HomeMy WebLinkAbout02089 ORD - 05/27/1947AN ORDINANCE # A2 0 '?/
RECEIVING AND ACCEPTING THE WORK OF IMPROVING
AYRES STREET, WITHIN THE LIMITS HEREIN BELOW
DEFINED, IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS,
PERFORMED BY BROWN & ROOT, INC., APPROVING AND
ACCEPTING THE MAINTENANCE BOND FURNISHED BY
BROWN & ROOT, INC. IN CONNECTION WITH SAID WORK;
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL
ASSESSMENT CERTIFICATES, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
Section 1: That the work of improving the following street
and portions thereof in the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, to -wit:
AYRES ( AYEES) STREET from the East
Property Line of 12th Street to the
West Property Line of Santa Fe Street,
by raising, grading and filling same, and installing concrete curbs,
gutters and sidewalks where same were not installed on proper line
and grade and where the existing curbs, gutters and sidewalks were
determined by the City Engineer not to be adequate and sufficient,
and by constructing storm sewers and other drainage facilities as
provided for in the plans and specifications for such improvements,
and by paving, repaving and repairing said street with an asphaltic
concrete base, and the construction thereon of a one and one -half
inch asphaltic surface course, together with other necessary inci-
dentals and appurtenances, and the doing of other work incident
thereto, all as provided for in the plans and specifications for
such improvements, having been performed and completed in accor-
dance with the terms and provisions of the contract and the plans
and specifications therein contained, dated September 9, 1946, be-
tween the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Brown & Root, Inc.,
and the Director of Public Works of said City having examined,
measured and caused to be tested the finished improvement by the
meads and manner provided by the terms of such contract and the
plans and specifications therein contained, and said Director of
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Public Works having found that such improvements have been con-
structed and completed in full compliance with the terms and pro-
visions of said contract and the plans and specifications therefor,
and having approved and accepted said work and improvements and
having heretofore issued his Certificate of Final Acceptance and so
certified to said City Council and recommended that such City Council
accept and receive said work and the improvements as constructed by
said Brown & Root, Inc.; and said Brown & Root, Inc. having hereto-
fore furnished to and filed with said City Council its five -year
Maintenance Boni in the amount, and executed by a corporate surety,
as required and provided in said plans and specifications, and
said Maintenance Bond having been found by said Director of Public
Works and said City Council to be in proper form, amount and executed
by an approved corporate surety, and having been approved by the
City Attorney, said Maintenance Bond is here now accepted and approved
as being in full compliance with the requirements of said contract
and the plans and specifications therein contained; and said work
and improvements having been found by the Mayor and City Council
of said City to have been performed and completed, and said Mainten-
ance Bond filed and approved, all in full compliance with said
contract and plans and specifications therefor, same are hereby
found to have been performed and completed by said Brown & Root,
Inc. in full compliance with the terms and provisions of said con-
tract, and the plans and specifications therefor, and same are here
now accepted and received by the City Council of the City of Corpus
Christi, Texas.
Section 2: That the Mayor and City Secretary of said City
are hereby authorized and directed to issue to Brown & Root, Inc.
special assessment certificates evidencing the assessments against
property improved abutting upon said Ayres Street, within the limits
above defined, and against the real and true owner or owners thereof,
which, by the terms of such contract, the City of Corpus Christi,
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Texas, has agreed and obligated itself to issue and deliver to
said Brown & Root, Inc. in accordance with the provisions of the
final assessment ordinance and other proceedings heretofore had and
adopted by said City Council; said assessment certificates to be
executed in the name of said City by the Mayor and City Secretary
thereof and impressed with the seal of said City, and dated as of
the date hereof, and such officers are hereby authorized and dir-
ected to execute said certificates in their official capacities on
behalf of said City, and deliver same to said Brown & Root, Inc.
Section 3: The fact that permanent street improvements with-
in the City of Corpus Christi are immediately necessary due to the
fact that the present condition of the streets in said City is
dangerous to the health and public welfare of the inhabitants
thereof and that the streets are subject to unprecedented traffic
due to the rapid growth of said City, and the further fact that it
is necessary to provide drainage for that area adjacent to said
Ayres Street, create a public emergency and an imperative public
necessity, requiring the suspension of the Charter Rule or require-
ment that no Ordinance or Resolution shall be passed finally on the
date of its introduction, and that said Ordinance or Resolutions
shall be read at three separate meetings of the City Council, and
the Mayor having declared that such emergency and public imperative
necessity exists, and requested that said Charter Rule be suspended
and 'that this Ordinance be passed finally on the date of its intro-
duction, and take effect and be in full force and effect from and
after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the a�_,,.day of A.D. 1947.
MKYOR',CIW oX Corpus Christ ,Texas.
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1 City Secretary
APPROVED:
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City Attorney
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Corpus Christi, Texas
may a 7 , 1947
TO THE MEMBERS 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,
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City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Wesley E. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.pi
John A. Ferris ALYJ
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R. R. Henry
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Joe T. Dawson
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Wesley E. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.
John A. Ferris
R. R. Henry
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Joe T. Dawson