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A RESOLUTION
WHEREAS the increasing cost of gas produced and sold within
the state of Texas is adversely affecting both the consumer and industry,
and
WHEREAS the south Texas area is not in a position to change in
a short —time frame from dependence on natural gas to other fuels as might
be possible in other areas within the United States and,
WHEREAS natural gas in Texas is not available for open market
purchase because of existing long term contracts previously entered into
by various suppliers, and
WHEREAS the Congress is empowered to exercise control of the
allocation and pricing of natural gas which affects interstate commerce,
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Corpus Christi
hereby urges the Congress of the United States to take such constitutional
and legal measures as may be necessary to maintain and insure the equitable
allocation and price of natural gas to remove the imbalance as currently
exists between gas sold intrastate and gas sold interstate.
SECTION 2. The City Council of the City of Corpus Christi
hereby urges the Congress of the United States to place a responsibility
on carriers of interstate natural gas to sell a reasonable amount of
natural gas intrastate prior to the entry of natural gas produced in Texas
in interstate commerce.
SECTION 3. The imperative public necessity to immediately urge
the Congress of the United States to take such constitutional and legal
measures as may be necessary to meet the critical gas supply problem in
the State and in this City 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
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emergency and necessity to exist, having requested the suspension of the
Charter rule and that this resolution take effect and be in full force and
effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO RESOLVED this the
/�ay of July, 1974.
ATTEST:
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City Secretary MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
MDAY OF JULY, 1974:
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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