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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMIT A
GRANT APPLICATION FOR A YOUTH CONSERVATION
CORPS PROGRAM TO THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF
COMMUNITY AFFAIRS AND TO EXECUTE ALL DOCUMENTS
NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAM IF AND
WHEN THE GRANT IS APPROVED, A COPY OF THE
GRANT APPLICATION BEING ATTACHED HERTO AND
MADE A PART HEREOF, MARRED 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 Manger be and he is hereby
authorized to submit a Grant Application for a Youth Conservation
Corps Program to the Texas Department of Community Affairs and
to execute all documents necessary to implement the program if
and when the grant is approved, a copy of the Grant Application
being attached hereto and made a part hereof, marked Exhibit "A ".
SECTION 2. The necessity to authorize submission of
a Grant Application and execution of the documents necessary
to implement the Youth Conservation Corps Program at the earliest
practicable date 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 after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the
day of February, 1975.
ATTEST:
y Secretary MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPfrD :
'////"l DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1975:
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGfZICULTU,!E
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APPUCATION FOR FEDERAL ASSISTANCE
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Part II - Budget Data
(1) General
Federal
.A) Construction
Ropes Park
2 Signs - Construction &
Park Name
Play equipment
2 Picnic tables - wood
2 Benches - wood
Drink fountain
Walk system
lumber, concrete, excavation,
etc.
Shelter
lumber, concrete, etc.
Cabra Street Park
2 Signs - Construction &
Park Name
2 Picnic tables - wood
2 Benches - wood
Play equipment
Corpus Christi Beach (North)
Renovation of shelters
painting, concrete work, etc.
Additional construction work
Alternative Nb: 1 '..
Padre Island - Causeway
development
Alternative No. 2
Cole Park
Planting areas
Retaining walls
Site Preparation
IrrigAtion system (Ropes)
Soil Preparation
Du-stinA; seeding, Pert. (Ropes)
Landscape Design
Others_ (Misc.)
Medical supplies
$ 150.00
Utility services (campsite)
800.00
Maintenance of equip. & vehicles
600.00
Linen & laundry services
(campsite)
1,200.00
Public information & services
300.00
Total amount for General
$ 3,050.00
Non - Federal
$ 100.00
500.00
340.00
170.00
50.00
5,600.00
4,000.00
100.00
340.00
170.00
500.00
250.00
800.00
500.00
300.00
500.00
12,000.00
500.00
500.00
$ 27,220.00
(2) Staff Pay Federal Non- Federal
4 Counselor /Supervisors (Gr. 16) '
Salary for 7 -wk. period $ 2,935.20
Insurance 60.00
Soc. Security 187,32
Withhold. tax 236.88
Total amount food $ 7,648.00
2 Cooks (Gr. 13)
Salary for 6 -week period
1,420.80
Insurance
30.00
Soc. Security
83.10
Withhold, tax
89.64
1 Asst. Cook (Cr. 10)
Salary for 6 -wk. period
632.88
Insurance
15.00
Soc. Security
12.34
Withhold. tax
32.40
Total amount for Pay
$ 5,735.00
(3)
Enrollee Pay
32 Students Or. 7)
Salary for 6 -cfk. (deduction for
meals & lodging)
8,000.00
Insurance
480.00
Soc. Security
818.88
Withhold. tax
N.A.
Transportation
100.00
Recreational
Total amount for pay
$ 9,393.88
(4)
Camp Site Opening and Closing Cost
Rental
.2,967.00
Kitchen equipment_ & facilities
Recreational services
150.00
Toiletries
50.00
Reconversion.
100.00
Additional cost (unpredictable)
1,500.00
Total amount for campsite
$ 4,767.00
(5)
Food
32 Students @ $4 /dap
5,376.00
Counselor/Supervisors-'-a $4 /day
672.00
Additional cost
1,500.00
Transportation of food
100.00
Total amount food $ 7,648.00
(6) Hq k- Project
Safety eauin.
32 hard hats
32 gloves
32 protective glasses
Work supplies
16 ha=ars @ 63�
16 saws @ $8.24
10 shovels @ $4.90
10 sharpshooters @ $4.95
8 wheel barrows @ $30.60
8 ladders @ $61.85
16 buckets @ $2.70
Masonry Tools
5 edgers @ $1.50
10 wood trowels @ $2.20
10 rubbing stones @ $6.45
3 bulb floats @ $59.39
Education @ 10 hrs. /wk
Materials & Staff
Total amount work
(7) Pros,-au ,- Direction
Program proposal
Program administration
Detailed site plans
Total amount program
(8) Indirect Costs
Safety meets
Health/physical
Lifeguard (Recreation)
Federal Non- Federal
$ 42.24
76.16
179.84
i,114.58
272.12
800.00
$ 2,484.94
1.,000.00
3,000.00
1,000.00
$ 5,000,00
ENVIRONMENTAL UTRONEL ENT GRA14T
City of Corpus Christi
Part III
(1) Location of Pro -jeett Corpus Christi, Nueces County
The students will be working in four various parks within Cor-
pus Christi city limits. Three of the parks in which they will be
working (Corpus Christi Beach, Cole Part:, and Popes Park) are loca-
ted on the bayfront. Popes Park, Cabra Street Park, and Corpus
Christi Beach are undeveloped. In addition to these parks, the
students will also be doing sece conservation work at Padre Island
National Seashore.
(2) Distance to Nearest Town
Since this is an urban project, the students will be residing
within the city limits. The parks are within 10 miles of the resi-
dential camp.
(3) Number of Youth
The program is being planned for 28 students. There will be
four groups of seven students and these groups will rotate among
the various.worksites.
