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HomeMy WebLinkAbout09864 ORD - 07/29/1970JRR:JKH:7 -28 -70 AN ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDINANCE NOS. 6260, 5501, 4635 AND 3486, BY AMENDING THE SCHEDULE OF MOTOR BUS RATES TO PRO- VIDE FOR AN INCREASE IN RATES; PROVIDING FOR SEVER - ABILITY; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ACQUIRED THE FACILITIES OF THE NUECES TRANSPORTATION COMPANY AND, WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, HAS PURCHASED 27 AIR CONDITIONED BUSES TO IMPROVE BUS SERVICE; AND WHEREAS, THE COST OF PROVIDING BUS SERVICE, INCLUDING OPERATORS' SALARIES AND BUS MAINTENANCE, HAS INCREASED TO THE POINT WHERE EXISTING REVENUES WILL NOT MEET DIRECT OPERATING COSTS; AND WHEREAS, THE CITY COUNCIL HAS DETERMINED THAT AN INCREASE IN RATES AND FARES IS ESSENTIAL; AND WHEREAS, THE CITY COUNCIL FINDS THAT THE HEREINAFTER PRESCRIBED RATES AND FARES ARE REASONABLE, JUST AND FAIR, BEING IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, AND WILL HELP DEFRAY THE INCREASED OPERATING COSTS: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. THAT ORDINANCE NOS. 6260, 5501, 4635 AND 3486 AND ALL OTHER ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH, INSOFAR AS THE SAME ARE CON- FLICTIVE WITH THIS ORDINANCE,.BE AND THEY ARE HEREBY REPEALED. SECTION 2. THAT HEREAFTER THE FARE FOR TRANSPORTATION BY THE CITY TRANSIT SYSTEM SHALL BE AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULE: (A) (1) ALL RIDES ORIGINATING IN ONE ZONE AND TERMINATING IN THE SAME ZONE WITHOUT HAVING TRAVELED IN ANY OTHER ZONE SHALL PAY THE BASE FARE OF TWENTY -FIVE CENTS (250) IN COIN, OR ONE (1) TOKEN ISSUED BY THE CITY TRANSIT SYSTEM. TOKENS PURCHASED IN LOTS OF FIVE (5) SHALL BE SOLD FOR ONE DOLLAR ($1.00). (2) FOR CHILDREN, FROM THEIR FIFTH (5TH) TO THEIR TWELFTH (12TH) BIRTHDAYS, ALL RIDES ORIGINATING IN ONE ZONE AND TERMINATING IN THE SAME ZONE WITHOUT HAVING TRAVELED IN ANY OTHER ZONE, TWELVE CENTS (120). (3) FOR STUDENTS, REGARDLESS OF AGE, IN ACTUAL ATTENDANCE AT ANY ACADEMIC PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SCHOOL OF GRADES NOT HIGHER THAN THE PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF SEVEN O'CLOCK (7:00) A. M. TO SIX O'CLOCK (6:00) P. M., REGULAR CASH FARE SHALL BE CHARGED AS IN (A) (1) ABOVE OR ONE (1) SCHOOL TICKET OR RIDE (TWELVE AND ONE -HALF CENT VALUE). im SCHOOL OR RIDE TICKETS IN LOTS OF TWENTY (20) SHALL BE SOLD FOR TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS ($2.50). PROVIDED, HOWEVER, FOR A TRIP ON A SCHOOL OR RIDE TICKET UNDER (A) (3) THERE SHALL BE NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE OR FARE FOR CROSSING TWO OR MORE ZONES. (4) FOR CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF FIVE (5) YEARS, WHEN ACCOMPANYING A FARE PAYING PASSENGER, THERE SHALL BE NO CHARGE. (5) TRANSFERS SHALL BE ISSUED TO ALL PATRONS, BETWEEN ALL ROUTES WITHOUT ADDITIONAL CHARGE; PROVIDED THAT SHOULD AN ADULT PASSENGER CROSS A ZONE LINES THE FARE SHALL BE FIVE CENTS (5¢) FOR EACH ZONE LINE CROSSED WHILE MAKING SUCH RIDE. CHILD ZONE FARE SHALL BE THREE CENTS (30) FOR N0. 2 ZONE, TWO CENTS (20) FOR NO. 3 ZONES THREE CENTS (30) FOR N0. 4 ZONES TWO CENTS (2¢) FOR NO. 5 ZONE, THUS CONTINUING IN THREE- AND TWO -CENT ALTERNATION TO THE OUTERMOST ZONE OF SERVICE. (B) INTRA -CITY CHARTER RATES PARLOR COACH OR 45 PASSENGER WITH AIR - CONDITIONING, THREE HOUR MINIMUM $30.00 $4.50 EACH COMPLETED ONE -HALF HOUR PAST THREE HOURS. 35 PASSENGER WITH AIR - CONDITIONINGS THREE HOUR MINIMUM $26.00 $4.00 EACH COMPLETED ONE -HALF HOUR PAST THREE HOURS. NON AIR - CONDITION 4 PASSENGERS, TWO HOUR MINIMUM $15.00 $4.00 EACH COMPLETED ONE -HALF HOUR PAST TWO HOURS. 7 PASSENGERS, TWO HOUR MINIMUM $16.00 3.50 EACH COMPLETED ONE -HALF HOUR PAST TWO HOURS. 2 PASSENGERS, TWO HOUR MINIMUM $14.00 3.00 EACH COMPLETED ONE -HALF HOUR PAST TWO HOURS. SPECIAL RATES - CONVENTION SHUTTLE SERVICE OVER FOUR HOURS UNINTERRUPTED pp PARLOR COACH OR 45 PASSENGER WITH AIR - CONDITIONINGS $U.00 PER HOUR OR 7.0¢ PER MILE, WHICHEVER IS GREATER. 35 PASSENGER WITH AIR - CONDITIONINGS $7.00 PER HOUR OR 6.50 PER MILE2 WHICHEVER IS GREATER. NON AIR - CONDITION 45 PASSENGER, $7.00 PER HOUR OR 6.5¢ PER MILES WHICHEVER IS GREATER. 