HomeMy WebLinkAbout02633 ORD - 11/08/1949AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER, FOR
AND ON BEHALF OF TEE CITY, TO PURCHASE TEE SOUTH
10. FEET OF A LOT 89'x125' FACING MORGAN STREET
HAVING ITS SOUTHWEST CORNER 150.56 FEET FROM PORT
AVENUE, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, FROM FREDERICH MC
GREGOR AND WIPE, IRENE MC GREGOR, FOR THE SUM OF
$802.60 CASH, AND TITLE EXPENSE; AUTHORIZING AND
DIRECTING THE SAID CITY MANAGER TO EXECCTE THE
NECESSARY CONTRACTS AND INSTRUMENTS TO COMPLETE
THE PURCHASE OF THE AFORESAID LAND; PROVIDING
THAT PAYMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE SAME SHALL BE
PAID FROM FUND NO, 220 STREET IMPROVEIENT CON-
STRUCTION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
HE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the City Manager is hereby authorised and direoted,
for and on behalf of the City, to purchase the following described tract of
land:
Being a traot of land described more
particularly as the southern 10 feet of that
certain lot, tract or parcel of land, front-
ing 89 feet oa the north aide of Morgan
Avenue, in the City of Corpus Christi, said
lot being 69 feet by 125 feet out of Share 14
of Tyree Musset tract, being the same property
described in deed executed by Una Chapman Dowd,
at al, to Frederick McGregor, et ux, Irene
McGregor, dated November 15, 1944, recorded in
Vol. 305, page 258, of the Nueoes County Deed
Reoords.
all of said lands to be used for widening, improving and paving Morgan Street.
SECTION 2. That the City Manager is hereby authorized and directed
to execute the necessary contraots for the purchase of said lands desoribed
in Section 1 hereof and to do all things incident to or requisite to obtain-
ing the title and possession of said lands.
SECTION 3. That the purohase price of the property described herein
of Eight Hundred Two Dollars and Sixty Cents ($802.60), and such additional sums
as may be incurred as title expense incident to the acquisition of said land
are to be paid from Fund No. 220 Street Improvement Construction.
SECTION 4. The necessity for settling the dispute existing between
the City and Frederick McGregor concerning the nature of the interest in the
land described upon which the contemplated improvement of Morgan Street is
placed and the necessity for settling said claim to the satisfaction of all
concerned Creates a public emergency and public imperative necessity requiring
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the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall
be passed finally on the date it is introduced and that such ordinanoe or
resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and
the Ngyor having declared that suoh public emergency end imperative necessity
exist, and having requested that each 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 effeot from and after its passage, IT I8
ACCORDINGLY 80 ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this a day of November, A. D. 1919.
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi, Texas
N149-6 , 7 . 1949
TO THE 1921BERS OF TES CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the fore-
going ordinanoe, 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 DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney S. Herndon
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
November
, 19+9
I certify to the City Council that the money: requited
for the contract, agreement, obligation, or expenditure contemplated
in the above and foregoing Ordinance is in the Treasury of ` the City
of Corpus Christi to the credit of Fond No. 220 SUM IMPROVENEr
CONSTRUCTION from which it is proposed to be drawn,
and such money is not appropriated for any other purpoee.
Director of Finance