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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 8168~~ ~ *.;. ORDINANCE NO ~ I ~p AN ORDINANCE DETERMINING THE NECESSITY FOR AND ORDERING AND PROVIDING FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF A PORTION OF' EAST BERRY STREET _ AND PORTIONS OF SUNDRY OTHER STREETS, AVENUES AND PUBLIC PLACES IN TH.E CITY OF FORT WORTH TEXAS LETTING CON- TRACT TO I_ GRIMES & CO., ?NC. AND FOR THE MAKING AND CONSTRUCTION OF SUCH: IMPROVEMENTS AND AUTHORIZING ITS EXECU- TION MAKING APPROPRIATIONp FOR. THE PURPOSE OF PAYING THE INDEBTEDNESS THEREBY INCURRED MAKING PROVISIONS FOR THE LEVYING OF ASSESSMENTS AGAINST ABUTTING PROPERTIES AND THE OWNERS THEREOF FOR A PART OF THE COST OF SUCH IMPROVEMENTS AND THE ISSUANCE OF ASSIGNABLE CERTIFICATES IN EVIDENCE OF SUCH ASSESSMENTS DIRECTING THE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR OF THE CITY TO PRE- PARE ESTIMATES DIRECTING THE CITY SECRETARY TO FILE A NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF THIS ORDINANCE WITH THE COUNTY CLERK OF TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS DECLAR- ING THAT THIS ORDINANCE AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO SAID STREET IMPROVEMENT ARE AND SHALL BE PURSUANT TO THE ACT OF THE FIRST CALLED SESSION OF THE FORTIETH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS CHAPTER 106 COMMONLY KNOWN AS ARTICLE 1105b OF VERNON'S TEXAS CIVIL STATUTES AS AMENDED BY ACTS 1967 60TH LEGISLATURE PAGE 365, CHAPTER 176 SECTION 1 EMERGENCX EFFECTIVE MAY 12 1967 AND DIRECTING THE CITY SECRETARY TO ENGROSS AND EN- ROLL THIS ORDINANCE BY COPYING THE CAPTION OF SAME IN THE MINUTE BOOKS OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND BY FILING THE COMPLETE ORDINANCE IN THE APPROPRIATE ORDINANCE RECORDS OF THIS CITY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE ~-,.,, WHEREAS, the Public Works Director for the City of Fort Worth Texas has prepared Plans and Specifications for the improvements of the hereinafter described portions of streets avenues and public places in the city of Fort Worth Texas and same having been examined by the City Council of the City of Fort Worth Texas and found to be in all matters and things proper NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH TEXAS, THAT I The hereinafter described Plans and Specifications are hereby approved and. adopted II There exists a public nECessity for the improvement of the hereinafter described portions of streets, avenues and public places in the City of Fort Worth Texas to-wit EAST BERRY STREET From Crouch Avenue. to Candace court, known and designated as Project No '021'-°2523:1 III Each of the above described portions of streets, avenues and public places in the City of Fort Worth, Texas, shall be improved by raising grading, and filling same and by constructing thereon the following, to-wit EAST BERRY STREET From Crouch Avenue to Candace Court, known and de- signated as Project No 021=25231, a three-inch thick hot-mix asphaltic concrete ~~.~rface on an eight- inch thick cement stabilized b~ase~lon~~a sixty-foot roadway Seven-inch high concrete curb and eighteen- wide concrete gutter will be constructed where none ~~" exists r The above together with concrete curbs gutters driveways and incidentals to such improvements on proper grade and line where same are not already so constructed together with storm sewers and drains and other necessary incidentals and appurtenances all of said improvements to be constructed as and where shown on the Plans and Specifications therefor IV The cost of said improvements as herein defined shall be paid for as follows to-wit A The property abutting on that portion of the street avenue or public place and the real and true owners thereof shall pay all of the cost of. curbs and gutters in front of. their property and not exceeding nine-tenths (9/lOths) of. the estimated cost of the remainder of such improvements B The City of Fort Worth shall pay all of the remainder of. the cost of said improvements after deducting the amounts herein specified to be paid by the abutting properties and the real and true owners thereof. as set out in subsection A The amounts payable by the abutting properties and the real and true owners thereof shall be assessed against such properties and the real and true owners there- of. and shall constitute a first and prior lien upon such properties and a personal liability of the real and true owners there of and shall be payable to-wit When .the improvements-are completed and accepted by the City