421 RES AUTHORIZING MAYOR TO EXECUTE DEED

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~ ~ - NESOLUTION N0. ° V ti RESOLUTI01`i authorizing the P4ay=or' to execute ;a deed conveyi,ng to Marion. E. Brovm the property belonging to the City of Paris and heretofore used as a fire station and declaring an ern,ergency. 'NHEREAS, the building in the City of Paris has been extensiYeN in the Southeastern part of town, in the vicinity of Paris Junior College and Stellrose Addition and which extension is at a great distance from the fixe station located on Pine Bluff Street and such fire station is not in the center of the building% in the East part of town and for proper fire protection for such part of toyrn it is necessary to move the fire station now located on Pine Bluff Street in order that it may be in a better position to protect the entire eastern part of the City., and yVHEREAS, the City of Paris has heretofore purchased a site on Lamar Avenue for the purpose of building a fire station to serve the East side of the City of Paris, which site is better located than the old site on P ine Bluff Street and as such property on P ine Bluff Street is not further needed by the City of Paris since its abandonment as a fire station, and it is necessary to sell said site on Pine Bluff Street to procure funds for the erection of an adeauate fire station on the site on Larnar Avenue, and W?-iEREAS, the City can sell said site on Pine Bluff Street at an advantage and for the sum of $6500000, which sum is considered an adequate consideration for said site, NOiN, THEREFOR:E, BE IT RESOLVED that the Mayor be and is hereby authcrized to execute a deed conveying to b3arion E. Brown the said site on Pine Bluff Street for the sum of $6500.00, which property is described as follows: BEGINNING at the intersection of the NB line of Pine Bluff St with the ES line of lOth St NE, formerly designated North 28th St; thence North 285 feet with the EB line of lOth St NEP the SB line of Cherry St; thence East with the SB line of Cherry St, 111 feet, a bo~s d'arc post, the PJTId cornex of Jess Alford Lot; thence South 285,5 feet, the NB line of Pine B1,uff St, same being the S1J corner of a lot owned by C. S. Braswell; thence VVe st 100 feet to the place of beginning. VkiEREAS, the sale of this property on Pi.ne Bluff Street is necessary at once in order to begin work on the new fire station on Larnxar Avenue, creates a public emergency which is hereby declared,, requiring that the Charter provisions and rules prohibiting the passage of an ordinance at the same meeting at which it is introduced and requiring it to be submi tted to a committee, be suspended, the same is accordingly done and this Resolution wrill take effect from and after its passage, A3ES NAYES J, W. Barnesl Idayor of the City of P aris: Tex. ATTEST: J. A. Binnion, City Secretary.