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Home My WebLink About01842 ORD - 09/11/1945a, 9 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE MAYOR AND CITY CONTROLLER OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEARS, TO EXECUTE FOR AND ON. BEHALF OF SAID CITY, A CONTRACT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, CORPUS CHRISTI INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT AHD GEORGE G. EHRENBCkG COMPANY,. APPRAISAL ENGINEERS OF DALLAS, TEXAS, OPERATORS OF A STANDARD UNIT SYSTEM OF REALTY VALUATIONS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF EVALUATING CERTAIN PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, AND TEE CORPUS CHRISTI INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX9Ss SECTION 1. That the Mayor and the City Controller of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, be, and they are hereby, authorized and direoted to execute, for -and on behalf of said City, a contract by and between the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, Corpus Christi Independent School District and George G. Ehrenborg Company, Appraisal Engineers of Dallas, Texas, Operators of a Standard Unit System of Realty Valuations, for the purpose of evaluating all personal and real property within the City of Corpus Christi and the Corpus Christi Independent School District, a copy of which contract is attached hereto and made a part hereof, and reads as follows, to -wit= 1 U -1 i i6 STATE OF TEXAS Q COUNTY OF RCECES Q TRIS AGRMMENT made and entered into this the da9 0£ 1945, by and between George G. Ehronborg Company, Appraisal Engi- neers of Dallas, Texas, Operators of a Standard Unit System of Realty Valuations, Party of the First Part and the City of Corpus Christi and Corpus Christi Independent School District, Party of the Second Part* W I T r E S S E T H The Party of the First Part agrees to furnish the Party of the Second Part the following services in the methods of Realty Valuations for Taxation Purposes of all lots and parcels of land and all improvements Within the City of Corpus Christi and Corpus Christi Independent School Dtstriot. 1. Maps The Party d' the First Part agrees to bring to date all existing sectional maps and to furnish the Party of the Second Part With one complete set of Sectional maps, to suitable scale, showing all city blocks, lots, tracts, thereof, made from existing records and When no such records are available from aotual measurements on the grounds. And also agrees to bring to date all existing block maps and to furnish a block book shoving a map of each block or tract drawn to suitable scale and also to furnish ownership sheets for said block book showing all the owner- ships, descriptions, presents value of lots and improvements, With a space provided where the assessed valuation can be placed. These ownership sheets to carry five lines for each lot, so they will not have to be rewritten but every five years. Ownerships to be taken from 1945 tax rolls and from information gained in the field, or from County Records. these block books are to be bound in substantial loose leaf binders. All tracings and negatives of both sec- i I 1 tional maps and block maps to bocome property of the city. 2. Land, The Party of the First Part agrees to furnish the services of experts in land valuation methods who will with the help of a local board or two (2) men furnished by the Party of the Second Part at no cost to Party of the First Part ascertain the valuation at each single street to the lots and parcels of land fronting thereon, This having been done, the experts will compube the valuation of all lots and parcels accurately and proportionately end truly according to such unit foot valuations, and take in consideration de- praciation for bad location, creaks, overflow, eta. 3. Building. and Improvements. The Party of the First Part agrees to furnish the aervioes of experts in building valuation methods, who will measure and describe buildings and improvements upon lots end parcels in the City of Corpus Christi and Corpus Christi independent School District, applying factors of valuation and depreciation for each, based upon the fair market oobt of new reproduction, with apecifio depreciation, if any, expressed in one percentage, for con- sideration of mechanical deterioration, obsolesoenoe, age and lack of utility. Information and data for each building will be tabulated on a permanent card record, showing the size and class and kind, condition, number of stories, roof, etc., together with improvements such as fixtures, water, bath, sewer and electric connections, with factors of valuation and depreciation as ascertained by local investigation. 