HomeMy WebLinkAbout11-21-1946 Special MeetingMINUTES OF A SPECIAL MEETING OF
THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF
FAIRHOPE, ALABAMA, HELD ON THE
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A special meeting of the Town Council of the Town
of Fairhope, Alabama, was held at the town hall in said town
on the V It day of November, 1946, at , .30 o'clock,
� . M., pursuant to the following notice and call:
NOTICE AND CALL OF
SPECIAL MEETING
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TOWN COUNCIL
OF THE TOWN OF FAIRHOPE, ALABANM.A:
In my opinion the public business requires
that a special meeting of the Town Council of
the Town of Fairhope, Alabama, be held, and I
do, therefore, hereby call and give you notice
of such meeting to be held at the town hall in
said town on the 2) day of November, 1946, at
.413n o'clock, A . M. , for the purpose of
considering the advisability of adopting an ordi-
nance for the purpose of ratifying and confirming
a resolution of said town council heretofore adopted
by it on August 13, 1946, pertaining to the issuance
of Gas System Revenue Anticipation Bonds of said town
to be dated August 1, 1946, and if such action should
be deemed advisable to adopt such ordinance.
Dated this day of November, 1946.
Mayor
CONSENT TO MEETING
The undersigned, constituting all of the members
of the Town Council of the Town of Fairhope, Alabama,
do hereby accept service of the foregoing notice and
call of the special meeting of said town council
therein referred to and do hereby consent to the
holding of said meeting at the time and place and
for the purpose therein --provided.
Members of the T vm Council •
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The meeting was called to order by the mayor and
upon roll call the following were found to be present:
Mayor Howard Ruge, and the following members of the town.
council: Messrs. C. A. Gaston, J. H. Bennett, H. P. Kamper,
J.—O. Stimpson and W. 0. Keeble; and the following members
of the town council were found to be absent: ?Qp�-ie�
. The mayor presided at the meeting
and announced that a quorum was present and that the meeting
was open for the transaction of business. R. C. Yohn, the
Town Clerk, was also present at the meeting and acted as clerk
thereof. The mayor announced that the foregoing notice and call
of this meeting had been served upon each member of the town
council prior to the holding of the meeting and that each
member of the town council had signed the foregoing acceptance
of such notice and consent to the holding of this meeting,
which documents were then ordered spread upon the minutes of
this meeting.
Councilman Rd"T..—' introduced the following
ordinance including the preambles thereto, all of which was
read to the meeting:
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AN ORDINANCE RATIFYING AND CON-
FIRMING A RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN
COUNCIL OF FAIREOPE, ALABAMA, A-
DOPTED AUGUST 13, 1946, ENTITLED
"A RESOLUTION AL7IHORIZING THE IS-
SUANCE OF GAS SYSTEM REVENUE ANTI-
CIPATION BONDS OF THE TOWN OF FAIR -
HOPE TO BE DATED AUGUST 1, 1946s
FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEFRAYING THE
COST OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A GAS
DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM TOGETHER WITH
THE NECESSARY TRANSMISSION MAINS
AND OTHER APPURTENANCES IN CONNEC-
TION THEREWITH, AND TO bP= PRO-
VISIONS FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE
PRINCIPAL OF AND INTEREST ON SUCH
BONDS"
WHEREAS, the Town Council of. the Town of
Fairhope did heretofore at a meeting of the said town council
duly convened and held on August 13, 19462 duly adopt a
resolution entitled "A resolution authorizing the issuance
of Gas System Revenue Anticipation Bonds of the Town of
Fairhope to be dated August 1, 1946, for the purpose of
defraying the cost of the construction of a gas distribution
system together with the necessary transmission mains and,
other appurtenances in connection therewith, and to make
provisions for the payment of the principal of and interest
on such bonds"; and
WHEREAS, it is deemed desirable that the
provisions of the said resolution be now expressed by an
ordinance of the town;
NO6V, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Town
Council of the Town of Fairhope in the State of Alabama
that the provisions set out in the resolution referred to
in the preambles hereof for the issuance of Gas System
Revenue Anticipation Bonds of the town to be dated August 1,
1946, and all provisions respecting said bonds and all agree-
ments on the part of the town contained in the said resolution,
be and the same hereby are expressly ratified and approved and
declared effective to the same extent as if all of the said
provisions and agreements were set out in full. herein.
Adopted and approved this 2-1 day of November,
1946.
Auth nticated:
Town Clerk/
Mayor
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Councilman ea-,�- moved that the rules be suspended
and unanimous consent be given for immediate consideration of
and action on said ordinance which motion was seconded by
Councilman de n ne VC , and upon the motion being put to
vote the following vote was recorded: Ayes: Mayor Ruge
and Councilmen Gaston, Bennett, Kamper, Stimpson, and Keeble;
Nays: None. The mayor thereupon declared that the motion for
unanimous consent for immediate consideration of and action
on said ordinance had been unanimously carried. Councilman
thereupon moved that the said ordinance be
finally adopted, which motion was seconded by Councilman
and upon said motion being put to vote
the following vote was recorded: Ayes: Mayor Ruge and Council-
men Gaston, Bennett, Kamper, Stimpson and Keeble; Nays: None.
The mayor thereupon announced that the motion for adoption of
said ordinance had been unanimously carried and he thereupon
signed said ordinance in approval thereof.
Councilman introduced the following
resolution:
RESOLVED that the ordinance heretofore adopted
at this meeting entitled "An ordinance ratifying and
confirming a resolution of the Town Council of
Fairhope, Alabama, adopted August 13, 1946, entitled
'A resolution authorizing the issuance of Gas System
Revenue Anticipation Bonds of the Town of Fairhope
to be dated August 1, 1946, for the purpose of de-
fraying the cost of the construction of a gas distri-
bution system together with the necessary transmission
mains and other appurtenances in connection therewith,
and to make provisions for the payment of the principal
of and interest on such bonds"' shall be posted in
three public places within the corporate limits of
said town, one of which shall be the Unit d St es
Post Office, another of which sh"1be ct,GQ�,
and the third of which shall be OF
Councilman moved that the foregoing resolution
be adopted, which motion was seconded by Councilman
and upon the same being put to vote, the following voted in favor
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of said motion: Mayor Ruge and Councilmen Gaston, Bennett,
Kamper,rStimpson, and Keeb-le; and the following voted against
the adoption thereof: None. The mayor thereupon announced
that the motion for adoption of said resolution had been
unanimously carried.
There being no further business to come before the
meeting the same was on motion duly adjourned.
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Mayor
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