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AN ORDINANCE NO.
BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS CALLING AN ELECTION ON THE QUESTION OF WHETHER
OR NOT A CONTRACT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI AND THE LOWER NUECES RIVER WATER SUPPLY DIS-
TRICT FOR THE EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN UNDER-
GROUND SOURCE OF WATER SUPPLY TO BE PRODUCED FROM SUB-
TERRANEAN GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS THROUGH WELLS, AND
TO PURCHASE WATER PRODUCED FROM SAID WELLS, CONTAIN-
ING OPTIONS AND RENEGOTIATION AGREEMENTS, BE APPROVED,
AND THE CITY COUNCIL BE AUTHORIZED TO CAUSE THE SAID
CONTRACT TO BE EXECUTED ON BEHALF OF THE CITY, SAID
CONTRACT BEING SET OUT IN THIS ORDINANCE, AND AS
SHOWN BY ITS TERMS TO RUN FOR A PERIOD OF TEN YEARS
UNLESS SOONER TERMINATED ACCORDING TO ITS TERNS;
DESIGNATING THE PLACES FOR HOLDING SUCH ELECTION;
NAMING THE OFFICERS THEREFOR; DESCRIBING FORM OF
NOTICE OF ELECTION, AND ENACTING PROVISIONS INCI-
DENT AND RELATING TO THE SUBJECT OF THIS ORDINANCE;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, said District is now planning for the development
of an underground source of water supply to be produced from
subterranean geological formations through wells, said wells
to be located adjacent to the Atascosa or the Frio Rivers that
flow into the Nueces River which in turn flows into the city's
present reservoir; and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto are given the power to make
and enter into this contract pursuant to the provisions of
Chapter 342, Acts of the 51st Legislature of Texas at its re-
gular session in 1949 (being Art, 1109e V.A.T.C.s., 1925 as
Amended), the said authority of the City to so contract to be
confirmed by a majority vote of the qualified voters of the city.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That an election be held in said City of Corpus
Christi, Texas on the 21st day of, " •a , A. D. 1950, for
the purpose of determining whether or not the qualified electors
of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas approve, desire and authorize
the execution of the following contract with the Lower Nueces
River Water Supply District, to-wit-
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AGREEMENT TO CONTRACT
THE STATE OF TEXAS )
) ss.
COU M OF NUECES )
THIS AGREEMENT TO CONTRACT, made and entered into by and
between the Lower Nueces River Water Supply District and the City of
Corpus Christi, Texas,
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the parties hereto, are given the power to make
the following proposed contract under authority of Chapter 342, Acts
of the 51st Legislature of Texas at its regular session in 1949
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(being Art. 1109e, V.A.T.C.S. 1% as Amended) provided however that
such contract has received the approval of the qualified electors of
the City who own taxable property therein and who have duly rendered
the same for taxation before such contract shall be fully effective;
and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto hereby find and determine that
the form and contents of "Water Contract" hereinafter appearing will
accomplish the mutually desire purposes for the mutual benefit of the
parties, and shall become a final contract between them if authorized
by the qualified voters of the City and should therefore be submitted
to an election to determine such authorization:
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual benefits
to accrue to the parties upon the adoption of the following contract,
and in further consideration of the amounts to be paid by the City
and the obligations to be discharged by the District under the provi-
sions of the proposed contract, the parties hereto agree as follows:
I.
That the following "WATER CONTRACT" be and the same is
hereby approved as the contract to be finally made and entered into
between the parties hereto.
WATER CONTRACT
THE STATE OF TEAS )
) ss.
