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1973-030 ORDINANCE NO 73-~O ORDINANCE CALLING AN ELECTION THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF DENTON CITY OF DENTON WHEREAS, at lS deemed necessary and advlsable to call the elect~on hereanafter ordered, and WHEREAS, at ls hereby officially found and determlned that a case of emergency or urgent public necessity exasts whlch re- quires the holding of the meeting at which th~s Ordlnance is passed, such emergency or urgent public necessity belng that the proceeds from the sale of the proposed bonds are requared as soon as possible and w~thout delay for necessary and urgently needed public amprovements, and that said meeting was open to the public, and publlc not~ce of the tame, place, and purpose of sald meeting was g~ven, all as requlred by Vernon's Ann C~v St Article 6252-17 THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON HEREBY ORDAINS 1 That an election shall be held on DECEMBER 18~, 1973, · n said City at the followang designated pollang place THE COMMUNITY BUILDING IN THE CIVIC CENTER Sald City shall constatute a s~ngle elect~on precanct for sa~d elect~on, and the followlng election officers are hereby appo~nt- ed to hold sa~d elect~on Presldang Judge J L Carrlco Alternate Presld~ng Judge Alma Trapp 2 That the Presiding Judge shall appoint not less than two qualafied elect~on clerks to serve and assist ~n conducting said electlon; provaded that ~f the Presiding Judge actually serves as expected, the Alternate Pres~dlng Judge shall be one of such clerks 3 That by approving and signing th~s Ordinance the Mayor of saad Caty offaclally confirms his appoantment of the aforesaid election officers to serve at said elect~on, and by passing this Ordanance the governang body of sa~d City approves and concurs an the appointment of the aforesaid electaon officers -1- 4 That said election shall be held and conducted in effect as two separate but slmultaneous elect~ons, to-wit one elect~on at which only the resident, quallfled electors who own taxable property in the City and who have duly rendered the same for tax- at.on shall be entitled to vote, and another elect~on at which all other resident, qualified electors of the C1ty shall be en- titled to vote The votes cast at each of sa~d separate but simultaneous elect~ons shall be recorded, returned, and canvass- ed separately It is hereby declared that the purpose of holding the elect~on ~n such manner ~s to ascertaln arithmetically, w~th respect to a submitted PROPOSITION, (a) the aggregate votes cast at the election for and against the PROPOSITION by resident, qualified electors of the C~ty, and also (b) the aggregate votes cast at the election for and agalnst the PROPOSITION by resident, qualified electors who own taxable property in the City and who have duly rendered the same for taxation Each elector shall be entitled to vote once, in accordance w~th the provisions of this Ordinance 5 That notice of said election shall be g~ven by postlng a substantial copy Q~ this Ordinance at the C~ty Hall and at two other places in sa~d City, not less than 15 days prlor to the date set for sa~d elect~on, and a substantial copy of th~s Ordinance also shall be publlshed on the same day in each of two successive weeks in a newspaper of general c~rculat~on published in said C~ty, the date of the f~rst publlcatlon to be not less than 14 days prior to the date set for said election 6 That at said election the following PROPOSITION shall be submitted in accordance with law PROPOSITION Shall the City Council of sa~d C~ty be authorized to issue the bonds of sa~d City, in one or more ser~es or issues, in the aggregate prlnclpal amount of $6.000.000 , with the bonds of each such series or issue, respectively, to mature serially within not to exceed 40 years from their date, and to be sold at such prices and bear inter- est at such rates as shall be determined w~thln the dis- cretion of the City Council, for the purpose of~construct- lng and improving streets in said City, and providing drainage and flood control facilities 1n connection there- with, and shall said City Council be authorized to levy and cause to be assessed and collected annual ad valorem taxes in an amount sufficient to pay the annual interest on said bonds and provide a sinking fund to pay said bonds at maturity? 