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AN ORDINANCE
MAKING FINDINGS OF FACTS; AMENDING SECTION 38 -55A OF
THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE, 1958, AS AMENDED, AND
PARTICULARLY AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE N0. 8726,
PERTAINING TO FINANCING OF INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER
EXTENSIONS BY INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS SO AS TO HEREAFTER
PROVIDE AN INTEREST RATE OF FIVE AND ONE - FOURTH
PERCE14T (5 1/4%) PER ANNUM; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES
IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
;y WHEREAS, CURRENTLY IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI THERE EXISTS
APPROXIMATELY 2610 OCCUPIED PROPERTIES WHERE CITY SEWER SERVICE IS AVAILABLE
'a- BUT FOR WHICH NO APPLICATION FOR SUCH SERVICE HAS BEEN RECEIVED BY THE CITY;
AND
WHEREAS, THE EXISTENCE OF SUCH LARGE NUMBERS OF OCCUPIED PROPERTIES
WHERE NO CITY SEWER SERVICE IS PROVIDED CREATES A SEVERE HEALTH HAZARD TO THE
RESIDENTS OF SAID PROPERTY AND TO THC REMAINDER OF THE CITY; AND
WHEREAS, BASED ON THE CURRENT COST OF MONEY NOW AVAILABLE, THE CITY
IS IN A POSITION TO REDUCE THE INTEREST CHARGED FOR SEWER CONNECTION TO FIVE
AND ONE- FOURTH PERCENT (5 1/4%).
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE'CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT SECTION 38 -55A OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI CITY CODE,
1958, AS AMENDED, AND PARTICULARLY AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE NO. 8726, BE, A14D
THE SAME IS HEREBY, AMENDED BY DELETING THE WORDS "SIX AND ONE -HALF PERCENT PER
ANNUM" AND SUBSTITUTING THEREFOR THE WORDS "FIVE AND ONE- FOURTH PCRCENT PER
ANNUM" IN SUBSECTION (C), PERTAINING TO FINANCING OF INSTALLATION OF WASTEWATER
EXTENSIONS BY INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS.
SECTION 2. THAT ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT HEREWITH
BE, AND THE SAME ARE HEREBY, REPEALED.
SECTION 3. THE NECESSITY TO DECREASE THE INTEREST RATES THAT ARE
HCREINABOVE SET FORTH IS OF AN EMERGENCY NATURE, 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
r INTRODUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE RCAD 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 SAID CHARTER RULE
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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 _. 2,-.L DAY OF JUNE, 1973.
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APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM THIS
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THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, 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; 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:
Jason Lubytsz
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James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
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Thomas V. Gonzales
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Ricardo Gonzalez
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Gabe Lozano, Sr.
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J. Howard Stark
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The above ordinance was passed
by the following vote:
Jason Luby
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James T. Acuff
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Rev. Harold T. Branch
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Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
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Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard-Stark
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STATE OF TEXAS, lss: 3
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Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came ... ...............................
_Richer d- _I).__I3ardin ,- who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the
............. Clasa....Adv - -. Mgr.. ............................... of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi Times,
Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of
of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in
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otary Public, Nueces County, Texas
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