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A RESOLUTION
APPROVING AND CONFIRMING THE APPOINTMENT OF JAMES R.
RIGGS TO THE OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, THE CITY MANAGER HAS RECOMMENDED THE APPOINTMENT OF
JAMES R. RIGGS TO THE OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS; AND
WHEREAS, THE CITY COUNCIL CONCURS IN SUCH APPOINTMENT:
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT THE APPOINTMENT OF JAMES R. RIGGS TO THE OFFICE
OF CITY ATTORNEY OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, IS HEREBY APPROVED
AND CONFIRMED.
SECTION 2. THE NECESSITY TO CONFIRM THE APPOINTMENT OF JAMES R.
RIGGS AS CITY ATTORNEY OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI AT THE EARLIEST
PRACTICABLE DATE 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 RESOLUTION 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 RESOLVED,
THIS THE/&54VDAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1970.
ATTEST:
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CITY SECRETARY
APP V D:
T2 DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1970:
0,d,2t/. CITY ATTORNEY
eTHE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
993
Corpus Christi, Tee s
A V day of , 19 ;7)
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,
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 following vote:
Jack R. Blackmon
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
V. A. "Dick" Bradley, -.1r.
Eduardo E. de Ases
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Ken McDaniel
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W. J. "Wrangler" Roberts,
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Ronnie Sizemore