4. Exempt IAnds! It is expressly understood that this service shall not apply to land buildings within the City of Corpus Christi and Corpus Christi Independent School District that are exempt from taxation. §. Public Utilities, Industrial Plants, and Business Personal Property, The Par +y of the First Part agrees to furnish the services of experts in the valuation of personal property and equipment oonmonly used by Public Utilities and Industrial Plants. and to make an appraisal of all such property and equipment. and also a valuation of all business personal property such as stooks of merchandise, fixtures& machinery and furniture used in carrying on business but this contract shall not include personal property in homes$ automobiles, jewelry, stooks and bonds or any intangible propertyj excluding also any business personal property valued at less than $300.00, 6. General. The Party of the First Part agrees to furnish an- velopea, property designated as to block numbers and 'addition names for the land computation and the building record cards, for all lots and parolee within the City of Corpus Christi. Mueces County, Texas. the Flirty of the First Part agrees that its experts in methods of land and building valuation will instruct the Assessor in the present use of the methods of valuation and oomputation, so that the system installed my be continued and kept,up to date in the future. It is agreed and understood that the City of Corpus Christi will furnish the Party of the First Part a suitable place to work and the use of the existing maps and other records of the City for use as far as they may be useful. 7. Delivery and Fee. The Party of the First Part agrees to complete the services described herein within COS Hundred Eighty (180) days after the signing of this agreements subject to the satisfaction of and acceptance by the Mayor and Board of Commissioners. It is understood and agreed that the Corpus Christi Independent School District's proportionate pack of the total cost of this revaluation will be 40% and the City of Corpus Chrietils proportionate part will be 60%. For the services to be rendered, the Party of the Second Part agrees to pay the Party of the First Part the total sum of lweuty -Six Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($26,500.00), payable as folloffe, Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) Fifteen (15) days after starting of the work. Thirty (30) days after starting of the work. n n n n Forty -five (45) days after starting of the work. Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000.00) Sixty (60) days after starting of the work. -" " " " Seventy -Five (75) Days after starting of the work. One Thousand Dollars ($1.000.00) Ninety (90) Days after starting of the work. n n a n One Hundred Five (105) Days after starting of the work. - " One Hundred Twenty (120) Days after starting of the work. One Hundred Thirty -Fivo (135) Days after starting of the work. One Hundred Fifty (150) Days after starting of the work. and Five Thousand 05,000.00) Dollars payable on Completion of the work an accep oe repo y e yor and Board of Ca=iasioners. The field work to be started not later than 1945. The Party of the 2. irut part shall sit on the Board of Equalization in an advisory capacity to defend any values set under this contract without Coat for ten (10) days. If additional time is required the Party of the First Part shall be paid at a rate of Twenty-Five Dollars ($25.00) per day. City of Corpus Christi, Texas Bye LtAYOR, ult y or Corpus OFF Texas COUNTEBSIGHEDt By City Con o r ATTEST, - CORPUS CHRISTI INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT City Secretary gyp President APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FOBffit /) GEORGE G. EHHEtiBORG CO`dPANY raey I .�' SECTION 2• The fact that the ,Corpus Christi Independent School District and the City of Corpus Christi are very desirous of having a revaluation of all public personal and real property and that it is to the benefit and welfare of the City of Corpus Christi, and the citizens thereof, that such property be evaluated immediately in order that same may be properly placed upon the tax rolls of the City, oreates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no Ordinance or Resolution be passed finally on the date of its introduction and that said Ordinance or Resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor, in writing, having declared that said emergency and imperative public necessity exist, and having requested that said Charter rule be suspended and that this Ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction, and that it be in effect from and after its passage, IT IS, ACCORDINGLY, SO ORDAINED. PASSED AND APPROVED this / day of September, A. D., 1945• MILYCR, Ci Corpus Christi ATTEST: i y Secre ary APPROVED AS TO GAL FORMS a A ,orney Corpus Christi, Texas Z - ii ,1945 TO THE MEABBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI CORPUS CHRISTI, TMMS Gentlemen; For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing Ordinance, a public emergency and an imperative necessity exist for the suspension of the Charter rule or re- quirement that no Ordinance or Resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such Ordinance or Resolu- tion shall be read at three several meetings 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, YOR,�d.ty o orpus The Charter rule was suspended by the following Roy L. Self B. G. Moffett R. R. Rambo ri. C. Beck N. B. Marriott The above Ordinance was passed by the following vote; Roy L. Self 1— B. G. Moffett R. R. Rambo N. C. Beck 11. B. Marriott