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Home My WebLink About11200 ORD - 12/13/1972 (2)JRR:vmp • 12/8/72:1et AN ORDINANCE CANVASSING RETURNS AND DECLARING THE RESULTS OF AN ELECTION HELD ON THE 9TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1972, FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING WHETHER OR NOT THE TERRITORY ADJACENT TO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, DESCRIBED IN ORDINANCE NO. 11179, ORDERING SUCH ELECTION, SHOULD BE ANNEXED TO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, AND DECLARING THE RESULTS OF SUCH ELECTION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, on the 22nd day of November, 1972, the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, passed Ordinance No. 11,179, calling an election to be held within the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, on the 9th day of December, 1972, and such election was ordered and submitted to the qualified voters of said City the question of whether or not certain terri- tory should be annexed to the City of Corpus Christi, said territory to be annexed consisting of all of the area lying between the present boundaries of the City of Corpus Christi and a new proposed boundary as set forth in said ordinance and located wholly within said new boundary line; and WHEREAS, on December 6, 1972, the City Council delineated City voting precincts, showing corresponding county precinct numbers, designating polling place locations, designating election judges and alternates at the December 9, 1972 annexation election, but otherwise making no change in said Ordinance No. 11,179 in which the new proposed boundary line of the City was more particularly described as follows: All that area between the present city limits and a line hereinafter described; Beginning at a point in the present city limits of the City of Corpus Christi, said point being the most easterly corner of State Tract No. 417; Thence in a southerly direction with the east line of the city limits of the City of Corpus Christi as described by Ordinance No. 8080 to its intersection with the south- westerly extension of the present southern city limit line of the City of Aransas Pass; Thence in a northeasterly direction with the southwesterly extension of the present south city limit line of the City of Aransas Pass and continuing in a northeasterly direc- tion with the present south city limit line of the City of Aransas Pass and its northeasterly extension to its inter- section with the northeast boundary line of State Tract No. 344; 31200. Thence in a southeasterly direction with the northeast boundary line of State Tracts Nos. 344, 345, 346, 347, and 384, to the most easterly corner of said State Tract No. 3841 Thence in a southerly direction along a line parallel to and five (5) miles east measured at right angle from the east city limit line of the City of Corpus Christi, accord- ing to Ordinance No. 8080, to its intersection with the southeast boundary of State Tract No. 3881 Thence in a southwesterly direction with the southeast boundary line of said State Tract No. 388 to the common corner of State Tracts 388, 387, 403, and 4041 Thence in a southerly direction across said State Tract No. 404 to the most westerly corner of the Samuel Ward Survey, Abstract No. 4071 Thence in a southerly direction still crossing a portion of State Tract No. 404 to the most easterly corner of State Tract No. 405 in the northwest boundary of the Wm. Little Survey, Abstract No. 2121 Thence in a southwesterly direction with the northwest boundary line of Sam Wilson, Jr.'s 1280 acre tract, Wm. Little Surveys, Abstract Nos. 212, 211, 210, and 213, to the most westerly corner of the said Little Survey Abstract No. 2131 Thence in a northwesterly direction with the northeast boundary line of the Sam Wilson, Jr. 640 acre tract, James M. Waterberry Survey, Abstract No. 408, to its most northerly corner thereof; Thence in a southwesterly direction with the northwest boundary line of said Waterberry Survey to its intersec- tion with the most easterly corner of the Wm. Little Survey, Abstract No. 2161 Thence in a northwesterly direction with the northeast boundary line of said Wm. Little Survey, Abstract No. 216, to the most northerly corner thereof, said corner being on the eastern shoreline of Corpus Christi Bay; Thence in a southwesterly direction with the meanders of said shoreline to its intersection with the most westerly corner of the A. B. Davis Survey, Abstract No. 944; Thence in a southeasterly direction with the southwest boundary line of said A. B. Davis Survey and with the southwest boundary line of the R. S. Harvey Survey, Abstract No. 164, to its intersection with the most northerly corner of the Uriah Hayden Survey, Abstract No. 162. Thence in a southwesterly direction with the northwest boundary line of said Uriah Hayden Survey to its most west- erly corner thereof, said corner being in the northeast boundary line of the Uriah Hayden Survey, Abstract No. 161; Thence in a northwesterly direction with the northeast boundary line of said Uriah Hayden Survey, Abstract No. 161 to its most northerly corner thereof; Thence in a general southwesterly direction with the northwest boundary lines of said Uriah Hayden Survey, -2- Abstract No. 161, Wm. Little Survey, Abstract 217, and Wm. Bryan Survey, Abstract No. 44, and its extension to the most southerly corner of State Tract No. 55; Thence in a northwesterly direction with the southwest boundary line of said State Tract No. 55 to the most northerly corner of State Tract No. 56. Thence in a southwesterly direction with the common boundary line of State Tracts 56 and 57, and 59, and 58 to its intersection with the east shore of Laguna Madre at the most westerly corner of State Tract No. 59; Thence in a general southwesterly direction with the meanders of said shoreline to its intersection with the most northerly corner of State Tract No. 60; Thence in a southwesterly direction with the common boundary line of State Tracts 58, 60 and 60 and 61 to its intersection