4 - City of Oxford

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MINUTE BOOK No. 24, CITY OF OXFORD
that the Board ask the City Engineer to prepare and recommend to the City Board
adoption of specifications of standards for waterline installations, sanitary
sewer installations, acceptable curb and gutter, and also street installation.
I would recommend that he consider and include, if feasible, some difference of,
standard of street construction for streets of differing character as indicated
in the regulations. In other words, the streets that are designed to carry the
heavy load of traffic should meet more exacting specifications than a dead end
street in a small residential area. I feel that this could be accomplished
within a period of two months and returned to the Board for its action. Al-
though this may require some time on the part of the City Engineer for deve-
lopment on paper, I feel that it will become a timesaving device for him in
the future if such standards of specifications are on file in his office and
available to the people who would be constructing such things.
I very strongly urge that the street department in its immediate and
long range planning communicate with the State Highway Department with refer-
ence to its long range plans for highways entering and leaving Oxford, as
there are many instances when an understanding of such would lead to wiser
spending of our city funds in street development.
There came on for consideration the matter of the feasibility of the
City consumating an arrangement with Charles H. Warner, John P. Morrow, Jr.,
W. E. Rose, Leona Rose, Eli Hughes and Nancy L. Hughes whereby the City would own
an entire interest in a certain 25 acre tract in Marion County, Arkansas, rather
than an undivided a interest in a 100 acre tract in the same county and state.
The land involved if par of that deeded to the City by Miss Kate A. Skipwith,
and the arrangement had been worked out by Mr. William Lewis, Jr. at the re-
quest of the Mayor and Board.
It appearing to the Mayor and Board that the foregoing is most desirable
and in the best interest of the City, on motion of Alderman McLaurin, seconded
by Alderman Pettis, and passed unanimously, the Mayor and City Clerk were
authorized and directed to execute and deliver the following deeds for and in
behalf of the City to the grantees therein set out, such delivery to be made
when said grantees convey and warrant unto the City a deed to the aforementioned
25 acres, being the Southeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast
Quarter of Section 9 and the West Half of the West Half of the Northwest Quar-
ter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 10, Township 17 North, Range 14 West,
Marion County, Arkansas.
The deeds are as follows: