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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02144 ORD - 09/02/1947AN ORDINANCE ABANDONING THE CONSTRUCTION OF SID&MUKS ON ISi2liP No. 11 AS SET OUT III SECTION 2 OF ORDINANCE NO. 1915, PASSED CUT TIL 18TH DAY OF JMT3, 1946, AND Th'RYINATING TI1; CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY OF COi -PUS CHRISTI AND J,T. J. CONSTRUCTION COPGPANY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SIDE14ALKS OP. VARIOUS STREETS IN TBE CITY OF CORPUS CILdISTI, 'fFIICH CONTRACT RAS PASSED AND APPROVED ON THE 17TH DAY OF JULY, 1946, AND DECLARING AN EP:^ERGENCY. dVMMEAS, on the 18th day of June, 1946, by Ordinance No. 1915, the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, determined the necessity for and decided to improve portions of certain streets within the City of Corpus Christi as in said ordinance fully described by constructing, reconstructing, repairing and realigning sidewalks along said streets; and, 6VIPs'PZU, on the 11th day of July , 1946, by Ordinance No. 1925 , the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi entered into a contract with I.T. J. Construction Company for the construction of side- walks along the property abutting the streets as defined and limited in said ordinance No. 1915; and, u'TEsREtS, on the 1st day of Apri.1 , 1947, the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi by Ordinance No. 2050 , received and accepted the work of improving portions of certain streets in the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, by the construction of sidewalks along the sides thereof in Areas No. 1 and No. j, except for certain streets in said areas previously deleted'£rom the project; and, YTLLREAS, on the 2nd day of September , 1947, the City Council by Ordinance No. 211' received and accepted the work of improving portions of certain streets in Areas No. 2, Dio. 4, No. 5, No. 6, No. 7 and No. 9 by the construction of sidewalks along the sides thereof, except for certain streets within said areas previously deleted from the project; and, 'AGU REAS, in said Ordinance No. 1915, it was also contemplated that sidewalks should be constructed in a certain area within the City of Corpus Christi designated as Area No. 11, being the ioest side of Chaparral Street from Twigg Street to Taylor Street, and there having been no ordinance .. _ 215 -- passed calling for an assessment hearing relative to the construction of sidewalks along said street and there having been no further proceedings with reference to said streets and it has been agreed between the City of Corpus Christi and M. J. Construction Company that the City may abandon the sidewalk project proposed in Ordinance No. 1915 in so far as Area No. 11 is concerned; and, WIMEAS, the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi having received and accepted all of the sidewalk construction contemplated by the said contract between the City of Corpus Christi and M. J. Construction Company as that contract has been modified by agreement and by various ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi; NOffs TIIEREFOR, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COTUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, ThZkS: SECTION 1. That the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi does hereby determine that it is for the best interest of the said City that Area No. 11 being the West side of Chaparral Street from Twige Street to Taylor Street be deleted from the sidewalk project as contemplated by Ordinance No. 1915 and said Area No. 11 is hereby abandoned. SLCTION 2. That the City of Corpus Christi has received and accepted all of the work of construction of sidewalks as contemplated under ordinance No. 1915 and as modified in subsequent ordinances thereto and there being no further sidewalk construction required by said IvJ. J. Construction Company, the said City Council of the City of Corpus Christi does hereby terminate and bring to an end the contract between the City of Corpus Christi and 141. J. Construction Company which was dated the 17th day of July, 1946, and finally approved and its execution authorized by Ordinance No. 1925 passed on the 11th day of July , 1946. SECTION j. The fact that the sidewalk program as originally contemplated by the City Council on the loth day of June, 1946, in Ordinance No. 1915 has been completed in so far as same was practical and the orderly closing of such project creates a public emergency and 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 -2- introduction, and that said Ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared that such emergency and public imperative necessity exist, 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 2' day of Sept., A. D. 1947. ATTEST: R — City Secretary APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORA:: i n ty orney As-K3 ant C y Att rney a R City of Corpus Christi, Texas —3— Corpus Christi, Texas Sept. Z , 1947 TO THE MEISERS OF TIE 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, �Y6R City of Corpus Christi, Texas The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Wesley E. Seale George R. Clark, Jr. O John A. Ferris R. R. Henry Joe T. Dawson The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: :iesley R. Seale George R. Clark, Jr. John A. Ferris R. R. Henry Joe T. Dawson= '7jgy