2377 ORD CLOSING HEARING GIVEN TO REAL AND TRUE OWNERS OF PROPERTY ABUTTING ON CERTAIN STREET IN COP

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(c) "Ihat said City Council has ordered and authorized said improvements. (d) That the City Council caused the Director of Public Works to prepare and file estimates of the costs of such improvements and estimates of the amounts per front foot proposed to be assessed against the property abutting said street within the limits defined and against the real and true owners thereof. (e) That upon the filing of said estimates, the City Council did, by ordinance duly enacted on the 9th day of January, 1978, pro- vide for and order a hearing to be held at 7:00 o'clock P. M. , on the 13th day of February, 1978, in the Council Room, City Hall, Paris, Texas, at which time and place all persons, firms, corporations and estates owning or claiming any such abutting property, or any interest therein, and their agents and attorneys, and all other persons in- terested therein, were to appear and to be heard in person or by counsel, and such ordinance directed that the City Clerk give notice of such hearing in the manner required by law. (f) That after due publication of notice as required by law, on the 13th day of February, 1977, at 7:00 0' clock P. M. , said hearing was opened and held in accordance w ith said ordinance and notice, at which time and place an opportunity was given to all of the above men- tioned parties and their agents and attorneys to be heard or offer evidence as to all matters in accordance with said ordinance and no- tice, at which time the following appeared and testified as follows: The Director of Public Works of the City of Paris, Ennis I<illingsworth, Jr., briefly described the improve - ments constructed and explained the method of apportion- ment of the costs of such improvements between the City and the abutting property and the owners thereof and testified that the property had been enhanced in value equal to or in excess of the amount of the assessment against each. The City Attorney then pointed out that notice of the hearing had been published in the Paris News at the time and in the manner required by law, and that such contained proposed rates to be assessed against the abutting property and its owners and the estimated total amount of the whole improvement, and that a copy of the notice had been mailed to the abutting property owners, and due to change of owner- ship after the time of the preparation of the original assess- ment roll, personal service was given this day to A. C. Dicken and D. O. Hindman. The Acting City Manager, H. C. Greene, testified and advised the Council of the respective values of the im- provements and the degree to which they enhanced the value of the respective abutting property and that, in his opinion, the abutting properties, and each of them, were enhanced in value by the building oE said improvements in an amount greater than the assessments against such properties.