HomeMy WebLinkAbout02700 ORD - 01/24/1950n
A Resolution
RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF SLUM CLEAR -
ANCE WORK AND AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING
THE CITY MANAGER TO COOPERA^1E WITH THE
HOUSING AND HOLT FINANCE ADMINISTRATOR
IN OBTAIldING THE RESERVATION OF FUNDS UN-
DER THE PROVISION OF TITLE I OF THE HOUS-
ING ACT OF 1949; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
WHEREAS Under Title I of the IIousing Act of 1949 the Housing
and Home Finance Administrator is authorized to assist local communities
in eliminating their slums and blighted areas and in rsoviding maximum
opportunity, consistent with the sound needs of the locality as a whole,
for the redevelopment of such areas by private enterprise, and to that
end is authorized to make local public a._enoies advances for surveys and
plans in preparation of projects, capital grants, and temporary and defini-
tive loans, and
WHEREAS the Housing and Home Finance Administrator will consid-
er requests for the reservation or earmarking of the first $'200,000,000
that will be made available under Title I for capital grants;
NOX. iHE= BEFORE, BE NT RESOLVED By the City Council of the City
of Corpus Christi, hereinafter designated as the "Community ";
SECTION I. That upon the basis of :;reliminary studies it
is considered to be in the public interest and it is the desire and pur-
pose of the Community that there be undertaken and carried out, with the
aid of capital grants out of said $200,000,000, certain slum clearance
and redevelopment work in the Community, and that such work, or at least
the surveying or planning in connection therewith, can be started prior
to July 1, 1951.
SECTION II. That the Administrator be end he is hereby
requested to reserve or earmark for such work out of said $200,000,000
an amount not exceeding $1,000,000.
SECTION III. That hereby it is recognized that under
Title I. of the Housing Act of 1949 certain requirements are imposed in
order to obtain Federal aid thereunder for slum clearance and redevelop-
ment projects including requirements for the provision of local grants-
in-aid, the approval of redevelopment plans by the governing body of the
locality, the making of certain findings by such governing body,
and other requirements, and it is further recognized that the coopera-
tion of the Community is necessary to carry out the slum clearanoe and
redevelopment program which is proposed to be undertaken and for which
the reservation of funds is hereby requested.
SECTION IV. That W. B. Collier, the duly azthorized City
Manager, be and he is hereby directed to forward to said Administrator
three certified copies of this resolution and such other supporting data
and information as may be required, and that this resolution shall con -
atitute the formal request to the Administrator for the reservation of
capital grant monies.
SECTION V. That, it being of public interest that there
be undertaken certain slum clearance and redevelopment work in the Com-
munity, and it being of imperative public necessity to cooperate with
said Administrator for the reserving of a proportional part of the first
monies that will be available under said Title I for capital grants, all
of which creates a public emergency and imperative public necessity re-
quiring the suspension of that certain Charter Rule of the City Charter
which states 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 several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor hav-
ing declared that such imperative public necessity and public emergency
exist, and having requested that said 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 itspassage,
IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO RESOLVFA.
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PASSED AND ,APPROVED, This the 14- day of January, A.D. 1950-
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Corpus Christi, Texas
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TO TSZ MINBERS OF TO CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reason's set forth in the emergency clause of the fore-
going ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity, exist for
the suspension of the Cbarter 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 meeting's of the
City Council, I, therefore, hereby request that you suspend said Charter
rule or requirement and pass this ordinanoe finally on the date it is
introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Counoil.
Respectfully,
MAYOR
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City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the tbllwing vote:
Leslie Wasserman
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Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney H. Herndon
George L. Lowman
-vote;
The above ordinance was passed
by the following
Leslie Wasserman
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Jack DsForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney R. Herndon
George L. Lawman