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A RESOLUTION
REQUESTING THE TEXAS STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE
TO HOLD A REFERENDUM OF THE MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS MUNI-
CIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM WHO ARE EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THEY WISH
TO HAVE FEDERAL OLD AGE AND SURVIVORS INSURANCE COVERAGE
IN ADDITION TO THE EXISTING RETIREMENT; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, SECTION 278(D) OF THE FEDERAL SOCIAL SECURITY ACT HAS
BEEN AMENDED TO PERMIT COVERAGE OF EMPLOYEES OF THE WATER DIVISION AND UTILITY
OFFICE OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI HAVING THEIR OWN RETIREMENT SYSTEMS;
AND
WHEREAS, THE EMPLOYEES OF THE WATER DIVISION AND UTILITY OFFICE OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, THROUGH COMMITTEE REPRESENTATION, HAVE REQUESTED
THIS CITY COUNCIL TO ASK THE TEXAS STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE TO HOLD
AN ELECTION BY THE EMPLOYEES OF SAID WATER DIVISION AND UTILITY OFFICE OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT
SYSTEM TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THEY WISH TO HAVE FEDERAL OLD AGE AND
SURVIVORS INSURANCE COVERAGE IN ADDITION TO THE EXISTING RETIREMENT;
NOW, THEREFORE, IN ORDER TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION
278(D) OF THE FEDERAL SOCIAL SECURITY ACT, AS AMENDED, THIS CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, REQUESTS THE TEXAS STATE DEPARTMENT
OF PUBLIC WELFARE TO HOLD AS EXPEDITIOUSLY AS POSSIBLE A REFERENDUM OF THE
MEMBERS OF THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM AS REQUIRED IN SAID LAW AND IN HOUSE BILL
603, ACTS OF THE 52ND LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, 1957,
THE NECESSITY FOR IMMEDIATE REQUEST FOR THE HOLDING OF THE ELECTION
MENTIONED CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE 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 SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY TO EXIST, HAVING
REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE AND THAT THIS RESOLUTION TAKE
EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS
ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE ? U AY
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TO THE IMERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
CORPUS'CHRISTI, TEXAS
FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF THE FORE-
GOING ORDINANCE, A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR
THE SUSPENSION-OF THE CHARTER RULE
RESOLUTION 'SHALLSHALL BE OR REQUIREMENT THAT NO ORDINANCE OR
PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT
SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL IS INTRODUCED, AND THAT
AT THREE MEETINGS OF THE CITY
'COUNCIL, I', THEREFORE, HERESY BE READ REQUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE
OR REQUIREMENT AND PASS THIS ORDINANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED,
OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
RESPECTFULLY,
OR
CITY OF CORPUS OiRISTIgTEXAS
THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING MOTE:
BEN F. MCDONALD
TOM R. SWANTNER
DR. JANES L. BARNARD
JOSE R. DELEDN
Mo P. MALDONADO
W. J. ROBERTS
JAMES H. YOUNG
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWI
VOTES
BEN F. MCOONALD
TON R. SWANTNER
DR. JAMES L. BARNARD
JOSE R. DELEDN
Mo Po MALOOMADO
li. J. ROBERTS
JAMES H. YOUNG