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AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO
MCUTE A CONTRACT FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS ChRISTI, TEXAS, WITH VANDEWATER,
SYKES & NECKLER, ATTORNEYS, FOR EXAMINING THE
PROCEEDINGS AND RENDERING OPINIONS ON THE
FOLLOYVaNG TAX SUPPORTED BONDS, ONE MILLION FOUR
N,DRED AND SALTY -FIVE THOUSAND ($1,465.000.00)
DOLLARS, STORM SEWER IMPROVEMENT BONDS; FIVE
HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND ($585,000.00)
DOLLARS, STREET IMPROVM41ENT BONDS; NINE HUNDRED
AND FIFTY THOUSAND ($950,000.00) DOLLARS. sm'VER
IMPROVH`fdENT BONDS; ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND ($I00,-
ODO_00) DOLLARS, AIRPORT ILIPROV_El�'`.T BONDS; ONE
HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND ($150.000.00) DOLLARS,
PARK IMPROVEMENT BONDS, AND DECLARING AN E«RGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS,
SECTION 1. That the City Manager of the City of Corpus
Christi is hereby authorised and directed to execute a contract on
behalf of the City with Vandewater, Sykes & Heckler of New York City,
for services to be performed by Vendewa.ter, Sykes & Heckler in ...min-
ing the proceedings and rendering opinions on tax supported bonds voted
in the City of Carpus Christi on April 10, 1948. That said Vandewater,
Sykes & Heckler are to receive for their services the sum of Two Thou-
sand Seven Rumdred ($2,700.00) Dollars, a— being divided as follows,
to-wita
$1,465,000 Storm Sewer Improvement Bonds - ;'x'1,200.
$ 585,000 Street Improvement Bonds - 500.
$ 950,000 sanitary Sewer Improvement Bonds - 750.
$ 100,000 Airport Improvement Bonds - 100.
$ 150,000 Park Improvement Bonds - - 150.
TOTAL $2,700.
SECTION 2. The fact that the services herein mentioned are
essential for the marketing of the bonds described in this ordinance and
the fact that said services must be obtained at once creates a public
emergency and public imperative necessity requiring the suspension of the
Charter rule 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 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 ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AaD APPROVED this � day o£ , A. D. 191,8.
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City of Corpus Christi, Texas
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APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
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Corpus Christi, Texas
May _,//_, 1948
TO THE IMERS OF TIE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentleman:
For the reasons sat 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:
Wesley E. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.
John A. Ferris
R. R. Henry
Joe T. Dawson
The above ordinance was passed by t following vote;
Wesley E. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.
John A. Ferris
R. R. Henry
Joe T. Dawson
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