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AN ORDINANCE
ADOPTING A BUDGET FOR THE ENSUING FISCAL YEAR BEGIN-
NING AUGUST 1, 1972, AND ENDING JULY 31, 1973, IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE CITY CHARTER, AS AMENDED, FOR THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS; APPROPRIATING CERTAIN
SUMS OF MONEY FOR THE BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BE-
GINNING AUGUST 1, 1972, AND ENDING JULY 31, 1973; PRO-
VIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the City Manager of the City of Corpus Christi, pursuant
to the provisions of the City Charter., dial on June, 12, 1972, submit to the
City Council a budget estimate of the revenues of said City, and the expenses
of conducting the affairs therefor for the ensuing fiscal year beginning
August 1, 1972, and ending July 31, 1973, and which said estimate had been
compiled from detailed information obtained from the several departments,
divisions and offices of the City, in accordance with the said City Charter
Provision; and
WHEREAS, the members of the City Council have received and studied
said City Manager's Budget Estimate and have called and held the proper hear-
ing in accordance with Article 789 -A of Vernon's Annotated Statutes of Texas,
on said budget; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the
City of Corpus Christi, Texas, it is necessary that the City Council accept,
approve and adopt the budget at the conclusion of such public hearings, and
before the first Regular Meeting in August, 1972, of the City Council; and
WHEREAS, upon adoption of the Budget, and pursuant to Section 15,
Article IV, of the City Charter of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, the
City Council must, at once, by ordinance appropriate such sums of money for
each department as provided in the budget for the ensuing Fiscal Year from
August 1, 1972, to July 31, 1973:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the budget of the City of Corpus Christi, covering
the proposed net expenditures of the City of Corpus Christi, amounting to
$ a7 #, 8710, %�13 and the estimate of the revenues of the said City
amounting to $ , 6F-76, 7113 for the fiscal year beginning
August 1, 1972, and ending July 31, 1973, as submitted to the City Council
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by the City Manager on June 12, 1972, be and the same is in all things
accepted, approved and adopted as the budget of the City of Corpus Christi,
for the fiscal year beginning August 1, 1972, and ending July 31, 1973.
SECTION 2. That on this the day of July, 1972, upon the
passage of this ordinance accepting, approving and adopting the budget of
the City of Corpus Christi, for the Fisca Year beginning August 1, 1972,
and ending July 31, 1973, certain sums of money be, and they are hereby,
appropriated to cover the sums as provided for each of the several depart-
ments of the said City, as said sums do appear in the said budget approved
by ordinance by the said City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, and
said budget being of record in the archives of said City.
SECTION 3. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subidivision,
clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid
or uncosntitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction
it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase,
word, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of this
City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word,
or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose.
SECTION 4. The fact that the provisions of the City Charter pre-
scribe that the budget be adopted and approved before the first Regular
Meeting of the City Council in August, 1972, and the fact that the same has
not been heretofore approved, and the fact that this appropriation must be
passed at once and upon adoption of the budget and must be published once
before becoming effective, 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 that such public emergency and
necessity exist, and having requested the suspension of said Charter rule
and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction
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and take effect and be in full force and effect rom and after its passage,
IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the da of July, 1972.
ATTEST:
City Secretar,
APPROVED:
3lsFDAY OF JULY, 1972:
"C` y Attorney
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THE CITY OF CORP S ISTI, TEXAS
CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS
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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; Ij THEREFORE,
REQUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT ANO,PASS THIS ORDI-
NANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED, OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE
CITY COUNCIL.
ULLY�
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MAYOR
THE CITY OF CO US CHRISTI, TEXAS
THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
• RONNIE SIZEMORE �C�C
CHARLES A. BONNIWELL
•- - - ROBERTO BOSQUEZ, M.D.
REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH
_ - THOMAS V. GONZALES
GABE LOZANO) SR. '
J. HOWARD STARK
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
RONNIE SIZEMORE -
CHARLES A. BONNIWELL
ROBERTO BOSQUEZ, M.D.
REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH �•-
THOMAS V. GONZALES
GABS LOZANO, SR.
J. HOWARD STARK