Ordinance No. 1,005ORDINANCE NO. 1005
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS, RATI-
FYING AND CONFIRMING ACTION HERETOFORE TAKEN IN
THE MATTER OF THE PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT OF WARD
ROAD, FROM THE EAST LINE OF HIGHWAY NO. 146 TO
THE WEST LINE OF KILGORE ROAD IN THE CITY OF
BAYTOWN, TEXAS; ACCEPTING THE BID OF AND AWARD-
ING A CONTRACT TO WARREN BROTHERS COMPANY, GULF
DISTRICT DIVISION OF ASHLAND OIL & REFINING COM-
PANY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SAID IMPROVEMENTS;
APPROVING THE CONTRACT AND PERFORMANCE BOND FOR
THE DOING OF SAID WORK; AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR
AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE SAID CONTRACT FOR AND
ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS; MAKING
APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS FOR PAYMENT OF THE CITY'S
SHARE OF THE COST OF SAID IMPROVEMENTS; AND PRO-
VIDING FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
Section 1: The City Council of the City of Baytown
hereby finds and determines:
(a) That by Ordinance No. 997 duly adopted
and approved on October 9, 1969, the City
of Baytown did determine the necessity for
and order the permanent improvement of Ward
Road in the City of Baytown within the limits
defined:
WARD ROAD: From the East line of Highway 146
to the West line of Kilgore Road,
and did by said ordinance order and direct
the City Engineer to forthwith prepare and
with the City Council file complete plans
and specifications for such improvements,
and that pursuant to such directions the
City Engineer has filed with the City Council
plans and specifications for said improve-
ments, which have been duly approved and
adopted by the City Council; and
(b) That pursuant to direction of said City
Council, advertisement for bids for construc-
tion of said improvements, as required by law
was published, and had, and thereafter, at the
appointed time and place in such advertisement
stated, bids were received and opened in public
meeting of said City Council, whereupon the
bid of Warren Brothers Company, Gulf Dis-
trict Division of Ashland Oil & Refining
Company for the construction of said improve-
ments was found and determined to be the
lowest and most advantageous bid for said
work and improvements, and such bid of
Warren Brothers Company was accepted; and
(c) That said Warren Brothers Company has
executed a performance bond, together with
a proper surety, all pursuant to its pro-
posal and in accordance with the specifica-
tions and notice for bids and other pro-
ceedings of the City Council all in the form
and manner as approved by the City Attorney,
and such contract and performance bond has
been presented to and filed with the City
Council and it was found that said contract
and performance bond and the surety on said
performance bond are all in due and proper
form and acceptable to the City Council;
and such action of said City Council, as so heretofore taken,
is in all things hereby ratified and confirmed.
Section 2: That the City Council of the City of
Baytown, Texas, has and does hereby accept the bid of Warren
Brothers Company of Houston, Texas, for the construction of
said improvements for the sum of $290,851.45 and the contract
for construction of said work and improvements for said amount
is hereby awarded to the said Warren Brothers Company.
Section 3: That Warren Brothers Company having
heretofore executed and submitted to the City Council for its
approval the written contract and performance bond as approved
by the City Attorney, such contract and bond are hereby approved
and accepted as being in full compliance with all requirements
of the law and of the specifications and bid for said work,
and the surety on said performance bond should be, and the same
is hereby approved and accepted as valid and sufficient for
the amount stated therein, and the Mayor and City Clerk of the
City of Baytown, Texas, are hereby authorized, empowered and
directed to execute said contract in the name of said City of
Baytown, Texas, attesting the same in proper form with the
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seal of the City of Baytown.
Section 4: The estimated amount of the costs of
said improvement to be paid by the City of Baytown, Texas,
under the above mentioned contract is hereby found and de-
termined to be the sum of $ and there is hereby
appropriated out of the 1965 Capital Improvements, Street
funds of the City of Baytown, Texas, such sum of $
which sum has been certified by the Director of Finance of
said City to be an unencumbered balance of an appropriation
and available funds for such purpose, to pay the City of
Baytown's share of the costs of said improvement, or so much
thereof as may be necessary to pay and discharge the obli-
gations of the City of Baytown, Texas, under said contract.
Section 5: That the signed written statement of
the Contract Engineer showing the estimated costs of improve-
ments on said street including estimates of the amounts per
front foot proposed to be assessed against the property abut-
ting upon said street to be improved and the owners thereof
and of other costs and matters relating thereto having been
received and examined by the City Council, the same is hereby
in all things approved and adopted. A true and correct copy
of said written statement of estimates is as follows:
1. The estimated amount per front
foot proposed to be assessed against
the abutting property and the owners
thereof for curbs and gutters: $
2. The estimated amount of front
foot proposed to be assessed against
the abutting property and the owners
thereof, exclusive of the cost of said
curbs and gutters: $
3. The total estimated amount per
front foot proposed to be assessed
against the abutting property and the
owners thereof: $
4. The estimated total cost to the
City of Baytown for said improvements: $
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5. The estimated total cost to be
assessed against the abutting property
and the owners thereof: $
6. The estimated total cost of all
of said improvements: $290,851.45
The City Council hereby approves and adopts said
statement of the estimates of the several items of costs
hereinabove set out in said Engineer's statement, and does
hereby estimate such costs, rates and such portions of said
costs in the respective amounts as hereinabove set out; and
does further hereby declare its intention, subject to a hear-
ing to be hereafter ordered, to make and levy assessments of
a part of the cost of said improvement against the abutting
property and the real and true owners thereof at the rates
per front foot hereinabove set out by virtue of, and in ac-
cordance with, the powers given by, and subject, to all of
the provisions of the Acts of the 40th Legislature of the
State of Texas, 1927, First Called Session, relating to street
improvements and assessments therefor, and being Chapter 106
of the General and Special Laws of said Session, as amended,
said Act being commonly known as Article 1105b, Revised Civil
Statutes of Texas, 1925, and as adopted by and as Article I,
Section 7 of the Charter of the City of Baytown, Texas. To
evidence the amounts so assessed, assignable certificates
shall be issued, which shall be payable in installments and
shall bear interest all as set out and provided for in the
Ordinance above referred to ordering such improvement and the
provisions of said Article 1105b, Revised Civil Statutes of
Texas.
Effective Date: That this ordinance shall take
effect from and after the date of its passage by an affirmative
vote of the City Council of the City of Baytown.
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AWAANI,
(NTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by an affirmative
vote of the City Council of the City of Baytown on this the
4th, day of December, 1969,
GLEN WALKER, 'Mayor
EDNA OLIVER, City Clerk
APPROVED:
WILLIAM R. LAUGHLIN, City Attorney