01/08/1982-CC-Minutes-Special6
MINUTES: City Council (Called Meeting)
January 8, 1982
PRESENT: Mayor Cole, Bridges, Thomas, Spindle, and
Nesbitt
VACANCY: Cooper
OTHERS
PRESENT: Lloyd Henderson, Mary Jo Stover, John L. Sullivan
1. The minutes were not available for consideration at
this meeting. Item passed over.
2. Motion was made by Wendell Thomas to renew the city's
property insurance with the Muir Agency at a premium
of $3,921. Danny Spindle gave the second. Voted unan.
3. Mayor Cole called the meeting into executive session
to consider legal matters pertaining to the sanitary
landfill.
4. Mayor Cole called the meeting into open session. Motion
was made by Wendell Thomas to adopt a Resolution autho-
rizing condemnation proceedings. Benny Bridges gave
the second. It was voted unanimous. The Resolution
read as follows:
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the present solid waste disposal landfill
site now being used by the City of Sanger, Texas, is
virtually exhausted, and such site does not meet the
requirements of the Texas Solid Waste Disposal Act,
and the rules and regulations of the Texas Department
of Health and other regulatory agencies, and the Texas
Department of Health has urgently recommended, as a
matter of the highest priority, the acquisition of a
new and suitable solid waste disposal landfill site
which will meet such requirements; and
WHEREAS, the City of Sanger has searched fora suitable
sanitary solid waste disposal site for _several years , and t�e
property described hereinbelow is the only suitable site known
to the City available for such purpose, and said site has
been approved by the Texas Department of Health, and a
permit has been issued by the Texas Department of Health for
the use of said site by the City of Sanger, Texas, as a solid
waste sanitary landfill disposal site; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of -Sanger,
Texas, has made and does hereby make, a legislative
finding that it is imperative, and in the public
interest, that the fee simple title to such site be
forthwith acquired by the City of Sanger, Texas, for
said municipal purpose; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Sanger
has further determined that it is expedient and
necessary that the fee simple title to said property
be acquired for said municipal purpose, by condemna-
tion proceedings, acting pursuant to the eminent
domain powers granted to the City of Sanger, Texas,
by the legsilature of the State of Texas;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS THAT:
Condemnation proceedings are hereby authorized
and directed to be instituted by the City Attorney
at the earliest practicable date in a Court of
competent jurisdiction to acquire, through the
exercise of said powers of eminent domain, the
fee simple title to the following land:
All that certain 25.35 acre tract of land,
in the Reuben Bebee Survey, Abstract No. 29,
in Denton County, Texas, described in deed
from Henry D. Cooper and wife, Vera Lou
Cooper, to Lou Henry Cooper and Jerri Ann
Shepard, shown of record in the Deed Records
Denton County, Texas, to which reference is
hereby made for a complete description of
said land by metes and bounds,
for said municipal purpose.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the day of January,
1982, at the Special Called Meeting of the City Council
of the City of Sanger, Texas.,�pursuant to notice.
Attest: y
City retary
Motion was made by Donn Nesbitt to allow the City
Manager to expend $5,000 and proceed to secure the
right-of-way for the construction of a road for the
purpose of ingress and egress to the landfill site.
The city will agree to the following conditions on
the purchase of the property for a right-of-way:
1. The City hereby agrees to dedicate the road as a
public road and that the grantors and their
assigns have access forever.
2. If the landfill site is not used or if the city
does not build the road within three (3) years
the property reverts back to the seller.
Wendell Thomas gave the .second. Voted unan.
Meeting adjourned.
ATTEST:
MINUTES:
PRESENT:
ABSENT:
VACANCY:
OTHERS
PRESENT:
City Council
January 18, 1982
Mayor Ralph Cole, Donn Nesbitt,
and Wendell Thomas
Benny Bridges
Place 1
Danny Spindle,
Lloyd Henderson, Mary Jo Stover, Royce Jones,
Ben Terry, Dan Swenke, J. D. Copeland, Frank
Bushnell, Lindon Carr