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Home My WebLink About02260 ORD - 04/20/1948AN ORDINAres �,_.2 6 ACCEPTING THE PROPOSAL OF TH3 CORPUS CHRISTI TIMS, SUMUTTED BY THE CORPUS GR_ ISTI CALLER - TLIM PUBLISHEIG COITAITY, TO PUBLISH ALL LEGAL NOTICES, ORDINANCES, AND RESOLUTIONS, ETC., REIjUIRED BY TRP CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CORPUS C.11RISTI_ TEXAS, TO BE PUBLISHED AT THE TMUIS SET FORTH Vi JilEIN; DESIGNATING T_JIM CORPUS CHRISTI TI3M TTZ OFFICIAL XMISPAPER OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI; AND DECLARING AN IMSEGLNCY. BE IT OMLINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS C_�ISTI, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That the proposal of the Corpus Christi Ti , submitted by the Corpus Christi Caller -Times Publishing Company, which said proposal is attached hereto and made a part hereof and reads as follows, to —itc AA�o �orpusti,�� April y, M5 Honorable Wesley Seale, ? ayar Commissionei5 of the City of Cox,�us Ohristi c�o ii. li. Allen, City fi:anager Corpus Christi, 'texas Dear Sirs: Caller -rimes Publishing; Company has been invited to submit bids £or the Uublication of legal notices relative to the legal and business requirements of the City of Corpus Christi for a period of one year from the date of acceptance, Both The Caller and The Times meet all legal requirements necessary to be designated and appointed as the official or;an of the City of Corpus Christi whereby all legal notices, ordinances, resolutions, etc., pursuant to the business of the City 'of C07:�US Christi shall be published by the Caller - files Publishing Company. The Corpus Christi Times has a circulation of 27,776, as audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations; this nunber is com7osed of paid subscribers and is hereby submitted as proof that The Corpus Caristi rimes reaches substantially ail of Corpus Christits tax pagers and voters, and practically all citizens interested in the city's welfare and progress. Since The Corpus Christi 'Mmes is an afternoon paper we can offer the attorneys for the City of r,�,rpus Christi an opportunity to view a proof for the purpose of makin; corrections before actual publication. In view of the fact that an error in publication can mean a long and expensive delay, where republication for correction is necessary, the advantage of a proof can therefore be accented as a theorum. In using a meekly newspaper, occasions have arisen from t:mie to time necessitating the use of a daily publication of The Caller - Tunes fubiisning Corapany; in which case, a contract not being in force, the open rate was charged. Had the contract price prevailed a great deal of money, could have been saved. l7hen legal notices are run there is almost inevitably a complete coverage of the facts involved in tric nears sections of Loth -he Ca.11er and The 'Times. This beam- so, the tax payers have a double opportunity of viewing and completly understanding all business that is to came before the City' of Corpus Christi. In printing le„ai notices -:;e use agate t „ype, said tyue being five and one -half (51) points in size, by using this type tnere is a saving of at least twenty -five per cent (25;.1) over the use of eight (3) point type. Since 2he Caller - 1—.ies Publishing Coa�any alone is able to use agate ty . pe then we are prepared to pass along this saving to the City of Corpus Christi circulation o1' The Junes mentioned above is of such �rider exoanse with a more com- plete coverage than any other organ that may be named in the City of Corpus Christi, being as an estimate, 7 times as great at the closest roiapeting media. page 2 - - Since rate structure should be based -upon circulation it is our belief that the following bid is more reasonable in dollars and cents than any competing bid which may be submitted,, hll the foregoing having been submitted as evidence of our good faith we ask that the administration of. the City of Corpus Christi accept the follo,�ing• That The Corpus Christi Tunes, as published b�, 'ithe Caller -Times Publishin; Company, be adjudged and appointed official organ of the Ci.t -r ) Jorpus Christi, and all le ;al notices, ordinances, resolutions, etc,, pursuant to the business of the City of Corpus Gi,risti be published therein, where such legal notices, ordinances, resolutions, etc., are by law required to be pub- lished in the official newspaper, for.' one year From the date of this bid. Publication of all legal notices, ordinances, resolutions, etc., shall be made in Trip �1jrnas C:nrisGi Tiraes and shall be .set in agate, or five and one ;calf (S) typo, said publication to be paid for by the City of Corpus Christi at the rate of two and one -half cents (212¢) per cord for ! 'irst insertion and at the rate of too) cents (2¢) per word for each subsequent insertion, said ',,;turd charge to be rmde on the 7asis of six (6) words to Vie line and fourteen (14) lines to the colunn inch, same charge to be construed as meaning that each column :inch of type z)ub- lished shall be charged 2.)r on the "oasis of eignty-£our M) woras. (one per week except as required by law or public necessity.) if this bid is accepted by the City of Corpus Christi, '7ie Caller —fines ,'.'ublishing Company agrees to execute all charo-Ces to the Crty oi' Corpus Christi as per the above rate set forth, ,s an addition zre as!,- -6hat it be unaerstood that she Caller- i'-imes Publishing Company assures no other liability than CJlltained in this bid. Jn the other Nana, be it furt:ier agreed that the regular open rate shall be charged for publication of all legal notices, ordinances, resolutions, etc,, in the event this bid is not accepted by the C:i.t,* of Corpus Christi, same shall become null and void. '.e respectiuil-r submit this bid ion your aor>roval. Yours very truly, f �Wbert tughes 4've tirt "tanalassi Classified' rrsLv ger HLHdd be and the same is hereby accepted, and the Mayor of the City of Corpus Christi is hereby authorized to execute the acceptance of such proposal. SECTION 2. That the Corpus Christi Times is hereby designated as the official newspaper of the City of Corpus Christi for the period of one year, beginning April 8, 1948. SECTION j. The public importance of this ordinance 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 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 in writing 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 ACCORD- INGLY SO ORDAINED. PASSED AND APPROVED this da �Y of _ April, A. D. 1948. R City of Corpus Christi, Texas ATTEST, ��.ty ary APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM, 2&.n(,. Assls t,... Corpus Christi, Texas April,,?�, 1948 TO THE AMBERS OF TAE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas Gentleman: 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, City of Corpus Christi, Texas The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote - 'Feeley 3. Seale George R. Clark, Jr. John A. Ferris R. R. Henry Joe T. Dawson The above ordinance was passed by t s following vote: Wesley B. Seale George R. Clark, Jr. John A. Ferris R. R. Henry Joe T. Dawson a--% (e d