Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-26
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF
BROWNSVILLE
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% - REMEMBERED that at a
regular meeting Of the City Commits
sion of the City of Brownsville, held
IN the City Hall on the 23rd day OF
~reoruary, 1928. a Resolution was
introduced by Commissioner Him and
seconded by Commissioner Cobolini,
as follows:
WHEREAS, the citizenship Of the
City of Brownsville mas in various
manners manifested its desire that
the City Commission call an election
Tor the purpose of deciding whether
the City should issue bonds in the
approximate sum of One Hundred
Thousand Dollars (s100, 10000 for
n purpose of securing and install
ing an Airport and Park; and,
WHEREAS, in the interest Of pub
lie policy and in response to the de-
sires of many Of the citizens the
Commission of said City has pledged
b citizenship Of same that before
the holding of said election it would
advise the public which of the ON
templated sites in its judgment and
discretion most nearly approximated
the City's needs in he above named
particulars; and,
WHEREAS, the Airport Committee
OF the Chamber of Commerce has
made intensive and extensive survey
OF the situation and has secured op-
tions on four sites located around
n about said city and has made,
through W. B. Clint, its recommended
tions to the City of the tract of land
best suited for the purposes dis
cussed herein; and,
WHEREAS, the Commission has not
only given a great deal of time and
thought 20 the study OF the problems
involved and the sites offered, but
has also gone upon the ground and
has viewed each of the sites, and are
therefore each of them personally
acquainted with the advantages and
disadvantages Of the sites offered;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE III RE-
SOLVED that the citizens of Browns
vile be apprized that when and if,
in the exercise of its judgment and
sound discretion, the City Commits
sion decides TO purchase a site for a
Park and an Airport, provided of
course the citizenship at the oncom-
ing election decides the funds avail
able for such purpose shall be voted,
then and in that event the said City
Commission, acting on the recon-
mendation Of the Airport Committee
of the Chamber of Commerce and
upon their own knowledge of the
various sites, has decided upon the
purchase Of,
Four Hundred and Eighty Eight
and Forty One-Hundredths (4Ss.40)
acres of land, or so much thereof as
in their judgment il is feasible and
practicable to use for said Park and
Airport, located about three and a
half miles from the City of Browns
vile or the Boca Chica Road, near
the FL Jardin Independent school Dis
trict's building, from z. s. Hunt,
Frank Rabb, E. B. Camiade, Daven-
port and West, DR.. Nelson and z. A.
Landlord, for the reason that it is
the closest OF the practicable sites
nea the city, is or q concrete road
and close to a high power electric
line, is we'll drained, 10 served by the
Cameron County Water Improvement
District No. 5, with whom satisfac-
tory and economical arrangements
can readily be effected for the irri-
cation and upkeep of same, and is
land Of such quality and 30 located
that in the event it should ever be-
come necessary for the City of
Brownsville to abandon its use for
the contemplated purposes the City
could easily be able to recover from
the sale thereof, the purchase price
of same.
Upon the above Resolution being
put to a vote, the same was carried
by the unanimous vote of the mem
hers present and voting. Mayor Cole
and Commissioners Cobolini and
Hipp voting AYE.
The City Secretary was instructed
to give the widest possible publicity
to said Resolution.
A. B. COLE, Mayor,
City Of Brownsville, Texas.
ATTEST:
A. Z. Mundsy, Secretary,
City Of Brownsville, Texas.
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