HomeMy WebLinkAbout05/23/1949 - Regular Minutes - City CouncilMINUTES OF REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING
May 23, 1949
The City Council met in regular session May 23, 1949 with the following
present:'Ma.yeriangford; Councilmen Badgett, Black, Halpin and Orr; City
Attorney Barger; City lulanager Rogers; Assistant City Secretary Boswell;
and City Secretary McGinnis.
The following visitors were present at the meeting: T. H. Sorrels
and L. G. Berryman from College Hills Woodlands, and C. F. Gibson, an
Austin attorney and legal advisor for the City of College Station.
This meeting was postponed for one week from the regular meeting date,
May 16, to enable members of the Council to attend. a meeting of the City
Managers Association in Denison, Texas.
The first business of -the Council was a discussion, and partial answers
bT Mr. rxibson, of eight questions pertaining to the legality of certain
proposed acts of the City. Mr.. Gibson stated that answers will be given
by him, in a letter to the City Manager, at an early date.
Councilman Orr made a motion that the Mayor and City Manager refer all
ordinances, as written, to legal authority for their validity and
correctness -before presenting to the Council for adoption.
The motion was seconded by Councilman Black, and the vote was unanimous
in favor of the motion.
Messers. T. H. Sorrels and L. G. Berryman presented a petition for
annexing parts of College Hills Woodland, Woodland Estates, and Woodland
Acres to the City of College Station. The petition was signed by
twenty-three of the twenty-seven residents o' the area asking for
annexation.
City Attorney Barger declared the petition illegally drawn and returned
it to the petitioners for correction.
The Council instructed City Attorney Barger to write an ordinance
doubling the water, sewer, and garbage collection rates for residents
supplied with these utilities outside the city limits. This ordinance
will be presented .for Council action at the next regilar meeting'br at
a called meeting for the purpose. These rate changes should go into
effect July 1, 1949, the beginning bf the new fiscal year.
Councilman Orr made a motion that Ordinance No. 126, an ordinance
providing for the amendment of Ordinance No. 38 be adopted. The
motion was seconded by Councilman Badgett and the vote was unanimous
in favor of the motion.
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