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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH
THE TEXAS WATER QUALITY BOARD BY THE TERMS OF WHICH
CONTRACT THE CORPUS CHRISTI - NUECES COUNTY HEALTH DEPART-
MENT LABORATORY WILL PROVIDE LABORATORY SERVICES ON A
CHARGE -FOR- SERVICES BASIS AT A MAXIMUM COST OF $17,500
FOR THE TERM OF SAID CONTRACT, COMMENCING JANUARY 1, 1975
AND TERMINATING AUGUST 31, 1975, ALL AS MORE FULLY SET
FORTH IN THE CONTRACT, A COPY OF WHICH 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,
TEXAS.
SECTION 1. THAT THE CITY MANAGER BE AND HE IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED
TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH THE TEXAS WATER QUALITY BOARD BY THE TERMS OF
WHICH CONTRACT THE CORPUS CHRISTI - NUECES COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT LABORATORY
WILL PROVIDE LABORATORY SERVICES ON A CHARGE -FOR- SERVICES BASIS AT A MAXIMUM
COST OF $17,500 FOR THE TERM OF SAID CONTRACT, COMMENCING JANUARY 11 1975 AND
TERMINATING AUGUST 31, 1975, ALL AS MORE FULLY SET FORTH IN THE CONTRACT, A
COPY OF WHICH IS ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF, MARKED EXHIBIT "A ".
SECTION 2. THE PUBLIC IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING THE QUALITY OF
WATERS IN THE STATE CONSISTENT WITH THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENJOYMENT, THE
PROPAGATION AND PROTECTION OF TERRESTRIAL AND AQUATIC LIFE, THE OPERATION OF
EXISTING INDUSTRIES AND THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE AND THE
NECESSITY TO REQUIRE THE USE OF ALL REASONABLE METHODS TO IMPLEMENT THIS POLICY
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 TAKE EFFECT AND BE
IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTERITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO
ORDAINED, THIS THE 15 DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1975.
ATTEST:
C
SECRET WIRY MAYOR -
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APP OVED:
DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1975
12464
CITY ATTORNEY
THE STATE OF TEXAS
CONTRACT FOR SERVICES
COUNTY OF TRAVIS
I. CONTRACTING PARTIES:
The Receiving Agency: Texas Water Quality Board
The Performing Agency: Corpus Christi - Nueces County Health Department.
II. STATEMENT OF SERVICES TO BE PERFORMED:
PREAMBLE
The Texas Water Quality Act of 1967 as amended states that "it is
. . . the policy of the State of Texas to maintain the quality of
the waters in the State consistent with the public health and en-
joyment, the propagation and protection of terrestrial and aquatic
life, the operation -of existing industries and the economic develop-
ment of the State . . . and to require the use oe all reasonable
methods to implement this policy."
A. PERFORMANCE OF SERVICES
In keeping with the foregoing, the receiving agency employs the
performing agency and the performing agency agrees to perform
analytical services on the parameters listed in the attached
schedule sheet.
The Texas Water Quality Board estimates an average of 100
samples per month will be collected and delivered to the
laboratory for analysis. It is understood that these samples
will be properly collected and preserved in accordance with
applicable sections of A Practical Guide To Water Quality
Studies Of Streams, Federal Water Pollution Control Administra-
tion publication and Methods for Chemical Analysis for Water
and Wastes, EPA manual, as well as the latest edition of
Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.
A chain of custody procedure shall be maintained in the field
and the laboratory in accordance with Attachment B. The Texas
Water Quality Board will furnish chain of custody tags.
The Corpus Christi- Nueces County Health Department will perform
all analyses according to the procedures set forth in Standard
Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, current
edition or the latest edition of _Methods for Chemical Analysis
of Water and Wastes, EPA manual. If a standard method is not
available, the analytical method used should be an adopted
method approved by the Executive Director of the Texas Water
Quality Board. Samples will be analyzed by these methods on .
a production basis, to include appropriate analytical quality
assurance procedures. Unusual interferences and problems will
be reported to the Texas Water Quality Board. Research into
specific techniques to overcome these difficulties will be under -1
taken when practical and by mutual agreement. The sample infor-
mation sheet submitted with each sample will designate the par-
ticular analysis or analyses to be made of each sample submitted.
The laboratories will be operated in such a manner as to insure
the legal sufficiency of the sample handling; analytical and
reporting procedures; and to remedy defects in the procedures
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should such be discovered. The various laboratory personnel
should be directed, as required, to appear and testify in
enforcement actions arising from the enforcement of the Texas
Water Quality Act. In such event, travel and per diem expense
for such employees shall be paid by the receiving agency.
Travel and per diem for court appearances hereunder shall be
based on current State laws.
B. TERMINATION
Either party to this contract may terminate the contract by
giving the other party thirty days notice in writing. Upon
delivery of such notice by either party to the other and before
expiration of the thirty -day period, the performing agency will
proceed promptly to cancel all existing orders, contracts, and
obligations which are chargeable to this contract. As soon as
practicable after notice of termination is given, the performing
agency will submit a voucher for work performed under this con-
tract to the date of termination. The receiving agency will
then pay the performing agency for the work performed less all
Prior payments. Copies of all completed or partially completed
reports, documents, and studies prepared under this contract
will be delivered by the performing agency to the receiving
agency when and if this contract is terminated prior to the
completion of the prescribed work.
