626 RES APPEARS TO CITY COUNCIL THERE IS A NECESSITY FOR PERMANENT PAVING AND IMPROVEMENT OF E HOUSTON ST

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w ~ • • RESOLUTION ND. bz6 6'VHEREAS9 it appears to the City Council that there is a necessity for the permanent paving and improvement of East Houston Street from 30th N. E. to 31st N. E. Street, it appearing that concrete curbs and gutters should be constructed along both sides of the paved portion of said street and that said street should be paved from curb to curb with six inch (611) compacted gravel base, with double asphaltic penetration wearing surface; and, WHEREAS, the vepartment of Public Works of the City of Paris has reported to the City Council an estimated cost of $1.50 per front foot for the required curb and gutter and a cost of $3.00 per running foot for the paving; and, WHEREAS, the City Council is willing to apply its existing street paving policy whereby the abutting property owners are required to pay the costs of building curb and gutter and such property owners are further re- quired to pay one-third of the street paving cost for each foot of the street on which said respective properties abut, with the City paying the remaining one-third of snoh street paving costs; and, WHEREAS, all of the persons owning property abutting on said East Houston Street between 30th N. E. and 31st N. E. Streets have made satis- factory arrangements with the administrative officials of the City oi' Paris for the payment of their respective portions of the costs of such pavement and curb and gutters under the application of the foregoing policy, except the followings Guy Vdilliams, owner of Lot 11, Block 1, Hayes Heights Addition to the City of Paris, which lot fronts 100 feet on the South Boundary Line of said street, said curb and gutter being in place for the width of said lot on that side of said street abutted by the Guy VJilliams lot, the pro rata portion of the cost of paving saiij street is $100.00; Dan Sales, owner of Lot 13, Block 1, Hayes Heights Addition, which lot fronts 100 feet on the South Boundary Line of sa:id street, and whose pro rata portion of the cost of suGh paving and cu;cb and gutter is $250.00; M. A. Barber, owner of Lots 14 and 15, Block :L, Hayes Heights Addition, which lots front 200 feet on the South Boundary Line of said street and whose pro rata portion is $500.00; and Rober-t Vi. Ferguson, owner of Lot 7, Block 3, Hayes Heights Addition, which lot fronts 100 feet on the IVorth Boundary Line of said street, which latter person has made satisfactory arrangements for the building of the recxuired curb and gutter, but who has not made satisfactory arrangements for i:he paving, the pro rata portion of the cost of paving said street for said lot being $100.00; and, WHEREAS, the said Dan Sales, M. A. Barber and Robert W. Ferguson, together with their respective wives, have agreed to make, execute ar►d deliver to the City of Paris a mechanic's and materialmen's lien on t:heir said respective properties to secure the payment of their respective pro rata portions of the costs of such street pavement and curb and gutter construction for which satisfactory arrangements have not heretofore been made; and vdHEREAS, the said Guy Williams of Fort Worth, Texas, has failed and refused to pay the pro rata portion of the costs of such pavement for his property, described above, whereby it appears to the City Council that assessments should be made and levied against the said Guy Williams and his said property in the amount of $100.00; NOW, THEREFORE,