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A RESOLUTION
PETITIONING THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
TEXAS, 64TH REGULAR SESSION, TO ESTABLISH
BY ITS ACT A STATE PUBLIC UTILITIES REGULATORY
COMMISSION, AND PARTICULARLY ADDRESSING THE
LEGISLATORS REPRESENTING THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, THE HONORABLE MIRE MCRINNON, DISTRICT
20, HONORABLE L. DeWITT HALE, DISTRICT 48,
PLACE 1, HONORABLE JOE SALEM, REPRESENTATIVE,
DISTRICT 48, PLACE 3, HONORABLE LEROY J.
WIETING, REPRESENTATIVE, DISTRICT 41, AND
HONORABLE CARLOS F. TRUAN, REPRESENTATIVE,
DISTRICT 48, PLACE 2; SPECIFICALLY CALLING
FOR AN ADEQUATE AND EXPERT COMMISSION STAFF
AND SUFFICIENT FINANCING TO PERFORM ITS DUTIES
IN AN OUTSTANDING MANNER; RECOMMENDING THAT
THE ELECTRIC, TELEPHONE, TELEGRAPH, AND OIL
AND GAS TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION UTILITIES
BE MADE SUBJECT TO THE COMPLETE REGULATION OF
SAID COMMISSION WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE
STATE OF TEXAS; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the City of Corpus Christi within the past
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two years has been petitioned by the Central Power s Light Company
and the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company for increases in
the rates and charges of said companies for the services rendered
by them in the City of Corpus Christi; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi
has experienced great difficulty and the City of Corpus Christi
has incurred exorbitant costs in receiving, reviewing, conducting
hearings, analyzing and evaluating, with the assistance of retained
experts, the requests made by the companies, to the public detriment;
and
WHEREAS, it is the conclusion of this City Council that
a city in this State cannot well afford to incur the cost and
expend the time entailed in performing the regulatory functions
of these utilities in a fair and competent manner; and
WHEREAS, the City of Corpus Christi and the Corpus
Christi Municipal Gas Corporation have been compelled to partic-
ipate in the present hearings before the Railroad Commission of
the State of Texas, at great cost and expense to the City, in
the rate application and curtailment proceedings involving the
Lo -Vaca Gathering Company, the sole gas supplier of the City of
Corpus Christi and the Corpus Christi Municipal Gas Corporation;
and
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WHEREAS, it is the consensus of the City Council that
the regulatory function relative to the electric, telephone,
telegraph, and oil and gas transmission and distribution utilities
can be best performed and most economically accomplished by a
permanent, adequately and expertly staffed and well - financed
State Public Commission with the result that the public interest
will be better served and, by virtue of the uniform, statewide
regulation, the utilities affected will be able to function with
a considerable saving in staff time and direct expense;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the Legislature of the State of Texas,
and more particularly the Honorable Legislative Delegation
representing the City of Corpus Christi, be hereby petitioned to
secure the final passage of an Act in the 64th Regular Session
of the Legislature to establish a permanent State Public Utilities
Commission adequately and expertly staffed and well - financed, to
regulate within the boundaries of the State of Texas all electric,
telephone, telegraph, and oil and gas transmission and distribution
utilities.
SECTION 2. That duly certified copies of this Resolution
be forthwith transmitted to the Honorable Legislative Delegation
representing the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, by the City
Secretary of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas.
PASSED this 15th day of May, 1974, in the City of Corpus
Christi, Texas in a Regular Meeting of the City Council in the
Council Chamber of the City Hall.
ATTEST:
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City Secre ry MAYOR
THE I:ITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
15th DAY C',F�f A Yj 974:
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Ci Attorn y
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