with the east shore of Laguna Madre at the most westerly corner of State Tract 60; Thence in a southwesterly direction with the meanders of the eastern shore of Laguna Madre to its intersection with the southwest right of way line of the John F. Kennedy Causeway; Thence in a northwesterly direction with the southwest right of way line of the John F. Kennedy Causeway, to its intersection with the Padre Island Investment Company's west lease line extended northeasterly; Thence in a southwesterly direction with the Padre Island Investment Company's West Lease Line extended and with the Padre Island Investment Company's West Lease Line and its meanders to its most westerly corner thereof; Thence in a southeasterly direction with the southwest boundary line of Padre Island Investment Company's West Lease and with the southwest boundary line of the Padre Island Investment Company Tract and its extension to its intersection with the Nueces- Kleberg County Line on the East Shore of Laguna Madre; Thence in a southwesterly direction with the meanders of the east shore of Laguna Madre to the most southerly corner of State Tract No. 178; Thence in a northwesterly direction across Laguna Madre and in a straight line to the point of intersection of the Nueces- Kleberg County Line and the western shore of Laguna Madre; Thence in a general northeasterly direction with the mean- ders of the western shore of Laguna Madre and continuing with the city limit line of the City of Corpus Christi, according to city ordinance Nos. 6636 and 8080 to the point of beginning. Containing 72 square miles of area more or less. -3- r� and • WHEREAS, said Ordinance 11179 directed that the question of annexation of the above described territory be stated on the ballot and submitted to the voters by proposition as follows: and "ANNEXATION PROPOSITION Shall the City of Corpus Christi, by ordinance, annex to said City certain additional territory referred to and described in the ordinance ordering an election passed November 22, 1972, to the City of Corpus Christi and its corporate limits, said territory being generally described as an area being all of that area between the present east city limits of the City of Corpus Christi and the west shoreline of Mustang and Padre Island and between the present south Aransas Pass city limits and a line approxi- mately one mile south of the NueC66- Xleberg County Line." WHEREAS, notice of said election was actually given as directed by law and as directed in the ordinance calling the election as is shown by affidavits properly filed in the office of the City Secretary; and WHEREAS, said election was duly and legally held on the 9th day of December, 1972, in conformity with the election ordinance passed by the City Council as aforesaid, and the result of said election has been certified and returned to the City Secretary and to this Council by the proper judges and clerks thereof, and the City Council this day has duly and carefully considered the returns of this election on the proposition hereinabove stated; and WHEREAS, it appears to the Council, and the Council so finds, that said election was in all respects lawfully held, and said returns duly and legally made, and that there were cast at said election the following votes: and ANNEXATION PROPOSITION: TOTAL VOTES For annexation of said additional territory referred to in the ordinance heretofore passed an final reading by the City Council, ordering an election, and which ordinance was passed on November 22, 1972 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D 730 Against the annexation of such additional terri- tory referred to in the ordinance heretofore passed on final reading by the City Council, ordering an election, and which ordinance was � passed on November 22, 1972. . . . . . . . . . _zr / WHEREAS, the Council, having fully checked all of the procedure relative to such election, and it appearing to the Council, and the Council -4- so finds, that a majority of the legally qualified voters of and within the City of Corpus Christi voted in favor of annexation of such additional territory as stated under said proposition: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That the returns of the election held on the 9th day of December, 1972, at the various precinct voting places as provided for in the ordinance ordering the election, and all of said voting precincts and voting places being in the City limits of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, and all being convenient places within the said city limits, the returns of said election are hereby received and are hereby canvassed and the results thereof are hereby declared as follows: -5- SECTION 2. The fact that it is important to the residents of the territory proposed to be annexed and to the residents of the City of Corpus Christi that an immediate record be made of the results of the election held December 9, 1972, so that adequate provisions may be made directed toward the annexation of such territory, 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 it is intro- duced 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 that such Charter rule be suspended, 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 13th day of December, 1972. O ATTEST: ! MAYOR THE CITY OF CORtt.�JMSTI, TEXAS City SecrdtarV APPROVED: DAY OF DECEMBER, 1972: City Attorney CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 1'5,tk— AY 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) 1, 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. RESPE Y, O O 2 YOR THE CITY OF-CORIIVCHRISTI, TEXAS THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: BONNIE SIZEMORE CHARLES A. BONNIWELL ROBERTO BOSQUEZ, M.D. REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH . THOMAS V. GONZALES I� GAGE LOZAND, $R. J. HOWARD STARK THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING 'VOTE: . BONNIE SIZEMORE ' CHARLES A. 13ONNIWELL . ROBERTO 8oscuEZ, M.D. _ 'REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH THOMAS V. GONZALES GABE LOZANO, SR. J. HOWARD STARK Q.e