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AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CITY BUDGET; AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH LEOPARD
CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC., FOR THE MC GEE BEACH
SANDFILL IMPROVEMENTS; APPROPRIATING $33,954 OUT
OF THE NO. 291 PARR BOND FUND, OF WHICH $32,760
IS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT AND $1,194 IS
FOR INCIDENTAL AND RELATED EXPENSES, ALL APPLICABLE
TO PROJECT NO. 291 -72 -1; 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, for and on behalf of the City of Corpus Christi, a contract
with Leopard Construction Company, Inc. for the McGee Beach Sandfill
Improvements, all as is more fully described in the plans and specifi-
cations and contract documents on file in the office of the City Secretary,
all of which are made a part hereof by reference and according to the bid
of Leopard Construction Company, Inc. opened March 19, 1975, said bid
being the lowest and most advantageous to the City of Corpus Christi.
SECTION 2. That there is hereby appropriated the sum of
$33,954 out of No. 291 Park Bond Fund, of which $32,760 is for the
construction contract and $1,194 is for incidental and related expenses,
all applicable to Project No. 291 -72 -1.
SECTION 3. Amendment of the City Budget to accomplish the
purposes of this ordinance is necessitated for emergency expenditure in
grave public necessity to meet unusual and unforeseen conditions, which
could not, by reasonable diligent thought and attention of the Government
of the City of Corpus Christi, have been included in the current, original
Budget of the City.
SECTION 4. The necessity to authorize the execution of the
hereinabove contract and appropriate the necessary funds to cover cost
of same at the earliest possible date so that construction of this sand -
fill may commence 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 and
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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, having requested the suspension of the Charter rule
and that this ordinance take effect and be in full force and effec from
and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED this the :;u of
April, 1975.
ATTEST:
Cit4rSecretlry MAYO
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
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1 DAY OF APRIL, 1975:
ML1nWj City Attorney
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
CERTIFICATION OF FUNDS
(City Charter Article IV Section 21)
March 31, 1975
I certify to the City Council that $ 33,954+ , the amount required
for the contract, agreement, obligation or expenditures contemplated in the
above and foregoing ordinance is in the Treasury of the City of Corpus Christi
to the credit of:
Fund No. and Name 291 Park Bond Fund
Project No. 291 -72 -1
Project Name McGee Beach Improvements
from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not appropriated for
any other purpose.
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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.
Resp'ct' ,
MAY
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, WyAq
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 Lux;
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
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Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark