HomeMy WebLinkAbout02845 ORD - 08/08/1950AN ORDINANCE
RECEIVING AND ACCEPTING THE WORK OF CONSTRUCTION
AND ERECTION OF A WOOD AND MASONRY TENNIS LOCKER
BUILDING IN SOUTH BLUFF PARK AS PERMANENT PARK
I1PROVEMENTS IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS,
BY SLOVAK BROTHERS INC. AS AUTHORIZED BY ORDINANCE
NO. 2737 DATED APRIL 4, 1950 AND UNDER CONTRACT
FOR SUCH IMPROVEMENTS BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY AND
SAID CORPORATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CRRISTI,TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the work of construction and erection
of a wood and masonry tennis locker building in South Bluff Park
as permanent park improvements in the City of Corpus Christi, per-
formed by Slovak Brothers, Inc, under its contract with the City
and as autharized by Ordinance No. 2737 on April 4, 1950, having
been performed and completed in accordance with the terms and
provisions of the contract documents, plans and specifications;
and the Director of Public Works having inspected the same and
certified to the completion of said work in accordance with said
plans and specifications, and a letter to the City Manager from
Richard S. Colley, Architect, concurring with said approval, hav-
ing been submitted, the work aforesaid is hereby found to have
been completed in accordance with the plans and specifications,
and is here and now accepted and received by the City Council of
the City of Corpus Christi, Texas.
SECTION 2. That final payment due under the contract
aforesaid and as set out in the final estimate attached hereto
and made a part hereof, prepared by the Director of Public Works
dated August 4, 1950 in the sum of $1,602.66 be made in accordance
with the terms of such contract and the ordinance authorizing said
work and the appropriation therefor to be made from Fund No. 296
Improvement Bonds 1950 Construction Fund (Park Improvements).
SECTION 3. The necessity for completion of this project
by such acceptance and by the approval of final payment as afore-
said and as a part of the permanent park improvements of the City
of Corpus Christi creates a public emergency and imperative neces-
sity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule 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 sev-
eral meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor, declaring such
emergency and necessity to exist, having requested that said
Charter rule be suspended and that this ordinance be passed fin-
ally on the day it is introduced and that it take effect and be
in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORD-
INGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, This 8th day of August, 1950.
MAYOR of the
A EST: City of Corpus Christi
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City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORII:
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Corpus Christi, Teas
1950
TO THE "I EAMERS OF THE CITY COMICIG
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,
MA1YOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
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Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Iierndon
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was
passed by the following vote:
Leslie As. ssenaan
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott-
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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