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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
A CONTRACT WITH AUSTIN ENGINEERING COMPANY FOR CON-
STRUCTION OF THE FLOUR BLUFF AND NAVAL AIR STATION
WATER TRANSMISSION LINES, PROJECT NO. 202 -68 -29.3
(PART A), EDA PROJECT NO. 08-1- 00747, SUBJECT TO FINAL
APPROVAL FROM THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION;
APPROPRIATING FROM THE NO. 202 WATER SYSTEM BOND FUND
THE SUM of $1,077,725.58, OF WHICH $1,035 926 IS FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AND $111,799.58 IS FOR CONTINGENCIES,
INCLUDING ENGINEERING FEES, INSPECTION, STAKING, RADIO-
GRAPHIC TEST, LABORATORY TESTING, AND OTHER INCIDENTAL
EXPENSES; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT THE CITY MANAGER BE, AND HE IS HEREBY, AUTHORIZED
AND DIRECTED TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH AUSTIN ENGINEERING COMPANY FOR CON-
STRUCTION OF THE FLOUR BLUFF AND NAVAL AIR STATION WATER TRANSMISSION LINES, .y
PROJECT NO. 202 -68 -29.3 (PART A), EDA PROJECT N0. 08- 1- 00747, SAID CONSTRUC-
TION TO CONSIST OF FURNISHING ALL MATERIALS, EQUIPMENT, AND LABOR NECESSARY TO
CONSTRUCT, COMPLETE AND IN PLACE, APPROXIMATELY 26,900 L.F. OF 30" PIPE,
111,700 L.F. OF 20" PIPE, AND 4,000 L.F. OF 16° PIPE,AS IS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED
IN THE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS, TO BE SITUATED EASTWARD ALONG HOLLY ROAD FROM
SOUTH STAPLES STREET ACROSS THE CAYO DEL OSO TO FLOUR BLUFF DRIVE, THEN ALONG
DIVISION ROAD TO LAGUNA SHORES ROAD WITH A SECOND LINE TO RUN NORTHEASTWARD
ALONG FLOUR BLUFF DRIVE FROM DIVISION ROAD TO THE U. S. NAVAL AIR STATION, IN
NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, SUBJECT TO PRIOR FINAL APPROVAL BY THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ADMINISTRATION, ALL AS MORE FULLY SET OUT IN THE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS AND
CONTRACT DOCUMENTS ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY SECRETARY, ALL WHICH ARE
MADE A PART HEREOF BY REFERENCE, ACCORDING TO THE BID OF AUSTIN ENGINEERING
COMPANY OPENED ON JULY 15, 1970, THE SAID BID OF AUSTIN ENGINEERING COMPANY
BEING THE LOWEST AND MOST ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
SECTION 2. THERE IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED OUT OF THE NO. 202 WATER
SYSTEM BOND FUND THE SUM OF $11077,725.58, OF WHICH $1,035,926 IS FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AND $41,799.58 IS FOR CONTINGENCIES, INCLUDING ENGINEER-
ING FEES, INSPECTION, STAKING, RADIOGRAPHIC TEST, LABORATORY TESTING AND OTHER
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. _
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SECTION 3. THE NECESSITY TO PROVIDE THE FUNDS HEREBY APPROPRIATED
AND TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE AFORESAID CONTRACT, SUBJECT
TO FINAL APPROVAL BY THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, IN ORDER TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY
OF THE WATER TRANSMISSION FACILITIES TO THE FLOUR BLUFF AREA AND THE U. S. NAVAL
AIR STATION, CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIR-
ING 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 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:
CITY SECRETAR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
DAY OF JULYa 1970:
A ING CITY ATTO Y
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
CERTIFICATION OF FUNDS
(City Charter Article IV Section 21)
July 29, 1970
I certify to the City Council that $ 1,553,587.13 , the amount required
for the contract, agreement, obligation or expenditures contemplated in the
shave and foregoing ordinance is in the Treasury of the City of Corpus Christi
to the credit of:
Fund No, and Name 202 Water System Bond
Project No. 202 -68 -29.3
Project Name Flour Bluff Main, Holly Road, Resevoir to Intra-
Coastal Canal
see Below)
from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not appropriated for
any other purpose.
202 -68 -29.3 (Part A) Flour Bluff & NAS Lines
202 -68 -29.3 (Part B ) Laguna Madre Line
Total
FIN 2 -55
Revised 7 -31 -69
$1,077,725.58
475 861.55
T1,553,587-13
TO THE NEMi ERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi, as
day. of , 191(,
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,
MAYOR
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 followi 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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