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AN ORDINANCE
RECEIVING AND ACCEPTING THE WORK OF CONSTRUCTION ,
OF STORM SEWER IMPROVEMENTS IN CULBERSON STREET
FROM LEOPARD TO WINNEBAGO STREETS IN THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, SAME REIN], THE STORM SEWER
IMPROVEMENTS AUTHORIZED UNDER CONTRACT DATED
AUGUST 11, 1948, BETWEEN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
AND LEE AIKEN COMPANY; AUTHORIZING FINAL PAYMENT
TO LEE AIKEN COMPANY UNDER THE CONTRACT FOR SAID
IMPROVEMENTS; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION L. That the work of construction of storm sewer improve-
ments along Culberson Street from Leopard to Winnebago Streets, in the City
of Corpus Christi, Texas, performed by Lee Aiken Company, having been per-
formed and compered in accordance with the terms and provisions of the coa-
tract and the plans and specifications therein contained, said contract having
been entered into by and between the City and Lee Aiken ComparT on the 11th
day of August, 1948, and the Director:of public Works having inspected the
same and certified to the completion of said work in accordance with said
plans & specifications, and 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, Texas.
SECTION 2. That final payment due under the contract and as set
out in the final estimate prepared by the Director of Public Works dated
June 6, 1949, in the sum of Twenty Thousand Five Hundred Eighty —Eight Dollars
and Sixty —Four Cents ("$20,588.64) be made in accordance with the terms of
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such contract and that such payment be made fron/storm Sewer Improvement Bonds
1948 Construction Fund,
SECTION 3.. The necessity for providing adequate drainage on Culber-
son Street between Leopard and Winnebago Streets within the City creates a pub-
lic 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
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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. y
PASSED AND APPROVED this ` d'ay of June, A. D. 1949-
ATTEST:
ity Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FURY:
City At torney
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MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
Carpus Christi, Texas
June 7, 190
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 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; 1, therefore, hereby request
that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this or-
dinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present
meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
MAYCR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest I Barney Cott
Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed by the fol owing vote:
Leslie
Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
uP
Barney
Cott
Sydney
E. Herndon
George
L. Lowman
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