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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11704 ORD - 09/19/1973JRR cd:9- 17- 73:lst AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE LOWER NUECES RIVER WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT, A COPY OF WHICH AGREEMENT IS ANNEXED HERETO, MARKED EXHIBIT "A" AND INCORPORATED HEREIN BY THIS REFERENCE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, SECTION 1. That the City Manager be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to execute, for and on behalf of the City of Corpus Christi, an agreement with the Lower Nueces River Water Supply District providing for the payment of monies to the District for the purposes of retiring the tax - supported debt of the District, a copy of said Agreement being annexed hereto, marked Exhibit "A ", and incorporated herein by this reference. SECTION 2. The necessity to execute the aforesaid Agreement at the earliest possible date creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordi- nance or resolution 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 such emergency and neces- sity to exist, having requested the suspension of said Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and that such ordinance take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the ,�/ day of September, 1973. ATTEST: 111111U:54' 1 City Secret APPROVED: DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1973: Attorney MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 11704 AGREEMENT THE STATE OF TEXAS X COUNTY OF NUECES X This Agreement this day entered into between the City of Corpus Christi, hereinafter called "City ", and the Lower Nueces River Water Supply District, hereinafter called "District ", W I T N E S S E T H: WHEREAS, the contract between City and District, executed on August 10, 1955, and hereinafter called "1955 Contract ", provides in Section 16 thereof that the City becomes the owner of the reservoir facilities when the debt incurred for these facilities is paid off; and WHEREAS, the City desires to make payments toward the principal and interest of District in such a manner that District will not be required to levy a property tax; and WHEREAS, the Districts principal and interest fund is in order with a substantial surplus over and above the required reserve; and WHEREAS, the water sales for 1973 -74 will provide adequate payments for debt retirement, if properly scheduled: NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual benefits to accrue to the parties upon the adoption of the following contract, and in considera- tion of the obligations to be discharged by the City and the District under the provisions of the proposed contract, the parties hereto agree as follows: 1. City agrees to pay in advance certain amounts of the payment required after the close of the 1955 Contract year so that the August payment and each monthly payment through July, 1974, will be Seventy -Five Thousand Dollars ($75,000) except for the final settlement of the 1973 -74 contract year which will occur in July, 1974. 2. District agrees that no property tax will be levied for the 1973 tax year on property that is in the District as of January 1, 1973. 3. Both parties contemplate that the City will be able, and desires to make a similar payment additional to or according to a different timetable than that set forth in the above- mentioned contract in future years making possible retirement of principal and the payment of interest on the tax - supported debt of District without the necessity of District levying a property tax. District and City agree to negotiate a renewal of this contract prior to August 31, 1974, and in succeeding years. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this agreement to be executed by their duly authorized representatives, this the If day of 1973. ATTEST: By City Secretary R. Marvin Townsend, City Manager APPROVED: DAY OF , 1973: City Attorney Director of Finance ATTEST: LOWER NDECES RIVER WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT By Secretary Corpus Christi, Texas _Zffd.y of 19 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 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