HomeMy WebLinkAbout02855 ORD - 08/15/1950• Ima ager/ser
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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO
ACQUIRE LOT 7, BLOCK 6, SAM HOUSTON ADDITION
TO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, FOR THE
PURPOSE OF LOCATING A CONNECTING STREET IN SAM
HOUSTON ADDITION BY WARRANTY DEED FROM NELSON
H. RAIFORD, FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION OF EIGHTEEN
HUNDRED DOLLARS ($1800.00); SAID CONSIDERATION
TO BE PAID AND THE SAME IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED
OUT OF NO. 296 IMPROVEMENT BONDS 1950 CONSTRUC-
TION FUND (STREET IMPROVEMENTS); AUTHORIZING AND
DIRECTING SAID CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE AWES -
SARI INSTRUMENTS AND TO DO ALL THINGS REQUISITE
TO SUCH ACQUISSITION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, The City Zoning and Planning Commission has re-
commended that land for the purpose of locating a connecting street in
Sam Houston Addition described as Lot 7, Block 6 of Sam Houston Addi-
tion in the City of Corpus Christi, County of Nueces, Texas, be acquired;
WHEREAS, the property owner has submitted a cempromise
proposition agreeing to a sale price for said lot and a compromise of the
damages claimed by said property owner by reason of the acquisition of said
property by the City.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the City Manager be authorized to acquire
that certain tract of land described as follows, to -wit:
Lot 7, Block 6 of Sam Houston Addition to the City
of Corpus Christi, Texas,
said tract being desired for the purpose of locating a conneeting.atreet in
Sam Houston Addition to the City of Corpus Christi, for the contract price
of Thirteen Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($1350.00) and the compromise of the claim
for damages by reason of the acquisition of said lot be made by payment in
the amount of Four Hundred and Fifty Dollars (450.00).
SECTION 2. That Eighteen Hundred Dollars (1800.00) and title
expenses are hereby appropriated out of No. 296 Improvement Bonds 1950 Construe.
tion Fund (Street Improvements) upon delivery to the City of Corpus Christi
of the deed to' said property.
SECTION 3. That there is an urgent need for the extension
of Houston Street through to Green Grove Drive in order to preserve the safety
of school children in Sam Houston Addition to the City of Corpus Christi creates
a necessity and public emergency requiring the suspension of the Charter rule
that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally ea the date of its
introduction and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three
several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor, having declared such
public emergency and imperative public necessity to exist, requesting the sus—
pension of said Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the
date of its introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from
and after its passage, PP LS ACCORDINGLY S0 ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, This the (. —lay of August , 1950.
(R/ST:
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
ity Attorney
MAYO
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
, 1949
1 certify to the City Council that the money required
for the contract, agreement, obligation, or expenditure contemplated
in the above and foregoing Ordinance is in the Treasury of the City
of Corpus Christijo the credit of Fluid i$o.49 j / fd)/ 6- el
e; z e s,Lq �4 from which it is proposed to be drawn,
and such money is not appropriated for any other purpose.
Corpus Christi, Texas
, 1950
TO THE LERS 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.
The
Charter rule was
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
above ordinance was
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
suspended
Respectfully,
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
by the following vote:
passed by the following vote:
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