVEM.NTS
T'0 BE PAID BY THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, APPROVING ThE REPORT OF SrID
ENGINE h AS TO SAID UNIT NO. G, AND PROV IDIhG FOR, THE ISSUANCE OF
ASSESSMENT CERTIFICATES UPON Th-h COMPLETION AND ACCEPTANCE OF SAID
IIVIPROVEVENTS AND THE I)W.,NER OF COLLECTION THEREOF, AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNT'SVIL•LE, TEXAS,
IN COUNCIL ASSEIEBLED:
IMREAS, heretofore, to-wit, on the 28th da1N, of February, 1934,
an ordinance was duly adopted by the City Ceyncil of the City of
Huntsville, Texas, determining the necessity/and providing for the
improvement of certain streets and parts of streets within the City
of Huntsville, Texas, and which said ordinance is duly recorded in the
Minutes of the City Council in said City in Volume G, page 522 et seq.;
and,
VFIR,REAS, thereafter on the 5th day of May, 1937, an ordinance
was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Huntsville,
Texas, determining the necessity of and providing for the improvement
of certain other streets and parts of streets within the City of
Huntsville, Texas, which said last named ordinance is duly recorded
in Volume H, page 97, Minutes of the City Council, to which ordinance
and the record thereof reference is here now made for full particulars;
and
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WhEREAS, thereafter upon petition duly presented to the City
Council, a resolution was duly adopted on May 7, 1940 recorded in
Volume h, page 257, determining the necessity of and providing for
the improvement of certain other streets and parts of streets as
follows:
22nd Street from Avenue 0 to Avenue N2;
Avenue N2 from 22nd Street North to connect with the end of
Pavement already completed on tivenue N2.
FHEREAS, N. B. Davidson, having been appointed City Engineer
with respect to said street improvements, duly returned to the City
Council plans and specifications for said improvements, and pursuant to
an ordinance of May 51 1937, the City Council determined to make said
purchase of materials and by the employment of labor and supervision
of the worn_ of making said street improvements direct, and without
advertising for bids and letting contract to the highest and best
bidder therefor, which said improvements should consist of raising,
lowering and grading streets and parts of streets, or any of them,
above mentioned, it being expressly contemplated and stipulated
that said street improvements would be made in separate units, and
also providingfor the construction of storm drains, curbs, gutters
and paving the s,. ie with a base of crushed rock or gravel not exceed-
ing nine inches deep, and by topping the same with asphalt, or asphaltic
composition, and including any changes or alterations of said improve-
ments or plans as might be determined from time to 'time as the wort of
said improvements progressed,-- all of which more fully appears from
the plans and specifications prepared by said City Engineer and on file
in tie office of said City Engineer in said City; and,
WHEREAS, the estimate of the City Engineer as to the cost of said
street improvements and the pro rata part thereof to be charged against
the City and the abutting property owners and their respective property
having been duly filed with said Council, an ordinance of said Council
approving said report and estimate and providing for a hearing to
property owners, was duly entered of record and dated March 7, 1939,
which provided for a hearing of said property owners on the 21st day
of March, 1939, at 7 o'clock p M, at which time all of said owners,
their agents and attorneys, or persons interested in said property,
were notified to appear and be heard, and at such hearing said owners
or other persons might appear by counsel or in person and might offer
evidence at said hearing, and said hearing should be adjourned from
day to day until fully accomplished; said hearing having been concluded,
and at the conclusion thereof all parties at interest having been given
an opportunity to be heard to show cause, if any, why said street im-
provements should not be made and a portion of the cost thereof assessed
against all property owners and their said abutting property, said hear-
ing having been duly advertised and copies of such advertisement direct-
ed by said ordinance to be given as required by law; and,
IM,REAS, at said hearing, after all property o:,ners had been
heard and said hearing was continued over as aforesLid, it was deter-
mined by said Council that the proposed assessments were in all things
fair andlegal, and nine of said property owners Yad just cause to com-
plain with reference to the amount of assessments against them and
their abutting property, and said street improvements should be made
and completed in accordance with the original plans and specifications;
and,
WIE.REAS, said City Engineer has made final report with reference
to a portion of said street improvements, and has set forth therein the
names of the streets and parts of streets so improved, and a descript-
ion of the abutting property thereon, the owners thereof, and a state-
ment of the amount of the improvements abutting on said property and the
cost thereof, according to tie front foot rule or plan, including the
rate per front foot, and the width of the streets so improved, which
final report shows also the total number of feet improved and the total
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cost thereof to the property owners, which said final report of said
Engineer as to the portion of said streets hereinbefore mentioned that
have been so improved is in words and figures in substance as follovis:
FINAL ASSESbbTENT--- UNIT NO. G
FINAL ESTIMATE OF PAVING EAST SIDE OF AVEId"UE N2 - 100 FEET PAST NORTH
LINE OF 22ND STREET. AVENUE J. 1'ROM NORTh LINE 03' 11TH STREET TO
SOUTH LINE OF 12TH STREET.
