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Home My WebLink AboutORD Undated - Courthouse Square ImproveWHEREASF the City of Georgetown deems it necessary to perm nently improve the hereinafter na a med streetsf roads, sidewalk crosswalks, curbsf guttersf lighting, alleyways and other publi V Ithin the City of Georgetown: Now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF • OF GEORGETOWN* SECTION 1. That the following streetsi, roads, sidewalk crosswalks, curbst guttersf lighting, alleyways and other publ premises a- a # • • bordering parts of Blocks Historical41F 50y 51 and 52 of the City of Georgetown, Texasf known as t "Georgetown Courthouse Square" and being those sites and are betweeen 6th Street and 9th Street and along both Austin Aven and Main Street and between Rock Street and Church Street anle along both 7th Street and 8th Street and being those area within the # # District in such area # improved in the following manner, to�wit: (1) That the # streets, roads,• -crosswalk curbsor gutters,and alleyways r. be # w replacedt improvedf altered, added to, omitted, raisedr surface cut to grade or filled and improved, including the installatio repairy replacement, omission • improvement utility lines, wires, pipes, conduits and other incidentals an# al i That !id streets, roadsjr sidewalksr# f` gutters, lighting, alleyways, utility lines, wires$, pipe conduits and other incidentals and appurtenances hereinafte sometimes referred to as "premises and public areas" shall be s repaired, ♦ ! 1. 7 • # #.altered, added !: omitted #. Sesquicentennial Commission, an agency of the City of Georgetow Texas, utilizing materials meeting all standards required by a established by the City of Georgetown City Council and Cit Building Departmentr City Utility Department and such other a thorized City Departments having jurisdiction thereof and an permanent improvements in place, meeting these specifications, which . beutilized, ! place, corresponding credits to the property owners shall be allowed 0 the assessments, That bids shall be taken for the construction of the work for the type of construction enumerated above, and the work shall be done with the materials and according to plans and methodt selected by the City Council after the bids are opened, That the cost of said improvements shall be paid for as Collows,f (a) The cost of improving so much of said premises an public areas and their intersections with other streets an alleys as is occupied by the rails and tracks of street railwa and steam railways, if any occupying said premises and publi areas, and between the same and two (2) feet on the outsid] thereof, shall be paid by the owners of said railways respective (b) The City of Georgetown shall pay only an amount equa to the costof and f all • of 1#! intersections of said premises and public areas with oth streets and alleys, and partial adjusted frontages on si property, exceptf much thereof as ei be borne by streel railways and steam railways, as provided in Subsection (a) i any, after _ deducting e proportion oi ,Jc) That provided for in said Subsections (a) and (b) above, the whol remaining cost, including the cost of concrete curbs or curbs a gutters, driveways, and sidewalks shall be paid by the owners property abutting on said premises and public areas named to b repaired, { I^ i enhanced, omitted, raised, cut to • . i ^: filled or improved, in the following manner, to�wit* The cost shall be assessed against said owners and thel property respectively, in accordance with what is known as t "Front�Foot Plan", in proportion as the frontage of the proper of each owner is to the whole frontage improved and shall bi �#ayable in monthly installments not to exceed sixty (60) number, the first of I be .thirty each month thereafter until paid, together with interest there at the current rate established and adopted by the City Counci applicable t Public Improvememt Accounts being f.•.provision that any of said installments may be paid at any tibefore maturity by the payment of the principal and the accrue#interest thereon. Any property owner against whom and whos.property an assessment has been levied may pay the whole assessment chargeable to him without interest within thirty (3) dayafter the acceptance and completion of said improvements. enhancedby installments and not to exceed the statutory rate, with t Provided that, if the application of the above mentioned rule of apportionment between property owners would, in the opinion of the City Council, in particular cases be unjust or unequal, it shall be the duty of the said Council to assess and apportion said cost in such manner as it may deem just and 'table, having in view the special benefits in value equi to be received by each owner of such property, the equities of ownerstand the adjustmentof • • • as to produce substantial r of benefits received R and burdens fi • upon such owners, That no such assessment shall be made against any owner of abutting property, or of a street railway or steam railway, if any, unt 1 after the notice and hearing provided by lawt and no assessment shall be made against an owner of abutting property in excess of the benefits to such property in enhanced value thereof by «. a of • ! # That the contractor shall be paid for the work performed under the specifications, upon monthly estimates to be prepared by the Director of Public Works, That there shall be deducted as a retainage fee, fifteen (15%) per cent of such monthly estimates, to be held by the City of Georgetown until the con� tract is performed and executed to the satisfaction of the Di� rector of Public Works. The monthly estimates shall be paid on is before the 10thof ♦. succeeding monthfor the # rk performed during the previous month. For that part of the cost of the improvements that shall be determined to be levied against the owners of abutting property and their property shall be levied by assessment as herein provided,, and said improvements may further be secured by Mechanic's Liens to .. executed in favor of the of Georgetown, provided by law in accordance with the terms and provisions of this resolution, Paving certificates evidencing the assessment shall be issued in favor of the City of Georgetown for the amount of the assessments, whether the property owners have executed Mechanic's Liens to secure the payment or not, and 3 shall be payable for the use and benefit of the Revolving Fund established for the purpose of financing paving improvements, That the Director of Elic Works is hereb• • to ly,repare at once the specifications and an estimate of the cost of such improvements and file the same with the City Council for the hereinabove described pavement and improvements. That in the specifications preparedy provision shall be made to require all contractors to give such bonds as may be necessary or as required by resolution,That such specifications shall require the bidder to make M 41id upon the type of improvements above described, with sucll *onds as may be required, That the specifications shall also state the amounts of the required bonds or certificates of obligations, as well as the method by which it is proposed to pay the cost of salf improvements, said method being in accordance with this SECTION 2. The City Council, in initiating this proceedin is acting under the terms and provisions of the Act passed at t First Called of f the State ` ! ♦: Texas, and known as Chapter 106 of the Acts f said Sessio together with any amendments thereto, now shown as Article of Vernon's Texas Statutes, ♦ 1. . .: s READ,alternative method for the construction of street improvements the City of Georgetown, Texas, has been adopted and made a pa of the Charter of said City, being Chapter of said Charter. SECTION 3o That this resolution shall take effec immediately from and after its passage in accordance with t provisons of the Charter of the City of Georgetown and it i accordingly so resolved. I PASSED AND ADOPTED this day of s READr PASSED AND ADOPTED this day of . 11 • CARL DOERI 3 City Attorney