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AN ORDINANCE
APPROPRIATING $171,900 TO BE PAID OUT OF FUND
0., 296 IMPROVEMENT BONDS 1950 CONSTRUCTION FUND
(POLICE BUILDING) ERATTMr7W =CON-
SMCTION ZY A POLICE BUILDING (PUBLIC SAFETY
BUILDING FOR THE POLICE DIVISION) FOR THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS; AUTHORIZING AND DIRECT-
ING THE CITY MANAGER FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY
TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH E. EISENHAUER FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION OF SAID BUILD ,_3M7 7`RACT AND
DOCUMENTS, PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS BEING MADE A
PART HEREOF BY REFERENCE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, Certain construction having been determined to
be necessary; and
WHEREAS, There are sufficient funds available and not
appropriated in Fund No. 296 Improvement Bonds 1950 Construction
Fund (Police Building) to be paid as consideration for such con-
struction, and
WHEREAS, Bids have been received, considered and an award
made for the lowest and most advantageous bid to the City of Corpus
Christi, Texas, and it is now necessary to make such appropriation
and to enter into a contract for such construction 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 (Police Building)
the sum of $171,900:00, out of which fund there is to be paid ac-
cording to the terms of the contract described in Section 2 hereof
the sum of $171,000, and the balance of said appropriation is the
amount of $900.00 to be paid as consideration for aluminum sash
windows and the installation thereof.
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 police building, to
be known as the Public Safety Building for the Police Division,
in the City of Corpus Christi, with E. Eisenhauer of Corpus Christi,
Texas, which contract has been awarded said E. Eisenhauer in accord-
ance 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 E.
Eisenhauer opened on the 2 7th day of June, 1950, said bid being the
lowest and most advantageous bid to the City of Corpus Christ, Texas.
SECTION 3. The necessity for commencement of the con-
struction of said building at once in accordance with plans here-
tofore enacted to provide adequate facilities for the housing of
the Police Department of the City to alleviate congestion in said
department by reason of the rapid growth and development of the
City and to provide space for the possible future expansion of
said department creates a public emergency and imperative public
necessity requiringthe suspension of the 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 such emergency and necessity to exist, requesting
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 thq' e day of July, 1950.
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ESTs MOR
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,TEXAS
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
Ofty Att0mey
Corpus Christi, Texas
1950
TO THE P^UMERS OF TIM, CITY COU14CIL
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,
j�;$YDR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule vvas suspended by the follmving vote:
Leslie Wasserman
„n ,
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. IIerndon
Q y3
`
George L. Low,-=i
The above ordinance was
passed by the following vote:
Leslie iiasserma.n
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lawman
50
July 19ff
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 Improvement Bonds 1950
Const. Fund (Police Building) from which it is proposed to be drawn,
and such money is not appropriated for any other purposes