HomeMy WebLinkAbout02536 ORD - 06/07/1949AN ORDINANCE
RECEIVING AND ACCEPTING THE WORK OF II9PROYING
ALAMEDA STREET AND TARLTON STREET, WITHIN THE LII3ITS
HEREINBELOri DEFINED IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS, PERFORMED BY J. M. DEMLIWM, INC,, APPROV-
ING AND ACCEPTING THE MAINTENANCE BOND FURNISHED BY
J. M. DELLINGER, INC. IN CONNECTION WITH SAID WORKI
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL
ASSESSMENT CERTIFICATES AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
HE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the work of improving the following streets
and portions thereof in the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, to -wit:
ALAMEDA STREET from the south property line of
Clifford Street to the north property line of
Louisiana Avenue,
TARLTON STREET from the west property line of Ayers
Street to the east property line of Pineda Park,
by raising, grading and filling same, and installing concrete curbs,
gutters and sidewalks where same.were not installed on proper line and
grade and where the existing curbs, gutters and sidewalks were deter-
mined by the City Engineer not to be adequate and sufficient, and by
constructing storm sewers and other drainage facilities as provided for
in the plans and specifications for such improvements, and by paving,
repaving and repairing said streets with an asphaltic concrete base, and
the construction thereon of a 1=e inch asphaltic surface course, together
with other necessary incidentals and appurtenances, and the doing of
other work incident thereto, all as provided for in the plans and speci-
fications for such improvements, having been performed and completed in
accordance with the terms and provisions of the contract and the plans
and specifications therein contained, dated October 23, 1946, being
between the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, and J. M. Dellinger, Inc.,
and the Director of Public Works of said City having examined, measured
and caused to be tested the finished improvements by the means and
manner provided by the terms of said contract and the plans and specifi-
cations therein contained, and said Director of Public Works having found
that such improvements have been constructed and completed in full com-
pliance with the terms and provisions of said contract and the plans
and.specifications therefor, and having approved and accepted said work
and improvements and having heretofore issued his Certificate of Final
Acceptance and so certified to said City Council and recommended that
such City Council accept and receive said work and the improvements as
constructed by said J. M. Dellinger, Inc.; and said J. M. Dellinger,
Inc. having heretofore furnished to and filed with said City Council
its five -year Maintenance Bond in the amount, and executed by a corporate
surety, as required and provided in said plans and specifications, and
said Maintenance Bond having been found by said Director of Public Works
and said City Council to be in proper form, amount and executed by an
approved corporate surety, and having been approved by the City Attorney,
said Maintenance Bond is here now accepted and approved as being in full
compliance with the requirements of said contract and the plans and
specifications therein contained; and said work and improvements having
been found by the Mayor and City Council of said City to have been per-
formed and completed, and said Maintenance Bond filed and approved, all
in full compliance with said contract and plans and specifications
therefor, same are hereby found to have been performed and completed by
said J. M. Dellinger, Inc. in fall compliance with the terns and provi-
sions of said contract, and the plans and specifications therefor, and
same are here now accepted and received by the City Council of the City
of Corpus Christi, Texas.
SECTION 2.. That the Mayor and City Secretary of said City
are hereby authorised and directed to issue to J. M. Dellinger, Inc.
special assessment certificates evidencing the assessments against pro-
perty improved abutting upon said Tarlton Street, within the limits
above defined, and against the real and true owner or owners thereof,
which, by the terms of such contract, the City of Corpus Christi, Texas,
has agreed and obligated itself to issue and deliver to said J. M.
Dellinger, Inc.- in accordance with the provisions of the final assessment
ordinance and other proceedings heretofore had and adopted by said City
Council; said assessment certificates to be executed in the name of said
City by the Mayor and City Secretary thereof and impressed with the seal
of said City, and dated as of the date hereof, and such officers are
hereby authorized and directed to execute said certificates in their
official capacities on behalf of said City, and deliver same to said
J. M. Dellinger, Inc.
SECTION 3. The fact that permanent street improvements within
the City of Corpus Christi are immediately necessary due to the fact
that the present condition of the streets in said City is dangerous to
the health and public welfare of the inhabitants thereof and that the
streets are subject to unprecedented traffic due to the rapid growth of
said City, and the further fact that it is necessary to provide drainage
for that area adjacent to said Alameda Street and Tarlton Street, create
a public emergency and an imperative public necessity, requiring the
suspension of the Charter Rule or requirement that no ordinance or reso-
lution shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction, and that
said ordinance or resolutions shall be read at three separate meetings
of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared that such emergency
and public imperative necessity exists, and requested that said 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, TT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the E Y day of 5 vouC , A. D.
1949. i
I - MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas.
ATTEST:
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City Secretary
APPROVED:
Cit/ torney
Corpus Christi, Texas
;(ux � 1949
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 shell 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,
MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman l.U.r-
Jack DeForrest`
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman —IL-
Jack DeForrest lk.,3o
Barney Cott C'
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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