HomeMy WebLinkAbout02827 ORD - 07/25/1950AN ORDINANCE
ADOPTING A i3UDGF:T FOT,' 'i'T_M, E',PiSUIi,IG FISCAL
YEAR BEGINNING AUGUST 1, 1950, AND ETIDIVG
JULY 31, 1951, IN ACCORDANCP 18TH TiM CITY
ChARTER OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS,
AS AMENDED, AND DECLARIPIG A[d EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the City Manager of the City of Corpus Christi,
pursuant to Article V, Section 24, of the City Charter as amended, did, on
June 13, 1950, submit to the City Council, a Budget Estimate of the reve-
nues of said City, and the expenses of conducting the affairs thereof
for the ensuing fiscal year, beginning August 1, 1950, and ending
July 31, 1951, and which said estimate has been compiled from detailed
information obtained from the several departments, divisions and offices
of the City, in accordance with the said Charter provision; and,
7R1EREAS, the members of the City Council have received
and studied said City Manager's Budget Estimate, and have called and
held the proper hearings in accordance with Article 689 -A, Vernon's
Annotated Statutes of Texas, on said Budget; and,
WIEZREAS, in accordance with Section 26, Article V, of the
Charter of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, it is necessary that the
City Council accept, approve and adopt the Budget at the conclusion of
such public hearings, and before the first regular meeting of the City
Council in August.
NOM, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEY,AS.
SECTION 1. That the Budget of the City of Corpus Christi,
covering the proposed expenditures of the City of Corpus Christi, and the
estimate of the revenues of the said City for the fiscal year beginning
August 1, 1950, and ending July 31, 1951, as submitted by the City
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Manager of said City, be, and the same is in all things accepted, approved,
and adopted as the Budget of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, for the
fiscal year beginning August 1, 1950, and ending July 31, 1951, a cony
of which Budget is attached hereto, marked Exhibit "A ", and made a part
hereof for all pertinent purposes.
SECTION 2. The fact that the provisions of the City Charter
prescribed that the Budget be adopted and approved before the first re-
gular meeting in August, and the fact that same has not been heretofore
approved creates a public emergency and public imperative necessity
requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or reso-
lution shall be passed finally on the date it is introduced and that such
ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the
City Council, and the kayor having declared that such public emergency
and imperative necessity exist, and having requested that such Char ter
rule be suspended, and that this ordinance be passed finally on the
date of its introduction and take effect from and after its passage,
IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED this S day of ' A. D.
1950.
AOPLVCitY 0 of C ao 7e M'
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City Secretary
APPROVED AS y0 LCGAL FOI4j::
City Attorney
a:The following exhibit, due to size, is for convenience,
marked as such exhibit for this ordinance, filed with the
OFFICE OF THE CITY SECRETARY.
+: CITY OF CORNS CHRISTI
TEXAS
GENERAL BUDGET
For
FISCAL YEAR 1950 -1951
EXHIBIT "A"
Corpus Christi, Texas
1950
TO THE P".F MERS OF TIT, 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 b@ 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 C
Jack DeForrost
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Aasserraan
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott owfl
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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