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Ordinance No. 970All 011DINANCE NO, 970 ORDINANCE APPROVING CLAIMS AND AUTHORIZING DELIVERY OF' TIME WAR RAN'J.'S; CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING I'() THE SUBJECT; AND PROVIDING THAT SAID ORDINANCE SHALL, 13E EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UPON ITS ADOPTION THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF HARRIS The City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, con- vened in special session, open to the public, at the City Hal.1. within said City on the 32-d day of April, 1969, with the following members and the City Clerk present, to-wit: Don M. hullum Mayor Pro Tem Ted Kloesel Councilman C. Glen Walker Councilman Lamar Kelley Councilman I ,varancy) Councilman (vacancy) Councilman Mrs. Edna Oliver City Clerk and Mayor Seat)orn Cravey absent, when, aii,iong other business, the fol"1owlng i,,,ia,,-.3 t"r,an,.;,�acted: An c,�,.-dinaice was introduced which was read in full. Councilman Kloesel made a motion that the ordinance be adopted as read. Councilman Walker seconded the motion for adoption of the ordinance. ']_'he motion, carrying with it the adoption of the ordinance, prevailed by the following vote: AYES: Mayor, Pro Tem Hullum and Councili,yien Kloesel and Walker NOES: Councili,rian Kelley The Mayor Pro Tem thereupon announced that the ordi- nance had been duly and lawfully adopted. The ordinance thus adopted follows: r� ORDINANCE APPROVING CLAIMS AND AUTHORIZING DELIVERY OF TIME WARRANTS; CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT; AND PROVIDING THAT SAID ORDINANCE SHALL BE EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UPON ITS ADOPTION WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, adopted an ordinance on March 20, 1969, authorizing the issuance of $90,000 City of Baytown, Texas, Land Site and Improvement Time Warrants, Series 1969, dated March 15, 1969, for the purpose of evidencing the indebtedness of said City for all, or any part of, the cost of acquiring and improving land for municipal'purposes, including personal and professional services to be rendered and other incidental expenses to be incurred in connection therewith; and WHEREAS, on March 20, 1969, the City Council adopted an ordinance awarding a contract to Underwood, Neuhaus & Co., Incorporated, Houston, Texas, for professional fiscal services in connection with the issuance of said time warrants; and WHEREAS, following the adoption on March 20, 1969, of said ordinance authorizing the issuance of said time warrants, the City Council agreed to purchase a certain tract of land consisting of 55.5114 acres from J. Milton Stewart, Trustee, for a total consideration of $83,271; and WHEREAS, the City Council hereby affirmatively finds that each of the agreements mentioned above has been fully and satisfactorily performed in every respect by the said Underwood, Neuhaus & Co., Incorporated and the said'J. Milton Stewart, Trustee, respectively, and that the claims of Underwood, Neuhaus & Co., Incorporated, in the amount of $3,665, and J. Milton Stewart, Trustee, in the amount of $83,271, -2- r• o respectively, have been presented to the City Council, the said claim of J. Milton Stewart, Trustee, having been assigned to Underwood, Neuhaus & Co., Incorporated, which is now the legal owner and holder of each of the said claims; and WHEREAS, the City of Baytown, Texas, does not hold a claim of any kind or character which might properly be charged or interposed as an offset or counterclaim to the payment of the aforesaid claims, or either of them; therefore, TEXAS: BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, Section 1: That the matters and facts stated herein- above in the preamble hereof are hereby found and declared to be true and correct. Section 2: That the claims hereinabove described in the preamble of this ordinance in the total amount of $86,936, be and the same are hereby approved, and the City.of Baytown, Texas, hereby acknowledges receipt of the full benefits repre- sented by said claims, and each of them, to the full extent thereof and to the full extent of the time warrants hereinafter authorized to be delivered, and it is hereby further recognized that Underwood, Neuhaus & Co., Incorporated, Houston, Texas, is the legal owner and holder of each of the said claims in the total amount of $86,936. Section 3: That in payment of the claims described hereinabove in the total amount of $86,936, there shall be executed and delivered to said Underwood, Neuhaus & Co., Incorporated Warrant Nos. 1 through 87, aggregating $86,936, in the denomina- tion of $1,000 each, except that Warrant No. 1 shall be in the -3- denomination of $936, said warrants being City of Baytown, Texas, Land Site and Improvement Time Warrants, Series 1969, dated March 15, 1969, as heretofore authorized to be issued by the City Council, Section 4: That each of said warrants shall be signed by the Mayor, countersigned 1-.yy the City Clerk, registered by the City Treasurer, and the official seal of the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, shall be impressed upon 4r'' each of said warrants. Section 5: That this ordinance shall become effective and be in full force upon and of its adoption, and it is so ordained. ADOPTED this 3rd day of April 1969. 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