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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02772 ORD - 05/05/19505/5/50 6) AN ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING $11,276.20 TO BE PAID AS CONSIDERA- TION 0 CF CERTAIN PERMANENT PARK IMPROVEMENTS- 'TM-FURTTO. 296 IMPROVEMENT BONDS 1950 CONSTRUCTION FUND ( :An ; OR- IZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER FOR AND ON BE- HALF OF THE CITY TO EXECUtE A CONTRACT ',MITH BRASELTON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY FpR THE CM-MMON OF SAID 19- PROPFNdENTS ERTION OF A COMMUNITY BUILDING IN T. C. AVERS PARK); SUCH CONTRACT DOCUMENTS, PLANS, AND SPECI- FICATIORTS ARE MADE A PART HEREOF BY REFERENCE; AND DE- CLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, Certain improvements have been determined to be neces- sary; and WHEFEAS, Bids have been received, considered, and an award made for the most advantageous bid to the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, such bid being the contract price of $19,342.00; and WHEREAS, In accordance with a motion passed by the Nueces County Commissionerls Court on June 13, 1949, and recorded in Volume X, page 138 of the Commissioner's Court Minutes Book, Nueces County will par- ticipate in this project in the amount of $10,000.00; and WHEREAS, It is now necessary to make appropriations out of the proper fund for the payment of the remainder of the contract price, such being $9,342,00, and for ten per cent (10 %) of said contract price to cover architect's fees and contingencies, making a total appropriation of $11,276.20, and to authorize the execution of a contract in accordance 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 Improve- ments) the sum of $611,276620, out of which fund there is to be paid according to the terms of the contract described in Section 2 here- of the sum of $9042.00, and the balance of said appropriation is the amount equivalent to ten per cent (10%) of said contract price of $19,342.00, which amount is hereby appropriated for the payment of engineering and contingent costs of said project. 27 -7 Z 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 a community building in T. C. Ayers Park as a part of the Permanent Park Improvements of the City of Corpus Christi, with Braselton Construction Com- pany of Corpus Christi, Texas, which contract has been awarded said Braselton 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 according to the bid of said Braselton Construction Company opened on the 2nd day of May, 1950, the said bid of Braselton Construction Company being the lowest and most advantageous bid to the City of Corpus Christi, Texas. SECTION 3. The necessity for pro'v'iding park and recrear tion facilities and buildings as a part of the permanent park im- provements of the City of Corpus Christi creates a public emer- gency and imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be pass- ed 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 emergency and necessity exist, requesting that such Charter rule be suspended and that this ordin- ance 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 9th day of May, A.D. 1950. T. MAYOR The City of Corpus Christi City Secre ary APPRKVED AS TO LEGAL FORM: City Attorney Corpus Christi, Texas 199 TO THE MEN BERS 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 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 fbllcwing vote: Leslie Wasserman Jack DeForrest Barney Cott �++�1 Sydney E. Herndon a�•� George L. Lowman The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Leslie Wasserman Jack DeForrest Barney Cott rya, Sydney E. Herndon George L. Lowman (�y . may 5, 1950 , 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, 276 Improvement Bonds 1950 Const, Fund (Park Imp.) from which it is proposed to be drawn, mud such money is not appropriated for any other purposes Dire c or of finance 2-r7-7Z- RICHARD S. COLLEY ARCHITECT gto South Tancahua 1 Septer;ber 29, 1950. N. H. Stirman, Director of Public Works, City of Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas. Dear YT. Sti- alp: Corpus Christi, Texas Attached hereto is the final estimate of Braselton Construction Company on the T. C. Ayers Park. Build- ing. Y'$is building; is coiaplete, 'has been approved, arid_ I recommend payment of this final estivate. Very truly fours, ISC :nhc Encl. December 21, 1949 MEMORANDUM: TO Hon. George Prowse, County Judge, Nueces County, Texas Hon. Commissioners Court, Nueces County, Texas 1. On June 13, 1949, at a regular meeting of the Commissioners Court of Nueces County, Texas, at which all Commis- sioners, as well as the County Judge, were present, the following resolution was passed by the Court and same appears of record in Volume X of the Commissioners Court Minutes Book at page 138: "On motion of Commissioner Hall, seconded by Commissioner Caldwell, it was unanimously voted by the Court that $10,000.00 be appropriated for the 1950 County Budget to be applied on the construction of a City- County recreational center, at T. C. Ayers Park." 2. I have just talked with Mr. I. M. Singer -, City Attorney, who requests that inasmuch as this recreational center is a joint city- county venture and that the city, through its Public Works Department, is undertaking the construction of this building, that this resolution be corrected by this Court so as to provide that the city of Corpus Christi shall be authorized to supervise construction of said center, and that payment of the appropriated money shall be made on estimates furnished by the Public Works Department of the City of Corpus Christi. 3. This office will be happy to draw the necessary corrected resolution should the Court desire same. James C. Martin jcm /co (JAMES C. MARTIN) Upon the recommendation of the County Attorney, it was moved by Commissioner Caldwell, seconded by Commissioner Hall, and unanimously voted by the Court that the resolution passed on June 13th, 1949, and recorded in Volume X, Page 138, be corrected to provide that the City of Corpus Christi through its Public Works Department shall supervise the construction of the recreational center at T. C. Ayers Park, and that the payment of the appropriated money shall be made on estimates furnished by the Public Works Department of the City of Corpus Christi and approved by the County Engineer and County Auditor. THE STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF NUECES Q I, MRS. HENRY E. GOUGER, Clerk of the County Court of Nueces County, Texas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of Order Correcting Resolution as the same appears of record in Volume X, on pages 417-41$, of the Commissioners' Court Minutes of Nueces County, Texas; said proceedings being held at a Regular Term of said Court on January 9th, A: D. 1950, at which meeting all members of said Court were present. TO CER^lIFY WHICH, WITNESS my hand and official seal of the Commissioners' Court of Nueces County, Texas, at my office in the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, this the 3rd day of February, A. D. 1950. MRS. HENRY E. GOUGER, County Clerk and Ex- Officio Clerk of the Commissioners' Court of Nueces County, Texas. � ByO- c,«✓ f;V4e4s.c-oCdOC--Z Deputy.