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RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR MEE^1ING OF [`=�
AND PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, CONCERNING
CERTAIN PROPOSED ACTIONS UNDER THE URBAN RE-
NEWAL LAW OF TEXAS AND PROVIDING FOR NOTICE
OF SUCH MEETING AND HEARING
WHEREAS, the Urban Renewal Law of the State of Texas finds and declares
the existence in the incorporated cities, towns and villages of said State
of slum and blighted areas, as therein defined, and that such areas consti-
tute a serious and growing menace, injurious and inimical to the public
health, safety, morals and welfare of the residents of the State; and
Whereas, said Urban Renewal Law authorizes the exercise of certain
powers thereunder by any such city, town or village and by an urban renewal
agency as provided for in said Urban Renewal Law, for the elimination and
prevention of the spread of such slum and blighted areas, provided that the
governing body of such city, town or village shall have:
(a) Caused to be published at least twice in the newspaper
officially designated by such governing body, a notice that on a
date certain, which date shall be stated in the notice and shall be
not less than sixty days after the publication of the first of such
notices, such governing body will consider the question of whether
or not it will order an election to determine if it should adopt a
resolution substantially in the form set forth in Section 1 hereof;
(b) Determined (on or after the date specified in such notice) to
call such election;
(c) Given (after its determination to call such election) at least
thirty days' notice of such election'
and provided further that at such election so called and held, at which
only qualified voters residing in such city, town or village, owning taxable
property within the corporate limits thereof, who have duly rendered the same
for taxation, shall be entitled to vote, a majority of those voting thereat
shall vote in favor of such governing body's adoption of, and such governing
body thereafter adopts, such resolution; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Georgetown, Texas, deem it to
be desirable that said City avail itself of the provisions of said Urban
Renewal Law, including the provisions thereof pertaining to an urban renewal
agency created in said City by said law; and
WHEREAS, it is the purpost and intent of the City Council, on the date
and at the time and place specified in the form of notice contained in Sec-
tion 1 hereof, to hold a public hearing on the question of, and to consider
and determine, whether or not it will order an elction to determine if it
should adopt a resolution substantially in the form set forth in said form
of notice:
NOVA, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to
cause to be published in the October 7th, 1965 and the October 14th, 19659