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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 54-WAN ORDINANCE ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE RELINQUISHING AND TRANSFERRING TO THE LAMAR STATE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY SIX(6) BUILDINGS COMPRISING SEVENTY-TWO (72) HOUSING UNITS, SITUATED ON LANDS BELONGING TO LAMAR STATE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY AT BEAUMONT, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, TEXAS, AND UNDER LEASE TO THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, AND BEING THE SAME SEVENTY-TWO (72) HOUSING UNITS WHICH WERE RE- 'LINQUISHED AND TRANSFERRED TO THE CITY OF BEAUMONT BY THE UNITED STATES BY RELINQUISHMENT AND TRANSFER DATED THC 21st. DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1949, A PORTION OF THE HOUSING UNITS DESI- GNATED AS PROJECT NO. T= -v-41766 UNDER CONTRACT NO. HA (V-_41766) mph -1 with the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, SUBJECT,TO CERTAIN PROVISIONS AND MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS WITH REFERENCE THERETO. WHEREAS, under the Public Housing Acta of Congress of October 14, 1911.0, and amendments thereto, and under the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, there was allocated to public colleges and universities certain numbers of housing units, and to municipalities certain numbers'of housing units to be constructed by the United States, and the allocations to colleges and universities made Lamar College eligible for only two (2) units, contain- ing twenty (20) apartments, and there was need for more housing for students and veterans at Lamar College than the amount to which Lamar College was entitled, and the City of Beaumont, in order to cooperate with Lamar College in obtaining additional housing units to be built upon the campus of Lamar College, made application for six (6) buildings, containing seventy-two (72) housing units for white families, and Lamar College granted to the City of Beaumont a'lease on a portion of its campus at a nominal rental-of.one ($1.00) dollar per year upon, which to locate said housing units and provided the -right -of -'way of ingress and egress to said housing units and participated in the cost of improving the same, which housing units were provided for veterans under the provisions of the federal law, and were used principally for students attending Lamar and teachers teaching in Lamar;and, WHEREAS, said,housing'units, so constructed and located, containing seventy-two (72) units, were, -'among others, relinquished and transferred to the City of Beaumont by relinquishment -and transfer dated the 21st day of November, 19+9; and, WHEREAS-, the lease agreement with.Lamar College to the land on which said buildings are situated has expired, .and said -buildings are in need of repair and rehibilitation, and it would.not be advantageous to the City of Beaumont to demolish -said buildings and remove them from their present site, and it would not be profitable to the City of Beaumont to pay an adequate rental to Lamar College for the land upon which said buildings are situated; and., WHEREAS, it would be in compliance with the original intent of the City of Beaumont and Lamar College when said housing units were acquired to transfer the same to Lamar College; now, therefore: BE IT ORDA= BY THE CITY OF BEAUMONT: SECTION I That the City of Beaumont hereby relinquishes and transfers, without monetary consideration, to the Lamar State College of Technology at Beaumont, in Jefferson County, Texas, all contractual rights (Including the right to revenues and other proceeds) and all property, right, title and interest bf the City of Beaumont in and with respect to the temporary housing located on land owned by the Lamar State College of Technology, and presently under lease to the City of Beaumont, in Jefferson County, Texas, and designated as six (6) buildings comprising'seventy-two (72) housing units, being a part of Project No. TEX-v-1+1766 under Contract No. HA. (v-1+1766) mph -1 between the United States of America and the City of Beaumont, it being provided in the relinquishment to the City of Beaumont that such relinquishment is "based on the representation that it will, in filling vacancies in the housing project transferred and relinquished hereunder, continue to give preference to veterans; and servicemen, as said terms are defined in the contract, rights to which are being relinquished hereunder," and this re- linquishment and transfer is in accordance with and subject:to all of the provisions of the relinquishment and transfer to the City of Beaumont dated the 21st day of November, 1949. SECTION 2 This relinquishment and transfer does not include relinquishment and transfer of the two (2) buildings comprising twenty (20) negro housing units, situated on Pine Street in Beaumont, Texas, a part of the housing project included in the relinquishment and transfer by the United States to the City of Beaumont dated the 21st day of November, 1949, but such negro housing units are hereby reserved. SECTION 3 This relinquishment and transfer does not include relinquishment and transfer of the United; States Government's contractural rights, title and interest in and with respect to any government -mored personal property. SECTION 4 - It is further provided that the net proceeds derived from the housing units, hereby relinquished and transferred, shall always be devoted to and used exclusively for the student seirVices fund of the Lamar State College of Technology and for no other purpose. SECTION 5 This ordinance shall take effect and be in-f-orce from and after the 30th day of June, 1951. PASSED) this the 26th day of June, 1951, by the affirmative vote of all members of the City Council of the.City of Beaumont, Texas. APPROVED this, the 26th day of June, 1951. Mayor of the City of Beaumont, Texas (Seal) ATTEST: City Clerk of the City of Beaumont, Texas