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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING TBE PURCHASE OF FOUR 30-35 PASSENGER
AIR-CONDITIONED DIESEL BUSES FROM BLUE BIRD BODY
COMPANY, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL BY THE URBAN MASS
TRANSPORTATION ADMINISTRATION, AS PROVIDED IN
THE 1976 UMTA CAPITAL GRANT PROJECT NO. TX -05-0014
FOR $280,297.20; APPROPRIATING OUT OF THE NO. 218
TRANSIT BOND FUND FOR PROJECT NO. 218-72-3 TRANSIT
SYSTEM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS (1976), AN AMOUNT OF
$280,297.20 FOR THE SAID PURCHASE; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That authorization is hereby given, subject to approval
by the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, for the purchase of four 30-35
passenger, air-conditioned diesel buses from Blue Bird Body Company for $280,297.20
as provided for in the 1976 UMTA Capital Grant Project No. TX -05-0014.
SECTION 2. That there is hereby appropriated out of the No. 218
Transit Bond Fund for Project No. 218-72-3, Transit System Capital Improvements (1976),
the amount of $280,297.20 for the purchase of said buses.
SECTION 3. The necessity to execute the contract and to provide
the necessary funds for the purchase of said buses 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
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 9 day of May, 1979.
ATTEST:
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APPROVED:
BY
THE CIr IF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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ATTORNEY
Assistant City ,/rney
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CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
CERTIFICATION OF FUNDS
(City Charter Article IV Section 21)
April 30, 1979
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I certify to the City Council that $ 280,297.20 , 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 Transit Bond Eimd
Project No. 218-72-3
Project Name Transit System Capital Improvements (1976)
from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not appropriated for
any other purpose. •
FIN 2-55
Revised 7/31/69
Corpus Christi, Texas
9 day of_
, 1977
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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,
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
David Diaz
Jack K. Dumphy
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
The above ordinance was
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample
Dr. Jack Best
David Diaz
Jack K. Dumphy
Betty N. Turner
Cliff Zarsky
the following vote:
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