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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02112 ORD - 07/08/1947AN ORDINANCE'�� INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF BUDGET ITEM "STREET MAINTENANCE" IN THE SUM OF SIXTY THOUSAND ($60,000.00) DOLLARS AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, additional funds in the amount of Sixty Thousand ($60,000.00) Dollars are needed in Budget Item "Street Maintenance "; and, WHEREAS, they are now needed in "Street Maintenance" in order to satisfactorily carry out various programs to be completed by the end of this fiscal year; and, WHEREAS, there has been transferred the sum of Fifty Thousand ($50,000.00) Dollars to Street Fund No. 108 from Current Fund No. 102; and, WHEREAS, there is an additional Ten Thousand ($10,000.00) Dollars in such Street Fund making a total of Sixty Thousand ($60,000:00) which is available and unencumbered for this purposes NCR, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS; SECTION 1. That Budget Item "Street Maintenance" is hereby increased in the sum of Sixty Thousand (60,000.00) Dollars and the said $60,000.00 is hereby appropriated for use in Street Maintenance. SECTION 2. The fact that it is essential to provide proper and adequate streets and to properly maintain same within the City creates a public emergency and public imperative necessity requiring the suspen- sion 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 C day of July, A. D. 1947. ATTEST: OR ' i City of Corpus Christi, Texas �r�y' Secretary APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM: City Attorney Corpus Visti, Texas July 1947 TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas Gentlement I have examined the accounts and fund from which the appropriation is made, as provided for in the ordinance attached hereto, and I do certify that the money required for such appro- priation is in the Treasury to the credit of the fund from which such appropriation is to be drawn, and that there are monies in such fund which are not appropriated for aW other purpose and which are available at this time. Very truly yours, C r irec or o Finance City ontro er. vw Corpus Christi, Texas July , 1947 TO THE MMERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas Gentlemens 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, 3 R City of Corpus Christi, Texas The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Wesley E. Seale George R. Clark, Jr. John A. Ferris R. R. Henry Joe T. Dawson The above ordinance was passed by the following votes Wesley E. Seale George R. Clark, Jr. - John A. Ferris R. R. Henry Joe T. Dawson o2�ia