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Ordinance No. 553_• a ORDINANCE N0. 553 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS, DETERP,IINING THAT CERTAIN STEPS HAVE HERETOFORE BEEN TAKEN IN RELATION TO THE MATTER OF PERMANENTLY IMPROVING SCOTT STREET, FROM THE EAST PROPERTY LINE OF NORTH PRUETT STREET TO THE ['ZEST PROPERTY LINE OF COAMERCE STREET, HARVEY STREET FROM THE EAST PROPERTY LINE OF NORTH PRUETT STREET TO THE VEST PRO- PERTY LINE OF COb>1,IERCE STREET, AND HAIINHORNE STREET FROM THE 11EST PROPERTY LINE OF BARRYDURE BLVD. TO THE EAST PRO- PERTY LINE OF MAYO STREET, IN THE CITY OF BAYTO11N, TEXAS, WITHIN THE LIMITS HEREIN REFERRED TO, AND RATIFYING AND COWIRIIING SUCH ACTION; SETTING OUT A COPY OF THE ENGINEER'S ESTIA-14TES OF THE COSTS OF SUCH PROPOSED IIIPROVEIICNTS; . UAKING APPROPRIATION OF EUNbS FOR PAYT -ENT OF THE SHARE OF THE COST OF SUCH IiMPROVEh1ENTS TO BE BORNE BY THE CITY OF BAYTOUN, TEXAS; ORDERING THAT A HEARING BE HELD AND GIVEN TO ALL O1VN- ING OR CLAIMING PROPERTIES ABUTTING UPON SAID STREETS TO BE IMPROVED AND AS TO OTHER RELATED HATTERS; SETTING AND FIX- ING THE TIM AND PLACE OF SUCH HEARING AND DIRECTING THAT NOTICE THEREOF BE GIVEN; RESCINDING ANY OTHER 'ORDINANCES OR PROCEEDINGS OF SAID CITY IN CONFLICT HEREWITH, AND PROVID- ® ING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTONN: Section 1: That the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, hereby finds and determines: (a) That the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, has heretofore, by its Ordinance No. 526, duly enacted on the 26th day of March,1959, determined the necessity for and ordered the improvement of Scott Street, Harvey Street and Hawthorne Street, in the City of Baytown, Texas, within the limits therein defined, in the manner and accord- ing to plans and specifications to be prepared by the City Engineer of said City. (b) That said City Council, in behalf of the City of Baytown, has hereto- fore, awarded to Brown & Root, Inc. the contract for construction of said improvements, and authorized its Mayor to execute a written con- tract in evidence thereof, (c) That the City Council has, caused the City Engineer to prepare and file plans and specifications relative to such proposed improvements, and estimates of the amounts per front foot proposed to be assessed against the property abutting upon said streets, within the limits herein re- ferred to, and the real and true owners thereof, and said City Engineer has heretofore prepared and duly filed said plans and specifications and estimates and a statement of other matters relating thereto with said City Council, and same have been received, examined and approved by said City Council, That such action of the City Council heretofore taken is in all things hereby ratified and confirmed. Section 2: That a true and correct copy of the estimates of the costs of such proposed improvements as prepared by the City Engineer, reflecting the esti- mated amounts per front foot proposed to be assessed against the owners of abutting property and such property on said street, and the estimated total cost of the im- provements is set out as follows,, to -wit: ',1 I� 0 • Section 3: That there is hereby appropriated from the City of Baytown, Texas, Street Improvement Fund and General Fund the sum of $59,964.19 to pay the City's portion.of the cost of said improvements on said street, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay and discharge the obligation of the City of Baytown under its contract with Brown and Root, Inc. Section 9: A puhlic hearing.sha-11 be held and given to the real and true owners and to all owning or claiming any interest in any property abutting upon said streets, as hereinabove referred to, and to all others owning, claiming or interested in said property or any of said matters as to the assessments and as to the amount to be assessed against each parcel of abutting property and the real and true owners thereof, and as to the special benefits to said property to be received from said improvements, or concerning any error, invalidity, irregulari- ty or deficiency in any proceeding or any contract with reference thereto, or con- cerning any matter or thing, connected therewith, which hearing shall be held by the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, in the Council Chamber of the City Hall of said City, at 7:00 P.M. o'clock, on the 27th day of August , 1959, at which time and place all persons, firms, corporations or estates owning or claiming any such abutting property or any interest therein, and their agents or attorneys, or persons interested in said proceedings, shall be notified to appear and to be heard in person or by counsel, and to offer evidence if they so desire; and said hearing may be adjourned from day to day from time to time, and held open until all evidence and protests have been fully offered and heard. Section 5: The City Clerk is directed to give notice of such hearing, which notice shall be directed to all owning any property abutting upon said por- tions of said streets, and to all claiming any such property or any interest therein, such notice to be given as follows, to -wit: (a) By advertisement there- of inserted and published at least three times, to -wit: on at least three differ- ent days, in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Baytown, Texas, the first of such publications to be made at least ten days prior to the date of the hearing, as hereinabove prescribed; and (b) by mailing (by first class mail, postage prepaid) a copy or a substantial copy of the notice so published or to be published, addressed to the respective owners of the various and sundry parcels of property abutting upon the streets to be improved, at their respective usual or best mailing addresses, obtained.from sources reasonably available to the said City Clerk. The City Clerk shall cause such notices to be mailed as soon as prac- ticable after the passage hereof, and shall, in such manner and form as she deems -2- appropriate and sufficient, make and preserve a written record sufficient to evi- dence the fact and date of the mailing of said notices to said respective property owners, the names and mailing addresses to which such notices were so mailed, and what, if any, such notices are returned to her for want of proper addresses, etc., and any other information pertinent to the effort made to give to each of said abutting property owners actual notice of the benefit hearing to be held as afore- said. Section 6: That any ordinance or proceedings heretofore enacted by the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, in conflict herewith are hereby ex- pressly rescinded and repealed. Section 7: Effective Date: That this ordinance shall take effect from ® and after the date of its passage by a majority of the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas. INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by a majority of the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, on this the 13th day of August, 1959. ATTEST: Edna Oliver, City Clerk (6 0 -3- C . H. Pruett, f,layor