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AN ORDINANCE
APPROPRIATING $52,072.00 TO BE PAID AS CON-
SIDERATION MR THE INSTALLATION OF AN ELECTRICAL
SYSTEM IN THE NEW CITY HALL BUILDING ON SHORE-
US CHRISTI,
TEXAS, OUT OF-FUND N0. 296 ImpRam ENT BONDS
1950 CONSTRUCTION FUND (CITY HALL BUILDING ,
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING TEE CITY MANAGER FOR
AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT
WITH NELSON ELECTRIC COMPANY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS, L09 BIDDER, F R SUCH INSTALLATION; SAID
CONTRACTS, PLANS, AND SPECIFICATIONS
BEING MADE A PART HEREOF BY REFERENCE; AND
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
ITEEREAC, the':inatallation of an electrical system in the
new City Hall Building has been determined to be necessary, and
WHEREAS, There is needed the sum of $52,072.00 for
the installation of such electrical system, and
WHEREAS, There is available in Fund No. 296 Improve-
ment Bonds 1950 Construction Fund (City Hall Building) said
amount needed for such installation; and
WHEREAS, Bids have been received, considered, and an
award made for the most advantageous bid to the City of Corpus
Christi, and it is now necessary to make such appropriation and
to authorize the execution of a contract in accordance with said
award;
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 Fund
No. 296 Improvement Bonds 1950 Construction Fund (City Hall Building)
the sum of $52,072.00, which amount is to be paid according to the
terms of the contract described in Section 2 hereof.
SECTION 2. That the City Manager is hereby authorized
and directed to execute for and on behalf of the City of Corpus
Christi a contract for installation of an electrical system in the
new City Hall Building on Shoreline Boulevard in Corpus Christi, Texas,
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with Nelson Electric Company, which contract has been awarded said
Nelson Electric Company in accordance with plans and specifications
and the contract documents on file in the office of the City
Secretary, all incorporated herein and made a part hereof by
reference, and according to the bid of Nelson Electric Company,
opened on the 19th day of September, A. D. 1950, said bid being
the most advantageous, and lowest, to the City of Corpus Christi.
SECTION 3. The need to appropriate said amount and to
authorize the execution of said contract in order to facilitate the
completion of the new City Hall, said contract being in conjunction
with other contracts on said City Hall, creates a public emergency
and imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the
Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed and
approved finally on the day it is introduced and that such ordi-
nance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the
City Council, and the Mayor, having declared such emergency and
necessity to exist, requesting the suspension of said Charter rule,
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 ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, This the 3- day of October, A.D.
1950.
ST:
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
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MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
Corpus Christi, Texas
October , 1950
TO THE WMERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemens
For the reasons set forth in the emergenoy 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,
The Charter rule was suspended by
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman.
The above ordinance was passed by
Leslie `4assermau
Jack UoForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
A%YOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
the following votes
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October 3, 1950
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 in the Treasury of the City
of Corpus Christi to the credit of No. 296 Improvement Bonds
1950 Construction Fund (City Hall)
Fund from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not
appropriated for any other purpose.
Director of Finance
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