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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF THREE 35 -FOOT AIR-
CONDITIONED DIESEL BUSES AND ONE SPARE DIESEL POWER
TRAIN FROM GMC TRUCK AND COACH, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL
BY THE URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION ADMINISTRATION, AS
PROVIDED IN THE 1978 UMTA CAPITAL GRANT PROJECT NO.
TX -05-0036 FOR $333,129.00; APPROPRIATING OUT OF
THE 218 TRANSIT BOND FUND FOR PROJECT NO. 218-72-4
TRANSIT SYSTEM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS (1978), AN AMOUNT
OF $333,129.00 FOR THE SAID PURCHASE; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY.
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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 three
35 -foot air-conditioned diesel buses and one spare diesel power train from
GMC Truck and Coach for $333,129.00 as provided for in the 1978 UMTA Capital
Grant Project No. TX -05-0036.
SECTION 2. That there is hereby appropriated out of the No. 218
Transit Bond Fund for Project No. 218-72-4, Transit System Capital Improvements
(1978), the amount of $333,129.00 for the purchase of said buses and spare
diesel power train.
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 that such
emergency and necessity 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 day of May, 1979.
ATTEST:
APPROVED:
(— DAY OF MAY, 1979:
J. BRUCE AYCOCK, CITY ATTORNEY
By
Assistant Ci torney
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CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
CERTIFICATION OF FUNDS
(City Charter Article IV Section 21)
May 14, 1979
I certify to the City Council that $ 333,129.00 , 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 Fund
Project No. 218-72-4
Project Name Transit System
Capital Improvements (1978)
from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not appropriated for
any other purpose. •
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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,
MAYO
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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 passe by the following vote:
Luther Jones
Edward L. Sample 1
Dr. Jack Best 401
David Diaz/
Jack K. Dumphy ///
Betty N. Turner if
Cliff Zarsky / ./.
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