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A RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the increasing cost and scarcity of natural gas
is continually adversely affecting municipal gas distributors, power
companies, other industries, and the consumer in the south Texas area, and
WHEREAS south Texas 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 of the United States, and
WHEREAS intrastate natural gas, which is produced in Texas,
is available for interstate shipment at lower cost than intrastate gas
sold in Texas, and
WHEREAS natural gas is not readily available for open market
purchase in Texas because of existing long term contracts, and
WHEREAS the Legislature may lawfully regulate the pricing and
allocation of gas produced intrastate:
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 encourages and urges the expeditious handling by the Railroad
Commission of the current pricing and allocation problems on the gas
utilities docket of the Railroad Commission, particularly those matters
which relate to the inability of the Lo -Vaca Gathering Company to supply
and meet its long term contracts for natural gas.
SECTION 2. The City Council of the City of Corpus Christi
urges the Texas Railroad Commission to hold both Coastal States and the
Lo -Vaca Gathering Company responsible for all supply obligations of both
Lo -Vaca Gathering Company and Coastal States Gas Producing Company.
SECTION 3. The City Council of the City of Corpus Christi
urges immediate legislation which will provide for equitable allocation
and pricing of intrastate gas throughout the State of Texas.
SECTION 4. The City Council of the City of Corpus Christi
urges the Governor and the Legislature to become involved in a request to
Congress to see that equity is maintained in the allocation and pricing
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of both intrastate gas and interstate gas to the end that an equitable
balance may be maintained between both.
SECTION 5. The imperative public necessity to urge immediate
legislation to provide for equitable allocation and pricing of intrastate
gas through the State of Texas due to the critical gas supply problem in
this City as well as the State of Texas 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, 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
APPROVED:
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MAYOR
THE CITY OF 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