AVENUE N2
PAVING VVIDT'H 30 feet No. feet Cost per front foot
1.50
1WEST SIDE`
Miss Allie Bland
Pt. Blk, 6, Pine Crest Addition 100 $150.00
AVENUE J.
11I ST SIDE•
Christian Church
All 31, Blk 8. 100 150.00
Mrs Gabrial Smither
Lot 32, Blk 8 100 150.00
Mrs C G Barrett Est.
Lots 33-34, Blk 8 200 300.00
BAST_ SIDE:
W. H. Randolph
Lots 181-182, Blk 18 200 300,00
Mrs. T. H. Roundtree
Lots 179-180, Blk 18 200 300,00
TOTALNUIMER OF FRONT FEET .. ... .. . . .. .... . . . ... .. . .. .900 Ft
TOTAL COST TO PROPERTY OWNERS ... . ................. .. 1350.00
COIT,ECT:
N. B. Davidson
City Engineer
ITEMLZED ACCOUNT OF ElipLL4_pITUiES oN SBOVE STREETS:
Pay Roll $200.00
Amulce Asphalt Co. 326.00
Kimbell Oil Mill Co. 160.00
N. B. Davidson 150.00
Walker Co. Hardware Co. 45.00
Oil, Gas, Repairs 105.00
C. A. Scott 700.00
Petty Cash 7.00
Huntsville Bldg & Material Cc 7.00
Huntsville Hardware Cc 18.00
Hall Lumber Cc 10.50
Total. . .. . . . . . .. . 1728.50
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TOTAL COST TO CITY OF HUNTSV"ILLE, TEXAS:
Total Cost of all improvements to city and owners w 1728.50
Dotal Cost to property owners (assessments} 1350.00
lota.l cost to city $ 37870
TOTAL COST OF IMPROVEMENTS
Total Vouchers $ 1728.50
WPA Labor (Supervision) 3457.00
Total WPA other than labor 400.00
TOTAL COST OF ALL IIAPROVEll/MNTS $ —585.5a
SU12JARY:
675 Cubic Yards of Excavation
1300 Square Yards fine grading
1300 Square Yards base course
1300 Square Yards Asphaltic surface course
1300 Square Yards ashhalticeseal coat
30 Lin. feet 1861 Storm sewer
22 C Y Reinforced coEcrete for culvert
12 C 7 Stone masonry Headwalls
1600 S 7 Removal and replacing 4' Sidewalk
2 inlets
CORRECT:
N. B. Davidson
City Engineer
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
HUNTSVILLE: That said Report and Final Estimate of said paving
of said streets and parts of streets, as hereinbefore set forth
as Unit No. G, of said street improvements contemplated in said
ordinances and resolutions, be and the same is hereby in all respects
approved, and said Unit No. G of said street improvements as hereinbe-
fore set forth is hereby accepted by said Council; and it is further
ordained that the amount set forth therein assessed to and payable by
the abutting property owners is entitled to payment by the parties,
respectively, against whom the same appear in this assessment, in
accordance with the ordinances hereinbefore referred to authorizing
the _caking of said street improvements.
IT IS FURTHER ORDAINED that the City's portion of the cost of
improving said streets and parts of streets, herein designated as
Unit No. G, not already paid by proper warrants be paid and such pro-
per warrants issued, and the blayor and City Secretary are hereby
authorized and directed to issue and deliver proper warrants for any
unpaid portion of the City's portion of said costs out of funds here-
tofore provided therefor by ordinance of the City Council of said City
of Huntsville, duly made and entered of record, including the proceeds
of the sale of bonds issued under and by virtue of the authority of
the election held by the City of Huntsville on Mgy 21, 1938.
