HomeMy WebLinkAbout12011 1/2 ORD - 04/24/1974ORDINANCE NO. `/, D 1 /1 r
BY THE CTTY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS, DIRECTING PUBLICATION OF
NOTICE TO BIDDERS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF
AIRPORT TOWER EXPANSION; AND ORDAIN-
ING OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, it is hereby officially found and determined:
that a case of emergency or urgent public necessity exists
which requires the holding of the meeting at which this
Ordinance is passed, such emergency or urgent public
necessity being that the publication of Notice to Bidders
for the construction of an airport tower expansion is
required as soon as possible and without delay for necessary
and urgently needed public improvements; and that said
meeting was open to the public, and public notice of the
time, place, and purpose of said meeting was given, all as
required by Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes, Art.
6252 -17, as amended:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That attached hereto and marked Exhibit
"A" is a form of notice, the form and substance of which are
hereby passed and approved.
SECTION 2, That the City Manager shall cause said
notice to be published, in substantially the form attached
hereto, in the Corpus Christi Times, a newspaper of general
circulation in the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, for two
consecutive weeks, the date of the first publication to be
May 6, 1974, which date is at least fourteen (14) days
prior to the day set for receiving bids as shown in said
notice.
SECTION 3. That all ordinances and resolutions or
parts thereof in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the
extent of such conflict.
SECTION 4. The fact that the contemplated construc-
tion of an airport tower expansion is necessary for the orderly
development and growth of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas,
creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity
requiring the suspension of the Charter rule providing 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 several meetings of the City Council and the Mayor
having declared that such public emergency and imperative neces-
sity exist, and having requested that such Charter Rule be suspend-
ed and that this ordinance take effect and be in full force and
effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED,
this the 24th day of April, 1974.
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City Secretar
J Luby
Mayor
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS
NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed proposals addressed to the City Secretary of the City of Corpus
Christi, Texas,.City Hall, P. 0. Box 9277, Corpus Christi, Texas, 78408,
will be received by the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, for:
AIRPORT TOWER EXPANSION
Corpus Christi International Airport
until
:2:00 P.M., C.D.T., Wednesday,
May 22, 1974
and immediately thereafter will be publicly opened and read aloud. Any bid
received after the stated time will be returned unopened. Any bid may be
withdrawn prior to the above scheduled time for the opening of bids. No
bid may be withdrawn until the expiration of thirty (30) days from date of
opening bids.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Major items of construction on the project shall include the construction
of a five- story, 18,000 S.F., reinforced concrete- framed addition to the
existing tower building, and the contract shall include all general con-
struction, plumbing work, heating,•ventiTating and air conditioning work,
electrical work, reworking of existing internal spaces, and site work,
in accordance with contract documents prepared by Page Southeriand Page
& Whittet, Architects- Engineers, 823 North Tancahua, Corpus Christi, Texas,
78401.
The Information for Bidders, Form of Bid, Form of Contract, Plans, Speci-
fications and Form of Bid Security, Performance and Payment Bond, and other
contract documents are on file and may be examined without charge in the
Office of the Director of Engineering and Physical Development, City Hall,
Corpus .Christi, Texas, or at the office of the Architect. Copies may be
obtained at the Office of the Architect upon deposit of Ten Dollars ($10.00)
for each complete set. Such deposit will be refunded to each person who
returns the plans, specifications, and other documents in good condition
within five (5) days after bid opening:
A cashier's check, money order, certified check, or bank draft, from a state
or national bank, payable without recourse to the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas, in an amount tabulated in accordance with the scale provided in the
specifications, must accompany each bid. Bid bonds will not be accepted.
The successful bidder will be required to furnish 100% Performance Bond
and Payment Bond in accordance with the Statutes of the State of Texas.
The City of Corpus Christi intends to enter into a contract for the con-
struction of the Airport Tower Expansion in said City, with the lowest and
best responsible Bidder, but the City reserves the right to reject any and /or
all bids, to waive formalities, and in case of ambiguity or lack of clearness
in stating proposal prices, to adopt such interpretation as may be most ad-
vantageous to the City.
The City Council intends to sell the interest bearing Certificates of Obli-
gation of the City for cash for the purpose of paying the contract entered
into by the City pursuant to this notice.
