HomeMy WebLinkAbout02456 ORD - 01/28/1949•, b
AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY
MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT FOR AND
ON BEHALF OF THE CITY WITH M. J. COR-
STRUCTION CO., INC. FOR PAVING OF
WATER STREET FROM FITZGERALD STREET
TO FORMAN AVM; AUTHORIZING PA71MT
UNDER SAID CONTRACT; AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI.
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed
for and an behalf of the City of Corpus Christi to execute a Contraot with
M. J. Construction Co., Inc. for paving of Water Street from Fitzgerald
Street to Furman Avenue, wbich contract has been awarded said IL J. Construc-
tion Co., Inc. in accordance with the plane, specifications and contract
documents on file in the City Seoretary's office, and a000rding to the Bid
of the said M. J. Construction Co., Inc., being the lowest and most advan-
tageous to the City.
SECTION 2. That the aum of Two Hundred and Thirty -five Thousand
Six Hundred and Fifty-T= Dollars and Seventy -nine Cents ($235,652.79) less
W amounts to be paid by abutting property owners by virtue of special
assessments, being the amount to be paid under said contract mentioned in
Section 1 hereof shall be paid from Street Improvement Bonds 1948 Construc-
tion Fund.
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SECTION 3. The necessity for adequate street paving within the
City limits in order to protect the general welfare of its citizens 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 ordinanoa
be passed finally on the date of its introduction and take effect and be in
full force and offset from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this,4t day of A. D. 19%+9.
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City of Co Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi, Texas
a 1949
TO THE MMYRS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentleman,
For the reasons set forth in the emergency olause of the fore-
going 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
Counoilj I, therefore, hereby request that you suspend said Charter rule
or requirement and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is intro-
dosed, or at the present meeting of the City Counoil.
Respectfully,
UOR
City oP Corpus
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Wesley S. Seale
George 8. Clark, Jr.
John M Fortis
R. R. Henry
Joe T. Dawv.n
The above ordinance — passed by the f.11 —ing vote,
Wesley E. Seale
George R. Clark, Jr.
John A. Ferris
R. 8. Henry
Joe T. Dawson
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