on a particular unit the soma assessed against property abutting upon such completed and accepted unite shall be and become payable in five (5) equal installments due respectively on or before thirty (30) days and one (1) two (2) three (3) and four (4) years from the date of such completion and acceptance and tine assessments against the pro- perty abutting upon the remaining unite shall be and become due and payable in such installments after the date of completion and acceptance of such respective unit The entire amount assessed against the particular parcels of. property shall bear interest from the date of such completion and acceptance of. the improvements on the unit upon which the particular property abuts at the rate of six (6%) percent per annum, payable annually exeept as to interest on the first installment which shall be due and payable on the date said installment matures provided that any owner shall have the right to pay any and all of ouch i.natallment at any time before maturity by paying principal with interest accrued to the date of payment and further provided if default be made in the ]payment of any installment promptly .es the same matures, then at the option of the City of Fort Worth or its assigns the entire amount of the assessment upon which each default is made shall be and become immedi- ately due and payable but it is specifically provided that no assessments shall in any case be made against any propertty or any owner thereof in excess of the special benefits to property in the enhanced value thereof by means of said improvements in the unit upon which the particular property abuts as ascertained at the hearing pro- vided by the law in force in the Citty, nor shall any assessment be made in any case until after notice of hearing as provided by iaw Said assessments against the respective lots and parcels of property and owners thereof shall be evidenced by certificates of a speeial assessment which shall be executed in the name of the City of Fort Worth, PROVIDgD, however, that acting through its duly authorized Director of Publie Works, the City of Fort Worth retaining the right to authorized payment of the sums assessed against abutting property upon such completed and accepted unit in not more than forty-eight equal regular monthly installments of not leas than $9 00 each, the first of such insta]llmenta to become due and payable not more than 30 days after the completion and acceptance by the City of the particular unit PROVIDED FURTHER, that the City Attorney is hereby empowered to. authorize payments of said sums in lesser installments and/or over a longer period of time in cases in which the Director of Public Works has previously determined that an extreme financial hardship upon the property owner will otherwise result and FROVIDED FURTHER that such method of payment shall be authorized only in instances where the owner or owners of property abutting upon such completed and accepted unit shall have executed and delivered to the City of Fort Worth a lawful, valid and binding note and mechanic's and materialman's contract upon forms supplied by the City granting a mechanic°s lien upon and conveying the said abutting property in trust to secure the payment by said owner or owners according to the terms thereof of the sums assessed against such property V The assessments against the respective lots and parcels of property and the owners thereof shall be evidenced by certificates of special assessment which shall be executed in the name of the City by the Mayor of said City and the City Secretary shall attest the same and impress the corporate seal of the city thereon and which may have attached thereto coupons in evidence of. the several installments or in evidence of any of the installments in which the assessment is payable which certificates shall be issued to the City of. Fort Worth shall recite the terms and time of payment the amount of the assessment the description of the property and the name of the owners as far as known and shall contain such other recitals as may be pertinent thereto and shall further recite substantially that all pro- ceedings with reference to the making of such improvements have been regularly had in compliance with law and that all prerequisites to the fixing of. the assessment lien against the property described in said certificates and the personal liability of the owners thereof have been regularly had done and performed and such re- citals shall be prima facia evidence of the. matters so recited and no further proof shall be required