The bidder is hereby notified that the City Council of the City of Corpus
Christi has ascertained the general prevailing rates of per hour wages of
all laborers, workmen, craftsmen, and mechanics for work of a similar character
in the locality and to be employable on the construction of this project
in said locality, whereby not less than the general prevailing rates of per
hour wages for work of a similar character in the locality and the City of
Corpus Christi, and not less than the general prevailing rates of per hour
wages for legal holiday and - overtime work, shall be-paid to all laborers,
workmen, craftsmen, and mechanics employed on the construction of the project,
and thus finds said rates for said laborers, workmen, craftsmen, and mechanics
classifications to be as follows:
OVERTIME AND HOLIDAYS
Any laborer, workman, or mechanic employed on this project shall be paid
on the basis of eight (8) hours, constituting a day's work and all such labor
so employed shall be paid at the rate of one and one -half (1 -1/2) times the
regular rate for every hour worked in excess of eight (8),hours per day and /or
forty (40) hours per week, whichever is the greater number of overtime hours.
Legal holiday work shall be paid for at two (2) times the :regular governing
per diem wage rates.
GENERAL PREVAILING RATE
CLASSIFICATION BASIC HOURLY RATE
Asbestos Workers
$6.905
Boilermakers
7.00
Bricklayers
6.63
Carpenters
5.88
Cement Masons
6.15
Electricians
7.50
Cable Splicers
7.625
Glaziers
5.06
Ironworkers, Structural - Ornamental
5.54
Reinforcing
5.435
Laborers, Commercial
3.55
Industrial
3.55
Lathers
5.90
Marble -Tile Stairs Terrazzo Workers
6.03
Millwrights
6.69
Painters: Commerical, Brush
5.79
Sign
6.04
Paper -Spray -Tool,
6.19
Tape and Bed
5.79
Industrial, Brush
6.04
Spray- Sand -Tool
6.29
Plumbers - Pipefitters, Commercial
6.50
Industrial
6.75
Plasterers 6.85
Roofers 5.125
Kettlemen 5.00
Sheetmetal Workers 6.35
Soft Floor Layers 5.88
Welders - Receive rate prescribed for incidental
craft with which they are working
Power Equipment Operators:
Heavy Equipment, Commercial 6.00
Industrial 6.35
Light Equipment, Commercial 6 -375
Industrial 5 -725.
Oiler, 1st Year, Commercial 4.775
Industrial 5 -125
Oiler, 2nd Year, Commercial 4.925
Industrial 5.275
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
Jason Luby, Mayor
Marvin Townsend, City Manager
1st Insertion April 29, 1974
2nd Insertion May 6, 1974
3rd Insertion May 13, 1974-
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.
Respectful
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 1
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 Stack
TILE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF NUECES ,
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
On this the 24th day of April, 1974, the
City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, convened
in Regular Meeting, with the following members of said Council
present, to -wit:
Jason Luby, Mayor,
Ricardo Gonzalez, ,
Capt. J. T. Acuff, ,
Rev. Harold T. Branch, ;
Commissioners,
Thomas V. Gonzales, ,
Gabe Lozano, Sr,, ,
J. Howard Stark, ,
T. Ray Kring, City Secretary,
with the following absent: None, constituting a quorum, at which
time the following among other business was transacted:
Mayor Jason Luby presented for the consideration
of the Council an ordinance. The ordinance was read by the
City Secretary, The Mayor presented to the Council, a communi-
cation in writing pertaining to said proposed ordinance, as
follows:
Corpus Christi, Texas
April 24, 1974
"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 suspension 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 ordinance finally on the date
it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council.,
e pectfully,
s Jason Lu y,
MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS"
Commissioner Stark moved that the Charter provision
prohibiting ordinances from being passed finally on the date
introduced be suspended for the reasons stated in the written
request of the Mayor and stated in the emergency clause of the
ordinance. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Branch.
The motion was carried by an unanimous vote by the City Council,
viz:
AYES: Commissioners Gonzalez, Acuff, Branch, Gonzales;
Lozano, Sr., and Stark.
NAYS: None.
The Mayor requested that the records show that he
voted Aye. This was done.
Commissioner Stark moved that the ordinance be passed
finally. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Branch.
The motion was carried by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioners Gonzalez, Acuff, Branch,
Gonzales, Lozano, Sr., and Stark.
NAYS: None.
The Mayor requested that the records show that he
voted Aye. This was done.
The Mayor announced that the ordinance had been
passed. The ordinance is as follows: