HomeMy WebLinkAbout02716 ORD - 03/07/1950AN ORDINA210E
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING T172 CITY MANAGER TO
EXECUTE A CONTRACT, FOR LIO ON BEHALF OF THE
CITY, !KITH HELDENFELS BROTHERS FOR THE CONSTRUC-
TION OF A STORM SF9M EXTENSION ALONG OLD ROBSrO7M
READ SOUTH FROM SOBEY DRIVE TO Tt X -= RAILROAD;
AND DECLARING AN EIVfeRGGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THG CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEYt1S:
SECTION 1. That the City Manager is hereby authorized and
directed to execute %. for and on behalf of the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas, a contract for the construction of storm sewer mains, laterals
and appurtenant structures along Old Robstown Road south from Sobey
Drive to Tax -Mex Railroad, with Heldenfels Brothers, a co- partnership,
consisting of F. IV. Heldenfels, F. W. Heldenfel §, Jr., xi. C. Heldenfels
and J. R. Heldenfels, all of Nueces County, Texas, which contract has
been awarded said Heldenfels Brothers in accordance with plans and
specifications and contract documents on file in the office//of the City
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Secretary, all of which are made a part hereof by refer e e, and ac-
cording to the bid of said Heldenfels Brothers opd the 28th day
of February, A.D. 1950, the said bid of said Heldenfels Brothers be-
ing the lowest and most advantageous to the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas.
SECTION 2. That there is hereby appropriated the sum of
$4i,'16B -La, plus ten percent (10 %) being $4,116.814, making a. total of
$45,285.25, which is the amount of the bid of said Heldenfels Brothers
plus ten per cent (10 °' -) of such amount for engineering and contingent
costs, all of which is to be paid from Fund No, 296 Improvement Bonds
1950 Construction Fund (Storm Sewer Improvements).
SECTION 3. The necessity for providing adequate storm sewer
improvements in the City of Corpus Christi in order to protect the
health and general welfare of its citizens creates a public emergency
and imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter
rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally on the
date of its introduction and that such ordinance 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
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having requested that such 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 its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, This 7th day of Varch, A.D. 1950.
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The City of Corpus.Christi, Texas
City ,Secretary
APPROVED AS 0 LEGAL F OFtM:
City Attorn
Corpus Christi, Texas
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TO 3EIE MM ERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency 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 Cbunoil; I, therefore, hereby request that you suspend said Charter
rule or I requirement and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is
introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully,
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City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman 4�_
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
1949
2 certify to the City Council that the money required
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 Fund Non O®n rig
which it is proposed to be drawn-
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and such money is not appropriated for any other purpose.
Director of Finance