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APPROPRIATING CERTAIN SUMS OF MONEY FOR
THE BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL. YEAR, BEGINNING
AUGusT 1, 1949, AND ENDING JULY 31, 19 0;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
IRMAB0 at a special meeting of the City Council held on the
29th day of July, 1949, and prior to the first regular meeting of the
City Council in August, 1949, the City Council did, by ordinance,
ao*apt, approve and adopt the Budget of the City of Corpus Christi,
for the fiscal year, beg9mmro August 1, 1949, and ending July 31,
1950; end,
WHEREAS, upon adoption of the Budget, and pursuant to Section
27, Article V. of the City Charter of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas,
the City Council must at once, by ordinance, appropriate such sums of
money for each department as provided in the Budget for the ensuing
fiscal year from August 1, 1949, to July 31, 1950;
NOM, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TELAS:
SECTION 1. That on this, the 2nd day of August, 1949, and
subsequent to and following the passage of the ordinance accepting,
approving and adopting the Budget of the City of Corpus Christi for the
fiscal year, beginning August 1, 1949, and ending July 31, 1950,'certain
sums of money be, and they are hereby appropriated to cover the sums as
provided for each of the several departments of said City, as said sums
do appear in the said Budget already approved by ordinance by the said
City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, and said Budget being of
record in the archives of said City.
SECTION 2. The fact that the Budget was delayed, and that the
appropriation ordinance must be immediately passed after the Budget is
adopted, and must be published once before becoming effective, creates
a public emergency and public imperative necessity requiring the sus-
pension 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,
end the Mayor having declared that such public emergency and imperative
necessity exist, and having requested 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 mud effect from and after its passage,
IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED thie_,2�1 day of August, A. D. 1949.
ATTEST:
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'tY of Corpvs Chris ease
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
City Attorney
Corpus Christi, Texas
August 2, 1919
TO THE MEMERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY Q' 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 Resolu-
tion 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, hereby 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,
ity of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
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Jack DeForrest
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Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
The above Ordinance was passed
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by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
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Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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