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A RESOLUTION
ADOPTING HIGHWAY COMMISSION MINUTE ORDER N0. 683779
DATED JANUARY 29, 1974, CONCERNING RESPONSIBILITIES
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND THE TEXAS HIGHWAY
DEPARTMENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE PLACEMENT OF A
SKID- RESISTANT ASPHALTIC OVERLAY ON OCEAN DRIVE AND
SHORELINE BOULEVARD FROM I. H. 37 TO THE NORTH GATE
OF THE NAVAL AIR STATION, WHICH ROADWAY IS TO BE
DESIGNATED A METROPOLITAN HIGHWAY (NUMBER 5126); AND
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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SFAS, the State Highway Department has submitted a copy of Minute
Order No. 68377, dated January 29, 1974, passed by the State Highway Commission
On January 29, 1974, as follows:
"LEAS, in NUECES COUNTY on Shoreline Boulevard and
Ocean Drive, the City of Corpus Christi has requested
assistance in Resurfacing Pavement and Installation of
Pavement Markers from Belden Street to the Naval Air
Station North Gate, a distance of approximately 10.5
miles; and
WHEREAS, Shoreline Boulevard and Ocean Drive are
included in the Federal -Aid Metropolitan System and the
requested improvements have been tentatively accepted
for participation in the Federal -Aid Metropolitan Program;
and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Texas Highway Department
to assist the City of Corpus Christi in such work;
NOW, THEREFORE, the State Highway Engineer is directed to
tender the following proposal to the City of Corpus Christi
for the development of such a project:
Provided the City will:
1. Provide for the adjustment of manholes and valves.
2. Provide for repairs to correct major failures in the
pavement and its support prior to resurfacing
pavement.
3. Maintain aLl of the work constructed as a part of
the project and agree to regulate traffic, control
parking, and prevent encroachment on the right of
way.
The Texas Highway Department will:
1. Prepare construction plane and specifications.
2. Provide for Resurfacing Pavement and Installation of
Pavement Markers at an estimated cost of $371,100,
subject to the eligibility of the proposed work for
financing with Federal Metropolitan Fonds.
Upon acceptance of the provisions of this Order by the appropriate
officials of the City of Corpus Christi, IT IS ORDERED that Shoreline
Boulevard and Ocean Drive extending from Belden Street, Southeast
to the Naval Air Station North Gate, a distance of approximately
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10.5 miles, be and are hereby designated as a METROPOLITAN HIGHWAY,
and the State Highway Engineer is directed to enter into agreement
with the City covering the details of the proposed improvements
and, after the City has fulfilled its responsibilities, proceed
in the most feasible and economical manner with Resurfacing Pavement
and Installation of Pavement Markers, financing the cost in the
Texas Highway Department Metropolitan Program.
It is understood that the City may discharge its construction
obligations as outlined herein in any manner as they may elect.
In the event the City desires the State to include their portion
of the work in the State's construction contract, the State Highway
Engineer is hereby authorized to enter into agreement with the City
for such work and its cost as may be agreed upon.
This Order shall become operative upon acceptance by the City of
Corpus Christi and if not accepted within 90 days of the date here-
of, the action herein contained shall be automatically cancelled."
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY TEE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Minute Order No. 68377, passed and approved by the
State Highway Commission on January 29, 1974, regarding responsibilities of
the City of Corpus Christi and the Texas Highway Department in connection with
the placement of a skid - resistant asphaltic overlay on Ocean Drive and Shoreline
Boulevard from I. H. 37 to the North Gate of the Naval Air Station, which
roadway is to be designated a Metropolitan Highway (Number 5126), be and the
same is hereby adopted by the City of Corpus Christi, Texas.
SECTION 2. The necessity to immediately adopt the aforesaid Minute
Order No. 68377 creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity
requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution
shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor
having declared that such emergency and necessity 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 RESOLVED, this the
day of February , 1974.
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City Secretly
APPROVED: (/
1DAY OF F'EBRUARY,1974:
/City Attorney �/�
MAY
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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