COUNTY OF NUECES )
THIS AGREE)ENT, made and entered into by and between the LOWER NUECES
RIVER WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT, a municipal corporation as created by Chapter 159 of the
Acts of the 51st Legislature of the State of Texas, at its regular session in 1949
(hereinafterzeferred to as the "District "), acting by and through its President and
Secretary, and hereunto duly authorized by the Board of Directors of said District,
and the CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, Nueces County, Texas, a municipal corporation organ-
ized and existing under the laws of the State of Texas (hereinafter referred to as
the "City "), acting by and through its City Manager, hereunto duly authorized by the
City Council of said City,
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, under the Act of its creation the District is vested with all
the rights, powers, privileges and duties conferred and imposed by the General Laws
of Texas applicable to water control and improvement districts created under Section
59, Article 16 of the Constitution including the right to issue bonds for any and
all purposes permitted to water control and improvement districts and including also,
but without limitation of purposes not specified, the acquisition by construction or
otherwise of plants and improvements for storage, treatment, transportation, delivery
and disposition through sale or otherwise of flood, storm flow or underground water,
and to contract with any city or town for delivery of water and to fix charges upon
the basis of the quantity of water furnished or appropriate measure of the service
rendered with the time and manner of payment to be determined by contract made by the
Board of Directors; and
WHEREAS, the City now has a lake, dam, filtration plant, and a distri-
bution system that serves approximately all of the inhabitants of said District,
and has permits for the right to appropriate, store and divert certain waters out
of the Nueces River, but the City now finds that its present source of water supply
is inadequate to meet the present and future requirements of the City, that due to
this inadequate water supply, large industries are reluctant to locate in this vici-
nity, all of which constitute an emergency and an imperative public necessity that
the City supplement its present source of water supply at the earliest possible time;
and
WRMEAS, said District is now planning for the development of an under-
ground source of water supply to be produced from subterranean geological formations
through wells, said wells to be located adjacent to the Atascosa or the Frio Rivers
that flow into the Nueces River which in turn flows into the city's present reser-
voir; and
WHEREAS, the parties hereto are given the power to make and enter into
this contract pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 342, Acts of the 51st Legislature
of Texas at its regular session in 1949 (being Art. 1109e V.A.T.C.S., 1925 as Amended),
the said authority of the City to so contract having been confirmed by a majority vote
of the qualified voters of the city voting at an election held in said City pursuant
to the aforesaid statute on the day of 1 1950;
N0W THEREFORE, in consideration of the sums to be paid by the City and
the obligations to be discharged by the District under the terms and provisions here-
inafter specified and of the other mutual covenants and agreements herein contained,
the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
1.
Upon execution of this contract, the District shall authorize its engi-
neers to complete final detailed plans and specifications and shall file with the Texas
State Board of Water Engineers such application or applications as may be required to
procure water permits in the Bueces River Basin, to obtain the right to drill wells
within said Basin, to impound water, and to construct pumping facilities, gathering
systems, and other necessary installations for obtaining water from wells and to
deposit same into rivers, canals, or conduits in said Basin, all as shall be set forth
in the plans and specifications finally approved by the District and its engineers.
2.
Upon obtaining the approval of the State Board of Water Engineers, the
District shall proceed to make such option contracts, leases, or to acquire such
other rights as are necessary to be acquired in the area designated by the engineers
as likely sources of underground water supply in order to first prove the availability
of underground water in such areas in sufficient quantities and of such quality as
shall be considered suitable by the engineers for domestic and commercial purposes.
The District shall then make such tests and drill such test wells in the designated
areas as are considered necessary in order to prove the availability of underground
water as aforesaid.
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The financing of all expenses incident to the making of the aforesaid
tests, the proving of such underground water supply and such other necessary expenses
as are authorized by the laws of the State of Texas applicable to the District, shall
be accomplished by the issuance and sale of not to exceed $150,000.00 par value of
the aforementioned bonds of the District, to mature not to exceed ten years from
their date.
For and in consideration of the District's performing the aforesaid ex-
ploratory work including the obtaining of a detailed report by its engineers, as to
the availability of an underground source of water sufficient to meet the City's fore-
seeable future requirements (a copy of which shall be made available to the City) and
in further consideration of the City's right to obtain water from such supply, under
the terms hereinafter set forth, the City covenants and agrees to pay the District
the sum of $2,000.00 per month upon the 15th day of each month, the first payment to
be made upon the 15th day of the month next following the date of the bonds, and the
City shall continue making such payments until there are sufficient funds on deposit
with the District to retire the outstanding bonds of the District issued under the pro-
visions of this paragraph, provided however, that said monthly payments above provided
shall be discontinued at such time as the City may become obligated to pay the Dis-
trict the sums hereinafter provided to be paid for water when the source of supply has
been proven, pursuant to the provisions hereinafter appearing and in which event the
first installment of bonds aforesaid shall be serviced out of the sums thus to become
due the District.
