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A ING THE GENERAL. BUDGET ADOPTED
Er THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CMMI, TEAS, CH JULY 31,
19L4, BY PR07MING FOR AN INCREASE
IN THE BUDGET APPROPRIATION FOR
HOSPITAL OPERATIONS IN THE AMOUNT CF
M.028.00, AND AN INCREASE IN THE
BUDGET APPROPWATION FOR THE HUMM
DEPARTMENT IN TIM SOH -OF 812,000.001
AND DECIARING AN EMERGENCY.
WMMAB. the general budget adopted by the City Council
of the City of Corpus Christi on July 31, 1%4, provided therein a
budget appropriation for hospital operations in the sum of Fifty Thousand
Dollars (850.000.00), and for a budget appropriation for the Hunnaae
Department in the a= of Nine Thousand Eight Hundred Seven Dollars
(09.807.00)1 and
WHEREAS. since said general budget was adopted there have
been unforeseen increases in connection with the operation of the hospi-
tal and the health and welfare of the citizens of the City of Corpus
Christi require that the said hospital operations shall continue, and
It is essential for the health and well -being of the citizens of Corpus
Christi that theta be sufficient funds for the proper and adequate
operation of the hospitaly and
WHENs since the adoption of the said general budget on
July 31, 19" due to a rabies epidemic in the City of Corpus Christi
there has been a demand for an enlargement of the operation of the
Huaoane Department end the Humane Department of Corpus Christi has been
called upon to render services far in excess of those originally con-
templated and the health and well-being of the citizens of Corpus
Christi demand that such Humane Department shall continue in operation,
and that funds shall be made available for the continued operation of
such Th-, Department in order that the health and welfare of the citi-
zens of the City of Corpus Christi moy be adequately protected; and
1'7 S(o
vMEWAs, Article 7. section 10 of the City Chester of the
City of Corpus Christi provides that in ease of public necessity the
general budget of the City of Corpus Christi may be increased and the
City Council of the City of Corpus Christi having found that the ofore-
said conditions make it a public necessity that the Two (2) items in
the general budget above mentioned be increased and the City Council
having found that theta is a public necessity for the increase in the
budget appropriation of the Humane Department in the sum of Twelve
Thousand Dollars (012,000.00), and that a public necessity exists for
the increase of the hospital operations appropriation in the sum of
Twenty -Five Thousand and Twenty -Eight Dollars (tP5,028.00)i
TBBWOBE, BE IT ORMIM D BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CCHFUS
CHRISTI, TB8682
SECTION 1. That the general budget adopted by the City
Council of the City of Corpus Christi on July 31, 19" be amended so
as to provide as follows:
(a) That the budget appropriation for the R-- Department
of the City of Corpus Christi heretofore made by 9rs City Council
of the City of Corpus Christi on July 31, 1914, in the sum of
lane Thousand Eight Hundred and Seven Dollars ($9,807.00), be in-
=eased in the sum of Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12.000.00), making
a total budget appropriation for the Mmans Department in the
sum of Twenty -One Thousand Eight Hundred and seven Dollars
(821.807.00)
(b) That the hospitdn operations budget appropriation in the
Mm of Fifty Thousand Dollars (050.000.00). as provided in the
general budget adopted by the City Council on July 31. 194L6
be increased in the sum of Twenty -FYve Thousand and Twenty -Eight
Dollars (025,028.00). making a total budget appropriation for
such hospital operations in the esm of Seventy -Five Thousand
and Twenty -Eight Dollars (075.028.00).
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Section 2. The fact that it is necessary for the health
welfare, and well-being of the citizens of the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas, that the general budget adopted on July 31, 1944, be increased
as hersinbefore provided and the further fact that unless such items
are increased the health welfare and well -being of the citizens of the
City of Corpus Christi will not be adequately protected create a public
emargency and public imperative necessity requiring 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 shell be read at three several meetings of the City Council,
and the Mayor having declared in writing that such public emergency and
imperative necessity exist, and having requested that such Charter rule
be suspended, 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, ACCORDIDGLY, SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this ILILday of March, A. D. 1945•
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Mayor, City of orpus Christi.-
T e x a a.
EiTTE�S.T
®i/ Secreta#y
APPROVED AS TO LRGAL FORM=
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Ulty 4storney
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Corpus Christi, Texas
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
Corpus Christi, Taxes
Gent lemens
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the
foregoing Ordinance, a Yubiic emergency and an 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 several "stings of the City Council; I, therefore, hereby
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, City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following votes
A. C. McCaughan
Joe. Mirsurk�
Ed. P. Williams
D. A. Segrest
B. G. Moffett
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The above Ordinance was passed
by thed.1lowing votes
A. C. McCaughan
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Joe. Mirsur
Ed. P. Williams
D. A. Segrest
B. G. Moffett
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