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~ A RESOLUTION
RESOLUTION ENDORSING THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI`S
APPLICATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION,
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FOR A CAPITAL GRANT AS
PROVIDED BY SECTION 3 OF THE URBAN MASS TRANSPOR-
TATION ACT OF 1964, AS AMENDED; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the City,of Corpus Christi is the Metropolitan Planning
Organization for the Corpus Christi Urbanized Area!
WHEREAS, the Corpus Christi Metropolitan Planning Organization,
in cooperation with the State, is responsible for transportation planning
in the urbanized area;
WHEREAS, the City of Corpus Christi has submitted a capital grant
application to the Urban Mass Transportation Administration for financial'
assistance for improvements to the City -owned and City- operated transit
system as provided by Section 3 of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of
1964, as amended; and
WHEREAS, the Corpus Christi Metropolitan Planning Organizatioii
has reviewed the above application and finds the projects contained therein
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to be consistent with the current transit development program and-the com-
"' prehensive planning process;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Corpus Christi,
as the Corpus Christi Metropolitan Planning Organization for the Corpus
Christi Urbanized Area, hereby endorses the City of Corpus Christi's capital
grant application for Section 3 funds.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the necessity to endorse the City's appli-
cation to the Department of Transportation for a capital grant as provided in
the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 at the earliest possible date creates
a public emergency and 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 sus-
pension of the Charter rule and that this resolution be passed finally on the
date of its introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from
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and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO RESOLVED this the �_ day
of March, 1975.
ATTEST:
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APPROVED:
THIS THE 12th DAY OF MARCH, 1975:
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MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, ERAS
Corpus Christi, Texas
j day of �.1925
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the fore-
going ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the
suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordinance or resolu-
tion 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 Charte,E rule or requirement and
pass this ordinance 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