HomeMy WebLinkAbout02886 ORD - 10/03/1950l0 2 0
AN ORDINANCE
APPROPRIATING $32,711.00 TO BE PAID AS CONSIDER -
IT EMN FOR TBE INSTALLATION OF ELEVATORS IN THE
NEW CITY HALL BUILDING ON SHORELINE BOULEVARD
IN THE CITY _07-MR-PUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, OUT OF
FUND NO. 296 IMPROVEMENT BONDS 1950 CONSTRUCTION
FUND (CITY HALL ,AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE
CITY MANAGER FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY TO
EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH WESTINGHOUSE EDECTRM :_
CORPORATION OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, ffV BIDDER,
FOR SUCH INSTALLATION; SAID CONTRACT DOCUMENTS,
PLANS, AND SPECIFICATIONS BEING MADE A PART HERE-
OF BY REFERENCE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the installation of elevators in the new City
Hall Building is necessary, and
WHEREAS, There is needed the sum of $32,711.00 for the
installation of said elevators, and
MUMS, There is available in Fund No. 296 Improve-
ment Bonds 1950 Construction Fund (City Hall) 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) the
sum of $32,711.00, 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 the installation of elevators in the new
City Hall Building on Shoreline Boulevard in the City of Corpus
Christi, Texas, with Westinghouse Electric Corporation, which contract
has been awarded said Westinghouse Electric Corporation in
accordance with plans and specifications and the contract docu-
ments 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 said Westinghouse Electric Corporation, 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 Ball, said contract being in
conjunction with other contracts on said City Full, 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
ordinance 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
introduced 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.
�950.
YOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
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City Secretary
APPRC= AS TO LEGAL FORM-
Attorney
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.
AWM� //- Ij
Director
Corpus Christi, Texas
October 3 , 1950
TO THE I'EB,BERS OF Ti. 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,
laYOR
City of Corpus Christi; Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following votes
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed by the following votes
Leslie 4assema a
Jack DeForrest/
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman