HomeMy WebLinkAbout02642 ORD - 11/22/1949AN ORDINANCE c fti
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER, FOR AND
ON APSALF OF THE. CITY, TO PURCHASE .52 ACRES OF LAND
BEING PART OF LOT 12, PAISLEY'S SUBDIVISION, OF THE.
HOFFMAN TRACT.. NOE0ES COUNTY, TEXAS, nom ROBERT
BALL•RD AND WIFE, SYLVIA BALLARD, FOR THE SUM OF
$750.00 CASH, AND TITLE EXPENSE; AUTHORIZING AND
DIRECTING THE SAID CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE TEE NEC-
ESSARY CONTRACTS AND INSTRUMENTS TO COMPLETE THE PUR-
CHASE OF THE AFORESAID LAND; PROVIDING THAT PAYMENT
FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE SAME SHALL BE PAID FROM N0. 295
IMPROVEMENT BONDS, 1948 CONSTRUCTION FUND (STORM SEVER
IMPROVEMENTS); AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED HY TEE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the City Manager is hereby authorised and directed,
for and on behalf of the city, to purobase .52 acres of land described as
follows, to -wit:
Being a strip of land 20 feet in width and 1140
feet in length off of the north aide of a 10.75 sore tract
conveyed to Robert Ballard and wife, SylviaBallard by Verna
Everhart Livingston and husband, Price Livingston, by deed
dated June 20, 1945 and recorded in Volume 312, pages 217 -219
of the Deed Records of Nueoes County, Texas, said strip of
land being more particularly desoribed as follows, to-wits
Beginning at a point in the east boundary line of
aaid Lot 12, Section A for the northeast oorner of the trot
herein described, being the intersection of the east boundary
line of said Lot 12, Seotion A and the south boundary line of
a forty (40) foot Publio Road as shown by nap of reoord in
Map Beak A, page 28 of the Map records of Nueoes County, Texas.
Said point bears 8 280 - 10' - 40° W20 feet from the common
corner of Lot. 5,6,11 and 12., Section A, Paisleys Subdivision
of the Hoffman Tract;
Thence 8 28° - 10' - 40° Width the east boundary line
of said Lot 12, Section A a distance of 2) feet to a point for
the southeast corner of the tract herein described;
Thence N 61° - 140' W parallel to and 20 feet south of
the south boundary line of said 40 foot Public Road a distance
of 1140 feet to a point in the east line of a tract of land con-
veyed to Houston Natural GasCorporation by Robert Ballard and
wife, Sylvia Ballard by deed dated NOY 19. 1949 for the south.-
west corner of the tract herein described;
Thence N 28° - 10' - 40° E with the east Boundary line
of said Houston Natural Gas Corporation Traot a distance of 2)
feet to a point in the south boundary line of said 40 foot Public
Road for the northwest corner of the tract herein dasoribedj
Thou** 8 61° - 40' E with the south boundary line of
said 40 foot Publio Road adiatanoe of 1140 feet to the place of
beginning. Containing 0.52 sores of land more or leas.
all of said lands to be used for drainage ditch project now under oonatruo-
tion and other municipal purposes.
SECTION 2. That the City Manager is hereby authorised and directed
to execute the necessary contracts for the purchase of said lands described
in Section 1 hereof and to do all things incident to or requisite to ob-
taining the title and possession of said lands.
SECTION 3. That the purohase price of the property described
herein of Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars (*750.00), and such additional
sumo as may be incurred as title expense inoident to the acquisition of said
land are to be paid from No. 295, Improvement Bonds, 1948 Construction Fiend
(Storm Sewer Improvements).
SECTION 17. The necessity for acquiring land at the location of
said ]and herein described and the fact that the said land is required
immediately for the use of the drainage project 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 reaolution 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 suspended, and that this ordinance be passed finally
an the date of its introduction and take effect sad be in full force and
effect from and after its paaeage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this �.i/ day of November A. D. 1949.
TEST'
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APPRO' 0 AS TO GAL FORM:
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MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi, Teas
fVptJ,'Y�/ 1949
TO TBE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergenoy 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 Counoil.
The Charter rule was
Respectfully,,
PdAYOR ' 1.
City of Corpus Christi, Texae
suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jaok DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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passed by the following vote:
(d" +J ..L 2 , 1949
I oertify 'to the Liar - Counoil that tha.,raoney', reitaired.
for the contract, agreement, obligation, or expenditure contemplated
in the above and foregoing Ordinance is in the Treasury of the City
of Co//r��puss`,Christi to the credit of sd �o<oq
446/ 14044,,M4u.,41(Winda from whi ~ s osed to be drawn,
and such money is not appropriated for any other purpose.