Min 06/23/1924I
Wichita Falls, Texas,
Base lent 1.1 organ Building,
June 23rd, 1924.
The Board of Aldermen of the City of .4ichita Walls, Texas,
met in regular session on the above date with the following present : -
Prank Collier, Ida yOr
. Shepherd, j
Clifford, Y
J. H. Patton, Y A l d e r m e n
J. -2. Young,
4. E. 1,1cBroom, City Clerk,
ar. E. George, City attorney.
The minutes of the previous meeting were raad and approved.
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Moved b;; Alderman Clifford that the following _resolution be
ad opted.
%iotion seconded by alderman shepherd and carried by the fol-
lowing vote:-
Yeas: Shepherd, Patton, Young, Clifford.
Nayes : done.
R E S 0 L U T I 0 Td
RESOLUTION DECLARING THE -JECESSITY OF IT.r.' OVITdG A PORTION OF
FILMOiiE ST'EET STA -TING THE I;ATUi,E OF SUCH IMP-ROV �1 .NTS :J,1D THE '7ETH®
BY IiHICH IT IS PROPOSED `2HAT PAY! LTIT BE ZID :JIB ?ECTING
THE CITY _-:NGIT1EE1R TO HAVE PLAITS, 'ROFILLS, SPECI7IC 'iTI01 -M TIM ESTIi AT ES
OF THE PROPOSED I112-_ V _E TdTS PREPA 1D:
BE IT, AND IT IS HEREBY irESOLVrD BY THE BOARD OF ALDER EN OF
THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS: THAT
1.
It is necessary that Filmore Street from the T�orth Property
Line of ilvenue I, to the North Property Line of Avenue be imp-
roved by raising, grading, filling and paving the same, and install -
in.g concrete curbs and gutters, and that same be improved with the
following methods and materials, to -wit:
(a) Concrete
(b) Brick
(c) Will ite Proe es s Asphalt
1I.
The City Engineer is hereby directed to have plans, profiles,
specifications and estimates embracing the foregoing materials and
plans of improvement prepared, and to file the same i.,ith the Board
of Ala erinen, the City engineer being so directed, there being no
city manager.
III.
The said improvements shall
manner, to -wit:
The benefited and abutting
shall be assessed and pay for all of
not exceedinc, ninety per cent of the
menta, and the city of tiichita T,'alls
be paid for in the following
? roperty, and the owners thereof,
the cost of installing curbs and
remaining cost of such improve -
shall pay the remainder.
The sums payable by the benefited property and owners there-
of shall be parable in six (6) equal installments, the first of which
eltall be due on or be -or e thirty (30) days after date of completion and
acceptance by the City of suc -. improvements; the second (2) shall be
due on or before one (1) year after such date; the third (3) on or be-
fore two (2) years after such date, the fourth (4) on or before three
(3) years after sack date; the fifth (5) on or before four (4) years
after such date; the sixth (6) on or before five (5) -;ears after such
date, the entire amount of the sums shall bear interest from the date
of such completion and acce;?ta ice and until aaid at the rate of eielt
(8�0) per cent per annum, payable annually, but such property, and the
owners thereof, shall have the privilege of paying any or all of such
installments at any time before ::iaturity, and the failure to pay any
installment upon the maturity thereof shall at the option of the owner
and holder of the certificate of special assessment issued in evidence
thereof, Nature the entire amount then unpaid; and the sums payable by
the respective lots or parcels of property abutting upon the said imp}
rovement, and benefited thereby, shall be assessed against such lots
or parcels and against the owners thereof, and shall be a personal lia-
bility of such owner and a first and prior lien and charge against such
property, superior to all other liens, claims and charges and de lands
of whatsoever kind, excepting only State, Country and Municipal taxes.
No assessment shall be levied against any lot, or. parcel
of land, or the owner thereof, in excess of the special benefits to such
lot or parcel of -and in enhanc..d value thereof by means of such improve
vement, and no assessment shall be levied until after the notice and hear-
ing as provided in the Charter and Laws in force and effect ip this city
and in the ordinance and proceedings of the Board of Aldermen applicable
thereto.
IV.
