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MEMO February 4, 2002 TO: Mayor and City Council Members City Manager FROM: Larry Schenk SUBJECT: C/osing of Price Street You will recall at our prior Council meeting we requested City Council to initiate the process of the closing of Price Street adjacent to the County Court House. This action was taken as a consequence of verbal representations at different times by the County Judge that the County will require the Price Street property as part of the over-all renovation and reconstruction of the County Court House complex. Prior to bringing the matter to City Council at our January meeting, I forwarded a letter to Judge Superville (copy enclosed) requesting that he in turn return a letter to us over his signature formally requesting abandonment of the Price Street right-of-way. At the same time, our City Engineer initiated his review of the easements existing in the Price Street right-of-way. The letter requesting the abandonment, while a formality, is a necessary part of the process of abandoning any right-of-way as a manifestation of the actual request of the adjacent property owner for the right-of-way to be abandoned. At the time I forwarded the letter to Judge Superville, I also included a form letter of request for his secretary to use in retyping on County stationery, thereby requiring the County Judge only to sign the letter and return same to me. To date, I have not received a letter requesting abandonment of the Price Street right-of-way. i subsequently requested my secretary, Alice Pinalto, to contact Judge Superville's secretary regarding the status of the letter requesting abandonment. A summary of Ms. Pinalto's conversation with the judge's secretary is attached to this memo. At the same time, I requested Ms. Pinalto to again send a copy of the form letter to Judge Superville's secretary, on the off chance the original letter had been misplaced. In spite of these efforts, I still have not received a formal request letter from Lamar County asking the City of Paris to abandon the Price Street right-of-way. Because I believe this is a necessary part of the over-all process of an abandonment, it is my judgment that no further activities should go forward on this abandonment until the letter requesting same is received by the City. Consequently, I am requesting the Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council to table such abandonment until a formal request is received.