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AN ORDINANCE
CANVASSING RETURNS AND DECLARING THE RESULTS OF AN
ELECTION DELD IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEBAS,
ON MARCH 1, 1975, ON THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT
TO ADOPT THE STATE LAW APPLICABLE TO COLLECTIVE
BARGAINING FOR FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICEMEN IN THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, heretofore on the 29th day of January, 1975, at a
Regular Meeting, the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas,
passed an ordinance calling an election to be held in said City on the lat
day of March, 1975, on the following proposition:
and
"Shall the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi
be authorized to enact an ordinance adopting the State
law applicable to Firefighters and Policemen, which
establishes collective bargaining when a majority of
the affected employees favor representation by an
employees' association and which preserves the prohi-
bition of strikes and lockouts and provides penalties
therefor, as more fully set forth in Section 5(b),
Article 5154c -1, Vernon's Annotated Texas Statutes."
WHEREAS, notice of said election was actually given as
required by law and as directed in the ordinance calling the election,
as is shown by affidavits properly filed in the office of the City
Secretary; and
WHEREAS, said election was duly and legally held on the 1st day
of March, 1975, in conformity with the election ordinance heretofore
passed by this City Council and the results of said election has been
certified and returned to this Council by the proper judges and clerks
thereof; and
WHEREAS, this Council has today considered the returns of
said election on the proposition hereinabove stated, which was held on
the Ist day of March, 1975; and
WHEREAS, it appears to the Council, and the Council so finds,
that said election was in all respects lawfully held and said returns
duly and legally made and that there were cast at said election the
following votes:
12519
PROPOSITION TOTAL VOTES
FOR adoption of the state law applicable
to Firefighters and Policemen which
establishes collective bargaining when
a majority of the affected employees favor
representation by an employees' association
and which preserves the prohibition of
strikes and lockouts and provides penalties
therefor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,896
AGAINST adoption of the state law applicable
to Firefighters and Policemen which
establishes collective bargaining when
a majority of the affected employees favor
representation by an employees' association
and which preserves the prohibition of
strikes and lockouts and provides penalties
therefor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.875
and
WHEREAS, the Council, having fully checked all of the procedure
relative to such election, and it appearing to the Council, and the Council
so finds, that a majority of the legally qualified voters of and within
the City of Corpus Christi voting at said election expressed their preference
"FOR!' adoption of the proposition as bereinahove outlined:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the Proposition, hereinabove set out, and
as set forth in Ordinance No. 12460, adopted January 29, 1975, calling
said election, is hereby found to have been sustained and approved by
a majority of the qualified voters of the City voting at said election
on March 1, 1975, in accordance with the said tabulation of votes
hereinabove set forth, the City Council finds that said Proposition
was carried by a majority of the votes as follows:
FOR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,896
AGAINST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,875
SECTION 2. The fact that it is necessary to promptly canvass
the results of the aforesaid election 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
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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 ACCORDIIIGLY SO ORDAINRO, this the day
of March, 1975.
ATTEST:
ecretary' MAYO Pro•Tem
Ise CITY OF CORPIIS CEPTI, TESAS
AP)ICSVED:
X77 DAY OF MARCH, 1975:
City Attorney
Corpus Christi; Texas
day of , 197T
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 Pro -ism
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHR I, TEXAS
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Jason Luby Z
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 fol.-Is vote:
Jason lul;j
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark
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