(4) Type of Proiect
It will be an urban 7 -day residential project. Consequently,
in addition to the work and educational elements of the project,
recreational activities are also planned, particularly for the
weekends.
(5) Length of Session
The duration of the project is sia weeks, from June 16 through
July 25, 1975. For the students, the project will begin on the 7ith
of June and they will be paid bi- weekly for a total of six weeks.
The supervisors will be employed for a seven week period and they
will begin work on June 9, a week prior to the arrival of the stu-
dents. It is necessary that the supervisors begin work a week
earlier in order to familiarize themselves with the program and to
prepare for their role in the program.
(6) Description of Living Conditions
Plans are for the students to stay at a former benedicti.ne
monastery, the Corpus Christi Abbey, uhich is located on 17 acres
of land in the Northwest area of the city. The benedictine
priests will be vacating the abbey in March. The abbey was the
site of the city's only catholic boy's high school, Corpus Christi
Academy. There are a number of buildings on the lot, a gym, class-
room buildings, science building, library, dormitory, cafeteria,
and the main abbey. There is also a picnic area, barbecue facili-
ties, baseball field, football field, and much additional open space.
The main abbey, which is atlittle over 50 years old, is where
the students would be housed. There is a central kitchen and a
large dining area. The kitchen has some new equipment. This
building has three stories and has a more than adequate number of
rooms for this type of program. The gym and the science building
are fairly new. Since the abbey has been occupied, the place has
been kept in good condition.
Although the abbey is located within the city limits, it also
has a secluded and non -urban atmosphere.
(7) Project Staff
. There will be four counselor- supervisors (Grade. 16, according to
the City of Corpus Christi pay grades). It will be the responsi-
bility of the counselor - supervisors to supervise the students both
for the work project and the residential camp_ This means that
they will also be residing at the camp for the six -week period.
They will be employed a week before the session begins, and during
that time 1will meet at the Parks and Recreation Department for ori-
entation and to provide input for any additional planning for the
program.
Two cooks (Grade 13, according to City pay grades), will be
employed to prepare three meals a day at the camp site.-
An assistant to the cooks (Grade 10) will also be employed
and his function will be primarily to clean the kitchen, set up
the plates and silverware, and assist in ordering and transport-
ing the food.
(8) Pates of Pay for Enrollees
The enrollees will be paid according to the rate that a grade 7
would receive in the City of Corpus Christi; which is $2.43 per hour.
They will work a 30 -hour week and will receive their checks bi-
weekly. Their bi- weekly check will amount to $145.74 and the only
deductions will be $8.53 for social security. There will be no
deduction of taxes for the enrollees. For the 6 -week period they
wiil receive three checks and the total salary will be $437.22 each.
After a deduction for food and lodging it is planned that the
enrollees will take home at least $250.00.
(9) Description. of Health and Safety Proaram
According to city standards, the enrollees will be given physical
examinations upon their esploynant with the city. First aid equip-
ment will be supplied for the residential camp and for the vans.
For recreational activities at the beach or river, a life
guard will be provided. The enrollees will attend safety
meetings conducted for the Park and Recreation Department.
(10) Enrollees recruiting system
The enrollees will be recruited by the Office of Youth
Opportunities, Texas Department of Community Affairs. The
enrollees will be screened and selected at the state level.
The city will not be involved in the recruiting program.-
(11) Work- learning Program
Four different park and the national seas'nore were
chosen for the worksites in order to offer the participants
a variety of work projects, learning eepariences, and
natural surroundings. The four tears of enrollees will be
rotated to the various worksites. The rotation of activities
is an important part of the project design for Corpus Christi'
and its purpose is to maintain the interest of the enrollees
and to avoid monotony or boredom in the project.
The enrollees will work for 30 hours a week and the
remaining 10 hours will be devoted to environmental educe -
tion. Various sources will be used to provide for the
educational portion of the project. The City's Parks and
Recreation Department will supply soma of the materials and
staff for educational purposes. The City will also make
contact with the Corpus Christi Independent School District
for the purpose of using some of their services for the edu-
cational program. Information, films, and other materials
will be obtained from the Office of Youth Opportunities,
Texas Departrant of Community Affairs. Additional resources
Will be ecplored.
Three of the worksites are on the city's bayfroat and
such a setting will provide the enrollees an opportunity to
learn and contribute to this particular type of park develop-
ment_. T'ne worksite at the Padre Island National Seashore will
provide work, recreation, and environmental learning. The
Cabra Street Park is a unique project which is located in a
low - income area of the city where a majority of the city's
black population resides. A park would be a good addition
to this area because there are no parks nearby. This.park
will offer the enrollees an opportunity to learn about park
design and to apply some of it. Park of this work project
will involve designing the park. in addition to some minor
construction.
(12) Type of I-York Program to be Available
The work project will be of an environmental learning
process in which the student will be going to approximately
three to four different worksites to get a variety of
er_periance. The primary site will be Ropes Park which con-
sists of the development of a shelter of mainly wood and
concrete along with soma walk system from the Upper Bluff
to the water's edge. The reference park will also have
available wooden picnic tables and benches with a special
area set aside for play equipment. The second park in
question is proposed to be Cabra Street ParL in which the
student will be allowed to design as welt as implement the.
design to the park, which would consist of setting and
working structures with some play equipment. Any addi-
tional facilities will be used at a later date. The third
part: is Corpus Christi Beach in'which the students will be
able to renovate the existing concrete structure and provide
some benches. In this program we have allowed for two alter-
natives, one being at the north end of Cole Park and the
other being at the Kennedy Causaway: Both alternatives are
development proleces and are small in nature.
Corpus Christi, Texas
day of ,4Gt_ , 19—zf
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 Lulby
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark