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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02917 ORD - 10/26/1950i. m 0AA%e zvY 10/23/50 (6) AN ORDINANCE CANVASSING RETURNS AND DECLARING THE RESULTS OF AN ELECTION HELD IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, ON THE 21ST DAY OF OCTOBER, 1950, ON THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT.A CON- TRACT ON BEHALF OF THE CITY AND THE LOWER 17UECES RIVER WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT FOR THE EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN UNDERGROUND SOURCE OF WATER SUPPLY TO BE PRODUCED FROM _ SUBTERRANEeu GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS THROUGH WELLS, AND TO PURCHASE-WATER PRODUCED FROM an WELLS, CONTAINING 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; AND DE- CLARING AN.EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, heretofore on the 19th day of September, 1950, the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, passed an ordinance calling an election to be held in said City on the 21st day of October, 1950, on the following proposition: and, PROPOSITION "A" "Shall the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, be authorised to execute a contract in behalf of the City with the Lower Nueces River Water Supply District for the,develop- ment 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." WHEREAS, notice of said election was actually given as re- quired by law and as.directed in the ordinance calling the election, as is shown by affidavits properly filed in the office of the City Secretary; and, WHEREAS, said election was duly and legally held on the 21st day of October, 1950, in conformity with the election ordinance heretofore passed by this Council and the result of said election has been certified and returned to this Council by the proper judges and clerks thereof; and, WHEREAS, this Council has today considered the returns of said election en the proposition hereinabove stated, which was held on the 21st day of October, 1950; and, WHEREAS, it appears to the Council and the Council so finds that said election was in all respects lawfully held and said returns duly and legally made and that there were cast at said election, the following votes; FOR THE AUTHORIZATION AGAINST THE AUTHORIZATION AND APPROVAL OF THE AND APPROVAL OF THE CON - CONTRACT WITH LORM TRACT WITH LOWER NUECES VOTING NOECES RIVER RATER RIVER WATER SUPPLY DIS- TOTAL PRECINCT SUPPLY DISTRICT TRICT VOTES 1 42 8 50 2 40 4 44 3 86 27 113 4 133 36 169 5 61 14 75 6 45 17 62 7 203 35 238 8 197 33 230 TOTAL eQ7 174 981 Absentee Box 37 1 38 GRAND TOTAL 844 175 1019 NOW. THEREFORE, HE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TESAS: SECTION 1. That the proposition to authorize and approve a contract between the City and The Lower Nueoes 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 distribu- tion system for a period of tea years with an option to renegotiate and an option for additional supply at the price and under the terms as contained in the proposed contract, said contract being set out in Ordinance No. 28650 passed and approved by the City Council of Corpus Christi, Texas, on September 5, 1950, was sustained by a -2- majority of the qualified electors voting at said election in the City of Corpus Christi, and the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, is hereby authorized to cause to be executed said contract with the Lower Nueces River Water Supply District in accordance with said proposition. SECTION 2. The necessity, for the development of a sub- terranean supply of water and the necessity for procuring an adequate supply of water for the citizens of the City creates a publio 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 requiring that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared that such public emergency and imperative public necessity exist, and having requested that said Charter rule be suspended, and that this ordinance take effort and be in full force and offset from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED. PASSED AND APPROVED this the 24 day of &a T , 1950. 40 1 City of Corpus Christi, Texas ATTEST: City Secretary APPROVED AS TO LEGAI, FORM% 14_Z4 - L..41. ^1 City Attorney Corpus Christi, Texas October , 1950 TO THE I7:MERS OF TIM 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, 44(e 11 YOR 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 The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Leslie 4assermaia Jack DeForrest Barney Cott Sydney E. Herndon George L. Lowman