HomeMy WebLinkAbout480 Ord Motion by Alderman Hancock, seconded by Alderman Osborne, that
Harry McCain be appointed as nightwatchman on East sixth street to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignatiOn of E.E.weiss who was
pointed to a place in the police department. The motion was carried
and it was so ordered.
There being no further b~siness, meeting adjourned.
Ptainview, Texas, ~ay 18, 1942.
The City Council met in regular meeting with the following mem-
bers present. Mayor, John F. DuBose. Aldermen: C.H.!iancock, L.M,Frogge,
ozty Attorney, Dan I.~I. Cook, at-
Floyd Poet, W.C.Maloneand E.M.0sborne. ~'
tended the meeting. Minutes of the last meeting read and adopted.
~ ~ · - ~otion by Alderman
Frogge, seconded by Alderman~ ~oer, that the City join the County i~ a
contract to lease the city-county airport to Clint Breedlove, and that
the Mayor be and he i~ hereby authorized and instructed to sign for the
City~ The motion was carried and it was so ordered~
i,5otion by Alderman Osborne, seconded by Alderman Malone, that the
be appointed to fill unexpired terms on the Board of City Development:
W.R.Taegel~ R.H.Knoohuizen and G.F. Fellay to replace Jack skaggs, H.T.
Roberts,~ who~,resiEned. The motion carrie~ and it was so ordered.
Alderman Osborne introduced.and moved the adoption of the following
o~d~ihan~e :~
Ordinance No. 480
AN 0RDINANGE CLOSING T~ ALLEY LYING ~DiATELY EAST OF LOT~'N0.
BLOCK NO. 2, OF ~i~ A. Lo MAUPIN ADDITION TO TP~E TOV~ OF PLAINVIEW,
HA~-~ COUNTY, TEXAS.
Whereas, at the regular session of the City Council of the City
of Plainview, Texas, a petition was presented to the Council by The
Panhandle Compress & Warehouse ~ompany, ~or an order from this Coun~
cil closing the alley lying ~immediately east of Lot No. 8, in Block
No. 2, of the A. L. ~aupin Addition to the town of Plainview, Hale
County, Texas; said alley being 12 feet in width and 198 feet in length
and lying between the a£oreaaid ~lock and the tract designated on the
map of the tov~, as the ~.A.Bilb~y~tract; and it appearing to the Coun~
cil that the Petitioner is the owner of the property in said blocks, as
well as the propeDy lying south tEer~of, and that there are no other
parties interested in said alley or in the ~roperty adjacent thereto;
that the said alley was dedicated by A. L. Maupin, et. al. in the dedi-
cation of the said addition to the tov~ of Plainview, as shown by deed
recorded in Volume 36, page 170 of the Deed Records of Hale County, TeEs;
that the said alley has never been in use by the public and is not of any
benefit or value to the public and has mot been acquitted or used by pre-
scription and for such reason should be clOsed; T~REFOR~,
BE IT 0RDAI~D BY THE CiTY CO%~C!L OF T~E CITY OF PLAINVIEW, TEXAS,
That the aforesaid alley 12 feet in width and 198 feet in l~th ex~
tending hg~th ~d south along the east line of Lot No. 8 in Bloc~'2 of the
A. L. ~ga'u~in Addition to the town of Flainview, Texas, and between said
lot and the property knov~ as the W)mA.Bilbry tract and extending south to
~the right-of~way of the ~ort Worth and Denver City Railway Company, be and
the same is hereby closed and that from henceforth the city and the public
shall have no right of use or occupancy along, over and across the said
alley way.
The fact that the Petitioner is preparing to construct permanent and
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valuable improvements on its said property and that the public ~ener-
ally has no inter~st in suc~ a!l~ey~.aslde~gnated~.andtterm~dc:a ~dead-
end'~ alley, creates an emergency and an imperative public necessity
requi~ing the sespension of the rule that ordinances shall be read at
~hreie meetings of the City Council. Said rule is therefore hereby
suspended and this ordinance is put upon its final reading and passed
by $. vote of 5 ayes and no nays, and shall take effect upon being
signed by the-~yor.
~igned and approved by the~Mayor and attested by the City Secre$
tary this 18th day of ~av, A. D~, 19~2
ATTEST:
J. L. Gatlaway~
~-~-~ Secretary.--
~igned
John F. DuBose,
~ayor.
Alderman Malone seconded the motion, 'which was carried, and it was so
ordelred.
Alderman P0er made a motion, which motion was seconded hy alderman
Osborne, that the salaries of the following city employes b~ increased
~lO.00 per month each. Police Department: Ho.vt Curry, T.A.Bohannon,
Nath Burkett, Ed '~.~itchell, g.N.Haun, E.E.WeisS, J.A.Finney, J.E.Sheeon.
Fire Department: H.M.Gregg, A.~Z.Hamilton, Frank Rigler, Leedy ~/~axey,
F.I. Gallaway, J.LoHolder, H.L.Davis. Water & Sewer Department: S.E.
Bolles, X,~T.Herrod, S.G.Yates,' G.B.Massengale. Street Department: J.p.
Marlin, A,.L.King, O.B.Guin, Lon Cartw:~ight, A.D.Davis, H.L.Hood, T.P.
Sitton, I~;iarvin Stultz. Auditorium: Jim Bevers. Parks: R.D.Short and
Frank StUltz. Th~ motion was carried and it was so ordered.
~!otion and second' that O. B. Guin be appointed to the place in
the street department, driving the streetsv/eeper, which.place was made
vacant by the resignation of T.D.McMennemy. The motion was carried and
it was so ordered.
There being no further business, meeting adjourned.
-: R~ay 26th, 1942:-
A called mee
with the l~ayor_, ~
HancOck, w. C. Ms
transacted, to-w~
Alderman lia~
.derman Poet, that
thousand bolla rs
plat of ground to
designated later.
ting of the City Council was held om the .above date,
ohn ~. ~ose, presiding, and Aldermen present,
lone and Floyd POer, when the followi~ business was
t:
cock made a motion, which motion was seconded by Al-
the ~City ~oin the County in the expenditure of One-
~l,000. ) for the~purpose of leasing and Lmproving a
be used for a "CiVilian Airport-~- said plat v~ll be
The motion was carried and it was so ordered.
There beir~ no further business, :meeting adjot~rned.