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AN ORDINANCE NO.
APPROPRIATING TWENTY -FIVE HUNDRED ($°2500.00)
DOLLARS TO BE PAID FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF
ADDITIONAL BOAT SLIPS AND PILING ON THE L-
HEAD IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS,
WITH THE GOLDSTON COMPANY, AND TO BE MADE
OUT OF THE SEAWALL AND BREASWATER FUND NO.
258; AND DECLARING AN MERGENCY.
WBEREAS, additional piers and piling for the anchorage
out from the L-Head are needed as an additional part of bayfront
improvements for the purpose of anchoring and securing heavier
boats; and
WHEREAS, a contract was entered into between the City of
Corpus Christi, Texas, and the Goldston Company on July 28, 1950,
which allows said City of Corpus Christi to increase improvements
under such contract in the amount of twenty -five (25%) percent as
a part of said contract;
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
No. 258 Seawall and Breakwater Construction Fund the sum of Twenty -
five Hundred (12500.00) Dollars, said $2500.00 to be paid to the
Goldston Company in accordance with a work change order authorized
under a contract dated July 28, 1950, between the City of Corpus
Christi and the Goldston Company, which allows an increase in the
amount of twenty -five (25j) percent over and above the base amount
entered into.
SECTION 2. The fact that it is to the great and beneficial
interest of the City of Corpus Christi, that such improvements be
immediately begun, and the fact that such improvements will protect
the Bayfront of the City of Corpus Christi creates a public emergency
and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the
Charter rule providing that no ordinance or resolution shall be
passed finally on the date it is introduced and that such ordinance
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or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City
COLilcil, and the Mayor, declaring such emergency and necessity to
exist, having requested that said Charter rule be suspended,
and that this ordinance be passed finally on the day it is intro-
duced and take effect and be in full force and effect from and
after its passage, IT IS SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, This the of September, 1950,
M YOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
A ST;
i y Secretary
APPROVED AS TO 4EGAL FORLI.
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As stant City Attorney
o pus Christi, Texas
1950
TO THE fl4EMERS 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.
Respectfully,
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B!AYOP.
City of Corpus Christi; Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
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Ls passed by the foil roving vote:
Leslie 4asserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Locmmani�J
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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 /iin the Treasury of the City
of Corpus Christi to the credit of No a .'-'z &
Fund from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not
appropriated for any other purpose.
15fr-ector of Finance
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