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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02159 ORD - 10/07/1947AN ORDINANCE RECEIVING AYD ACCEPTING Ti1E q'OP1t OF IAYROVING I40kG,1b' AVPIgUE, a4ITHIN THE LIMITS FL:.REINBELOvJ DEFINED, KOKEMI OT AVENUE, uVITHIN THE LIIUTS cUS'REIIIBELOK DEFINED, AND BAYLOR AV1 TUE, 'VUTHIN Tat] LIJk -II'TS HBREINB'ELO0V DEFINED, IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, PERFOPJvM BY BROIIT' Al--,D ROOT, INC., APPROVING AIdD ACCEPTPTG THE 11AIN- TENANCB BOND FURNISHED BY BROWN AND ROOT, INC. IN CONNECTION 'JITli SAID u,ORK; AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL ASSESSI. ITT CERTIFICATES AND DECLARING AN & ERGENCY. 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: h10RGAId AUNT RE from the West property line of Nineteenth Street to the East property line of Port Avenue; and KOKERNOT AVENUE from the North property line of Worgan Avenue to the South property line of the Yemorial Hospital Boulevard; and BAYLOR AVEeIDE from the ;forth property line of !,!organ Avenue to the South property line of the Memorial hospital 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 Cutters were determined by the City _ngineer not to be adequate and sufficient, and by doing other things incident and appurtenant 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 Q2 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 con- tained, dated February 1, 1915, being between the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Brown and Boot, Inc., and the Director of Public :forks of said City having examined, measured and caused to be tested the finished ;)'/ .5 improvements by the means and manner provided by the terms of said contract and the plans and specifications therein contained, and said, Director of Public 'alorks having found that such improvements 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 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 Brovin and Root, Inc.; and said Brown and hoot,, Inc. having heretofore fur- nished to and filed with said City Council its five -year L"aintenance Bond in the amount, and executed by a corporate surety, as required and provided in said plans and specifications, and said 11aintenance Bond having been found by said Director of Public ;,forks 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 baintenance 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 Layer and City Council of said City to have been performed and completed, and said ILaintenance Bond filed and approved, all in full compliance with said contract and plans and specifications therefor, s ame are hereby found to have been performed and completed by said Drowm and :toot, Inc. in full compliance with the terms and provisions of said contract, and the plaits 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 Idlayor and City Secretary of said City are hereby authorized and directed to issue to Brown and Root, Inc., special assessment certificates evidencing the assessments against property improved abutting upon said Morgan. Avenue, 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 and -2- 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 directed to execute said certifi- cates in their official capacities on behalf of said City, and deliver same to said Brown and Hoot, Inc. SZC'TIO4 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, creates 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 introduction, 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 having 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 ORDAIlQED. PASSED AND APPROVED this the "7 day of October, !..D. 1947. I 7 A'TTE�STs A City of Corpus Christi, Texas Ci y Secretary / APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM; n)y 3 torney r � A an i y arney V Corpus Christi, Texas October 1947 TO TIIN ]vEnIBFRs OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas Gentlemen; For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the fore- going ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no ordi- nance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced, and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three meetinEs 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, 1WAYOR City of Corpus Christi, Texas The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Wesley 3. Seale George R. Clark, Jr. John A. Ferris R. R. Henry Joe T. Dawson .. The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Wesley L. Seale George R. Clark, Jr. John A. Ferris R. R. Henry Joe T. Dawson a/.59