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
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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 )
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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
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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