7. That the official ballots for sa~d elect~on shall be prepared in accordance with the Texas Elect~on Code so as to permit the electors to vote "FOR" or "AGAINST" the aforesaid PROPOSITION, which shall be set forth in substantlally the following form PROPOSITION FO~ 1 ~ THE ISSUANCE OF $6,000,000 OF STREET ) AND DRAINAGE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AGAINST ) -2- 8 That it is hereby found and determined that the probable period of usefulness of the proposed lmprovements covered by the aforesaid PROPOSITION is 30 years 9 That Article 9, Sec 9 02 of the Clty Charter con- talns the following provision and requires th~s election or- dinance to d~stlnctly specify "(6) a determination of the net debt of the City after issuance of the bonds thereby authorized, together with a declaration that the bonds thereby authorized will be w~th- in all debt and other l~mltatlons prescribed by the Consti- tution and law~ of the State of Texas ", and The determination is hereby made that the net debt of the City after the issuance of the bonds here~n proposed to be submitted ~111 be not more t~an $13,710,000, and it is hereby declared that said general obligation bonds w~ll be w~th~n all debt and other llmmtatlons prescribed by the Constitution and laws of the State of Texas -3- CERTIFICATF IOR ORpINANCE CALLING AN EIECTION THE STATL OF TSXAS COUNTY OF DENTON CITY OF DENTON We, the undersagned officers of sald City, hereby certify as follows 1 The C~ty Councal of saad C~ty convened ~n REGULAR MEETING ON THE 20TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1973, at the Municipal Building (C~ty Hall), and the roll was called of the duly eonstltuted officers and members of sa~d C~ty Council, to-w~t Brooks Holt, C~ty Secretary B~ll Neu, Mayor Morr~s Kabler Tom Jester Mrs L~lllan M~ller George Schneider and all of sald persons were present, except the following absentees Morr~s K~bler , thus constituting a quorum Whereupon, among other business, the following was transacted at sa~d Meeting a written ORDINANCE CALLING AN ELECTION was duly ~ntroduced for the consideration of sa~d C~ty Council and read an full It was then duly moved and seconded that sa~d Ordanance be passed, and, after due dascusslon, saad motaon, carrying wath at the passage of saad Ordinance, prevailed and carried by the following vote AYESAil me~bsrs of sa~d C~ty Councal shown present above voted "Aye" NOES None 2 That a true, full, and correct copy of the aforesaid Ordinance passed at the Meetang descrabed ~n the above and fore- going paragraph is attached to and follows thas Cert~facate, that sa~d Ordanance has been duly recorded ~n saad C~ty Council's m~nutes of saad Meeting, that the above and foregoang paragraph · s a true, full, and correct excerpt from sa~d C~ty Council's m~nutes of sa~d Meetang pertaanang to the passage of sa~d Ordi- nance; that the persons named ~n the above and foregoing paragraph are the duly chosen, qual~faed, and acting officers and members of saad Caty Council as indicated thereln, that each of the officers and members of saad City Councal was duly and suff~caently not~- faed officially and personally, an advance, of the time, place, and purpose of the aforesaad Meetang, and that sa~d Ordlnance would be antroduced and consadered for passage at said Meeting, and each of saad offacers and members consented, ~n~ advance, to the holding of sa~d Meetang for such purpose, and that said Meet- · ng was open to the public, and public notlce of the tame, place, and purpose of sa~d meeting was g~ven, all as required by Vernon's Ann C~v St Article 6252-17 3 That the Mayor of saad C~ty has approved, and hereby approves, the aforesaad Ordanance, that the Mayor and the C~ty Secretary of sa~d C~ty have duly s~gned sald Ordinance, and that the Mayor and the City Secretary of sa~d C~ty hereby declare that their sagnlng of th~s Cert~facate shall constltute the s~gn~ng of the attached and followlng copy of sa~d Ordinance for all pur- poses  ~th day of November, 1973 P' ~ City Secretary ' Mayor (SEAL) .......................................................... We, the undersigned, being respectively the C~ty Attorney and the Bond Attorneys of the C~ty of Denton, Texas, hereby certify that we prepared and approved as to legality the attached and following Ordinance prior to ~t~s~s af~sa~d