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AN ORDINANCE
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PRESCRIBING THE MAXIMUM EARNINGS TO BE CONSIDERED
IN CALCULATING DEPOSITS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO BE MADE
BY REASON OF CURRENT SERVICE OF EMPLOYEES OF THIS
CITY WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIRE-
MENT SYSTEM; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That annual earnings in excess of $8400 (maximum
earnings subject to retirement deductions) which may be paid by the City of
LL Corpus Christi, Texas, to any of its employees who are members of the Texas
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Municipal Retirement System, shall not be considered in calculating the
amount to be withheld and the deposits and contributions to be made to the
Texas Municipal Retirement System by reason of current service rendered by
such employee to this City; and the maximum amount which shall be deducted
each month for current service deposits to said System (where such compensa-
tion is paid on a monthly basis) shall exclude payments in excess of one - twelfth
(1 /12th) of the aforesaid sum of $8400 (maximum earnings subject to retirement
deductions) which is prescribed above as the maximum annual earnings to be
taken into account in calculating deposits and contributions on account of
current service.
SECTION 2. So long as payment of the increased rates, relative to
City Fiscal 1972 -1973 authorizations and appropriations, of wages and salaries,
including longevity and "cost -of- living adjustments ", are prohibited by the
application of Federal Wage and Salary controls and regulations, no officer or
employee of the City shall have, obtain or secure any title or right whatsoever
in or to said increased rate and amount of pay, and no entitlement to accrued
or retroactive payment of such increased rate and amount of pay is conferred
or recognized by the July, 1973 amendments to the City Classification and
Compensation Plan, by the City 1973 -1974 Budget Adoption Ordinance, by the
City 1973 -1974 Budget Appropriation Ordinance, or otherwise. Whenever the
said controls and regulations governing the wages and salaries paid by the
City are terminated, the City Council will determine thereafter and during a
control -free period a plan and schedule for payment of said increased rates
and amounts commencing as of a date to be fixed subsequent to the termination
of said controls and prior to August 1, 19774.
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SECTION 3. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision,
clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid
or unconstitutional 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
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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 effective date of the above changes shall be
August 6, 1973.
SECTION 5. The fact that there is an immediate need to make the
provisions of the foregoing ordinance effective and a need to maintain an
efficient administration of City affairs 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 intro-
duction 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 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 /at--day o 1973.
ATTEST:
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City Secre ary / MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
DAY OF /JULY, 712973-
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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi, Texas
day of , 19 7l
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,
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Jason Luby
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Jason Luby
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark
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