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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 433 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