Any funds remaining from the sale of the bonds that are not required for
the purposes for which said bonds were authorized shall be used to retire outstanding
bonds.
4.
When a source of adequate underground water supply has been proven, the
District shall proceed in the acquisition of land and water rights and to complete
the drilling and equipping of such wells as are required for the fulfillment of the
further provisions of this contract, pursuant to the plans and specifications pre-
pared by the engineers and approved by the District. It is agreed and understood
that the completion of said wells and the availability of the water to be supplied
therefrom in accordance with the terms hereof shall be accomplished as soon as practi-
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cable and with all reasonable diligence.
5.
It is understood that the City shall never be or become liable for any
part of the cost and expense of acquiring the well sites, drilling the wells, equip-
ping the wells, or for any pumping equipment or gathering system, nog become liable
for the operation repair, or maintenance thereof; it being the intention of both
parties hereto that all such costs and expenses are and shall be the direct and sole
obligation of the District.
6.
When the source of supply contemplated herein has been developed and
such water is available at the point of delivery herein specified, the District cove-
nants and agrees to sell and deliver to the City, as requested, up to 2,125,000,000
gallons of water per calendar year, but at no time shall the District be required to
deliver in excess of 10,000,000 gallons of water in any twenty -four hour period, under
the terms of this paragraph. The City hereby covenants and agrees that in considera-
tion of the District's obligation to furnish water in the quantity above specified,
,/it will pay the District the sum of $7,000.00 per month so long as any portion of the
bonds issued by the District to finance the water supply herein contemplated remain
outstanding and unpaid, which amount shall be the minimum monthly charge to the City
irrespective of the amount of water which may be requested and received by it and
said monthly payments shall commence on the 15th day of the month next following the
date of the next or second installment of the $1,750,000.00 authorization. For such
monthly payments the City shall be entitled to request and receive, when available,
not to exceed 2,125,0001000 gallons of water in any calendar year provided that its
request therefor has been made in time so that said amount may be received by it if
produced at the rate of not to exceed 10,000,000 gallons of water in any twenty -four
hour period.
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In the event the City requires water in excess of the 2,125,000,000
gallons per calendar year, as provided above, the City shall give notice in writing
of the amount of water required, such notice to be given 90 days prior to the time
the City expects to receive such additional water, provided, however, that upon such
notice the City shall be entitled to request and receive up to 4,250,000,000 gallons
of water in any calendar year, to be delivered by the District in quantities not to
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exceed 20,000,000 gallons of water in any twenty -four hour period. In consideration
of the additional water (the total not to exceed 4,250,000,000 in any calendar year)
to be made available by the District, the City covenants and agrees to increase its
monthly minimum payment to $12,000.00 per month, which amount shall be-the minimum
monthly charge to the City, irrespective of the amount of water which may be requested
and received by the City, said increased monthly payments shall commence on the 15th
day of the month next following the date of the next or third installment of bonds of
the $1,750,000.00 authorization.
It is further understood and agreed that the City reserves the right
and privilege of requesting further additional water from the District to the extent
of 30,000,000 gallons (the total not to exceed 50,000,000 gallons) in any twenty -four
hour period, upon notice in writing to the Directors of the District and given at
least 120 days prior to the time the City shall expect to receive such additional water.
Such water in excess of said 4,250,000,000 gallons of water in any one
calendar year (for which the City shall pay a minimum monthly charge of $12,000.00 as
above provided) requested and received by the City shall be paid for in accordance with
the following schedule:
(a) 4,250,000,001 gallons up to 7,250,000,000 gallons at the rate of
310 per thousand gallons;
(b) 7,250,000,001 gallons up to 10,500,000,000 gallons at the rate of
3¢ per thousand gallons;
(c) 10,500,000,001 gallons up to 14,500,000,000 gallons at the rate of
2 -3/4¢ per thousand gallons;
(d) 14,500,000,001 gallons up to 18,000,000,000 gallons at the rate of
2 per thousand gallons.
