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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TO
INSTITUTE ALL APPROPRIATE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
FOR DAMAGES AGAINST B & E CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
AND FIDELITY & DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND,
A BONDING COMPANY WITH HOME OFFICES IN BALTIMORE,
MARYLAND, CONNECTED WITH THE CORPUS CHRISTI
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT
BETWEEN THE CITY AND B & E AND FIDELITY & DEPOSIT
COMPANY OF MARYLAND EXECUTED APRIL 2, 1969; AND
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the City Attorney of the City of Corpus
Christi be and he is hereby authorized to institute all appropriate
legal proceedings for damages against B & E Construction Company
and Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland, a bonding company with
home offices in Baltimore, Maryland, connected with the construction
contract between the City and B & E and Fidelity & Deposit Company
of Maryland executed April 2, 1969.
SECTION 2. The necessity to immediately authorize legal
proceedings to recover the costs of runway repairs at the Corpus
Christi International Airport 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 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 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 the /,17_ day of
April, 1974.
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THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED: DAY OF AP L, 1974:
ACS T_ City Attorney
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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
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Corpus Christi, Texas
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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 Stssk ___