in any court and the said certificates shall provide substantially that if default be made in the payment of any installment promptly as the same matures then at the option of the City of Fort Worth or its a~seigns, the entire amount of the assessment shall be and became immediately due and payable together with reasonable attorney s fees and costs of collection if incurred all of which, as well as the principal and interest on the asses$ment shall be a first and prior lien against the property superior to all other i erns and claims except State County School District and City ad valorem taxes No error or mistake in naming any owner or in describing any property or in any other matter or thing shall invalidate any assessment or any certificate issued in evidence thereof and the omission of improvements on any particular unit or in front of any property exempt by law from the .lien of special assessment for street improvements shall not in- validate any assessment levied The certificates referred to need not contain recitals in exactly the works above provided for but the aubatanee thereof shall suffice and they may contain other .and additional recitals pertinent thereto 'VI Bids having been advertised for as required by Article 11ASb of the re- vised Civil Statutes of Texas as amended and the bid of 1_ Grimac tt Cn~~p,0 r having been found to be the lowest and beat bid for the making and construction o.f said improvements the contract there- fore is hereby awarded to L. G1^lID2S___&.CO. Inc.. at and for the prices stated in the Proposal of said company and as reported and recommended by the Public Works Department which said report and recommendation is on file with the city the City Manager, and the City Secretary are hereby directed to execute the said contract in the name of the r City of Fort Worth Texas and to impress the corporate seal of the City thereon the said contract embracing among other things the prices for the work VII To provide for the payment of the indebtedness incurred by the City of Fort Worth Texas by said contract there is hereby appropriated out of available funds and current revenues of the City an amount sufficient to pay said indebtedness so incurred VIII The improvements provided for herein shall be made and constructed notice given hearing held and assessment levied and all proceedings taken and had in accordance with and under the terms of the powers and provisions of Chapter 106 of the Acts of the First Called Session of the Fortieth Legislature of the State of Texas now known as Article 1105b of Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes as amended, which law has been adopted as an amendment to and made a part of the Charter of the City of Fort Worth Texas and under which law these proceedings are taken and had IX Each unit above described shall be and constitute a separate and independent unit of improvement and the assessments herein provided for shall be made for the improvements in each unit according to the cost of the improvements in that unit and according to the benefits arising from the improvements in that unit X In making assessments if t:he name of the owner be unknown it shall be sufficient to so state the fact, and if any property be owned by an estate or by any firm or corporation it shall bey sufficient to so state and it shall not be necessary to give the correct name cif the owner but the real and true owners of the property mentioned shall be liat~le and the assessments against the property shall be valid XI The Director of Public Work:a of the City or Fort Worth Texas be and he is hereby ordered and directed to file with the City Council estimates of the coat of such improvements in each unit, i.n accordance with the terms of the powers and provisions of the Charter of the City of Fort Worth Texas XII The City Secretary is directed to prepare sign and file with the County Clerk of Tarrant County Texas, a notice in accordance with the provisions of the Act passed at the Fifth Called Session of the Forty-first Legislature of the State of Texas and shown as Chapter 21 of the Acts of said Session of the Legislature said Act having been passed in the year 1930 and now known as Article 1220a of Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes XIII The City Secretary is hereby directed to engross and enroll this ordinance by copying the caption~of same in the Minute Book of the City Council and by filing the complete ordinance in the appropriate Ordinance Records of this City XIV This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage PASSED AND APPROVED THIS / DAY OF !, 19 ~(~ APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY ~~ ity Attorney `~% /J/ ~~ V~ U City of Fort Worth, ?exas .