HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 14-JAN ORDINANCE
REPEALING ALL PROCEEDINGS, RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES,
AND CANCELING ALL CONTRACTS WITH REFERENCE TO THE PAVING OF FRANK-
LIN STREET FROM THE EAST LINE OF FOURTH STREET TO THE WEST LINE OF
HOUSTON STREET; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY,
WHEREAS, by resolution dated the 18th day of August,
1931, Franklin Street from east line of Fourth to the west line of
Houston Street was ordered paved, and thereafter plans and specifi-
cations were duly approved and bids were advertised for and receiv-
eC and a contract was duly awarded to Broussard-Warfield Company
for the paving thereof, said contract being dated September Sth,
1931, and a hearing was thereafter held and closed on October 6th,
1931; and,
WHEREAS, said paving Company was thereafter unable to
secure contracts from a sufficient number of property owners abutt-
ing on said street to justify said paving and it has become imprac-
tical to proceed therewith, and said Broussard-ffarfield Company has
requested that it be relieved from said contract and contractor's
construction and maintenance bonds given thereunder:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COWISS ION
OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT:
Section lm
That all resolutions, ordinances and proceedings hereto-
fore enacted or passed with reference to the paving of Franklin Street
from the east line of Fourth Street to the west line of Houston Street
be, and the same are hereby repealed insofar as the same apply to or
affect the paving of said portions of said street, and that certain
contract between the City of Beaumont and Broussard-Vlarfield Company
dated September Sth, 1931, for the paving of -said street, together with
contractor's construction and maintenance bonds executed thereunder,
be, and the same are hereby canceled and annulled insofar as they apply
to the above named street, and are declared to be of no further force
and effect®
Section 2.
The fact that the above mentioned paving proceedings have
created an apparent lien on the property abutting the above named
street, and the fact that the paving contractor is desirous to being
relieved from its obligations urrier said contract and under the constru-
ction and maintenance bonds executed thereunder, created an imperative
public necessity and emergency requiring the suspension of the rule re-
quiring ordinances to be read on three (3) several days before their
passage, and said rule is hereby suspended and this ordinance shall
take effect from and after its passggeo
Passed by the affirmative vote of all members of the City
Connission, this the 27th day of October, A. Do 19310
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