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Home My WebLink About02584 ORD - 08/23/1949AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITI MANAGER, FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY, TO PURCHASE 8.67 ACRES OF LAND MORE OR LESS, BEING A TRACT OF LAND 160 FEET IN wiDTH AND , APPROXIMATELY 2520 FEET IN LENGTH OUT OF SECTION "C" OF THE W. E. POPEIS RE- SUBDIVISION OF PORTIONS OF PORT_ ARANSAS CLIFFS ADDITION AND PAISLEY'S SUBDIVISICN OF TEE HOFFMAN TRACT SITUATED IN NUECES COMM, TSXAS, FROM GUARANTY TITLE AND TRUST COMPANY..A CORPORATICN, TRUSTEE, AND JACK POPE, INDEPENDENT EXECOTOR OF THE ESTATE OF W. E. POPE, DECEASED, FOR THE Sum OF S13,684.00 CASH, AND TITLE EXPENSE; AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE SAID CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY CONTRACTS AND INSTRUMMS TO COMPLETE THE PURCHASE OF THE AFORESAID LAND; PROVIDING THAT PAYMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF TEE SAME SHALL BE PAID FROM NO. 295 nipwvEI w BONDS 1948 CONSTRUCTION FUND (STORM BEIM IMPROVEMENTS); AND DECLAR- ING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEAS: SECTION 1. That the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed, for and on behalf of the City to purchase the following described land situated in Nueoes County, Texase A tract of land 160 feet in width and approximately 2520 feet in length out of Section "C" of the W. E. Pope's Re- Subdivision of Portions of Part Aransas Cliffs Addition and Paisley's Subdivision of the Hoffman Tract as shown by Map of record in the office of the County Clerk of said County, said map recorded in Vol- 4 page 57 of the Map Records of said county, said tract of land being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows, to-wit- Beginning at a point in the southwest boundary line of Alameda (Central) Boulevard, said point bears N. 31° 06' W. 780 feet from the intersection of the southwesterly extension of the oenterlins of Doddridge Street and the southwest boundary line of Alameda Boulevard; Thence S. 580 541 W. a distance of 1245 feet to a point for a corner of this description; Thence N. 310 06' W. a distance of 80 feet to a point in the westerly extension of the centerline of Proctor Street for a corner of this description; Thence S. 580 Sly' W. with the westerly extension of the centerline of Proctor Street a distance of 320 feet to a point for a corner of this description; Thence S. 310 06, E. a distance of 80 feet to a point for a corner of this description; Thence E- 580 Sly' W. a distance of 955 feet more or less to ite intersection with the northeast boundary line of South Staples Street (Damp Road) for a corner of this description; Thence N. 310 06' W. with the northeast boundary line'of South Staples Street (Dump Road) a distance of 160 feet to a point for a corner of this description; Thence N. 580 541 E. a distance of 2520 feet more or less to its intersection with the southwest boundary line of Alameda (Central) Boulevard for a corner of this des- cription; ' Thence S. 310 06, E. with the southwest boundary line of Alameda (Central) Boulevard a distance of 160 feet to the place of bsojn inn . Containing 8.67 acres of laid, more or 399s. All mineral, oil and gas in and under said land is reserved to the Grantor, all of said lands to be used for the Proctor Street Drainage Project now under construction, and other municipal purposes. SECTION 2. That the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed to execute the neoessary contracts for the purchase of said land described in Section 1 hereof and to do all things incident to or requisite to obtaining the title and possession of said land. SECTION 3. That the sum of Thirteen Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-four Dollars (613,884.00) and such additional sums as may be incurred as title expense incident to the aoquisition of said lend are to be paid from No. 295 Improvement Bonds 1918 Construction Fund (Storm Sewer Improve- ments). SECTION Li. The necessity for acquiring land at the location of said land herein described and the fact that the said land is required immediately for the use of the drainage project now under construction 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 resolu- tion shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor 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 and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED. PASSED AND APPROVED this 23 day of August, A. D. 1949- TEST: City Be cr ery ) APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORMS City of Corpus Christi. Texas 7 orney Co//r�� pus Christi -, Texas ip1 19149 TO TBS D®LBSBS OF ME CITY CCDNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas Gentlemen.. For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause 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 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, City of Corpus Christi, Texas The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Leslie Wasserman Jack De Forrest Barney Cott Sydney E. Herndon George L. Lowman The above ordinance was passed by the following vote. Leslie Wasserman Jack DeForreat Barney Cott Sydney E. Herndon George L. Lowman a5g'/