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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11604 ORD - 08/01/1973JRR:jkh67- 25 -73; 2nd V 'T `I U AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A BUDGET FOR THE ENSUING FISCAL YEAR BEGIN- NING AUGUST 1, 1973, AND ENDING JULY 31, 1974, 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, 1973, AND ENDING JULY 31, 1974; 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, did 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, 1973, and ending July 31, 1974, 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 689 -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, 1973, 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, 1973, to July 31, 1974: 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 $38,913,047 excluding revenue sharing appropriated reserves and $4,800,950 in revenue sharing reserves or total of $43,713,997 and the estimate of the revenues of the said City amounting to $36,414,452 from City sources other than .`k w. 4 41 116 ®4 revenue sharing and $7,299,545 from revenue sharing for a total of $43,713,997 for the fiscal year beginning August 1, 1973, and ending July 31, 1974, as submitted to the City Council by the City Manager, 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, 1973, and ending July 31, 1974. �,*,, SECTION 2. That on this the day of July, 1973, upon the passage of this ordinance accepting, approving and adopting the budget of the City of Corpus Christi, for the Fiscal Year beginning August 1, 1973, and ending July 31, 1974, 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. 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 [loge 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, 1974. SECTION 4. 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 City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose. -2- a. SECTION 5. 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, 1973, and the fact that the same has not been heretofore approved, and the fact that this appropriation must be pissed at once and upon adoption of the budget it must be published once before becoming effective, creates a public emergency and an imperative public neces- sity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolu- tion 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 neces- sity exist, and having requested the suspension of said Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally an the date of its introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from an after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this theLj�day of 3zrly 973. s ATTEST: City Secretor APPROVED: 7 l7i DAY OF JULY, 1973: City Attorney MAYO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS a Corpus Christi, Texas day of 19 73 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 6 THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 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 At