HomeMy WebLinkAbout14622 RES - 11/15/1978A RESO[UTION
REQUESTING THE DESIGNATION OF THE CORPUS CHRISTI
METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION AS THE LEAD
PLANNING AGENCY FOR THE NUECES COUNTY AREA, TO
PREPARE A TRANSPORTATION CONTROL PLAN FOR INCOR-
PORATION INTO THE REVISIONS OF THE STATE IMPLE-
MENTATION PLAN FOR AIR QUALITY; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, Section 172 of the Federal Clean Air Act, as amended,
provides for revision of the State Implementation Plan to achieve national
ambient air quality standards; and
WHEREAS, Section 174(a) states that the State and elected officials
of local governments shall jointly determine which elements of the revised
implementation plan will be implemented and by what governmental agency; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the completion of this joint determination
required in Section 174(a), and organization of elected officials of local
governments, designated by agreement of the local governments in the affected
area and certified by the governor, shall prepare a Transportation Control
Plan that, if approved by the Texas Air Control Board, shall become revisions
to the State Implementation Plan; and
WHEREAS, approximately $71,000 in Section 175 planning assistance
funds from the Environmental Protection Agency will be allocated to the Corpus
Christi area for development of a Transportation Control Plan over a two year
period;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: t-
SECTION 1. That the City of Corpus Christi hereby requests that
the Corpus Christi Metropolitan Planning Organization be designated as the
lead agency for air quality planning, to prepare and complete an approvable
Transportation Control Plan as a proposed revision to the State Implementation
Plan as stipulated by the Federal Clean Air Act;
SECTION 2. That the City of Corpus Christi be designated to review
and adopt by ordinance such Transportation Control Plan before submission to
the Texas Air Control Board;
SECTION 3. That this resolution be transmitted to the Governor
and to the Chairman of the Texas Air-Control Board; MI-C
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SECTION 4. The necessity to immediately adopt the aforesaid
Resolution 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 ordi-
nance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council
and the Mayor having declared that such emergency and necessity exist, and
having requested the suspension 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 and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO RESOLVED,
this the �� day of t m._L.211 , 1978.
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ATTEST:
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Secretary
APPROVED:
/rDAY OF NOVEMBER, 1978:
J. BRU�CEA/YCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY
By
ssistant,'q/ Attorney
Corpus Christi, Texas
day of
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,
MAYOR
TH— ORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Gabe Lozano, Sr. �A
Bob Gulley
David Diaz
Ruth Gill
Joe Holt
Tony Juarez, Jr.
Edward L. Sample
The above ordinance was passed 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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