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Home My WebLink About09711 ORD - 04/15/1970JKH:4-13 -70 AN ORDINANCE c ' AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE, FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, AN AGREEMENT WITH THOS. Y. PICKETT & COMPANY, INC., OF DALLAS, TEXAS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF APPRAISAL AND VALUATION OF CERTAIN OIL REFINING AND RELATED PROPERTIES AND CERTAIN INDUSTRIAL PROPERTIES LOCATED IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND/OR CORPUS CHRISTI INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR TAX ASSESSMENT PURPOSES, AS MORE FULLY SET FORTH IN THE AGREEMENT, A COPY OF WHICH IS ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF; APPROPRIATING AND REAPPROPRIATING OUT OF NO. 102 GENERAL FUND THE SUM OF $6,500 FOR PAYMENT OF THE AFORESAID SERVICES; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. THE CITY MANAGER BE, AND HE IS HEREBY, AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED, FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH THOS. Y. PICKETT & COMPANY, INC., OF DALLAS, TEXAS FOR THE PURPOSE OF APPRAISAL AND VALUATION OF OIL REFINING AND RELATED PROPERTIES AND ALSO CERTAIN INDUSTRIAL PROPERTIES LOCATED IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND /OR IN THE CORPUS CHRISTI INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR TAX ASSESSMENT PURPOSES, ALL AS MORE FULLY SET FORTH IN THE AGREEMENT, A COPY OF WHICH IS ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF. SECTION 2. THERE IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED AND REAPPROPRIATED OUT OF GENERAL FUND NO. 102 THE SUM OF $6,500 IN PAYMENT OF THE AFORESAID SERVICES OF THOS. Y. PICKETT & COMPANY, INC. SECTION 3. THE NECESSITY TO AUTHORIZE THE AFORESAID AGREEMENT AND TO APPROPRIATE AND REAPPROPRIATE THE NECESSARY FUNDS SO THAT THE APPRAISAL FIRM OF THOS. Y. PICKETT & COMPANY, INC., MAY PROCEED WITH THEIR SERVICES WITHOUT DELAY 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 SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY TO EXIST, AND HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRO- DUCTION AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS J6JL1 PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THE /syk DAY OF�f 1970. ATTEST: 1'- I � L /Z- -- - I;> .. IA 100F CITY S-ECIFElf A j �' G THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS �APPROV D: AY OF APRIL, 1970: CITY ATTOWNdY THE STATE OF TEAS x X KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: COUNTY OF NUECES X THAT WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, has contemplated the employment of skilled experts in the matter of appraisals and valuations on certain industrial properties in said City and in the Corpus Christi Independent School District, for the convenigace and information of the Tax Assessor - Collector of the City in assessing the valuations of such properties in legal conformity with all other property valuations in said City for tax assesemant purposes; for the City and all agencies for which the City collects taxes; and WHEREAS, it has been represented that Thos. Y. Pickett & Company, Inc., of Dallas, Texas, are skilled in such matters and have scientific and technical knowledge and many years experience in the matter of appraisals and valuations of such properties for tax aseseements, and it is the purpose of the City Council of said City of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, to employ the services of the said Thos. Y. Pickett & Company, Inc., for said purposes; is ba lei Rz7 —vvrw AGMED BT bia'D B-32.—IM, t1a City u', cc;zPUZ .ziati, acting herein by and through its City Council, Party of the First Part, and Thos. Y. Pickett & Company, Inc., of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, Party of the Second Part, as follows: 1. PARTY OF THE SECOND PART agrees to compile a complete list showing all information pertaining to certain oil refining and related properties and also certain industrial properties located in the City of Corpus Christi and /or Corpus Christi Independent School District, as of January 1, 1970, said industrial properties interpreted to means Refineries Gasoline Plants Recycling Plants Storage Facilities Stored Products Tank Farms and Facilities, and other industrial properties listed separately and attached hereto, becoming a part of this contract and identified as Exhibit A hereto. 2. SECOND PARTY further agrees to procure for First Party all informa- tion possible and available, and deliver same to the Tax Assessor - Collector of the City of Corpus Christi, for his use in determining the proper valuations to be fixed upon such properties for assessment and taxation purposes and generally to compile such information as shall be of aid and benefit to or requested by said Tax Assessor- Collector for assessing, and the Board of Equalization in equalizing the value of such properties for taxation. Said Party of the Second Part agrees to meet with the City Council of the City of Comas Christi, and with the Board of Equalization of City, School, and College Districts, and to furnish each of said Boards from time to time with all the information procured by them or requested by said Tax Assessor - Collector during their investigation for use of the Boards of Equalization in equalizing the assessments upon said property, as= to remain in possession of and become the property of the City. Said Party of the Second Part agrees to have available to the City the individual persona qualified to testify as to appraisals and values to any of the properties listed available for any and ail nuarLusu baaora any board u= °uqualiraciun and in any court prucnading involving the question of value. Such services of such individual witnesses shall be furnished without additional cost to the City or District. 3. FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION of the skilled services, technical knowledge and experience of Second Party in performance of the obligations devolving upon them hereunder, and the services agreed hereby to be furnished, First Party agrees and obligates itself to compensate Second Party in the manner followings Said Second Party shall receive an amount paid out of the General Funds of the City of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, equal to Six Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($6,500.00), for the year 1470. Said payments shall include the payment by all agencies for which City collects taxes. 4. The said Thos. Y. Pickett & Company, Inc., further agrees that in no way will the said City of Corpus Christi be obligated to the assistants or employees of Second Party for salaries, expenses or materials, nor to Thos. Y. Pickett & Company, Inc., except as above stated for the sum of $6,500.00. BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES A.D., 19 ATTESTi WITNESS OUR BANDS IN DUPLICATE this day of P City Secretary APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM THIS day of 19 City Attorney Director of Finance PARTY OF THE FIRST PART CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI By City Manager PARTY OF THE SECOND PART THOS. Y. PICIMTT & COMPANY, INC. By H$ H I B I T - A American Smelting and Refining Company Celanese Chemical Company - Division of Celanese Corporation Centes Cement 'Corporation Corn Products Company PPG Industries, Inc. Corpus Christi, Texas day of 19 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 said 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. Respectfully, IAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS The Charter rule was suspended 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 The above ordinance was passed by the fol icing vote: Jack R. Blackmon Gabe Lozano, Sr. V. A. "Dick" Bradley, Jr. , Eduardo E. de Ases Ken McDaniel W. J. "Wrangler" Roberts Ronnie Sizemore