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Home My WebLink About12271 ORD - 09/18/19740 JRR:vp:9 /17/74:lst AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A LEASE AGREEMENT WITH W. W. JONES PROPERTIES FOR 1711 SQUARE FEET OF SPACE LOCATED IN THE JONES BUILDING AT 317 PEOPLES STREET AND FOR 9 PARKING SPACES LOCATED ON THE PARKING LOT AT THE CORNER OF WATER AND STARR STREETS AT $625.00 PER MONTH FOR 9 MONTHS, COMMENCING OCTOBER 1, 1974, TO BE USED TO OFFICE THE CITY'S MANPOWER ADMINISTRATION OFFICE, A COPY OF WHICH LEASE AGREEMENT IS ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF, MARKED EXHIBIT "A "; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, SECTION 1. That the City Manager be and he is hereby authorized • to execute a lease agreement with W. W. Jones Properties for 1711 square feet of space located in the Jones Building at 317 Peoples Street and for nine parking spaces located on the parking lot at the corner of Water and Starr Streets at $625.00 per month for nine months, commencing October 1, 1974, to be used to office the City's Manpower Administration office, all as more fully set forth in the lease agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto, marked Exhibit "A ", and made a part hereof. SECTION 2. The necessity to immediately authorize the execution of the aforesaid contract for the purposes stated therein 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 but 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 day of September, 1974. Y---W/ dc s: , Secret&n MAY9H W APPROVED: OF , 974: Fit Attorney 12271 0 JRR.vp.9 /17/74 THE STATE OF TEXAS D COUNTY OF NUECES • This agreement of lease by and between the Estate of Benjamin Eshleman, Jr., Deceased, Lorine Eshleman Vogt, W. W. Jones, II, and Kathleen Jones Alexander, doing business as Jones Properties and owners of the W. W. Jones Building, by and through their duly authorized agent, T. Allen Marsden, hereinafter called "Lessor" and the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, a municipal i corporation, hereinafter called "Lessee "; W I T N E S S E T H That the said Lessor does by these presents lease and demise unto the said Lessee the following described property lying and being situated in the City of Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, to wit: A. Rooms 301, 302, 303, 317, 318, 319 and 401 located in the W. W. Jones Building, 317 Peoples Street, Corpus Christi, Texas, con- sisting of 1,711 square feet, and being further described as a portion of Lot 7, Block 4, Beach Addition, Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas; and B. Nine (9) parking spaces located on the parking lot at the corner of Water and Starr Streets, Corpus Christi, Texas; for a term of nine (9) months, commencing October 1, 1974, and terminating June 30, 1975. 1. It is expressly agreed that in the event said premises are made available prior to October 1, 1974, Lessee shall take possession and occupy the same and shall pay rent on a daily basis, which rent shall be prorated during the month of September from the date on which said premises are made available to Lessee. 2. Lessee shell pay, as rent, the sum of Five Thousand Six Hundred and Twenty -Five and No /100 ($5,625.00) Dollars (the same being $625.00 per month) which monthly rent shall become due and payable in advance. All rentals becoming due hereunder shell be paid to Lessor at 920 Jones Building, Corpus Christi, Texas. 3. Lessor agrees to furnish at its own expense, the following: a) Normal janitorial service b) General electrical service c) Central heat and air conditioning d) Routine building maintenance e) All normal utilities f) Repainting of all rooms and new carpeting of rooms 303, 318 and 319. 4. The Lessee shell, at the end or other termination of this lease, deliver up the demised premises in good order and condition, natural deteriora- tion and damage by fire and elements excepted. 5. Lessee shall, in case of damage by fire or other hazards included under "extended coverage" insurance, give immediate notice to the Lessor, who shall thereupon cause the damage to be repaired forthwith; but if the premises be by the Lessors deemed so damaged as to be unfit for occupancy or if the Lessor shall decide not to rebuild or remodel the said building, then, at Lessor's option, Lessor may declare this lease at an end and the rent be paid to the time of the damage. Should Lessor decide to repair the premises for use of Lessee, in the event of total or partial destruction by fire or other calamity, then, in such event, the rent hereinabove reserved or a just and proportionate part thereof according to the nature and extent of the injury sustained, shell be suspended or abated until said premises shell, by Lessor, be put back, insofar as possible, in the same condition as the seme existed prior to the destruction. 6. Lessee shall maintain, at its expense, a policy of public lia- bility insurance with respect to the leased premises naming Lessee as the insured and such policy shall provide minimum limits of Fifty Thousand and No /100 ($50,000.00) Dollars for injury or death of any one person, Two Hundred Fifty Thousand and No /100 ($250,000.00) Dollars for injury or death of more than one person and Ten Thousand and No /100 ($10,000.00) Dollars property damage. 7. In case of default in any of the covenants herein, Lessor may enforce the performance of this lease in any mode provided by law, and this lease may be forfeited at Lessor's discretion if such default continues for a period of thirty (30) days after Lessor notifies said Lessee of such default and Lessor's intention to declare the lease forfeited, and thereupon (unless -2- the Lessee shall have completely removed or cured such default) this lease shell cease and come to an end as if that were the day originally fixed herein for the expiration of the term hereof; and Lessor's agent or attorney shall have the right, without further notice or demand, to reenter and remove all persons and Lessee's property therefrom without being deemed guilty of any manner of trespass and without prejudice to any remedies for arrears of rent or breach of covenant; or Lessor's agent or attorney may resume possession of the premises and relet the same for the remainder of the term at the best rent said agent or attorney may obtain, for account of the Lessee who shall make good any deficiency. 8. All notices to be given under the provisions of this lease shall be mailed to Lessee addressed to the demised premises and to Lessor addressed to: W. W. Jones, II P. 0. sox 2766 Corpus Christi, Texas 78403 9. All alterations and additions affixed to such building by Lessee shall become property of Lessor at the end or earlier termination of this lease unless removed by the Lessee. 10. Upon expiration of the term hereof, provided that this lease or any covenants herein contained are not breached by Lessee, Lessee shall have the option to renew this lease upon the same terms and conditions herein con- tained, for an additional term of one (1) year, commencing July 1, 1975 and terminating June 30, 1976 for a consideration of Seven Thousand Five Hundred and No /100 ($7,500.00) Dollars (the same being $625.00 per month); however, in the event Lessee shall exercise such option of renewal, then Lessee shell give Lessor written notice of such intention to renew at least Thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of this lease. U. Notwithstanding anything else herein contained, it is expressly Weed that Lessee may terminate this lease, or any renewal or extension hereof, by first giving Lessor thirty (30) days written notice of termination. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the parties to this agreement have hereunto set their hands, in duplicate, this day of , 1974. -3- 0 a�iA City Secretary City Attorney Director of Finance LESSOR: W. W. Jones Properties By. T. Allen Marsden, Manager jm&-jvjV# City of Corpus Christi, Texas By. R. Marvin Townsend, City Manager ee��i� `r • Corpus Christi, Texas • day of 19_11 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, 'Z_1016461 MAYO THE ITY OF CORP LSTI, 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