8.
The District covenants to deliver water under the terms of this contract
to the City when requested, such requests to be made in writing to the Board of
Directors of the District forty -eight hours prior to the time water is to be delivered,
such notice to specify the number of days and the quantity of water to be delivered
per day, the District shall have the right to cease delivery at the end of the period
designated in said notice unless further notice is given forty -eight hours prior to
the end of the previously �Oticed period. Delivery of water pursuant to notice pre-
viously given shall be discontinued upon twenty -four hour notice from the City to th
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District. The delivery of the water by the District as requested by the City shall be
made by discharging said water into the Atascosa or the Frio Rivers, which in turn will
reach the City's reservoir by flowing down the Nueces River and the City agrees to ac-
cept delivery of said water at the points of discharge into the said Frio or Atascosa
Rivers. The maximum amount of water to be delivered in any one twenty -four hour period,
shall be controlled by the provisions herein elsewhere appearing pertaining thereto.
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This contract shall continue in effect until all the bonds issued by the
District to carry out its agreements hereunder or any refunding bonds issued in lieu of
such bonds have been paid and retired, at which time the parties hereto shall negotiate
a new contract, under which the rates to be paid by the City for water furnished by the
District shall be based on the income requirements of the District at such time.
10.
All monthly payments due the District by the City under the terms of this
contract shall become due on the 15th day of the month upon billings made by the Dis+
trict and computed as of the first day of the month. The District shall install master
meters and check meters for measuring the flow of water discharged into the river or
rivers.
11.
The District will cause the master meters to be read at monthly intervals;
and one representative of the City and one representative of the District shall be pre-
sent at such readings, unless either party waives the right to be so represented.
The duly authorized representatives of both parties shall have free access to said
meters at all reasonable times. on any meter reading date, the master meters and
check meters shall be read simultaneously; and if the total amount of water recorded
is substantially the same, the difference in reading being within the tolerance for
errors permitted for each meter, then the average reading shall be accepted as correct.
If, however, the differences cannot be accounted for within permissible tolerances,
actual tests shall be made at the District's expense of any meter which appears to
be inaccurate, and the one shown to be accurate within the tolerances permitted shall
be accepted as correct. Should none of the meters function within the permissible
tolerances, then the measurements of water shall be determined by joint agreement
between representatives of the District and the City. Said meters shall be inspected
and tested every six months by and at the expense of the District, of which test the
District shall give the City reasonable notice and the City shall have the right to
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have a representative present. In addition, either party may at its own expense and
upon five days notice to the other inspect and test said meters.
12.
The District obligates itself to drill and equip such wells and construct
such gathering systems as will enable it to carry out the terms of its agreements and
obligates itself to maintain and operate such facilities in such manner as to permit
delivery to the City continuously during the life of this agreement the amount of water
herein stipulated, if so requested by the City.
13.
It is agreed and understood by the parties hereto that at the end of each
five year period, the rate of compensation for water and services rendered by the Dis-
trict under this contract shall be subject to revision by negotiation so'Ahat the net
revenues of the District obtained from this contract will at all times be sufficient
to enable the District to pay all necessary operation, maintenance, administrative,
and replacement requirements and also to pay all principal, interest and reserve fund
requirements of the bonds to be issued by the District as provided in its resolution
or resolutions authorizing such bonds, and no more.
14.
The District agrees that it shall never, during the period of this contract,
enter into any subsequent contract with any other user of water which shall prejudice
the Citrs prior right to the amount of water it is entitled to receive hereunder, and
said District further agrees that it shall not contract to supply any other municipal,
commercial, or industrial user of water -any part of the quantity of water herein
pledged to be furnished to the City, except with the written consent of the City as to
such purchaser, the price therefor, and the use to be made of the proceeds therefrom.
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In the event said wells, pumps, or gathering system, or any of them be
destroyed or damaged as a. result of any cause whether by force majeurL- or otherwise
the District shall proceed within thirty days thereafter and at its own expense to
restore said facilities, but in such event the City shall continue to pay the month-
ly charges hereinabove set out.
