Ordinance No. 4,20050711 -11
ORDINANCE NO. 4200
AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO MAKE
OFFERS FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN TO THE
OWNER OR OTHER PARTIES IN INTEREST FOR THE ACQUISITION
OF CERTAIN TRACTS DESCRIBED HEREIN REQUIRED FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION OF FIRE STATIONS; REQUIRING THAT SUCH
OFFERS BE ACCEPTED WITHIN FIFTEEN (15) DAYS; DIRECTING THE
CITY ATTORNEY TO INSTITUTE CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS IN
THE EVENT SUCH OFFERS ARE REFUSED; AND PROVIDING FOR
THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Baytown now finds and
determines that public convenience and necessity require that the City of Baytown
acquire the tracts described below for the construction of fire stations and a fire
administration building; NOW THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS:
Section 1: That the City Attorney is hereby authorized and directed to make
the offers listed below to the below named owners, or other parties in interest
believed to be the true owners of said property or to the actual real and true
owners thereof, whether correctly named or not, for the purchase and acquisition by
the City of Baytown of the fee interest in the said tracts that is required for the
construction of fire stations and a fire administration building within the City of
Baytown:
1) A 0.6 tract out of the William Scott Lower League, Abstract 65,
Baytown, Harris County, Texas.
OWNER OFFER
Eddie Kelley $39,200.00
2) A 4.4935 acre tract out of the J. W. Singleton Survey, Abstract
709, Baytown, Harris County, Texas.
OWNER_ OFFER
Fred Dittman $342,500.00
Section 2: Such offers shall provide that if the offers should not be
accepted within fifteen (15) days after receipt, the City of Baytown will consider
such offer refused and will institute condemnation proceedings on behalf of the City
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of Baytown under any applicable provisions of the law, whether provided by Chapter
21 of Texas Property Code, Chapter 17 of Title 28 of the Texas Revised Civil
Statutes, the Charter of the City of Baytown, or any other provisions.
Section 3: Should such offers be accepted, the money above set forth shall
be paid out of any appropriation heretofore made for the public purpose for which
the above described tracts is required. Should such offers not be accepted, the
amount finally awarded to the owners in the condemnation proceeding, plus costs,
fees, and expenses, shall be paid out of such funds so appropriated.
Section 4: This ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after its
passage by the City Council of the City of Baytown.
INTRODUCED, READ, and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the City
Council of the City of Baytown, this the 11th day of July, 1985.
TT O. HUTTO, Mayor
ATTEST:
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E LEEN P. HAL Cit Clerk
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APPROVED:
RANDALL- B. STR G, C i t orney