HomeMy WebLinkAbout02139 ORD - 08/26/1947AN ORDINANCE
RECEIVING AND ACCEPTING THE WORK OF IMPROVING
FURMAN STREET, BROADWAY COURT, TWIGG STREET,
PALO ALTO STREET, DAN REID STREET AND MANN STREET
WITHIN THE LIMITS HEREINBELOW DEFINED IN THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, PERFORMED BY
BROWN AND ROOT, INC., APPROVING AND ACCEPTING
THE MAINTENANCE BOND FURNISHED BY BROWN AND
ROOT, INC. IN CONNECTION WITH SAID WORK; AUTHO-
RIZING.AND DIRECTING THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL
ASSESSMENT CERTIFICATES AND DECLARING AN EMERGMICY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the work of improving the following streets and
portions thereof in the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, to -wit;
FURMAN STREET, BROADWAY COURT, TWIGG STREET, PALO
ALTO STREET, DAN REID STREET AND MANN STREET�ALL OF
SAID STREETS EXTENDING FROM THE EAST PROPERTY LINE
OF WATER STREET TO THE WEST PROPERTY LINE OF SHORE-
LINE BOULEVARD,
by raising, grading and filling same, and installing concrete curbs and
gutters where same were not installed on proper line and grade, and where
existing curbs and gutters were determined by the City Engineer not to
be adequate and sufficient, and by doing other things incident and appur-
tenant to the said improvement as deemed adequate by the Director of
Public Works, as provided for in the plans and specifications for such
improvements, and by paving, repaving and repairing said streets with a
4j —inch asphaltic concrete base, and the construction thereon of a 1* -inch
surface course together with other necessary incidentals 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 accordance with the terms and provisions of the contract and
the plans and Specifications therein contained, dated February 5, 1947,
being between the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Brown and Root, Inc.,
and the Director of Public 1Yorks of said City having examined, measured and
caused to be tested the finished improvements by the means and manner pro-
vided by the terms of said contract and the plans and specifications therein
contained, and said Director of Public Works having found that such improve-
ments have been constructed and completed in full compliance with the terms
and provisions of said contract and the plans and specifications therefor,
and having approved and accepted said work and improvements and having
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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 heretofore furnished to
and filed with said City Council its five -year Maintenance Bond 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 Maintenance 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 contract, 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 im-
proved abutting upon said Furman Street, Broadway Court, Twigg Street,
Palo Alto Street, Dan Reid Street and Mann 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, 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 assess-
ment 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
directed to execute said certificates in their official capacities on be-
half of said City, and deliver same to said Brown & Root, Inc.
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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, create a public emergency and an imperative public necessity
requiring the suspension of the Charter Rule or requirement that no
ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date of its intro-
duction, and that said ordinance or resolution 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 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 the 2-, day of August, A. D. 1947.
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
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APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
A an y
orney
Corpus Christi, Texas
August �, 1947
TO THE NMMER3 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; 1, 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,
WaOR
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 vote;
Wesley E. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.
John A. Ferris
R. R. Henry
Joe T. Dawson
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