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AN ORDINANCE
APPROPRIATING MONEY TO BE PAID AS CONSIDERA-
TION IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN PERMANENT
PARK IMPROVEMENTS FROM FUND NO. 296 IMPROVE -
MLNT BONDS 1950 CONSTRUCTION FUND (PARK
IMPROVEMENTS); AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE
CITY MANAGER FOR AND ON BEHLF OF THE CITY TO
EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH BRASELTON CONSTRUCTION
COMPANY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SAID IMPROVE-
MENTS (ADDITIONS TO LINDALE PARK COMMUNITY
BUILDING); SUCH CONTRACT DOCUMENTS, PLANS, AND
SPECIFICATIONS BEING MADE A PART HEREOF BY
REFERENCE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, Certain improvements have been determined to be neces-
sary, and it is necessary to make appropriations out of the proper fund
for the payment thereof and to enter into a contract for the construc-
tion of said improvements; and
WHEREAS, Bids have been received, considered, and an award made
for the most advantageous bid to the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, and
it is now necessary to authorized the execution of a contract in accord-
ance with said award;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of Fund
No. 296 Improvement Bonds 1950 Construction Fund (Park Improvements)
the sum of $23,476.20, out of which fund there is to be paid accord-
ing to the terms of the contract described in Section 2 hereof the
sum of $21,342.00, and the balance of said appropriation is the amount
equivalent to ten per cent of said contract price, which amount is
hereby appropriated for the payment of engineering and contingent
costs of said project.
SECTION 2. That the City Manager is hereby authorized
and directed to execute for and on behalf of the City of Corpus Christi
a contract for the construction of additions to Lindale Park Community
Building as a part of the Permanent Park Improvements of the City of
Corpus Christi, with Braselton Construction Company of Corpus Christi,
Nueces County, Texas, which contract has been awarded said Braselton
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Construction Company, in accordance with plans and specifications
and contract documents on file in the office of the City Secretary,
all incorporated herein and made a part hereof by reference, and ac-
cording to the bid of said Braselton Construction Company opened on
the 25th day of April, 1950, the said bid of Braselton Construction
Company being the lowest and most advantageous to the City of Corpus
Christi, Texas.
SECTION 3. The necessity for providing park and recreation
facilities and the necessity for enlarging said building as a part of
Permanent Park Improvements of the City creates a public emergency
and imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of that
certain Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed
finally on the date of its introduction 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,
requesting that such Charter rule be suspended and that this ordinance
be passed finally on the date it is introduced and take effect and be
in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY
SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, This the day of M , A. D. 1950.
-MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
TTEST:
City ecre ary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
i y Attorney
Corpus Christi, Texas
L 1950
TO THE LEMMERS OF THE CITY COMICIL
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 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.
Respectfvlly,
e (1.1i(i(iti
ox
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the foll(mring vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeF orrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon,/
George L. Lrnvmsn
The above ordL,3,ance was passed
by the following vote:
Leslie '4assenaan
Jack lleForrest
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Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lwaaan
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I'N 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. 296 b 'rnvTm-nt -
njrav<.mwtt'
,7, C', F.a '.• � 1 ^ from which it is proposed to be drawn,
and such money is not appropriated for any other purpose.
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