HomeMy WebLinkAbout11833 RES - 12/12/1973• JRR:jkh:12- 12 -73; 2nd •
A RESOLUTION
URGING THE CITY OF PORTLAND, TESAS TO REQUIRE IN ITS
TELEPHONE FRANCHISE, OR OTHER REGULATION, THAT GENERAL
TELEPHONE COMPANY PROVIDE THE SCOPE OF EQUIPMENT
NECESSARY TO ALLOW DIRECT COMPATIBILITY WITH SOUTHWESTERN
BELL TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT SO THAT DIRECT NON -TOLL CALLS
MAY BE MADE FROM PORTLAND, TESAS, AND AREAS OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TERAS, SUCH AS FLOUR BLUFF, CLARRWOOD AND
CALALLEN, WHERE IT IS NOW NECESSARY TO MAXE TOLL CALLS;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, currently in certain areas of Corpus Christi, Texas,
namely Flour Bluff, Clarkwood and Calallen, calls between such areas and
Portland, Texas, are on a toll basis; and
WHEREAS, the City of Corpus Christi is serviced by telephone
entirely through Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and the City of
Portland is wholly serviced by General Telephone Company; and
WHEREAS, calls from other parts of Corpus Christi, Texa9,to
such area are not on a toll basis and such condition creates a real communi-
cation problem to and a material economic burden on certain citizens in
Corpus Christi calling Portland; and
WHEREAS, Southwestern Bell Telephone is willing to provide such
toll-free direct service, and has so signified by the letter by R. G. Maples,
District Manager, Southwestern Bell Telephone, of December 12, 1973 to the
Corpus Christi City Council, but such improved service will require changes
in General Telephone Company's equipment and tariff so that it is compatible
with Southwestern Bell Telephone Company equipment for such toll -free direct
calls; and
WHEREAS, Portland residents are presently unable to call directly
and without toll the residents of the Calallen area in Corpus Christi; and
WHEREAS, there are a total of 16,821 telephone subscribers in
Corpus Christi subject to present exclusion from the Southwestern Bell Telephone
Company Extended Service Area vis -a -vis Portland calls and 5,559 Portland
telephones are devoid of such Extended Service Area toll -free service due
to the discrepancies in operation and charges between Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company and General Telephone Company:
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas hereby records and conveys its consensus that the City Council of the
City of Portland, Texas be urgently petitioned by this Resolution to require
in its telephone franchise, or other regulation, that General Telephone
Company, now subject to the jurisdiction of the City Council of Portland,
provide the scope df equipment and the amendment of tariff necessary to allow
direct compatibility with Southwestern Bell Telephone equipment 10 the end
that direct non -toll calls may be made from Portland, Texas and areas of
Corpus Christi, Texas, such as Flour Bluff, Clarkwood and Calallen, and that
like calls may be made from Portland to Corpus Christi.
SECTION 2. The public importance to hereby record and convey as
soon as practicable this petition by the City Council of Corpus Christi to the
City Council of Portland to require General Telephone Company to provide
compatible equipment and tariff amendment with Southwestern Bell Telephone
Company in order that direct non -toll calls may be made between Portland,
Texas and the abovementioned areas of Corpus Christi, Texas where it is now
necessary to make toll calls 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 such emergency
and necessity to exist, having requested the suspension of the Charter rule
and that this resolution 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 RESOLVED, this the 12th day of December, 1973.
ATTEST:
i
Ci y Secretary MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
12th DAY F DECEMHER 973•
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Ci kftorney
Corpus Christi, Texas
/2 day of , 19-1-3
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.
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 Cc_ca P
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Jason Luby
Jamas T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard stark