C. AMENDING THE CONTRACT
The - parties hereto without invalidating this contract may alter
or amend this contract upon advance written agreement of both
parties to exclude work being performed or to include additional
work to be performed and to adjust the consideration to be paid
hereunder by virtue of alterations or amendments.
III. BASIS FOR'CALCULATING REIMBURSABLE COSTS:
The financial basis for calculating reimbursable costs shall be as
outlined in the attached schedule sheet.
The expenditures by the Corpus Christi - Nueces County Health Depart-
ment of funds paid to it under this contract shall be subject to
such State or Federal audit procedures as may be required by law
and by accepted practices of the State or Federal auditor. All
records shall be made available to either the State or Federal
auditor, or both, if requested. The Corpus Christi - Nueces County
Health Department shall be responsible for maintaining books of
account -that clearly, accurately, and currently reflect financial
transactions involving State funds, and also transactions financed
with matching funds from other sources. The financial records must
include all documents supporting entries on the account records
which substantiate costs. The Corpus Christi - Nueces County Health
Department must keep the records readily available for examination
by duly authorized representatives of the Board, State Auditor's
Office, or the Federal government fora period of three (3) years
after the close of the last expenditure.
Reimbursement for the above analytical costs and cost for any travel
and per diem expenses shall not exceed $17,500.00 for the period of
this contract.
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The cost for transportation of samples and the return of special
shipping cases and containers to the person submitting the samples
will be paid directly by the Texas Water Quality Board.
IV. CONTRACT AMOUNT:
The total amount of this Contract shall not exceed: Seventeen
Thousand and Five Hundred Dollars($17.500)
V. PAYMENT FOR SERVICES:
The Performing Agency shall bill the Receiving Agency monthly for
analytical services performed. Charges for these services shall be
based on .the attached cost schedule.
Payments for service performed shall be billed monthly according to
the attached schedule
VI. TERM OF CONTRACT:
This Contract is to begin January 1, 1975 and shall terminate August
31, 1975. (Term of Contract cannot transcend the biennium)
RECEIVING AGENCY
Texas Water Quality Board
BY:
(Authorized Signature)
(Title)
DATE:
PERFORMING AGENCY
Corpus Christi- Nueces Count
Health Department
BY:
(Authorized Signature)
City Manager
(Title)
DATE:
ATTEST:
r City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1975:
City Attorney
STATE JJEALTH DEPARTMENT ANALYTICAL SERVICES
WATER AND WASTE WATER
Analyses
Acidity
Areobic Plate Count
Alkalinity (Total)
Aluminum
Ammonia -N (distillation)
Ammonia (Ness.)
Arsenic (sediment)
Arsenic (water)
Barium
Bicarbonate
Biochemical Oxygen Demand
Biochemical Oxygen Demand
(Filtered)
Biochemical Oxygen Demand'
(7 -Day)
Boron
Bromide
cadmium
Calcium
Carbon (Total)
Carbon (Total Organic)
Carbonate
Chemical Oxygen Demand
(sediment)
Chemical Oxygen Demand
(water)
Chloride
Chlorophyll A
Chlorophyll (All types)
Chromium (Hexavalent)
Chromium (Total)
Coliform (Fecal)
Coliform (Total)
Color
Conductance (Specific)
'Copper
Cyanide
Dissolved (Oxygen)
Fluoride
Gross Alpha Particles
Gross.Beta Particles
Hardness (Total as CaCO3)
Herbicide
Hydrocarbons
Insecticides (sediment)
Insecticides (water)
Iodide
I. R. Screening (disposal
Barrels)
-Iron
Lead
Lithium
Rate Analysis
0.56 Magnesium (sediment)
4.52 Magnesium (water)
0.56• Manganese (sediment)
11.32 Manganese (water)
5.65 Mercury (sediment)
1.12 Mercury (water)
13.92 Mercury (tissues)
11.32 Methylene blue active
5.65 substances
0.56 Molybdenum
5.65 Nickel
Nitrate
7.64 Nitrite
Nitrogen (Kjeldahl sediment)
58.29 Nitrogen (organic water)
2.82 Oil (chloroform extractable)
5.65 Oil and Grease (hexane
5.65 extractable•sediment)
0.56 Oil and Grease (hexane
1.39 extractable water)
6.74 pH
0.56 Phenol
Phendphthalein Alkalinity
8.25 as 'CaCO3
Phosphate (ortho)
5.65 Phosphate (total sediment)
0.56 *Phosphate (total water)
2.91 Polychlorinated biphenyls
4.69 Potassium
1.12 Radium
1.67 Residue (total)
2.79 Salmonella - Shigella
2.79 Selenium
1.12 Silica (dissolved)
1.22 Silver
•3 -95 Sodium
.13.61 Solids (total dissolved
1,12 calculated)
1.69 Solids (total dissolved
2,25 determined)
2.25 Solids ('total suspended)
0.56 Solids (volatile sediment)
45:40 Solids (volatile water)
13.59 Staphylococcus count
46.22 Streptococcus (fecal)
39,72 Strontium
5.65 Sulfate
Sulfide
28.33 sulfite
2.26 Tanins and lignins
5.65 Turbidity
5.67 Vanadium
Zinc (sediment)
Zinc (water)
Corpus Christi, Texas
-day of
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 4t::
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 Lub
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark