Council corrects legal description for Headley Estates annexation with non pro tunc ordinance
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The council approved a non pro tunc ordinance to correct a typographical error in the legal description for the Headley Estates annexation that was approved in January; staff said the correction relates the ordinance back to the original approval date.
The City of Odessa City Council approved a non pro tunc ordinance to amend the legal description for the Headley Estates annexation, correcting a numeric typo that staff said affected the township designation in the original January ordinance.
City staff explained the original January 14 annexation filings included three properties and that a single number in the Headley Estates legal description should read "Townsend 2" instead of the version that was published. Staff said the non pro tunc instrument makes the published record read as if the ordinance had been adopted with the corrected description on the original effective date.
A city attorney and staff discussed that adding non pro tunc language is intended to avoid repeatedly returning to council for clerical corrections while preserving the original effective date under Texas law. Council moved to adopt the correction by motion and the item passed.