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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT
WITH BURTEX CONSTRUCTORS, INC. FOR PRESCOTT STREET
IMPROVEMENTS AND PRESCOTT PARK DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS;
APPROPRIATING A TOTAL OF $250,000, OF WHICH $209,129.85
IS OUT OF NO. 220 STREET BOND FUND, $201,787.86 BEING
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AND $7,341.99 FOR CON-
TINGENCIES AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSES, APPLICABLE TO
PROJECT NO. 220 -70 -118, AND $40 870.15 IS OUT OF NO.
295 STORM SEWER BOND FUND, $39,x+35.31 BEING FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AND $1,134.84 FOR CONTINGENCIES
AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSES APPLICABLE TO PROJECT NO.
295- 70 -76; 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
e• TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH BURTEX CONSTRUCTORS, INC. FOR PRESCOTT STREET IMPROVE-
' MENTS AND PRESCOTT PARK DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS, ALL AS IS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED
IN THE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS AND CONTRACT DOCUMENTS ON FILE IN THE OFFICE �•�=
.� OF THE CITY SECRETARY, ALL OF WHICH ARE MADE A PART HEREOF BY REFERENCE AND
ACCORDING TO THE BID OF BURTEX CONSTRUCTORS, INC., OPENED ON THE 25TH DAY OF
APRIL, 1973, THE SAID BID OF BURTEX CONSTRUCTORS, INC. BEING THE LOWEST AND MOST
ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI.
SECTION 2. THERE IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED A TOTAL OF $250,000, OF,
WHICH $209,129.85 IS OUT OF NO. 220 STREET BOND FUND, $201,787.86 BEING FOR
THE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AND $7,3111.99 FOR CONTINGENCIES AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSES,
APPLICABLE TO PROJECT No. 220 -70 -118, AND $40,870.15 IS OUT OF No. 295 STORM
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SEWER BOND FUND, $39,435.31 BEING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AND $1,434.84
FOR CONTINGENCIES AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSES APPLICABLE TO PROJECT NO. 295- 70 -76.
SECTION 3. THE NECESSITY TO EXECUTE THE AFORESAID CONTRACT AND TO
APPROPRIATE THE SUM HEREINABOVE SET OUT AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE DATE SO THAT
CONSTRUCTION MAY COMMENCE, 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
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
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BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND TAKE EFFECT FROM AND AFTER
ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THE Q,Xk DAY OF JUNE,
1973•
ATTEST:
CITY SECRETA v 7
APPROVED:
IqA PAY, OF JUNE, 1973:
CiVY ATT( NEY`
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MAYoR,pjoem
THE CITY OF CORPUS C RISTI, TEXAS
Corpus Christi, Texas
,2()_ d day of 19 % 3
61/1 __
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 �o•77em
TV CITY OF CORPUS CiRiISTI, TEXAS
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Jason Luby
Qzyvt
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Q Pyye
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
,ems
J. Howard Stark
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The above ordinance was passed
by the following vote:
Jason Luby
y
James T. Acuff
CLc
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
�LC�
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
c
J. Howard Stark