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A RESOLUTION
SETTING ASIDE AND DESIGNATING CERTAIN
AREAS BETWEEN EAST AND
DRIVES , FROM FURW ITIM WIMrTftH
76 THE SOUTH LIM OF EARL AVWYMTMD�
ED ON THE: NORTH. EXCLUSIVE OF TM S,
.0 PARK AREAS; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, Certain portions of land between East and West
Shoreline Drives from Furman Avenue on the South to the South
line of Park Avenue extended on the North, exclusive of the streets,
are suitable for park and recreation purposes, and
WHEREAS, It is desirable to improve the same as park and
recreation area and to use'for such improvements such appropriated
funds available for permanent park improvements;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF TEE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TESASs
SECTION 1. That portion of the area between East and West
Shoreline Drives from Furman Avenw on the South to the South line
of Park Avenue extended on the North, exclusive of the streets,
be and the same is hereby designated as park area to be improved,
used, maintained, and controlled as part of the park and recreation
property, of the City of Corpus Christi for the use of the public.
SECTION 2.' The fact that the improvements should be commenced
as soon as practical on the areas herein designated as park and
recreation areas, and that it is necessary that such designation
be made as a dedication of said property for the use of the public
as park and recreation areas oreates a public emergency and impera-
tive public necessity requiring the suspension of that certain Charter
rule that no ordinance or resolution @hall be passed finally on the
day it is introduced and that such ordinance or resolution shall be
read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor,
having declared that such emergency and necessity exist, request-
ing that such Charter rule be suspended and this ordinance be pass-
ed finally on the day it is introduced and take effect and be in
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full foroe sad effeot from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY
SO RESOLVED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, This the 11th day April, 1950.
AT s The City of Corpus Christi
city Seor6tary
APPR SD AS TO GAL FORM:
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city orney
Corpus Christi, Texas
1190
TO THE MOUBERB OF TOE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen..
For the reasons not 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 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 E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed by
the following votes
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
1949
I 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 No,
from which it is proposed to be drawn,
and such money is not appropriated for any other purpose.
Director of inance