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1291 ORD ADOPTING BUDGET FOR ENSUING FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1 1954 AND ENDING JUNE 30 1955I ~ - I APPROPRIATION ORUINANCE N0. 1211)1 AN ORDINANCE ADOPTIPIG A BUDGET FOR THE ENSUING FISCJ',L YEAR, BEGINNING JULY 1, 195#1 AND ENDING JUNE 30, 195+, IN ACCORDANGE l;JITH THE afARTER OF THE CITY OF PARIS; APPROPRIATING THE VARIOUS ANOUNT5 THEREOF AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN GOPIFLICT HEREWITH. WHEREAS, the City Nianager of the City of Paris has submitted to the City Cauncil a propased budget of the revenues of said City and the expenses of conducting the affairs thereef and providing a complete financial plan for ' the ensuing fiscal. year, bea,inning July 1, 1953, and ending June 30, 1954, and which said proposed budget has been campiled from detailed informatian obtained from the several departments, divisions and, offices of the City; and UJHEREAS, the City Council has received said City Manager's proposed budget, a copy of which propcsed budget and all supporting schedules have been filed with the City Clerk of the City of Paris, and is of the opinion that the same should be approved and adopted and that a public hearing before the City Council has been provided for as required by Article V, Section 50, of the Charter of the City of Paris, Texas; NOW THEREFORE, BE I T ORDAINED BY THE CI TY COUNCI L QF THE CI TY OF PA.RI5 : 5ection 1. That the proposed budget of the revenues of the City of Paris and the expenses of cor.ducting the affairs thereaf, providing a complete financial plan for the ensuing fiscal year beginning July 1, 1953, and ending June 30, 1954, as submitted to the City Council by the City N~,ana5er of said City, be, and the same is in all things adopted and approved as the budget of all of the current expenses as well as the fixed charges against said City for the fiscal year beyinning July l, 1953, and ending .7une 30, 1954. Section 2. That the sum of $584,617.29 is hereby appropriated out of the general fund for the payment of operating expenses and capital vutlay of the City government as hereinafter itemized: ~ - - GENERAI, GOVERNMENT: City Council $ 890.00 Administrative 10,562.41 City Attorney 3.600.00 Total FINANCE: Accounting & Auditing $129739.30 Assessment & Collection of Taxes 11.063.16 Total PlJ►3LIC SAFETY: Police $779795.11 Fire 84.856 20 Total PUBLIC WORICS: Engineering $109831.61 Abattoir 1,282.05 Parks 199124.80 Sanitation 219931.40 Streets and Highways 91,090.12 6^Jarehouse 60275.80 Public Lighting 119148.80 Garage 9,105.36 VVater Billing & Gollecting 8,898.65 Water Production 46t531.60 4Vater Distribution 60,030.75 Sewer Billing & Collecting 6,120.42 Sewer PAaintenance 34,411.08 Sewer Treatment 15.040.00 Total COr1SERVATION OF HEALTH: Health Unit $13.872.50 Total MISCELLANEOUS: Airport (Cox Field) $ 19116.50 Paris Band 59258.67 King•s Daughters 29400.00 I.ibrary 8.641.00 Total CONTINGENT FUND: Grand Total AMk $15,052.41 23,802.46 162,651.31 341,822.44 13,872.50 17,4.16.17 10.000.00 $584,617.29 Alk w + _ I Section 3. That the sum of $129,556.52 is hereby appropriated out of the general debt service fund for the purpose of paying the interest due on ;"general obligation bonds, redeeming the serial bonds as they mature, and ' creating a sinking fund therefor. Section 4. The sum of $39,264.38 is hereby appropriated out of the 1Water and Sewer Revenue Bond Fund for the purpose of paying the accrued interest and making the principal payments as the same mature on the water and sewer revenue bonds, and creating the prescribed contingent and reserve funds therefor. Section 5. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith lare hereby repealed. Section 6. This ordinance shall be and remain in full force and effect from and after its passaqe and approval by the City Council of the City of Paris. Read, adopted and approved by the Cit Cq,uncil at a regular meeting held `at the City Hall in the City of Paris this day of June, 1953. ; f ~ Mayor i, ATTES T: City Clerk. ASk Alk N 0 T I C E TO ALL PERSONS OWNING OR CLAIMING TITLE TO ANY PROPERTY ABUTTING UPON THE HEREINAFTER DESCRIBED PORTION OF WEST WASHINGTON STREET AND PORTIONS OF SUNDRY 'OTHER 5TREETS IN THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS, AND TO ALL PERSQNS OWNING OR CLAIMING ANY INTEREST IN ANY SUCH PROPERTY: The Governing Body of the City of Paris, Texas, has ordered that the hereinbelow described and designated portions of streets in the City of Paris, Texas, be improved by cutting and filling the same so as to bring the same to grade, paved from curb to curb with 6-inch soil asphalt base and single asphaltic surface treatment, together with concrete curbs and gutters, curb returns and sewer drop in-lets along both sides of such streets; all of said improvements are to be constructed as and where shown on the plans and in strict accordance with the plans and specifications therefor now on file with the City; the Governing Body of the City of Paris has further provided and ordered that the City of Paris shall furnish