HomeMy WebLinkAbout09599 RES - 01/07/1970A RESOLUTION
RECOMMENDING TO THE STATE OF TEXAS HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES STATE ARTIFACTS COMMITTEE, JOE
SALEM, CHAIRMAN, A SITE AND BUILDING FOR THE
PERMANENT DEPOSIT OF ALL SPANISH GALLEON ARTIFACTS
SALVAGED FROM THE PADRE ISLAND AREA,
WHEREAS, THE STATE OF TEXAS HAS, BY VARIOUS MEANS AND AGENCIES,
AND AT VARIOUS TIMES, RECOVERED AND SALVAGED FROM SUNKEN SPANISH GALLEONS
IN THE PADRE ISLAND AREA, NEAR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, ARTIFACTS OF
BOTH STATE AND NATIONAL HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE; AND
WHEREAS, THERE HAS BEEN NO FINAL OFFICIAL DECISION BY THE
STATE AS TO THE LOGICAL, PROPER, APPROPRIATE AND ECONOMICAL PLACE FOR THE
PERMANENT DEPOSIT, DISPLAY, CARE AND STORAGE OF SAID ARTIFACTS, NOW,
THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
THAT IT IS HEREBY RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, AND WITH DEEPLY - FOUNDED
CONVICTION URGED, AFTER CAREFUL CONSIDERATION OF ALL PERTINENT FACTORS,
SUCH AS PROXIMITY OF DEPOSIT - DISPLAY OF SALVAGED ARTIFACTS TO THE SITE
OF WRECK AND RECOVERY, THE CENTURIES OF HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION LINKING
THE PADRE ISLAND AREA SUNKEN GALLEONS AND THEIR CARGOES WITH THE SPECIAL,
EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE COASTAL BEND, AND THE NEED FOR SAFE, SCIENTIFICALLY -
CONTROLLED STORAGE AND DISPLAY OF SUCH ARTIFACTS TO ALL THE PUBLIC, THE
SAID ARTIFACTS SHOULD, NATURALLY AND APPROPRIATELY, BE PLACED IN PERMANENT
REPOSITORY IN THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM, AT CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS! AND
THAT, IT IS FURTHER HEREBY RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, AT ITS CURRENT AND PROJECTED RATES OF TOURISM, WILL ASSURE
A RANGE AND FREQUENCY OF DISPLAY - VISITORS, AS TO SUCH ARTIFACTS, TO FULFILL
THE NATURAL INTEREST OF ALL TEXANS IN SEEING THAT APPROPRIATE AND CONVEN-
IENT ACCESS BE AVAILABLE AND
THAT, THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI WILL PROVIDE, AT THE CORPUS
CHRISTI MUSEUM A COMPLETELY ADEQUATE STAFF, FACILITIES AND INSTRUMENTATION
FOR THE PRESERVATION, GUARDING AND DISPLAY, IN BEHALF OF ALL TEXANS, OF
THESE FINE TREASURES FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO.
9599
PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE ZTH DAY OF JANUARY, 1970.
ATTEST:
Corpus Christi, as
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day of 19Q
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing
ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspen-
sion of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or resolution 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; I, therefore,
request that you suspend jaid Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordi-
nance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the
City Council.
Respect lly,
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THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS K—j
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Jack R. Blackmon
Gabe Lozano, Sr. 64 P
V. A. "Dick"Bradley, Jr.
Eduardo E. de Ases
Ken McDaniel
W. J. "Wrangler" Roberts
Ronnie Sizemore
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Jack R. Blackmon
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
V. A. "Dick" Bradley, Jr.
Eduardo E. de Ases
Ken McDaniel
W. J. ','Wrangler" Roberts
Ronnie Sizemore
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