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.~ ~. , .., . . . . ,; ...-, e . ORDINANCE NO. /,77 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING GULF BITULITHIC COMPANY TO PROCEED WITH AND CONSTRUCT THE IMPROVEMENTS UPON CERTAIN STREETS OR UNITS, WITHIN THE -LIMITS HEREIN REFERRED TO, COMPLETE WITHOUT ANY OMISSIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH A CERTAIN- CONTRACT HERETOFORE AW.ARDED; ASSUMING AND AGREEING- TO PAY TO GULF BITULITHIC COMPANY THE AMOUNT OF CERTAIN ASSESSMENTS LEVIED AGAINST CERTAIN OWNERS AND THEIR PROPERTIES ABUTTING UPON SAID STREETS OR UNITS; MAKING APPROPRIATION OF AVAILABLE FUNDS FOR THE FOREGOING PURPOSEj TAKING OTHER ACTIONS AND MAKING FINDINGS RELAT.t!AD TO THE FOREGOING; AND PROVIDING FOR THE. EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ORDINANCE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS: , . Section 1. The City Commission of the City of La Porte, Texas, hereby finds and determines: (a) That the City of La Porte has heretofore executed a coritract with Gulf Bitulithic Company, a division of 'Warren Brothers Company, as authorized by Ordinance No. 760 enacted March 6, 1967, for the improvement of certain Streets or Units in said City within the limits and as identified in Ordinances Nos. 71;.9 and 750-, both heretofore enacted on June 7, 1966, which contract provides, among other things, that said Contractor shall not be obligated to make said improvements in the portion of said Streets in frontof any property against which valid assessment liens cannot be levied unless the owners of such property shall satis- factorily secure to the Contractor the payment of the amount of the costs of improving said Streets assessed against them and their properties; and (b) That said Contractor has heretofore duly notified the City of La Porte of the exempt properties abutting upon said Streets or Units, the owners of which have failed or refUsed to satisfactorily secure the pay- ment to Contractor of the portion of the costs of im- proving said Streets or Units assessed against them and their resn~ctive properties and that Contractor has det- ermined to leave out or skip said improvements in front of such properties unless the City of La .Porte assumes and agrees to pay to Contractor the amounts of the assessments levied against said owners and their res- pective properties in accordance with the terms of the above mentioned contract; and (c) That the omission~of said improvements in front of such of said properties hereinbelow set out and iden- tified in Section2 hereof will create serious traffic hazards and that the Streets or Units upon which said pro- perties abut, as hereinbelow named and identified in