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AN ORDINANCE
RELATING TO THE FUEL ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE FOR THE
FURNISHING OF ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRIC SERVICE
WITHIN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, BY
CENTRAL POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY; REPEALING ALL
;r ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, Central Power And Light Company currently has in effect
a fuel adjustment clause for the furnishing of electricity and electric
service within the City of Corpus Christi; and
G WHEREAS, the City Manager has written a letter to Central Power
and Light Company interpreting said fuel adjustment clause dated June 25,
1973.
WHEREAS, the City Manager presented said letter dated June 25,
1973, to the City Council, in open public meeting and the City Council in
open public meeting with representatives of Central Power and Light Company
„ and citizens and consumers present approved said letter and interpretation:
` NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The monthly bill will be increased or decreased at
the rate of .00331 ($0.000033) per kilowatt hour for each full one- fourth
cent by which the average delivered cost of fuel to the Company during the
preceding month exceeds twenty cents or is less than fifteen cents for that
quantity of fuel used containing one million BTU.
SECTION 2. Whenever the average cost of fuel delivered to Central
Power and Light Company during the preceding month exceeds thirty -five cents
(351) per million BTU, a written statement of such actual average delivered
cost of fuel shall be filed with and officially presented to the City Council
in open meeting by Central Power and Light Company. At each five cents (5J)
per million BTU increment thereafter, either increased or decreased, Central
Power and Light Company shall file with and officially present to the City
Council in open meeting such increase or.d'ecrease.
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On or before January 31 of each year, Central Power and Light
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Company shall furnish the City a written statement showing the average
delivered cost of fuel per million BTU to the Company during the preceding
12 -month period ending December 31, and the resulting accumulated change in
rates from the 1972 year base as result of such cost of gas.
SECTION 3. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith be and they are hereby repealed to the extent of conflict herewith.
SECTION 4. The necessity to immediately adopt the provisions
herein contained,relating to the fuel adjustment clause for the furnishing
of electricity and electric service within the City of Corpus Christi by the
Central Power and Light Company, 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 but that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several
meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared that such emer-
gency and necessity exist, and having requested the suspension of the Charter
rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its intro-
duction and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its
passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the !J day of August, 1973.
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APPR VED: (/
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Corpus Christi, Texas
6 day of 19 7.3
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.
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Respectfully,
MAYOR 10_ I M
THE-CITY OF CORPUS CHR ,TI, TEXAS
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Jason Luby Q
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