Upon the completion and accgptance of sue h improvements,
if same shall have been performed by contract, then certificates in evi-
dence of the assessments levied against the respective lots or parcels
of property, and the owners thereof, shall be issued to the contractor
or party performing and executing the work of such improvement and con-
taining recitals lawful and properly applicable thereto, and the said
improveiaents shall be executed, and the said matters filed, said notice
and 'nearing ordered given, and ordinance levying the assessment, and any
other matters with reference to said improvement shall be cone and perfm
ormed in the manner and form provided by the Charter and maws in force
and effect in this City, and tiie roceedings, ordinances and resolutions
of the -joard of Aldermen.
V.
This resolution shall take effect from and after its
passage.
Passed and approved this the 23rd day of June 1924.
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The City Lngineer submitted the following : -
rich it a Falls, :� exas
June MR, 1924.
T 0 IRE HOSE O- ABL � _ _AYO Z .d!D BOA, D OF ALBS; u ' i OF THE CITY OF
tlICHI1a 'LLLS, TEXAS.
In compliance with the resolution of the Board of Alder-
men with reference to the improvement of F ilmore Street from the north
Pn� perty mine of Avenue 1, to the North Property Line of Avenue
have prepared and nand you herewith plans, profiles, specifications and
estimates of the proposed improvements, the same embraces the different
materials, plans and methods of improvement set forth and specified in
the said resolution.
iugeley, City �,:ngineer.
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Moved by Alderman Clifford that the following -": esolution
be adopted.
following vote. xotion seconded by Alder --fan Shepherd and carried by the
:-
Yeas: Shepherd, ratton, Young, Clifford.
,ayes: Tyone.
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R E S 0 L U T I 0 N
RZ SOLUTION AP i OVING .ZD ;DOPT I dG PL iIdS, L °YUr ILLS, UPT�C I ICAT =►
IONS, T'dD ;STI1,1 TZS OF THE PROPOSED IMP",'OVI"11 -TdT i:'F . +'ILLIOI E ST '-'aT
FK SHE ICU :TH PRUP':RTY LIPvE OF AVENUE' I T 0 HR Ti0 TH _'11OP: -RTY LINE
OF AVENUE r;, IN THE' CITY LlF ;ICH ITA FALLS, E XAS . -dVD II EC T ING� `.�'HE'
CITY CLE'RN `20 ADVERTISE _0;'' CU�:1P "TITI`,'E BIDS ;'OR TH;��_ :A�;ING .aI7D CON -
STRUC T INN" C F SUCH 21P:= OVE :uTT . .
BE IT 1 SOL 7T' 'D BY 'HE BOARD C11 GF _�HII CITY OF -,JICHIT
FALLS: TH_iT
WHEREAS, by resolution passed on the .day of June 1924,
the Board of Aldermen of the City of 4ichita --alls declared the
necessity of improving; 2ilmore Street from the _orth property Line
of avenue I, to the iJortii property ?pine of Avenue L, by raising,
grading and filling same, and pavinE same and installing .concrete
curbs and gutters, with the materials and in the manners and methods
stated in the said resolution, and gave the method by which it was
proposed that payment be made therefor, and directing the City Eng-
ineer to have plans, profiles, specifications and estimates of the
proposed improvement, prepared; and
,dHEI:EAS, "the said City Engineer has prepared such plans pro-
files, specifications and estimates and has filed the s;�Me with
the Board of Alder:.ien, and the same have been inspected and examined
and corrected, vihere necessary;
I.
That the said plans, profiles and specifications and estimates
be and they are hereby adopted approved as those under, by, and
in accordance with which said improvements shall be made and const-
ructed.
2.
That the City Clerk be and he is hereby c_irected to adver-
tise for competitive bids for the makin , aud constructing of the
said improvements, in the manner and for the length of ti, ie and
in the form required and provided by the City Charter and laws in
force and in effect at this time, and by the ordinances and pro -
ceedings of this Board and such bids will be received until and shall
beed on the ZP�, day of `_1924 at�R_oclock
. • , anlall� ids shall ma e in the manner and accom-
panied by certified check and by the uara�ltee provided and re-
€aired by the said specifications
3•.
This resolution shall take effect from and after its passage.
Passed and approved this the 23rd day of June 1924.
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Moved b Alderman She herd that actio�i ��
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be deferred untiln July 7th, 1924.
T 3OROW
i.Iotion seconded by Alderman Clifford and carried.
ORDINANCE NO. 528
AN OF.DITyANCE FOR THE PIFUTECTION OF FISH M ZAP IWICH ITA APD
P��OVIDIIuG THE C01IDITIONS UPON WHICH FISH TAY BE Ti !22-1 FROLI THE
ViATEIRS OF LAKE I-VICHITA AND PROVIDING A PEN iLTY.
