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TEXAS:
AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH
BFW CONSTRUCTION COMPANY FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE BAYFRONT
PLAZA CONVENTION CENTER; APPROPRIATING $13,468,200 OUT OF
THE NO. 209 COMMUNITY CONVENTION CENTER BOND FUND, INCLUD-
ING $12,653,013 IN BONDS AND $815,187 IN ANTICIPATED
INTEREST EARNINGS, OF WHICH APPROPRIATION $13,264,142 IS
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT, $93,128 IS FOR ADDITIONAL
ARCHITECTURAL FEES, $95,930 IS FOR LABORATORY TESTING, AND
$15,000 IS FOR FOUNDATION PILINGS AND RELATED EXPENSES
APPLICABLE TO PROJECT NO. 209- 76 -1.3, COMMUNITY CONVENTION
CENTER FACILITY CONSTRUCTION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
SECTION 1. That the City Manager be and he is hereby authorized
to execute a contract with BFW Construction Company for construction of the
Bayfront Plaza Convention Center, all as more fully described in the plans
and specifications 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 BFW Construction Company opened on July 12, 1978, said bid being
the lowest and most advantageous to the City of Corpus Christi.
SECTION 2. That there is hereby appropriated $13,468,200 out of r
the No. 209 Community Convention Center Bond Fund, including $12,653,013 in
bonds and $815,187 in anticipated interest earnings, of which appropriation
$13,264,142 is for the construction contract, $93,128 is for additional
architectural fees, $95,930 is for laboratory testing, and $15,000 is for
foundation pilings and related expenses applicable to Project No. 209- 76 -1.3,
Community Convention Center Facility Construction.
SECTION 3. That the necessity to execute the aforesaid contract
and to appropriate the sums hereinabove set out so that construction of the
Bayfront Plaza Convention Center may be commenced 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
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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 ACCORDINGLY SO
ORDAINED, this the Iq day of July, 1978.
ATTEST:
ityi MAYORpio•Tem
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRy TI, TEXAS
APPROVED: �
M DAY OF JULY, 1978:
J. BRUCE YCOCK CITY ATTORNEY
BY:
Assistant Ci ttorney
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CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
CERTIFICATION OF FONDS
(City Charter Article IV Section 21)
July 14, 1978
I certify to the City Council that $ 13,468,200
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 No. 209 Community Convention Facility Bond Fund
Project No. 209- 76 -1.3
Project Name Community Convention Facility - Construction
from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not appropriated for
any other purpose.
The amount certified above includes
$12,653,013 in bonds approved in the
1976 Convention Center Bond Election, (y
plus $815,187 in anticipated interest O , 19�
earnings during the construction
period for the Convention Center. /
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Corpus Christi, Tex
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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 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,
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MAYOR Pio: ?a!
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRI I, TEXAS
The Charter Rule was suspended by the following vote:
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
Bob Gulley
David Diaz
'Ruth'Gill
Joe Holt
Tony Juarez, Jr.
Edward L. Sample
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The above-ordinance-was passed by a following vote:
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
Bob Gulley
David Diaz
Ruth Gill
Joe Holt
Tony Juarez, Jr.
Edward L. Sample
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