HomeMy WebLinkAbout02032 ORD - 02/11/1947AN ORDINANCE 4� 03.�
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING BROWN & ROOT, INC., TO
PROCEED WITH CONSTRUCTICN OF IMPROVEMENTS ON LIPAN
STREET.FROM THE WEST PROPERTY LINE OF TANCAHUA.
STREET TO THE EAST PROPERTY LINE OF BRWLEE BOULE-
VARD, PROVIDED FOR BY CONTRACT DATED SEPTEMBER 17,
1946; COMPLETE WITHOUT ANY SIPS OR LEAVE -CUTS,
AGREEING TO PAY BROWN.& ROOT, INC. THE AMOUNT OF THE
ASSESSMENTS AGAINST CERTAIN HOMESTEAD PROPERTIES
ABUTTING ON SAID STREET,UPON TEE ASSIGNMENT BY BRONN
&.ROOT, INC. TO THE CITY OF SAID ASSESSMENTS, AND
DECLARING AN EIERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the City of Corpus Christi has heretofore awarded
contract dated September 17, 1946, to Brown & Root, Inc. for the
improvement of Lipan Street from the west property line of Tancahua
Street to the east property line of Brownlee Boulevard and has
heretofore, by ordinance enacted on September 10, 1946, duly appro-
priated funds to cover the cost to the City of improving said street
under said contract; and
VMRFAS, said Brown & Root, Inc., has notified said City that
the following named owners of homestead property abutting upon said
street have refused to execute mechanic's lien contracts to secure
the payment of the portion of the cost of improving said street assessed
against said respective properties, said owners, descriptions of their
properties and amount of assessments levied against same being as fol-
lows, to -gait:
Mamie Hawley Jones=
Lot 6, Block 16, Bluff Portion to the City
of Corpus Christi, Texas, fronting 150 feet
on the south side of said street; amount of
assessment . . . $1,365.98
Guadalupe Villareal,
Lot 6,.Blook 31, Bluff portion to the City
of Corpus Christi, Texas, fronting 150 feet
on the south side of said street; amount of
assessment . . . $1,365.98
WHEREAS, it is the desire and intention of the City to have
said Lipan Street paved and improved complete within the above limits
without any skips or leave -outs, and it is the intention herein to
passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such ordinance
or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City
Council, and the Mayor having declared that such public emergency
and imperative necessity exist, and having requested that such Charter
rule be suspended, and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date
Of its introduction, take effect and be in full force and effect from
and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY ORDAINED.
PASSED and APPROVED this the 11WZ day jof, February, 1947.
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
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APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FO i
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direct Brown h Root, Inc., to construct said improvements on said
street complete and in front of the above named properties and agree-
ing to pay the smount Of the assessments against said properties as
above set out to Brown A Root, Inc. upon condition that said Brown de
Root. Inc., will transfer and assign to said City the assessment cer-
tificates evidencing the assessments levied against the above described
properties to secure the City in its collection from the above named
property owners for the funds expended on improving the street in front
of the above described property;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the said Brown do Root, Inc., be and they are
hereby authorized and directed to proceed with the construction of the
improvements provided for by the above identified contract upon said
Lipan Street oomplets within the limits above defined without any skips
or leave -outs and that said City hereby agrees to pay out of funds
heretofore appropriated to cover the cost of improving said street, the
amount of the assessments levied against the two above described owners
and properties in amounts as above set out to Broom & Root, Inc., said
amounts to be included in and paid with the final estimate on said con-
tract and work upon the transfer and assignment by said Brown do Root,
Inc., to said City of the assessments, and certificates evidencing same,
levied against the hereinabove described owners and properties.
SECTION II. The public importance of this ordinance creates a
public emergency and public imperative necessity requiring the sus-
pension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be