HomeMy WebLinkAbout02435 ORD - 12/21/1948AN ORDINANCE
RECEIVING AND ACCEPTING TBE WORK OF REPAIRS ON WATER
TAMW AND TOWERS LOCATED ON SAM RANBSN STREET AND
TUELFTH STREET ;. AND AUTHORIZING FINAL, PAYMENT UNDER
THE CONTRACT; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENOY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY TEE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEAS.
SECTION 1. That the work of repairing water tanks and towers
located on Son Renldn Street and Twelfth Street within the City of Corpus
Christi performed by Water Tank Service Company, having been performed and
completed in accordance with the terms and provisions of the contract and
the plane and specifications therein contained, said contract having been
authorized by Ordinance No. 2331 passed and approved by the City Council on
the 27th day of July, 1948, and same being between the City of Corpus Christi
and Water Tank Service Company, and the Director of Public Works having in-
speoted the same and certified to the completion of said work in accordance
with said plans and speoifications, end said work aforesaid is hereby found
to have been completed in accordance with the plans and specifications and is
here now accepted and received by the City Council of the City of Corpus
Christi, Tease.
SECTION 2. That final payment due under the contract in the sum
of ace Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty Dollars and Eighty -two Cents ($1,910.82)
be made in accordance with the terms of such contract and as authorized by
Ordinance No. 2h26 passed and approved by the City Council on the 30th day
of November, 1948.
SECTION 3. The necessity for making adequate repairs to water
tanks and towers to insure an adequate water supply for the City 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, end
having requested that such Charter rule be suspended, and that this ordinance
be passed fiaally on the date of its introduction and ta]m effect and be in
full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY 30
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PASSED Alm APPROVED this_Vday of Deoember, A. D. 19148.
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City o£ Corpus Christi, Teass
Corpus Christi, Texas
December 21, 1948
TO THE IDUMMS OF THE CITY COOPiCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen.
For the rcasona set forth in the emergency clause of the
foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and imperative neoessity 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 shell be read at three meetings of the
City Cmmoili 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,
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City Of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following votes
Wesley E. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.
John A. Ferris
8. R. Henry rep,
Joe T. Dawson
The above ordinance wea passed by the following vote.
T-slsy E. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.
John A. Ferris
R. R. Henry
Joe T. Dawson
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