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Ordinance No. 575� r • ORDINANCE NO. 575 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS, DETERMINING THAT CERTAIN STEPS HAVE HERETOFORE BEE;V TAKEN IN RELATION TO THE MATTER OF PERMANENTLY IM- PROVING LIVE OAK AVENUE FROM THE EAST PROPERTY LINE OF PRUETT STREET TO THE WEST PROPERTY LINE OF NORTH COM- MERCE STREET, IN THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS, WITHIN THE LIMITS HEREIN REFERRED TO, AND RATIFYING AND CONFInlING SUCH ACTION; SETTING OUT A CD PY OF THE ENGINEER',S ESTI- MATES OF THE COSTS OF SUCH PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS; MAKING APIROPRIATION OF FUNDg OR PAYMENT OF THE SHARE OF THE COST OF SUCH IMPROVEM S TO BE BORNE BY THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS; ORDERING THAT A HEARING BE HELD AND GIVEN TO ALL OWNING OR CLAIMING PROPERTIES ABUTTING UPON SAID AVENUE TO BE IMPROVED AND AS TO OTHER RELATED MAT- TERS; SETTING AND FIXING THE TIME AND PLACE OF SUCH HEAR- ING AND DIRECTING THAT NOTICE THEREOF BE GIVEN; RESCIND- ING ANY OTHER ORDINANCES OR PROCEEDINGS OF SAID CITY IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; AND PROVIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE • HEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY CCUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS: Section 1: 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 herefofore, by its ordinance No. 557, duly enacted on September 10, 1959, determined the necessity for and or- dered the improvement of Live Oak avenue, in the City of Baytown, Texas, within the limits therein defined. in the manner and according 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 heretofore, awarded to Gulf Bithulithic Company the contract for construction of said improvements, and author- ized its Mayor to execute a written contract in evidence thereof. (c) That the City Council has caused the City Engineer to pre- pare and file plans and specifications relative to such proposed improvements, and estimates of the costs of such improvements, and estimates of th.e amounts :per front foot proposed to be assessed against the property abutting upon said street, within the limits herein referred to, and the real and true owners thereof, and said City Engineer has heretofore prepared and duly filed said plans and specifica- tions and estimates and a statement of other matters relat- ing 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 here- by 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 abut- ting property and such property on said avenue, and the estimated total cost of the improvements is set out as follows, to -wit: • • • • Amount per front foot to be assessed against property owners for paving: Amount per front foot to be.assessed against property owners for curbing: Total amount per front foot to be assessed against property owners: Total Cost of Improvement: Total Cost of Improvement to be borne by property owners: Total cost to be borne by City of Baytown: $ 1.75 $ 2.25 $ 4_.00 $ 33.050.00 L_74005. 81 $ 26,044.19 Section 3: That there is hereby appropriated from the City of Baytown, Texas, Street improvement Fund and General Fund the sum of $26.044.19 , to pay the City's portion of the cost of said improvements on said avenue, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay and discharge the obligation of the City of Baytown under its contract with Gulf Bithulithic Company. Section 4: A public hearing shall be held and given to the real and true owners and to all owning or claiming any interest in any property abutting upon said avenue, 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, irregu- larity or deficiency in any proceeding or any contract with reference thereto, or concerning 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.I. o'clock, on the 25th day of February, 1960, 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 said hearing may he adjourned from day to day and 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 portion of said avenue,'and to all claiming any such property or any interest therein, such notice to be given as follows; to -wit: (a) By advertisement thereof inserted and published at least three times, to -wit: on at least three different 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 -2- •. • date of the hearing, as hereinabove prescribed; and W by mailing (by first • class mail, postage prepaid) a copy or a substantial copy of the notice so pub- lisped or to be published, addressed to the respective owners of the various and sundry parcels of property abutting upon the avenue to be improved, at their re- spective usual or best mailing addresses, obtained from sources reasonably avail- able to the said City Clerk. The City Clerk shall cause such notice to be mailed as soon as practicable after the passage hereof, and shall, in such manner and form as she deems appropriate and sufficient, make and preserve a written record sufficient to evidence 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 0 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 aforesaid. Section b: 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 28th day of January, 1960. -C Edna Oliver, City Clerk -3- R. H. Pruett, Mayor