and provide all required labor and materials for the filling and grading of such streets, as wel:i as the full cost of paving the same, as specified above, together with the full cost of the con- struction of all sewer drop in-lets, drains and curb returnsv and has further provided that the abutting properties and the owners thereof shall be assessed for the full cost af the construction of the curb and gutter on both sides of such streets in accordance with what is known as the-Ilfront-foot plan", in pro- portion as the frontage of the respective properties A to the 4vhole frontage improvement; and contract for the construction of such sewer drop in-lets, drains, curb returns, and curb and gutter sections was made and entered into with J. F. Huddleston & Son, a concrete contracting firrn for the making and construction of such improvements. Estimate of the cost of such improvements for each said portion of said street has been prepared. The portions of said streets so to be improved under such contract, together with the estimated cost of such improvements for each said portion of street and the amount per front foot proposed to be assessed against the abutting properties and the owners theore on each such portion of street are as follows: UNIT ND. 1: On West Washington Street from the 'vJest boundary line of 7th Street Southwest, west to a point 780 feet west of such West boundary line ' of 7th Street Southwest, which is designated as Unit No. 1. The Estimated cost of such improvements id $1,185.00v and the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof is $1.50. UNI,T N0. 2: On Fitzhugh Avenue between Hickory Street and Blake Road, which is designated as Unit No. 2: The estimated cost of such improvements is $1,691.50, and the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof is $1.50. UNII 1V0. 3: On 8th Street Northeast between Hickory Street and Blake Roadt known and designated as Unit No. 3: the estimated cost of the improve- ments is $1,055.00, and the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof is $1.50. UNIT N0. 4s On Blake Road from its intersection with Fitzhugh Avenue, west a distance of 444 feet; the estimated cost of the improvements is $1,111.50, and the estimated cost or amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof is $1.50. UNIT N0. 5: On Hickory Street from its intersection with Fitzhugh Avenue, west to its intersection with 8th Street Northeast: the estimated cost of the improvementsis $525.00, and the estimated amount per front foot to be assessed against abutting property and the owners thereof is $1.50. Ask .9@~ AML ` A hearing will be held by and before the Governing Body of the City of Paris, Texas, on the 8th day of June, 1953, at 7:30 o'clock P.M.t in the Council Room of the City Hall in the City of Paris, Texas, to all owning or claiming any property abutting upon said portions of said streets, and to all owning or claiming any interest in such property. At said time and place all owning or claiming any such abutting prooerty, or interest therein, shall be and appear and will be fully heard concerning said improvementst the cost thereof, the amounts to be assessed therefor, the benefits of the respective parcels of abutting property by means of the improvements on the portions of streets upon which the property abutts, and concerning the regularity, validity and sufficiency of the contract for and all proceedings relating to such im- provements and proposed assessments thereforg concerning any matter as to which they are entitled to hearing under the law in force in the City of Paris and under the proceedings of the City with reference to said matters, and in accordance with and under the terms and provisions of Chapter 106 of the Acts of the First Called Session of the 40th Legislature of the State of Texas, now shown as Article 1105b of the Vernon°s Texas Civil Statutest under which law these proceedings are taken and had. Following such hearing, assessments will be levied against abutting property and the owner thereof, and such assessments, when levied, shall be a personal liability of the owner of such property, and a first and prior lieng except as to State, County, School District and City ad volorem taxes, upon the property as provided by law. The improvements on each said portion of street constitute an entirely s eparate and distinct unit of improvement, all to the same extent as if en- tirely separate and distinct proceedings had been taken with reference to the improvements and assessments therefor in connection with the improvements of each such portion of said streets and the assessments against the property abutting upon any unit shall be and are in no wise affected by any fact or cir- cumstance relating to or connected with the improvements in any other unit. Of all said matters and things, all owning or claiming any such property or any interest therein, as well as all others in any wise interested or affected, will take notice. DONE by order of the City Council of the City of Paris, Texas this 25th day of May, 1953. , City Clerk, City of Paris, Texas.