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A RESOLUTION
DECLARING THE INTENTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL THAT
THE PROCEEDS, IF ANY, MUVED FROM THE LEASE OF
THE CLIFF MAUS.AIRPORT BE USED.FOR. AIRPORT PURPOSES
UNTIL ALL REASONABLE NEEDS FOR DEVELOPMENT HAVE
BEEN MET AND, THEREAFTER, USED AS MAY BE DETF:MUM
BY THE CITY.COUNCIL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEIR AUTHOR-
ITY TO THEM DESIGNATE THE PROPER USE OF SUCH FUNDS;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, The City Council, by Ordinance No. 2880, has
duly authorized the execution of an oil, gas and mineral lease
concerning the lands known as Cliff Maus Municipal Airport and
more fully described in said lease; and
WHEREAS, It is contemplated that the exploration and
development under said lease may result in the realization of
proceeds payable to the City of Corpus Christi, Texas; and
WHEREAS, Such proceeds, if any, will be needed for the
development of a municipal airport,
NOW, THEREFO_HE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That it is hereby declared the policy
of.the City Council that all proceeds from the lease for oil
and gas exploration, development and production heretofore
authorized by Ordinance No. 2880 to Jack Modessett and Burdette
Graham, also known as B. C. Graham, a partnersh$p, doing business
as Nuevs Oil Company, Lessee, be used exclusively for airport
purposes until such time as it shall be determined by the City
Council that all reasonable needs for airport development have
been fully met, and, thereafter, used as may be determined by
said City Council in accordance with their authority to then
designate the proper use of such funds.
SECTION 2. That the request of the Civil Aeronautics
Administration for designation of the use of proceeds which may
be derived from said oil and gas lease be used for airport pur-
poses and the fact that said exploration and development is ex-
pected to commence prrompt]y create an emergency and an impera-
tive public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter
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rule that no ordinance or resolution shall be passed finally
on 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 necessity to exist, 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 SO RESOLVED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, This the 3rd day of October,
A.D. ls5o.
(A Ts THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
City Secretary
APPROVED AS TO GAL FORMt
City A totney
Corpus Christi, Texas
(jc. i 3 , 1950
TO THE °1.MMERS OF TIC 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,
MkYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter -rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Harney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon_
George L. Lowman
The above ordinance was passed
by the following vote:
Leslie 'liassennam
Jack DeForrest
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lacrosan
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