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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02018 ORD - 01/14/1947AN ORDINANCE No. R O 1 $ AMENDING AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, AND BAUER AND SMITH FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWSi BAYFRONT STORM PROTECTION CONCRETE GROINS AT COLE PARK AND SOUTH SECTION OF SEAWALL; APPROPRIATING MONEY FOR SUCH PURPOSE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY," AND BEING ORDI- NANCE NO. 2012, PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI ON THE 7TH DAY OF JANUARY, A.D., 1947, BY MAKING CERTAIN CHANGES IN SECTION, I THEREOF; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, by ordinance dated January 7, 1947, passed and approved an ordinance authorizing and directing the City Manager of the City of Corpus Christi to execute a contract by and between the City of Corpus Christi and Bauer and Smith for the construction of bayfront storm protection concrete groins at Cole Park and south section of seawall; and WHEREAS, the writing of the name Bauer and Smith was a clerical error, no bid having been submitted under such name, but a bid having been submitted under the name of Bauer -Smith Dredging Company, Inc., the full and proper name of the concern to whom such contract was awarded, said concern's bid being the lowest and most advantageous to the City; and WHEREAS, it is deemed by the City Council necessary to make an amendment to Section 1 of said ordinance in order that the proper name of the contractor will appear and in order that the contract might be more effective and practical insofar as the general publicts welfare is concerned; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXASs SECTION 1. That Ordinance No. 2012, passed and approved by the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, on the 7th day of January, A. D., 1947, and recorded in Volume 15, Page 239, of the Ordinance and Resolution Records of the City of Corpus Christi, and entitled, , "AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEAS TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT BY AND BETWEEN TEE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEAS, AND BAUER AND SMITH FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS2 BAYFRONT STORM PROTECTION CONCRETE GROINS AT COLE PARK AND SOUTH SECTION OF SEAWALL; APPROPRIATING MONEY FOR SUCH PURPOSE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY," be amended as follows, towita "SECTION 1. That the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed to execute for and on behalf of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, a contract for the construction of certain improvements described as followst Bayfront storm pro- tection concrete groins at Cole Park and south section of seawall, which contract has been awarded to Bauer -Smith Dredging Company, Inc., in accordance with the plans and specifications and contract documents as filed with the Council on December 10, 1946, and according to the bid of said Bauer -Smith Dredging Company, Inc., opened on the 3rd day of January, 1947, the said bid of Bauer -Smith Dredging Company, Inc., being the lowest and most advan- tageous to the City." SECTION 2. The fact that it is to the great and beneficial interest of the citizens of the City of Corpus Christi that said amend- ment to said ordinance shall be made in order to speak the intention of the Council and in order that the said contract might be more effective and practical insofar as the general public's welfare is concerned, 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 it is introduced and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared 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 ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED. PASSED and APPROVED this 14th day of January, 1947• '7 lam•- t•,�.` MAYOR City of Corpus Christi, Texas ATT T• City Secretary APPROVE s City Attorney Corpus Christi, Texas January 14. 1947 TO THE mmERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas Gentlemen: 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, 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, — J14 -�- MAYCR City of Corpus Christi, Texas The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Robert T. Wilson Wesley E. Seale John A. Ferris George R. Clark, Jr. R. R. Henry The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Robert T. Wilson Wesley E. Seale John A. Ferris q George R. Clerk, Jr. nj�q o)C R. R. Henry 4(-)/?