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A RESOLUTION
URGING THE CITY OF ROBSTOWN, TEXAS 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 ROBSTOWN, TEXAS, AND AREAS OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS, SUCH AS FLOUR BLUFF, CLAMMOD, AND
CALALLEN, WHERE IT IS NOW NECESSARY TO MARE TOLL CALLS;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, currently in certain areas of Corpus Christi., Texas,
namely Flour Bluff, Clarlwood and Calallen, calls between such areas and
Robstown, 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 Robstown is
wholly serviced by General Telephone Company; and
WHEREAS, calls from other parts of Corpus Christi, Texas, to such
area are not on a toll basis and such condition creates a real communication
problem to and a material economic burden on certain citizens in Corpus Christi
calling Robstown; and
WHEREAS, Southwestern Bell Telephone is willing to provide such
toll -free direct service, and has so signifiedty the letter by R. G. Naples,
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 equipment for such toll -free
direct calls; 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 Robstown calls and 7370
Robstown 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:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY DF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
118 .31
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 Robstown, 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
Robstown, provide the scope of equipment and the amendment of tariff neces-
sary to allow direct compatibility with Southwestern Bell Telephone equipment
to the and that direct non -toll calls may be made from Robstowa, Texas and
areas of Corpus Christi, Texas, such as Flour Bluff, Clarkwood and Calallen,
and that like calls may be made from Robstown 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 Robstowc to require General Telephone Company to provide
compatible equipment and tariff amendment with Southwestern Bell Telephone
Company in order that direct non -toll calls maybe made between Robstown,
Texas and the abovemantioned areas of Corpus_ Christi, Texas where it is now
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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 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 neces-
sity 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 Decembbr, 1973.
ATTEST:
City Seft tary MAYOR Av
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
12TH DA OF DECEMB 197 .
C ty Attorney
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Corpus Christi, Texas
1� day of ZeAvx-L-1 ,197J
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 12L I
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark 14,
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