37 PASSENGERS $6.50 PER HOUR OR 6.50 PER MILES WHICHEVER IS GREATER. 32 PASSENGERS $6.00 PER HOUR OR 6.0¢ PER MILE, WHICHEVER IS GREATER. CHARTER RATES MAY BE NEGOTIATED FOR LARGE VOLUME MOVEMENTS BY THE TRANSIT SUPERINTENDENT SUBJECT TO APPROVAL OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC UTILITIES. -2- LARGE VOLUME MOVEMENTS ARE ACTIVITIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SCHOOL ATHLETIC PROGRAMS AND MUSIC FESTIVALS. NEGOTIATED RATES LIMITED TO MOVEMENTS INVOLVING OVER ONE HUNDRED (100) HOURS PER WEEK. THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC UTILITIES SHALL IN ADDITION TO CON- SIDERATION OF THE RATES AND FARES CHARGED FOR SINGLE RIDERS AND THE HOURS OF MOVEMENT PER WEEKS BE GUIDED IN FORMULATING A NEGOTIATED RATE TRIP BY THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: 1. NUMBER OF PERSONS TO BE TRANSPORTED; 2. ONE -WAY OR ROUND -TRIP FEATURE OF THE TRIP; 3. TOTAL MILEAGE TO BE RUNS (� NUMBER OF TRIPS COMMITTED TO BE MADE BY THE GROUP ON THE CITY TRANSIT SYSTEM; 5. TYPE OF BUS TO BE USED; 6. HOURS OF THE DAY AND THE DAY OR DAYS OF THE WEEK OF TRIP DURATION; 7. AGE AND PHYSICAL CONDITION OF THE PASSENGERS; 8 QUANTITY, DIMENSIONS WEIGHT, AND SHAPE OF ACCOMPANIED AND UNACCOMPANIED BAGGAGE, IF ANY, TO BE TRANSPORTED; AND 9. NUMBER OF STOPS TO BE MADE BETWEEN ORIGIN AND DESTI- NATION AND DURATION OF STOPS. (C) INTRA- STATECHARTER RATES AS PUBLISHED BY TEXAS RAILROAD COMMISSION TARIFF NO. A455, SCHEDULE D -10, MARCH 15, 1970. (D) ZONES ZONES SHALL CONSIST OF CIRCLES HAVING AS COMMON CENTERS THE INTERSECTION OF THE CENTERLINES OF CHAPARRAL AND LAWRENCE STREETS. THE FIRST ZONE SHALL HAVE A RADIUS OF THREE (3) MILES, CONSTITUTING ZONE ONE. SUCCESSIVE CONCENTRIC CIRCLES2 HAVING THE AFORESAID CENTER AS A COMMON CENTERS OF TWO -MILE RADIUS INCREMENTS2 SHALL CONSTITUTE THE OUTER ZONES, APPEARING AND DESIGNATED BY ZONE NUMBERS AS SHOWN ON THE MAP ANNEXED HERETO, DESIGNATED "EXHIBIT A" AND BY THIS REFERENCE INCORPORATED HEREIN AND MADE A PART HEREOF. SECTION 3. IF FOR ANY REASON ANY SECTIONS PARAGRAPHS SUBDIVISION, CLAUSES PHRASES OR PROVISION OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE HELD INVALIDS IT SHALL NOT AFFECT ANY VALID PROVISIONS OF THIS OR ANY OTHER ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TO WHICH THESE RULES AND REGULATIONS RELATE. SECTION 4. THE NECESSITY TO IMMEDIATELY EFFECT THE CHANGES HEREINABOVE SET FORTH 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 BUT THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCILS AND THE MAYOR HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE AND HAVING DECLARED THAT SUCH PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY -3- i I L EXIST, 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 PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THE 29TH DAY OF JULY, 1970. ATTEST: Cl /�V - //' - -1 - SECRET APPROVED: DAY OF JULY, 1970: A% 7 - A ING CITY ATTO Y e H !CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS n Corpus Christi, as 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, t YOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Jack R. Blackmon Gabe Lozano, Sr. V. A. "Dicle'Bradley, Jr. Eduardo E. de.Ases Ken McDaniel W. J. "Wrangler" Roberts Ronnie Sizemore The above ordinance was passed by the follow g vote: Jack R. Blackmon Gabe Lozano, Sr. V. A. "Dick" Bradley, Jr. Eduardo E. de Ases Ken McDaniel W. J. ',Wrangler" Roberts Ronnie Sizemore Y: PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT STATE OF TEXAS, County of Nueces. )ss Before me, the undersigned. a Notary Public, this day personally came ........ ___Leyland -- a_.-BarT184, . . .... ............. who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he Is the ...0 alai f9 ®d 1knager of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi Times, Daffy Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of . LAFAI.. �t O=_-=Ro r;? — 0RnTN,4MR..N() of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in on the- -6..__ day of 19-zo- MraffaNift.. s Subscribed and sworn to before me this-.—.- Z__-.day of ........ _-Aul-T Louise Vick otary Public, Nueces County, Texai' 1. 9e6A under hood l, aml of of Corp Chrlell, Texas, A of July, 1970. T, RAY KRING, cl . id CITY of Carpus ChflSill'