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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02168 ORD - 10/14/1947AN ORDINANCE REFEiS.ING PROVISIONS OF SECTION 2, ORDINANCE NO. 2063, ENACTED ON THE 15TH DAY OF APRIL, 1947, WHICH ADDED A PROVISO TO SECTION 2, ARTICLE V OF THE CIVIL SERVICE RULES AND REGULATIONS TO THE EFFECT THAT THE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD COULD kME EXCEPTIONS TO RESI- DENCE REQUIREMENTS FOR A PEEJOD OF SIX MONTHS AFTER. APRIL 12, 1947; AI ENDING SECTION 2 ARTICLE V OF THE CIVIL SERVICE RULES AND REGULATIONS BY ADDING PROVISO THAT CIVIL SERVICE BOARD MAY MAKE EXCEPTIONS TO RESIDENCE REQUIRFIAENTS FOR A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS AFTER OCTOBER 1, 1947; AND DECLERING AN EMERGENCY. ufflEREAS, Section 2 of Ordinance No. 2063, passed and approved on this 15th day of April, 1947, recorded in Volume 15, . pages 385 -366, Ordinance - Resolution Records of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, provides as follows: "Section 2. That Section 2 of Article V of the rules and regulations of the Civil Service Board be amended by the addition at the end of said Section, the following proviso: "Provided that for a period of six months after April 12, 1947, the Civil Service Board may make exceptions as to residence requirements of employees by an order entered into the Minutes of the Board." and WHEREAS, on the 22nd day of September, 1947, the Civil Service Board at an official meeting, unanimously voted to request the Council to approve an amendment to the Civil Service Rules and Regulations such that the Board might exercise, for a period of six months after October 12, 1947, power to make exceptions as to resi- dence requirements of employees by an order entered into the Minutes of the Board: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That Section 2 of said Ordinance No. 2063 be and the same is hereby repealed and declared to be of no further force or effect. SECTION 2. That , in accordance with the request of the Civil Service Board, Section 2 of Article V of the Rules and Regulations of the Civil Service Board be amended by theaddition, at the end of Z /!�, 91 said Section, of the following proviso: "Provided that for a period of six months after April 12, 1947, the Civil Service Board may make exceptions as to residence requirements of employees by an order entered into the Minutes of the Board." SECTION S. The fact that the authority granted herein to the Civil Serariee Board is immediately necessary for the efficient adminstration of the classified civil service system of this City creates a public emergency and imperative necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter Rule providing 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 public necessity exist, and having requested that said Chester Rule be suspended, and that this Ordinance take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY ORDAINED. PASSED ARID APPROVED this / day of October, 1947. C57 /57 i' MAYOR City of Corpus Christi, Texas ATTEST: I City Secretary APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:,' C;Lt Attorney/- A f ssis an i y , rney ri ii Corpus Christi, Texas October 14, 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 an 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 several 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, 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 J. T. Dawson L J The above Ordinance was passes by the following vote: Wesley E. Seale George R. Clark, Jr. rt John A. Ferris R. R. Henry J. T. Dawson ---- 2 /&S'