HomeMy WebLinkAbout02669 ORD - 12/27/1949ORDINANCE N0. 2649
AN ORDINANCE CANVASSING THE RETURNS AND DECLARING
THE RESULTS OF THE SPECIAL ELECTION HELD IN THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, ON DECEMBER 21,
1949, ON THE QUESTION OF GRANTING TO CENTRAL P02211
AND LIGHT COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS,
AN EXTENSION AND AMENDMENT OF ITS ELECTRIC FRAN-
CHISE, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, there was held in the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas, on the 21st day of December, 1949, an election at
which was submitted to the qualified resident electors of
said City the following proposition, to -wit:
PROPOSITION
"Shall the City Council of the City of Corpus
Christi be authorized to pass and approve an ordi-
nance and do the things requisite to the granting
of an extension and amendment of the electric fran-
chise of Central Power and Light Company to extend
the term thereof until December 1, 1979, and pro-
vide for the payment to the City of the sum of
$5,000.00 annually, and in addition thereto, an-
nually in semi - annual installments, whichever is
the greater, either $80,000.00 or 2% of the fran-
chise holder's gross receipts during the year from
the sale of electric energy in and for use in the
City, in the form, upon the conditions stated in,
and in accordance with the ordinance proposed to
be passed as set out in the ordinance passed and
approved by the City Council of the City of Corpus
Christi on November 15, A. D., 1949, ordering
publication thereof, and in the ordinance passed
and approved by the City Council of the City of
Corpus Christi on November 29, 1949, ordering this
election. ";
WHEREAS, there were cast at said election 2917 votes
as follows:
FOR THE GRANTING OF THE FRANCHISE
EXTENSION AND AMENDMENT
AGAINST THE GRANTING OF THE FRAN-
CHISE EXTENSION AND AMENDMENT
MAJORITY FOR THE GRANTING OF THE
FRANCHISE EXTENSION AND AMENDMENT
2786 votes
31 votes
2755 votes
as shown in the official election returns heretofore submitted
to this City Council and filed with the City Secretary; Now,
Therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
Section 1. That said election was duly called and no-
ticethereof given in accordance with the law; that said election
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was held in the manner required by law; that due returns
of said election have been made by the proper officers;
that said election has resulted favorably to the granting
of the franchise extension and amendment; and that a ma-
jority of the qualified voters Voting at said election have
voted in favor of the granting of the franchise extension and
amendment.
Section 2. That the City Council is now authorized to
pass and approve an ordinance and do the things requisite
to the granting of said extension and amendment of the elec-
tric franchise of Central Power and Light Company.
Section 3. That the provision of the City Charter for
canvassing the returns and declaring the results of special
elections within one week after the election is held, and
the circumstances that the franchise extension and amendment
will make feasible the financing and making of improvements
and extensions in the electric distribution facilities that
are needed and that will be beneficial to the City and its
inhabitants; that by such extension and amendment the City
will receive and realize additional revenues and other sav-
ings and advantages for which there is a great and pressing
need by the City create an emergency and imperative necessity
requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordi-
nance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date that
it is introduced and that such ordinance or resolution shall
be read at three regular meetings of the City Council, and
the Mayor having declared that such emergency and imperative
necessity exists and having requested in writing that such
Charter rule or requirement be suspended and that this ordi-
nance be passed finally on the date of its introduction, such
rules and provisions are hereby suspended and this ordinance
18 passed and shall take effect as an emergency measure and
shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its
passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 27th day of December,
A. D., 1949.
Maaa3Y5for of the oity of
Corpus Christi, Texas.
ATTEST:
City Secretary of the
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
APPROVED AS TO form and legality
prior to passag-:
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City of Corpus C1.. sti, Texas
Corpus Christi, Texas
December 27, 1949
To the Members of the City Council
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause
of the foregoing ordinance, a public emergency and impera-
tive 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; 1, therefore hereby request that you
suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this or-
dinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the pre-
sent meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
May r iUthe City of orpus ...
Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. 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