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HomeMy WebLinkAbout14074 RES - 12/14/1977• MLM :hb:12 /13/77 v • A RESOLUTION URGING RENEWAL OF A LOAN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY AND THE CORPUS CHRISTI AREA OIL SPILL CONTROL ASSOCIATION WHEREIN A MECHANICAL DEVICE FOR CLEANSING OIL SOAKED BEACH SAND IS PLACED IN THE CUSTODY AND CARE OF THE SPILL ASSOCIATION; INSTRUCTING THE CITY SECRETARY TO FURNISH TRUE COPIES OF THIS RESOLUTION TO APPRO- PRIATE OFFICIALS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Corpus Christi Area Oil Spill Control Association entered into an agreement in 1973 whereby the Environmental Protection Agency assigned, on a loan basis, to the Corpus Christi Area Oil Spill Control Association a mechanical device for cleansing oil soaked beach sand, and WHEREAS, at the time of assignment it was decided by the En- vironmental Protection Agency that Corpus Christi was the most logical place for storing such a unit, primarily because of our beach area extending from Brownsville to near Houston, and WHEREAS, the Spill Association has expended several thousands of dollars in sand blasting, painting and repairing various mechanical devices on the unit, and has kept it in good and operable condition, and WHEREAS, the Corpus Christi area is a high risk area insofar as oil contamination is concerned, and the Association desires to use the unit for further research, and WHEREAS, the loan agreement expires in January 1978, and WHEREAS, the Spill Association as well as the City Council desires to retain use of the beach cleaning device in the Coastal Bend area, and to that end desires and urges renewal of the loan agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Corpus Christi hereby requests and urges the Environmental Protection Agency to renew for an addi- tional term the loan agreement with the Corpus Christi Area Oil Spill Control MICROFILMED ,0- ®I `g�0 14074 Association wherein a mechanical device for cleansing oil soaked beach sand is charged to and placed in the care of the Spill Association. SECTION 2. The City Secretary is hereby instructed to furnish true copies of this resolution to appropriate officials of the Environmental Protection Agency and any other interested public officials. SECTION 3. The necessity to renew the loan agreement for a mechanical device for cleansing oil soaked beach sand with the Environmental Protection Agency 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, having requested the suspension of the Charter rule and that this resolution take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO RESOLVED this the day of December, 1977. ATTEST: City Secretary R THE CITY OF CO US CHRISTI, TEXAS APPROVED: DAY OF DECEMBER, 1977: J. BRUCE AYCOCK, CITY TTORNEY By jAsit4an&tC4ity RttdYney Corpus ChristiZ�iu. 1 � day of , , 191L— TO THE ME14BERS 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 suspension 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 ordinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, OR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS The Charter rule was suspended by th following vote: Jason Luby Eduardo de Ases David Diaz Ruth Gill Bob Gulley !� Gabe Lozano, Sr. Edward L. Sample The above ordinance was Jason Luby Eduardo de Ases David Diaz Ruth Gill Bob Gulley Gabe Lozano, Sr. Edward L. Sample passed by the following vote: 14074