16.
Should the District fail to begin said restoration of facilities within
said thirty days or should restoration work once begun by the District be discontinued
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for a consecutive period of thirty days or more, then.the City shall have the right
on written notice to the District, to take over said restoration of said improve-
ments and facilities aid to complete same to their original condition. In such
event, during the time the City may be restoring said improvements and facilities,
monthly charges may be withheld by City and all cost of said restoration by City
shall be deducted from such monthly charges withheld. After complete restoration
of said improvements and facilities, monthly charges shall again be paid to the
District. In the event withheld monthly charges exceed the City's cost of restora-
tion, any excess shall be remitted to the District promptly after the complete restora-
tion of said improvements and facilities by the City.
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In the event any dispute shall arise between the parties hereto, or
any person claiming under them, in relation to this agreement, at the desire of
either party such dispute shall be determined and settled by a majority vote of a
board of three arbitrators, one to be appointed by each of the parties hereto and
the third to be appointed by the two members so selected by said parties. If the
two arbitrators appointed by the parties hereto shall fail or neglect to appoint
a third arbitrator within thirty days after their appointment, then the third
arbitrator shall be appointed by the County Judge of Nueces County, Texas,
18.
Each party to this agreement has been duly authorized to enter into
the same by proper ordinance or resolution of its respective governing body and
certified copies of which are attached hereto.
19.
The conditidns and obligations of this contract shall be binding
upon the successors and assigns of the District and the City, but the District
shall not assign this contract or any part hereof without the written consent of
the City.
8.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have caused this instrument to
be executed in five originals by their duly authorized representatives this
day of , 1950 A.D.
LOWER NUECES RIVER WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT
ATTEST: By
President
Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
Attorney, LOWER NUECES RIVER WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
ATTEST: By
City Manager
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
City Attorney, CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
II.
Upon the execution of this Agreement to Contract, the gov,rn-
ing authority of the City of Corpus Christi shall submit the aforesaid
contract to an election of its qualified voters on the proposition of the
authorization thereof in conformity with the terms of Art. 1109e V.A.T.C.S.
1925, as Amended, as soon as conveniently and legally possible.
III.
Upon execution of this Agreement to Contract, the governing
authorities of the Lower Nueces River Water Supply District shall call
an election for the purpose of submitting to its qualified voters the
question of whether or not such District shall be authorized to issue
bonds in an amount not to exceed $1,750,000.00, such bonds to mature not
to exceed thirty years from their date.
IV.
In the event the aforesaid contract be authorized by the quali-
fied voters of the City in compliance with said Article 1109e, same shall
then be fully executed by the duly authorized officers of the District,
pursuant to resolution of its Board of Directors, and shall be fully exe-
cuted by the duly authorized officers of the City, pursuant to Ordinance
of its City Council.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have caused this Agree-
ment to Contract to be executed by their duly authorized officers as of
this the 5th day of September, 1950.
LOWER NECKS RIVER WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT
ATTEST: By
President
Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
Attorney, LOWER NUECES RIVER WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
ATTEST: By
City Manager
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
City Attorney, CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
At which election, above mentioned, the following proposition
shall be submitted to the resident qualified electors of the
City of Corpus Christi, Texas, who own taxable property therein
and who have duly rendered the same for taxation:
PROPOSITION :At
'Shall the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas, be authorized to execute a contract in behalf
of the City with the Lower Nueces River Water Supply
District for the development of a subterranean supply
of water and the purchase of water as required by the
City for its water distribution system for a period
of ten years with an option to renegotiate and an op-
tion for additional supply at the price and under
the terms as contained in the proposed contract, said
contract being set out in Ordinance No. 2865, passed
and approved by the City Council of Corpus Christi,
Texas on September 5, 1950.'
