HomeMy WebLinkAbout03/12/1951 - Regular Minutes - City CouncilREGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING
March 12, 1951
The City Council met in regular session March 122 1951, at 7:30 p.m.
with the following present: Mayor Langford; Councilmen Ames, Badgett,
Black, Halpin, and Orr; City Attorney Barger; City Secretary McGinnis;
City Manager Rogers, and Assistant City Secretary Boswell.
The following visitors were present at this meeting: Joel Austin
from the Battalion, Kenneth Irish from the Bryan News, and R. H. Baker
from Rowles, linston & Company.
The minutes of preceeding meetings were read and approved.
Councilman Orr made a motion, seconded by Councilman Black, that
the following list of citizens be appointed by the Council as a Charter
Commission and that the Charter Commission be authorized to preppre a
preliminary draft for a city charter for the City of College Station, Texas;
that Mayor Ernest Langford be charman of the committee and that the
committee be authorized to employ whatever assistance that may be needed
in drafting the charter: Ernest Langford, chairman, J. 11. Sorrels,
H. E.
Burgess, S. A. Lipscomb, Bay Oden, J. 0 Culpepper, Truman H. Jones,
L. SRichardson) W. D. Fitch, A. P. Boyett, J. W. Earger, D. B. Cofer,
S. I Vright, G. W. Black, J. A. Orr, R. B. Halpin, Charles LaMotte,
and A. A. Price.
The Council --vota rYr s unanimous in favor of the motion.
Councilman Orr mete a motion, seconded by Councilman Halpin, that
Ordinance No. 154, an ordinance adopting a revised city map and changing
numbers of houses and names of streets to those as indicated thereon, be
adopted.
The Council vote was unanimous in favor of the motion.
Councilman Halpin made a motion, seconded by Councilman Orr, that
Ordinance No. 155, an ordinance to delete the word "electric" from
Ordinance No. 152, be introduced.
The vote of the Council was unanimous in favor of the motion.
Councilman Badgett made a motion, seconded by Councilman Orr, that
the rules requ-iring the reading of Ordinance No. 155 at three consecutive,
meetings of thr,= Council be suspended.
The vote of the Council was unanimous in favor of the motion.
Councilman Air).eo made a motion) seconded by Councilman Badgett, that
Ordinance No. 155 be finally passed.
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The Council vote was unanimous in favor of the motion.
Councilman Orr made a motion, seconded by Councilman Black, that an
amendment to the bond sale and purchase contract between Rowles, Rrineton
& Company and the City of College Station be introduced authorizing the
Mayor and City Secretary to sign the additional bonds at the purchase price
agreed upon on December 11, 1950.
The Council vote was unanimous in favor or the motion.
Councilman Badgett made a motion, seconded by Councilman Orr, that
Mayor Langford be authorized to sign a contract with Freese & Nichols,
engineers, for their services pertaining to the construction of a by --pass
power line for the REA along Highway #6.
The Council vote was unanimous in favor of the motion.
The Council authorized Mayor Langford to write a congratulatory
letter to each of 17 eating establishments within the city and thank
them for attaining the high rating as the result of an inspection made
by the Texas Public Health Board.
On motion by Councilman Orr, seconded by Councilman Badgett, the
Mayor was authorized to sign the contracts with the City of Bryan for
purchase of water and electric power, said contracts to be effective
at date of signing by both parties and to extend over a period of five
years.
The Council vote was unanimous in favor of the motion.
On motion by Councilman Halpin, seconded. by Councilman Black, the
Mayor was authorized to sign the contract with -the City of Bryan for the
purchase of the REA lines within the city limits, the Mayor to satisfy himself
that the contract is in proper form either by consultation with the City
Attorney or by other advice if. necessary.
The Council vote was unanimous in favor of the motion.
On motion by Councilman Badgett, seconded by Councilman Orr,
Councilman R. B. Halpin was appointed acting mayor pro -tem for the period
of March 21 - April 1, 1951, inclusive and authorized to sign any
contractural documents during that period.
The Council vote was unanimous in favor of the motion.
APPROVED:
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Ernest Langford, ayor
ATTESTt
N. M. McGinnis, City Secretary
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