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..AN ORDINANCE
PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABT.ISITMENT OF A SENIOR COMMUNITY
SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO ASSIST AND ADVISE IN
THE PLANNING AND FORMULATION OF SENIOR CITIZENS PROGRAMS;
PROVIDING FOR A FIFTEEN (15) MEMBER ADVISORY COMMITTEE
CONSISTING OF SENIOR CITIZENS, REPRESENTATIVES OF
SENIOR CITIZEN ORGANIZATIONS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF
AGENCIES WITH DIRECT SERVICES OR PROGRAMS FOR SENIOR
CITIZENS; AND PROVIDING STAFF SUPPORT: AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the application for a grant under Title III of the Older
Americans Act dated May 5, 1973 provides for the creation of a fifteen
(15) member Advisory Council; and
WHEREAS, said application was approved in its entirety by the
Governor's Committee on Aging; and
WHEREAS, the City of Corpus Christi has expressed a commitment to
involve senior citizens in the formulation and development for such programs
insofar as possible; and
WHEREAS, said funded program required the formulation of such an
Advisory Committee whose duties will be:
1) To advise the Senior Community Services staff of the needs
for services according to locally conceived priorities;
2) To assist the Senior Community Services staff in the develop-
meat of comprehensive senior citizens program plans;
3) To establish priorities and make recommendation for appropriate
program funding;
4) To review and evaluate Senior Community Services operations;
5) To coordinate program and planning activities with local agencies
and organizations that serve senior citizens:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the City Council shall appoint a Senior Community
Services Advisory Committee, to consist of 15 members, three of which shall
represent agencies with direct services to senior citizens. The remainder
shall reflect a proportionate representation of the ethnic and income
distribution of the elderly population. The members of said Advisory
Committee shall be appointed on the effective date of this ordinance as
follows:
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Eight (8) members of said Advisory Committee shall be initially appointed
for a term of one (1) year, and seven (7) members of said Advisory Committee
shall be appointed for a term of two (2) years. Upon expiration of the term
of office of the first eight appointees, the succeeding term of office for
each new member shall be for a term of two years. Members may be reappointed
at the discretion of the City Council.
SECTION 2. The Committee shall at its first meeting select from
among its membership a chairman, a vice chairman and a secretary, and any
other officers deemed necessary, and such officers shall serve for the
ensuing year or until their successors are selected.
SECTION 3. The personnel of the Senior Community Services Program
shall provide staff support to the aforesaid Advisory Committee.
SECTION 4. The necessity to adopt the provisions hereinabove pro-
vided at the earliest practicable date 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
introduction but 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 THE3,1,kDAY OF OCTOBER,
1973.
ATTEST:
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City Secret ry MAYOR
APPROVED: THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
DAY OF OCTOBER, 1973:
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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 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