Moved by Alderran 01ifford that Ordinance 528 be passed on
its first reading.
Lotion seconded by Alderman S'u®pherd and carried by the fol-
lowing vote-
Yeas: Shepherd, Patton, Young, Clifford.
Mayes: None.
The City Engineet submitted the following: -
Wichita Falls, Texas.
June 23rd, 1924.
Hon. :a,or and City Commissioners,
Wichita Falls, Texas.
Gentlemen:-
This is to certify that the pavement on the Seymour Road
from the '.pest Property Line of Santa Fe Ave., to the City Limit has been
completed by E. Whitham & Company, in accordance with the plans and
specifications therefore: heretofore filed with your honorable body.
I, therefore, recommend that this pavement be accepted.
�:e sp e c t fully,
F. M. Rugeley,
City Engineer.
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be adopted
14oved by lderman Shep��erd that the following _; esolution i[
.
idotion seconded by Alderman Young and carried by the foll-
owing vote: -
Yeas: Shepherd, Young, Patton, Clifford.
Nayes: None.
R E S 0 L U T T 0 N
RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE IMP1OV711 -MTS ON SEYMIOUR ROAD FROM
THE .+EST PROPERTY LITTE OF SANTA FE AVEITUE TO THE CITY LII:ITt AT-M DIRECTING,
THE' 1 AYOR AND CITY CLERr: TO ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF SPECIAL ASSESSi'F01T LEVIED
AGAINST THE VARIOUS LOTS OR TRACTS OF LAND ATTD THE MINERS THEREOF ABUTTING
UPON SAID POi;TION OF SAID STREET.
BE IT RESOLVED BY. THE BOARD OF ALDER -:?EN OF THE CITY OF WICHITA
FALLS,
WHEREAS, the Board of tildermen of the City of Wichita Falls
has heretofore ordered that the Seymour oad from the viest Property Line ff
of Santa Fe Avenue to the City Limit be improved by raising, �,rading, and
filling same and installing concrete curbs and paving same and after due
notice and hearing, special assessments were levied against the various I
lots and tracts of land and the owners thereof abutting upon the said por-
tion of said street, and contract for the mating and construction of the
said improvements was entered into with L. E. ►Jhitham & Company.
kHEREAS, the said L. E. Whitham & Company, has filly per-
formed its said contract and the said improvements gave been made azid con-
structed in accordance with the said contract and the specifications Jam
therefor, and to the entire satisfaction of this Board:
I.
That the said improvements on said portion of said street
be and the same are hereby accepted and L. ?;. Whitham and Company and
the sureties on its construction bond are hereby released of any further
obligation for or on account of the contract or bond for the making and
constructing of said improvements. -
1I.
That this resolution does riot and shall not in any wise -"Nor�
effect the bond of the said company for the maintenance of t -e said im-
provements, but such maintenance bond shall and does remain in full force
and effect.
III.
That the .ayor and City Clerk be and they are hereby author-
ized, instructed, ,nd directed to issue to 1U- E. wdhitham & Company,
certificates of special assessment, in evidence of tiie various
assessciients levied against the respective lot or parcels of land
abutting upon said portion of said street, and the owners thereof
and against which special assessment iias been levied, reciting
the description of such property, the amount of the assessment
against same, the owner thereof, the terms of payment thereof, the
rate of interest, the date of completion and acceptance of the said
improvements, the lien of the said assessment and the personal ob-
ligation and liability of the otimer of the prope-city, and reciting
that all proceeding with reference to making such improvements
iiave been regularly had in accordance with the Laws, the Charter of
said Uity, the terns of tiie certificate, and" that all prerequisites
to the fixing of a lien and claim of personal liability evidenced
by the certificates have been performed and containing other app-
ropriate and pertinent recitals, and in accordance with the con-
tract with the said company and the law in force in the City, and
the proceeding s z this Board.
IV.
This resolution shall take effect from and after its passage.
Passed and approved tiiis 23rd day of June, 1924.
