HomeMy WebLinkAbout02571 ORD - 07/29/1949- AN ORDINANCE
ADOPTING A BUDGET FOR THE ENSUING FISCAL
YEAR BEGIHNING AUGUST 1, 1949, AND ENDING
JULY 31, 1950, IN ACCORDANCE IRITH THE CITY
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS,
AS AMENDED, AND DECLARING AN 19fERG&NCY.
WHEREAS, the City Manager of the City of Corpus Christi,
pursuant to Article V, Section 24, of the City Charter as amended, did, on
JuneA4, 1949, submit to the City Council., a Budget Estimate of the revenues
of said City, and the expenses of conducting the affairs thereof for the
ensuing fiscal year, beginning August 1, 1949, and ending July 31, 1950,
and which said estimate has been compiled from detailed information ob-
tained from the several departments, divisions and offices of the City,
in accordance with the said Charter provision; and,
WHEREAS, the members of the City Council have received and
studied said City Managerts Budget Estimate, and have called and held the
proper hearings in accordance with Article 689 -A, Vernonis Annotated Statutes
of Texas, on said Budget; and, -
WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 26, Article V, of the
Charter of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, it is necessary that the City
Council accept, approve and adopt the Budget at the conclusion of such
public hearings, and before the first regular meeting of the City Council
in August.
NOW, THER&ORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the Budget of the City of Corpus Christi,
covering the proposed expenditures of the City of Corpus Christi, and the
estimate of the revenues of the said City for the fiscal year beginning
August 11 1949, and ending July 31, 1950, as submitted by the City
Manager of said City, be, and the same is in all things accepted, approved,
and adopted as the Budget of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, for the
fiscal year beginning August 1, 1949, and ending July 31, 19503 a copy of
which Budget is attached hereto, marked Exhibit "A", and made a part hereof
for all pertinent purposes, _
SECTION 2. The fact that the provisions of the City Charter
prescribed that the Budget be adopted and approved before the first regular
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meeting in August, and the fact that same has not been heretofore approved
creates a public emergency and public imperative necessity regiiring the
suspension of the Charter role 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 sus-
pended, and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its
introduction and take effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY
SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this �_j day of July, A. D. 1949.
MAIM'
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
ATTEST:
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APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FOFM:
City Attorney
Corpus Ghkisti., Texas
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNC]S,
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing
Ordinance, a public emergency and an imperative necessity exist for the
suspension of the Charter rule or requirement that no Ordinance or Reso-
lution 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; I, therefore, hereb request that you suspend said Charter
rule or requirement and pass this Ordinance finally on the date it is intro-
duced, or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
yV
MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
The above Ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wassermann
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
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George L. Lowman—
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