Book 14 (January 1950 - July 1954) - City of Oxford

~! 222'----~,-----,-. _." ._-DEMENT - MERIDIAN----..... = -MINUTE BOOK No. 14, CITY OF OXFORDA RESOLUTION DETERllINING TO PROCEED HITH CERTAIN SPECIAL IM­PROVEHENTS AND ORDERIHG THE CITY ENGINEER AND THE STRE":'1:'COl1MISSIONER TO PROCEED HITH GR~DIHG, GRAVELING AND PAV­ING SIDEWALKS Al;D STREETS, conSTRUCTING CURBS AND GUT­TERS, SA.NITARY AND STORN SEVlERS, vlATER HAINS AND CONNECT­IONS, FIRE HYDRANTS, POLF-S A.IID ELECTRIC \IIRES, AND OTHERlfOPJ\S AND THINGS APPURTENANT THE.'lETO ON: (1) FIDfORE AVE­NUE FROH THE WEST SIDE OF 14TH STREET TO THE EAST SIDE OF15TH STREET, AND FROM THE NORTH SIDE OF FIU10RE AVENUE on15TH STREET SOUTHHARD TO THE INTERSECTICN OF PIERCE AVE­NUE, AND ON ll;.TH STREET FROl1 THE NORTH SIDE OF PIERCE AVE­NUE TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF FIDfORE AVENUE AND "ll011 THE NORTHSIDE OF FIU10RE AVENUE ON 14TH STREET TO THE SOUTH SIDEOF TAYLOR A VEJlmE; (2) NORTE '7l'H STREET BETWEEN THE INTER­SECTION OF THE NORTH LINE OF WASHINGTON AVENUE AND THESOUTH LINE OF PRICE STREET; PROVIDING THAT SPECIFICATIONSARE ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY ENGINEER; PROVIDINGFOR THE PUBLICATION OF THE RESOLUTION, AND ,FOR DATE, TI11EAND PLA.CE FOR HEARING OBJECTIONS TO THE IHPROVEHENTS.; ANDPROVIDIHG FOR SPECIAL ASSESSl-lEIJTS AGAINST ABU'fTING PROP­ERTY OWNERS TO PAY FOR SUD IMPROVEl1EN'l'S.WIEREAS, ON March 7, 1950, at a regular meeting of the}byor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Oxford, lftssissippi aresolution was adopted declaring necessary street paving, sidewalks,curbs, gutters, incidental storm sewers and drains, thelaying of metal and other pipe connections, and other worksand things in~identa1 and necessary thereto, on Fi1lr,ore Avenuefrom the West side of l/;.th Street to the East side of 15thstreet, and from the North side of Fillmore Avenue on the 15th Streetsouth1.mrd to the intersection of Pierce Avenue, and on 14thStreet from the North side of Pierce Avenue to the South sideof Fillmore Avenue, and from the North side of Fillmore Avenueon 14th Street to the South side of Taylor Avenue, as shown bythe official map of the City of Oxford, Hississippi, on file ",iththe Mayor of said City and \lith the Chancery Clerk of LafayetteCounty, Mississippi, Hhich said speda1 improvements requirean unusual outlay and cost for '''hich the general improvement fundshould not be used: and,Whereas, on October 3, 1950, at a regUlar meeting of theMayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Oxford, }fississippi aresolution wan adopted declaring necessary street paving, side-­Halks, curbs, gutters, incidental storm sewers end drains, thelaying of metal and other pipe connections, and other Horks andthings incidental and necessary thereto , on North 7th Street,9.nd the East and West sides thereof, between the intersection ofthe North line of Washington Avenue and the South line of PriceStreet in the City of Oxford, }lississippi, as show-1 by the officialmap of the City of Oxford, Mississippi, on file uith theMayor of said City and ,·Ii th the Chancery Clerk of Lafayette County,Mississippi, Hhich said special improvements require unusualoutlay and cost for whicn the general improvement fund shouldnot be used; and,Hhereas, the City Clerk published the tl.,ro above referred toresolutions in The Oxford Ea c :1e, a newspaper of , general circulationin The City of Oxford, l1ississippi, the one passed m1 Harch7th, 1950 on October 5th, 12th, and 19th, and t.he one passed onOctober 3, 1950 on October 5th, 12t!1, and 19th, both i11 the year1950; and,Whereas, more than fifteen days hav.e elapsed since the firstpUblication of the t'VlO above referred to resolutions; and,Whereas, a majority of the o\mers of property owning morethan fifty per cent of the front footage of the property involvedand actually residing on property mmed by them and includedHi thin those parts of the streets and avenues orderr:d to be speciallypetitioned for said improvements, and no person appearedin person, by attorney, or by petition to object or protest thesaid special improvements; and,