HomeMy WebLinkAbout02019 ORD - 01/14/1947AN ORDINANCE 1Y o, Z o 19
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
BAUM AND SMITH FOR TEE CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN IM-
PROVEMENTS DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BAYFRONT STORM PRO-
TECTION CONCRETE CORE WALL ON NORTH AND SOUTH BREAK -
WATERS; APPROPRIATING MONEY FOR SUCH PURPOSE; AND
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY," AND BEING ORDINANCE NO. 2013,
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 construotion of bayfront storm pro-
tection concrete core wall on north and south breakwaters; 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 oontract
might be more effective and practical insofar as the general publicis
welfare is concerned;
NOOP, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SEDTION 1. That Ordinance No. 2013, passed and approved by
the City Counoil of the City of Corpus Christi, on the 7th day of
January, A. D., 1947, and recorded in Volume 15, Page 240, of the
Ordinance and Resolution Records of the City of Corpus Christi, and
entitled:
2019
Corpus Christi, Texas
January 14, 1947
TO TSE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemena
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,
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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. Henrys
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Robert T. Wilson
Wesley E. Sealep�
John A. Ferris
George R. Clark, Jr.
R. R. Henry
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