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AN ORDINANCE
CANVASSING RETURNS AND DECLARING RESULT OF AN
ELECTION CONCERNING THE MATTER OF WHETHER OR
NOT CLIFF MAUS AIRPORT PROPERTY SHALL BE KEPT
BY THE CITY FOR PUBLIC AND SEMI— PUBLIC DEVELOP-
MENT; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, HERETOFORE ON THE 11TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1961, THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, PASSED AN ORDINANCE
CALLING AN ELECTION TO BE HELD IN SAID CITY ON THE 28TH DAY OF JANUARY,
1961, ON THE FOLLOWING PROPOSITION:
"PROPOSITION CONCERNING CLIFF MAUS AIRPORT SITE
'SHALL THE CITY KEEP THE CLIFF MAUS AIRPORT SITE FOR
PUBLIC AND SEMI - PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT?";
AND
WHEREAS, SAID ELECTION WAS DULY HELD AT THE TIME AND PLACES
SPECIFIED AFTER DUE NOTICE AS REQUIRED BY LAW HAD BEEN GIVEN BY POST-
ING AND PUBLICATION; AND
WHEREAS, SAID ELECTION WAS DULY AND LEGALLY HELD ON THE 28TH
DAY OF JANUARY, 1961, IN CONFORMITY WITH THE ELECTION ORDINANCE HERETO-
FORE PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE RESULT OF SAID ELECTION HAS BEEN
CERTIFIED AND RETURNED TO THIS - COUNCIL BY THE PROPER JUDGES AND CLERKS
THEREOF; AND
WHEREAS, THIS COUNCIL HAS TODAY CONSIDERED THE RETURNS OF SAID
ELECTION ON THE PROPOSITION HEREINABOVE STATED, WHICH WAS HELD ON THE
28TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1961; AND
WHEREAS, IT APPEARS TO THE COUNCIL, AND THE COUNCIL SO FINDS,
THAT SAID ELECTION WAS IN ALL RESPECTS LAWFULLY HELD AND SAID RETURNS
DULY AND LEGALLY MADE AND THAT THERE WERE CAST AT SAID ELECTION THE
FOLLOWING VOTES;
FOR KEEPING CLIFF MAUS AIRPORT SITE FOR
PUBLIC AND SEMI - PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT. . . . . . 14201
AGAINST KEEPING CLIFF MAUS AIRPORT SITE FOR
PUBLIC AND SEMI- PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT. . . . . .13144
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NMI, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT THE PROPOSITION CONCERNING THE MATTER OF
WHETHER OR NOT THE CLIFF MAUS AIRPORT PROPERTY SHALL BE KEPT BY THE
CITY FOR PUBLIC AND SEMI - PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT WAS SUSTAINED BY A
MAJORITY OF THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS IN SAID CITY, VOTING AT SAID
ELECTION, AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, IS
HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO ENACT SUCH ORDINANCES AS ARE NECESSARY FOR THE
KEEPING OF CLIFF MAUS AIRPORT SITE FOR PUBLIC AND SEMI - PUBLIC DEVELOP-
MENT, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SAID PROPOSITION.
SECTION 2. THE NECESSITY OF MAKING AN OFFICIAL CANVASS OF
VOTES CAST IN THE AFORESAID ELECTION AND DECLARING THE SAID RESULTS
OF SAID ELECTION CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC
NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO
ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS
INTRODUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT
THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR, HAVING
DECLARED THAT SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY EXIST, AND HAVING REQUESTED
THAT SUCH CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED, AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE
PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE
IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PAS AG , IT IS ACCORDINGLY
PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE AY OF �, 1961.
ATT " --
�. MAYOR
THE CITY OF C PUS CHRI I, TEXAS
CITY SECRE RY
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL F RM THIS
DAY OF n, , 1961:
CITY ATTOMEY
CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS
DAY OFy 19 G /
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
CORPUS CHRISTI,.TEXAS
FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF THE FORE-
GOING ORDINAMCE� A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR THE
SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLU-
TION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED AND THAT SUCH
ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL;
f, THEREFORES HEREBY REQUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE OR REQUIRE-
MENT AND PASS THIS ORDINANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED OR AT THE
PRESENT MEETING OF.TNE CITY COUNCIL.
RESPF.CTFULLY,
MAYOR,
THE CITY CORPUS 4R ISTI, TEXAS
THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTEt
EL00Y KIN&
JAMES L. BARNARD-
MRS. -RAY AIRNEART
JOSEPH B. DUNK
PATRICK J. DUNNE
R. -A. HUMBLE
GABE LOZANG, .SR.
THE ABOVP ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY 1,
ELLRDY KING
JAMES L. BARNARIk„
MRS. RAY AIRNEART
JOSEPH B. DUNN
PATRICK J. DUNNE
R. A. HUMBLE
GABE LOZANO, SR.
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