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ORDINATTCE NO. 526
"All ORD IN. NCE CREATING 2HE O F FIC 1_ OF, +'IRE I TARSHALL, 2RES-
CI'IBING `i'HE DUTIES 'THEREOF, ROVIDINu --OR ITS ;'IAINTEI?ANCE, PRO -
V ID I NG FOR ri CIVIL ACTION �I A liTS T iI1Y PERS OIvT OR ''Ei� S O ITS i E SP Otv'-
SIBI,E OI? AR`TLY ESPONSIBLE FOR ANY +'IRE O i I'II ES IN THE, C II'�T
OF :uICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, i T, D PRESCRIBING PEITALTIES +'OR ITS VIO-
LATIOITS• =EVOKING eRDIIvANCES NOS. 135 I.ND 261 _AND CREATING .0
Ei.1ERGE-INCY” -
Moved by Alderman Shepherd that -Ordinance 526 be passed on
its third and final reading.
!,,lotion seconded by Alderrian Young a «d carried by the foll-
owing vote:-
Yeas: Shepherd, Patton, Young, Clifford.
Naye$: None.
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Moved, by Alder:.ian Clifford that the following resolution be
adopted.
Motion seconded by Alderman 2attoil and carried by the foll-
o�iing vote:-
Yeas: Shepiie� d, Patton, i'oung, Clifford.
Hayes: None.
R E S 0 L U T
RESOLUTION DECLA'HING TIE] I ECES
FRO 11.1 SOUTH - PROPERTY LINE OF SEVENTH
OF EIGHTH STREET STAT Ii1G THE IyATU :E
l, THOD BY il1H ICH IT IS PROPOSED THAT
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DIRITCTI 1TG ' HT"' CITY ITGINt'ER TO 1HAVE
IONS, =STD ESTI ;I :TES OF ' -'H PROPOSED
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tutaA Os 4
3ITY OF IJAP ?OVINGAAd. I21S STREET
STR',ET TO +EST PROPERTY LTITE
OF SUCH II.ZYF O T '1_" ,TT S AND 'THE
AYI % FOR, IaD i E iI
PLANS, PROFILES, SPECIFICAT-
II'EP R O V � T-'Id T S P IEP ARED -
BE IT 2,1) IT IS HEI?EBY ESOLVED BY THI BOAIM OF ALDE RI ETT OF
THE CITY OF ;�iICHITA FALLS: -HAT,
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It is necessary thatAAdams Street From South rroperty
Line of 7th Street to Viest rroperty Line Sth Street be improved by rai-
sing, grading, fillip_':, and installing concrete sidevialks, and that same
be improved with the following material,,, to -wit:
(a) �&ne Course concrete.
II.
The City 'Engineer is hereby directed to have plans, pro-
files, specifications, and estimates, embracinL the foregoing materials
and plans of improvement prepared, and to file same with the Eoard of
Aldermen, the City Engineer being so directed, there being no City ;tan-
ager.
III.
The said improvements shall be paid for in the following
manner, to-wit:
The benefited ,nd abutting property, and the owners there-
of, shall be assessed and pay for all cost of installing curbs and not
exceeding ninety per cent of the remaining cost of such improvements, and
the -City of vdicnita Falls shall pay the remainder.
The sums payable by the benefited property and the owners
thereof shall be pad a iDle in one installment which shall be due 30 days
after t.Le completion and acceptance by the city of such improvementst
The entire amount of the sums shall near interest from the date of such
completion and acceptance and until paid at the rate of eight per cent
( 8A per annum, pa�vable annually, but such property and the owners there-
of shall nave t;ae privilege of )ay such installment at any time before
maturity,and the failure to pay such installment upon maturity thereof
shall at the- option of the owner and holder- of the certificate of special
assessment issued in evidence thereof mature the entire amount unpaid;
and the sums payable by the respective lots or .parcels of land or prop-
erty abutting upon said improvement and benefited therebj, shall be ass-
essed against such lots or parcels and against the owners thereof, and
shall be a persDlonal liability of such oyvner and a first and-prior lien
and charge against such property, superior to all other liens, claims
and charges and demands of whatsoever kind e«cepting only State, County,
and 1 :unicipal taxes.
I-o assess:::ent shall be levied against any lot or parcel
of land, or the oviner tiiereof in excess of the special benefits to such
lot cr parcel of land in enhanced value thereof by means of such imp-
rovement, and no as se'sment shall be levied until after the notice and
hearing as provided in the Charter and Laws in force and effect in this
City, and in the ordinance and proceedings of the i3oard of Aldermen app-
licable thereto.
IV.