~Iccyor a~ad Coadncal Coa~-a~a~anacation DATE f REFERENCE SUBJECT Award of Contract East Berry Stre t pAGE NUMBER Improvements Crouch Avenue to o ®o eQn ~a~r-s~s~ Candance Court i of 2 City Council action is requested on Project No 021-025-231-00 as described below Street East Berry Street Origin of Project Roadway R 0 W Limits Width-feet Width-feet Crouch Avenue east to 60 90 Candace Cooirt On June 6 19'18 (M&C G-3837) the City Council approved the 1978-79 Capital Improvement Program which includEad the allocation of $602 000 for reconstruction .and resurfacing of East Berry Street from Crouch Avenue to Candace Court On November 7 1978 (M&C C-4408] an engineering contract was awarded to Rady & Associates Inc for the design and preparation of plans and specifications for the above improvements Plans and specifications have been completed and the project was adveretised for bids Jfuly 31 and August ,7 1980 Improvements~~„.~- Impro~,ve'e is on this segment of E',ast Berry Street will consist of the removal of the~'old surface repair of deteriorated base and construction of a new surface the length of the project as well>as new concrete curb and gutter and sidewalks ~ where none presently exists In addition a large storm drainage system will be ~, constructed from just west of Mount Castle Drive east to Village Creek Road and ~ smaller improvements at Ruthann Drive and at Reed Street Receipt of Bids T'he following bids were received on August 21 1980 with 180 working days allotted to complete the project Bidder Amount L Grimes & Company Inc $712 772 90 Austin Road Company 750 629 53 Ashland-Warren Inc 787 286 29 Contract Builders 788 578 70 Orval Hall Excavating Company Inc 801,674 09 Pr®ject Cost and Financing.. Based on the low bid and standard policy approximately $10 447 68 is proposed to be assessed against the adjacent property for concrete curb and gutter where .none presently exists Property being assessed is vacant and zoned apartment Funding for the property owners share of construction cost will be provided for by a bond fund transfer from the Revolving Fund Unspecified Cost to the City for street and storm drain construction wi1.1 be approximately $702 325 22 plus $42 766 .37 for engineering and $1 046 00 for right-of-way Bond fund transfers will be required from the Resurfacing/Reconstruction Unspecified Account in ~~, ~. DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT Award Of Contract East Berry Stre t PAGE NUMBER I{[ipx'ovements Crouch Avenue to 2 2 9/9/80 ~~C-5253 Candace Court °' the amount of $105 000 00 to supplement the City s construction and right-of-way cost and $38 000 from the Engineering Unspecified Account to supplement the engineering funds in the project a<:count Recommendations It is recommended that 1) The following bond fund transfers be approved From To Amount Reason 094-009-901-00 094--025-23-00 $10,447 68 To provide funds for Revolving Fund Revolving Fund property owners share of Unspecified East Berry Street construction cost 021-025-901-00 021-025-231-00 $105 000 00 To provide additional Resurfacing and Resurfacing and. funds for City s con- Reconstruction Reconstruction-East struction and right-of- Unspecified Berry Street way costs 021-095-901-00 021-OL5-231-00 $38 800 00 To provide additional Engineering Resurfacing and. funds for the City s Unspecified Reconstruction-East engineering costs Berry Street 2) An ordinance be adopted A Declaring the necessity for and ordering the improvements B Making provisions for levying assessments C Directing the Public Works Department to prepare estimates of costs and amounts to be assessed D Awarding the contract to L Grimes & Company Inc in the amount of $712 772 90 based on their low bid E Making appropriations to cover the indebtedness thereby incurred for improvementsrv$ the project named above and 4) An ordinance be adopted A Approving the estimates c>f costs and amounts proposed to be assessed and B Setting October 7 1980 as the date for the Benefit Hearing vs ~u APPROVED BY! Attachment CITY COUNCIL SFP g 1~8{~ Ci 'ecret..sry of tih~s SUBMITTED FOR THE - C~.t~ °f F'°7r.t MTaY~tip~ XA~g~ CITY MANAGER'S DISPOSITION BY COUNCIL: PROCESSED BY OFFICE BY ^ APPROVED ORIGINATING ^ OTHER (DESCRIBE) DEPARTMENT HEAD: Ke~th Ao Smith ° CITY SECRETARY CONTACTTIONAL INFORMATION IVGCt~SS'~~y Ord@r1n Iinp tS~ ^~ '^ ~ ' DATE Setting C3c~t, 7, 19$0 as a e or ensfit Neari'nw