COU83 1tZG0711fENED TN 9PECIAE SEBSIONbtry Obt9ber 27th, 1959r'st 1OS00 o'clock A.M. in
the COpw:t~to.4eatrt-~thareoY, with all officers preeent excepting Commis eioner Powell, and the
Court having duly opened, the Following orders were passed.
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8405 ORDER REQUESTING GROPER WILLIAMS TO SUBMIT PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FOR REPAIRING
FLAT ROCK DAM
On this the 27th day of October 1959, oame on to be heard and considered the matter
of employing profeasional counsel and services for the repairing of Flat Rock Dam. Motion
duly made by Commissioner Brewton, seconded by Commissioner Bartel, and unanimously approved
by the Court preeent, to retain the professional services of Grover Williams, Registered
Civil Engineer oP the Trinity Testing Laboratories, at a minimum fee of seven
one-half (73`x) percent, and not to exceed a maaimum of eight and one-half (By~gL) percent
the total construction coat, to draw plane and apeoifications for the necessary repair of
Rock Dam, based on Plan A.
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8406 APPORTIONMENT OF 52500.00 FRON ROAD & BRIDGE
Thia the 27th day of October 1959, after motion duly made by Commissioner Stone, se-
by Commissioner Brewton and unanimously approved, that the County Clerk and County
er be, and are hereby directed to apportion the Following amounts out of Road & Hrid
, to the following respective Commiaeioners' Precincts, ae follows:
Road & bridge No. 1 1050.00
Bond & Bridge No. 2 5450.00
Bond & Bridge No. 3 (400.00
Road k Bridge No. 4 1800.00
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COURT ADIUURNED at 12:10 o'clock Noon October 27th, 1959•
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COURT RECONVENED IN SPECIAL SESSION on October 31st 1959, at 10:00 o'clock A.M., in
County Court thereoY, with all officers present, and the Court having duly opened, the
orders were passed.
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8407 ORDER TO REPAIR FLATRO CK DAM AND I33UE WARRANTS
On this the 31st day o2 October, 1959, oame on to bs heard and considered by the Cou:
matter of repairing damage to Flatrook Dam heretofore constructed by Kerr County on Dam
to D; and,
It appearing to the Court that unforeseen damage• to the public property of Kerr Cou
ve been sustained ae s result oY major flooding of the Guadalupe River; and,
It further appearing ~o the Court that damages caused to the Flood Control Structure
acted at Dam 31teD on the Guadalupe River are imperiling the entire structure as well ae
jacent publio and private property; and,
It Yurther appearing that the health of marry citizens Se being impaired by lose of
atic water supplies dependent on the normal impoundment of water by said dam; and,
It further appearing to the Court that immediate repair to said structure must be
oted to protect it from irreparable physical damage, to protect the publio health, and
sot adjacent publio and private property from the immediate threat of oataetrophio 1
event of further flooding of the Guadalupe Rivera, and,
It further appears to the court that the circumstances result is a publio calamity and
creates as imperative emergency.