Upon the completion and acceptance of such improvement,
if same shall have been performed by contract, then certificates in
evidence of the as- essments levied against the respecti- -.-e lots or Dar -
eels of property and the o% ners thereof shall be issued to the cont-
ractor or party performing the work of such improvement and containing
recitals lawful and properly applicable thereto and the said improve-
ments shall be executed and the said matters filed, said notice and
hearing; ordered given, and ordinance levying the assessine :t and any
other matters with reference to said improvement shall be done and per -
fcrmed in the manner and form provided by the Chartet and Lawsin force
and effect in this City, and-the proceedings, ordinances and resolut-
ions of the 3oard of Aldermen.
V.
This resolution shall take effect from and after its
passage.
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The City Engineer submitted the following report.
t I.ETTi�i OF ENGII1iER SUBI�IITTIIT'.I PL X S PROFILES, SPECIFICATIONS
AIM ESTI71ATE3.
TO 'THE HONORABLE :iAYOR :,JM BOAS OF ALDERi TEN OF ''HE CITY OF
WICHITA FATLS, TEXAS.
In compliance with the resold o the Board of Aldermen
with reference to the improvement of/I%a is treet from the south
property line of Seventh Street to the North Property Line of 8th
Street, I have pre1Da -•ed and :rand you herevaith plans, profiles,
specifications, and estimates of the proposed improvements, the
same embraces and different materials, plans and methods of imp -
rovement set forth and specified in the said resolution.
F. M. Ru€:eley, Cit; Engineer..
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Moved by Alderman Clifford that the following = esolution
be adopted.
otion seco�ided by Alderman Patton and carried b,,/ the fol-
lowing vote.-
Yeas: Shepherd, Patton, Your, Clifford.
Nayes: None.
R E S 0 L U T I 0 IT
RESOLUTIO11 A2PROVIIIG i�ND ADOPTING, PLANS+.- F RS'STR S1EGIFI CATO�
IONS AND ESTI„iATES OF THE 2ROPOS ED IIvTPROVT�1El'JT x D 'ET FRO Ill
SOUTH PROPERTY LIME 0 +' SEVENTH STREET TO NORTH :?I:0?ERTY LIT` -7 OF 8TH
STEET IN THE CITY OF 4ICHI'A FALLS, TEAS, AND DIRECTING THE CITY
CLERK TO ADVERTISE 1 "OR COi.TPETIT IV'_' BIDS FOIL T-11IL Ts T.II1 x AT1D C OT?STRUCT -
i
ION OF SUCH I1JT '_ OVE11lE,ITT S.
BE IT RESOLVED: BY 'T'-E BOARD OF ALDEZITE1 OF THE CITY OF
`4ICHI`.CA FALLS, TEXAS, 'THAT:
WH iEAS, by resolution passed on the day of
A. D. 1924, the Board of Alderrner *,ao e ity o ' iehita a,'a s
declared the necessity of iinprov� ams Street from south prop-
erty line of 7th Street to north property line of 8th Street by
rais u7g, grading, and fiiling some, and installing concrete side-
walks, with the materials and in the manners and metizods stated ink
the said resolution, and gave the !_,iethod by which it was proposed
that payment be mace th:_refor, and direcLing the City 1,.ngineer to
have plans, profiles, specifications, and estimates of the proposed
improvement prepared, and
uHEREAS, the said City En:-ineer has prepared such plans, pro-
files, specifications, and estimates and iias filed same with the
Board of Aldermen, and the same have been examined and inspected
aild corrected vjhere necessary:
I.
That the said plans, profiles, specifications, and estimates,
be and they are hereby adopted and a.�)proved as those under by and
in accordance uith which the said improver,,ients shall be made and
constructed.
II.
That the City Clerk be and he is hereby directed to advertise
for competitive bids or the .,iaking and constructing of :;he said
f _ improvements, in the r.nianner and for the length of time and in the
form required and provided for by the Cit`, Charter and laws in force
and effect at this time, and by the ordinances and proceedings of
this Hoard and such bids'will be received until and shall be open-
ed on the 11M day of 1924 at �?0j 'o'clock and all bids
shall be made in the fo m a , in the marine , and accompanied by
certified check and by the �,aarantee provided and required by the
said specifications.
III.
passage. This res olotion shall take effect from and after. its `✓
Passed and Approved this 23rd day of June A. D. 1924.
Moved by Alderman Patton that the salary of W. E. I cBroom,
be, raised from 250.00 to ti 300.00 per month t be effective June l5'19%1
140ti.on seconded by Alderman Shepherd and carried..
The Board of Aldermen then adjourned.
1924. :ead and Approved this / day of S. D.
ATTEST : -
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M a y o r.
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