HomeMy WebLinkAbout08938 ORD - 07/17/1968THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF NUECES
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
On this the / day of July, 1968, the City
until of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, convened in
Q2,Meeting, with the following members of said Council
esent, to -wit:
Jack R. Blackmon Mayor
V. A. Bradley, Jr.
P. Jimenez, Jr., M. D.
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
Commissioners
Ken McDaniel
W. J. Roberts
Ronnie Sizemore
T. Ray Kring City Secretary
with the following absent:
constituting a quorum, at which time the following among other
business was transacted:
Mr. Blackmon, Mayor, presented for the consideration
of the Council an ordinance. The ordinance was read by the City
Secretary. The Mayor presented to the Council a communication
in writing pertaining to said proposed ordinance, as follows:
"Corpus Christi, Texas
July /—Z, 1968
"TO THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
The public importance and pressing need for the
permanent improvements to be constructed by use of the
proceeds of the bonds voted at the election held on
July 13, 1968, create an emergency and an imperative
public necessity requiring the suspension of rules and
Charter provisions requiring ordinances to be considered
and voted upon at three regular meetings. I, therefore,
request that the City Council pass the proposed ordinance
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canvassing the returns and declaring the result of the
election for the issuance of said bonds as an emergency
measure. You will please consider this request in con -
nection with the ordinance which has been introduced in
the City Council on this subject.
Yours very truly,
/s/ Jack R. Blackmon
Jack R. Blackmon
Mayor."
Commissioner moved that the Charter
provision prohibiting ordi nces from being passed finally
on the date introduced be suspended for the reasons stated
in the written request of the Mayor and stated in the emer-
gency clause the ordinance. The motion was seconded by
Commissioner The motion was carried by the
following o e:
AYES: Commissioners Bradley, Jimenez, Lozano,
McDaniel, Roberts and Sizemore.
NAYS: None.
The Mayor requested that the records show that he
voted Aye. This was done
Commissioner, moved that the ordinance
be ssed finally. The motio as seconded by Commissioner
The motion was carried by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioners Bradley, Jimenez, Lozano,
McDaniel, Roberts and Sizemore.
NAYS: None.
The Mayor requested that the records show that he
voted Aye. This was done.
The Mayor announced that the ordinance had been
passed. The ordinance is as follows:
ORDINANCE NO. �
BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS, CANVASSING RETURNS AND
DECLARING RESULTS OF AN ELECTION ON THE
QUESTION OF THE ISSUANCE OF THE FOLLOWING
BONDS: $4,500,000 WATERWORKS SYSTEM IMPROVE-
MENT REVENUE BONDS AND $2,500,000 AIRPORT
IMPROVEMENT TAX BONDS; AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, heretofore on the 19th day of June, 1968, the
City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, passed an
ordinance calling an election to be held in said City on the
13th day of July, 1968, on the Propositions hereinafter stated;
and
WHEREAS, said City Council has investigated all matters
pertaining to said election, including the ordering, giving
notice, officers, holding, and making returns of said election;
and
WHEREAS, the election officers who held said election
have duly made the returns of the result thereof, and said
returns have been duly delivered to said City Council.
THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
1.. That the City Council officially finds and
determines that said election was duly ordered, that proper
notice of said election was duly given, that proper election
officers were duly appointed by the City Council prior to said
election, that said election was duly held, that due returns of
the result of said election have been made and delivered, and that
the City Council has duly canvassed said returns, all in accord-
ance with law.
2. That the City Council officially finds and
determines that only resident, qualified electors who own
taxable property in said City, and who have duly rendered the
same ±or taxation were allowed to vote at said election, and
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that the following votes were cast at said election on each
Proposition submitted:
PROPOSITION NO. 1
VOTES: FOR )
THE ISSUANCE OF $4,500,000 WATER -
WORIZS SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT REVENUE
o VOTES: AGAINST ) BONDS
PROPOSITION NO. 2
O 6 VOTES: FOR )
THE ISSUANCE OF $2,500,000 AIRPORT
IMPROVEMENT TAX BONDS
VOTES: AGAINST )
3. That the City Council officially finds, determines
and declares the result of said election to be that said Proposi-
tions so submitted received a favorable majority vote and carried,
and that all of said bonds receiving a favorably majority vote
may be issued in accordance with law. _
4. That the public importance and the pressing need
for the permanent improvements to be constructed by use of the
proceeds of the sale of said bonds create an emergency and an
imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of rules
and Charter provisions requiring same to be considered and
voted upon at three regular meetings, and such facts require
that this ordinance be passed and.take effect immediately as an
emergency measure, and such rules and provisions are hereby
suspended and this ordinance is passed and shall take effect
as an emergency measure, and shall be in full force and effect
immediately upon its passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the day of July, 1968.
yor, Ci of Corpus Christi, Texas
ATTES
Ci y 8ecrbta Ci y of Corp s .
Christi, T as
APPROVED AS TO F�ORM / AND LEGALITY PRIOR TO PASSAGE:
j �� /gZ' g , City Attorney
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF NUECES
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
I, the undersigned, City Secretary of the City of
Corpus Christi, Texas, do hereby certify that the above and
foregoing is a true and correct copy of an ordinance passed
by the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas,
(and of the minutes pertaining thereto) on the day of
July, 1968, canvassing returns and declaring results of an
election on the propositions set forth in said Ordinance,
which Ordinance is duly of record in the minutes of the City
Council, and said meeting was open to the public as required by law.
WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL of office, this the
day of July, 1968.
City Secretary, City of Corpus
Christi, Texas
(SEAL)