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TEXAS:
AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CONTRACT AUTHORIZED BETWEEN THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI AND THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
FIREFIGHTERS, LOCAL UNION 936, BY ORDINANCE NO. 14511,
ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON SEPTEMBER 20, 1978, BY
AMENDING ARTICLE lX, SECTION 2, SUBSECTION B (2),
CONCERNING VACANCIES IN THE FIREFIGHTER II CLASSIFICA-
TION, AS TO ELIGIBILITY, EXAMINATIONS AND APPOINTMENT;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
SECTION 1. That the contract authorized between the City of Corpus
Christi and the International Association of Firefighters, Local Union 936,
authorized by Ordinance No. 14511, adopted by the City Council on September 20,
1978, be and the same is hereby amended by amending Article IX, Section 2,
Subsection B (2), to hereafter read as follows:
"(2) When a vacancy occurs in the Firefighter II classification,
a record shall be kept as to the date of the vacancy and whether it occurred
in the Fire Suppression or Ambulance Service. Subsequent appointments to
the classification of Firefighter II shall be made by order of oldest
vacancy first. Firefighter II promotional examinations shall be open to
all firefighters with two years service in either the same rank or the next
lower rank at any time prior to the date of the examination. During the
term of this contract when it is determined by the Chief that there is not
a sufficient number of persons on a current Firefighter II Eligibility Roster
with EMT certification who are required to maintain that certification, the
Chief may request from the Civil Service Director that an additional Fire-
fighter II Promotional Examination be administered without restriction to
rank or years of service, except probtatinary firefighters shall not be
eligible to take the exam for the supplementa- roster. The ranking of
eligibles resulting from such examination shall be considered as a supple-
mental Firefighter II Eligibility Roster to be ranked below any existing
Firefighter II Roster and shall expire one year from the original date that
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the earlier roster was posted and certified by the Civil Service Commission.
Declining of an ambulance service position shall not be grounds for removal
from the original, current Firefighter II Roster for those employees hired
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prior to October 1, 1973. The supplemental roster shall be used only for
ambulance service, and no person on the list shall be eligible for appoint-
ment to any other position. This section shall be effective notwithstanding
any provision of Article 1269m, V.A.T.S."
SECTION 2. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith be and the same are repealed to the extent of such conflict.
SECTION 3. The necessity to amend the aforesaid contract 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 intro-
duction but that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several
meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor, having declared that such emer-
gency and necessity exist, having requested the suspension of the Charter
ruel and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its intro-
duction and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its
passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the— 1-5 day of November,
1978. Al
ATTEST: 6�
Cit Secretary MAYOR
T E CITY OF S CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED:
,DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1978:
J. BRUCE AYCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY
By / d
Assistant P9 Attorney
Corpus Christi, Texas
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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,
MAYOR
THE ITY OF CHRISTI, TEXAS
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
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Bob Gulley
David Diaz_
Ruth Gill
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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 �J
Joe Holt
Tony Juarez, Jr.
Edward L. Sample
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