SECTION 2. Said election shall be held in the City
of Corpus Christi, Texas at the following places and the following
named persons are hereby appointed judges and officers of said
election:
Rollins Place
ELECTION PRECINCT NO. 1 Artesian Park Recreation
Bhilding
Miss Gertrude Dreyer, Presiding Judge
Mra. Ottina Dorenfield, Asett. Judge
Miss Agnes Koniskizski
Mrs. William Biggio
EIECTION PRECINCT N0, 2 Crossley School
MX J. H Vetters, Presiding Judge
Mrs. Walter Vetters, Asstt Judge
Mrs. M. L. Shepard
Mrs. E. T. Wicker•
E_IECTION PRECINCT N0, 3 ROBERT Driscoll Junior High
School
Julian Pricur, Presiding Judge
Florence Hunter, Assit. Judge
Mrs. C. Y. Meyer
Mai Frances Hunter
ELECTION PRECINCT N0, 4
Manger School
2209 Alameda
Mrs. F. H. Underwood, Judge
Mrs. Herbert Renken, Asst Judge
Earl Cog
Mrs. T. P. Noe
ELECTION PRECINCT NO. 5
Morgan Street Fire Station
1401 Morgan
Gabe Garrett, Presiding Judge
H. 0. Walker, Asst. Judge
Mrs. Mae France
Mrs. Evelyn Gibbs
ELECTION PRECINCT N0. 6
Stephen F. Austin School
Morgan Street
Mrs. Minnie OtConnell, Presiding Judge
Mrs. P. E. Weikel, Asset. Judge
Mrs. Dorothy Wynn
Mrs. Terry Melton
ELECTION PRECINCT N0, 7
R. B. Fisher School
Minnesota and Forth Worth
Ed. P. Williams, Presiding Judge
Wm. H. Shireman, AssIt. Judge
L. K. Bridges
R. E. Gallagher
ELECTION PRECINCT NO 8
Sam Houston School
Arcadia Pillage (363 Norton)
Mrs, Leslie Chappell, Presiding Judge
Mrs. Allen Wood, AssIt. Judge
Mrs. Owen Cox
Mrs. C. N. Townsend
SECTION 3. That said election shall be held in accord-
ance with the provisions of the Statutes and Constitution of
the State of Texas and the Charter of the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas.
SECTION 4. The polls will be open from 7 o'clock
A. M. to 7 o'clock P. M.
All voters desiring to support the proposi-
tion authorizing and approving the execution of the contract
to the Lower Nueces River Water Supply District shall have
written or printed on their ballots the following words:
'FOR THE AUTHORIZATION AND APPROVAL OF THE CONTRACT
WITH THE LOWER NUECES RIVER WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT.'
and all those opposed to the proposition of authorizing and
approving the execution of the contract with the Lower Nueces
River Water Supply District shall have written or printed on
their ballots the following words:
(AGAINST THE AUTHORIZATION AND APPROVAL OF THE CONTRACT
WITH THE LOWER NUECES RIVER WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT.'
SECTION 5. A substantial copy of this ordinance, signed
by the Mayor of the City of Corpus Christi and attested by the
City Secretary, shall constitute the notice of ordering said
election, and the Mayor is directed to cause a copy of this
ordinance signed by him to be posbd at the City Hall and at
each of the voting places and each election precinct not less
than twenty (20) days prior to slid election, and to have a copy
of this ordinance signed by him published in the Corpus Christi
Times, the official newspaper, being a newspaper of general
circulation, published within the City of Corpus,Christi, said
publication to be made on the same day in each of two successive
weeks prior to the date of the election and the date of the
first publication to be not less than twenty (20) days prior
to the date of said election.
SECTION 6. The fact that it is essential to acquze .
rights to a sufficient supply of water in order to supply the
citizens of the City of Corpus Christi in the future creates
a public emergency and imperative necessity requiring the sus-
pension 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 (3) several
meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared
that such public emergency and imperative necessity exists,
and having requested 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 --day of September, A. D.
1950.
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MAYbR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
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City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
(City Attorney
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Co s Christi, Texas
1950
TO THE bW'MERS OF TH 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,
64,4'U.Z44 ,
' YOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended
by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
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Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Loi mau
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The above ordinance i s passed
by the following vote;
Leslie ',iasseiwan
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lmvman
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