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF SAID CITY OF
HUNTSVILLE: That special improvement certificates in connection
with the assessments against abutting property- owners and their said
property be issued against said abutting property owners and their
said property on said streets and parts of streets by the Mayor and
City Secretary of the City of Huntsville, Texas, in accordance with
the laws of the State of Texas and the ordinances heretofore adopted
by the City, against the persons, firms, corporations, and estates
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as h.ereinbefore set forth; that said certificates be duly executed
by the tIayor of the City and attested b City Secretary and the
seal of the City be impressed thereon, and that said certificates be
issued against the abutting property owners hereinbef ore named, and
against their said property in the amounts hereinbefore set forth, to
become due and payable in installments as follojgs, to-wit:
One-fifth thereof within thirty days after date, one-fifth
thereof on or before one year after date, one-fifth thereof on or
before two years after date, one-fifth thereof on or before three
years after date, and one-fifth thereof on or before four years
after date; said certificates bearing ever; date with the date of the
adoption arid final approval of this ordinance, together with interest
on all installments from the date -thereof at the rate of 8; per annum,
payable annually, and if riot so paid to become as part principal
and draw like interest with it from such default, and providing for
reasonable attorney' s fees in the event default is made in the payment
of said certificates, or any of their, and providing that failure to pay
any installment of principal or interest on said coupons when due,
shall, at the election of the o�iner or holder thereof, mature them all,
said certificates to be expressly made payable to the City of Huntsville
Texas, its order or assigns, and said certificates shall contain the
other terms and coalitions provided for in the General Paving Laws of
the State of Texas, and the ordinance heretofore adopted and iccluding
this ordinance; that said improvement certificates shall set forth the
manner of the collection thereof and shall recite the lien created by
law and by contract of the parties as may be shown by the record in
connection with this proceeding, and said certificates shall expressly
set forth that all the laws providing for the making of said street
improvements and the issuance of said assessment certificates have been
complied with, and that said certificates shall constitute a liquidated
demand for the amount thereof with interest and attorney' s fees as
therein provided,
the above and foregoing ordinance was in open Council at a
regular meeting, more than two-thirds of all the members of the
Council being present and acting, referred to the Street and Bridge
Committee, on this the -L day of I4Iay, 1942e
We, the undersigned Street and Bridge Committee, of the City
Council of the City of Huntsville, Texas, to whom the above and
foregoing ordinance has been referred, have carefully examined the
same and report the same back to the Ci Council with the recommend-
ation that the same be adopted.
✓ �
Co�imittee on Streets and
Bridges.
ADOPTED AND APPROVED IN OPEN COUNCIL, THIS THE Ig DAY OF
MAY, 1942.
Ai'TE"" ��•
(/ Mayor, City of Hunt e,
•�-�'��"' �_ Texas.
City Secretary
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FINAL ASSESSMENT--UNIT NO. G.
FINAL ESTI; !,TE OF PAVING EAST SIDE OF AVENUE N-21 - 150 FEET P."-_ST NORTH LINE
OF 22ndSTR LT. "_V NUE J. a. Y YORTH LTr;E Ou 11th STREET TO SOUTH LINE OF
12th STREET..
Avenue B2.
PAVING ?°WIDTH 30 feet. he. Feet Cost :per front foot
$1.50
WEST:-Z IDE:
Miss Allie Bland
Pt. 31k 6, Pine Crest Additimn 100 $150.00
Avenue J.
0flEST SIDE:
Christian Church
All 31, Blk 8. 100 N15O.00
Mrs Ga.brial Smither
Let 32, Blk 8 100 $150.00
Mrs. C. G. Berrett Est.
Lots 33-34, Blk 8 200 4300.00
EAST SIDE:
W. H. Randolph
Lets 181-182, Blk 18 200 ;300.00
Yrs. T. H. Roundtree
Lots 179-180, Blk 18 200 w300.00
TOTALNMYTBER OF FRONT FE'ET.....>...............................900 Ft.
TOTAL COST TO PROPERTY 0VTjERS. ............. ....................$1350.00
CORRECT:
N. B. Davidson
City EnSin^-_