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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03033 ORD - 05/08/1951AN ORDINANCE ADTHOR=INO AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGM FOR AND ON TEHAT OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TO ACQUIRE 80 ACRES-OUT OF THE WOODRUFF TRACT LOCATED BETWEEN SHELL, ROAD AND HIGHWAY NO. 9 APPROYIMATELY SEVEN MII FS FROM. TBE PRESENT CITY LIMITS TO BE USED FOR PARE AND OTHER MUNICIPAL PURPOSES, WHICH LAND IS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED HEREIN, SAID IARD TO BE PURCHASED FROM H. E. WOODRUFF, TRUSTEE, FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF SIXTY-FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($64,000), WHICH SUM IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED . FRO`£ NO. 111 TRUST FOND TD BE PAID AS CON- SIDERATION FOR SUCH CONVEYANCE, AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MMAGER TO DO ALL THINGS NECESSARY TO COMPLETE SAID PURCHASE, AND DE- CLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED HY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TE%ASS SECTION 1. That the City Manager be and he is hereby authorized and directed for and on behalf of the City to acquire 60 acres out of the Woodruff Tract located between Shell Road and Highway No. 9 apprordmately seven miles from the present city limits to be used for park and other municipal purposes from H. E. Woodruff, Trustee, for the consideration of Sixty-Four Thousand ($64,000), said land being more particularly described by metes and bounds in the description attached hereto and made a part hereof, x=d1q&x=x2o22u=1 the same to be conveyed to the City bjr Warranty Deed in the form subject to approval of the City Legal Department. 5033 SECTION 2. That there is hereby appropriated from No. 131 Trust Fund the am of Sixv roan Thousand Dollars ($64,000) to cover the cost of the conveyance of said Sand described in Section 1 hereof. SECTION 3. That the City Manager be and he is hereby anthorized and directed to do all things incident to and requisite to ob» taining the title and possession of said lands. SECTION 4. That the necessity of utilizing a portion of the funds obtained from the sale of Guth Parks and the arFOesaid purchase having been deemed desireable, the necessity of making appropriation there. for immediately creates a public emergency and an imperative public neces- sity requiring the suspension of the Charter 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 Mayors declaring such emergency and necessity to exists having requested the suspension of said Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and take effect and be in fn'L3 force and effect from and after the date of its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED This the_,06' _day of Maya • 1951. .. _ - THE CITE OF CORPUS CHRISTI,TEIAS r . City.Secretary APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM¢ DESCRIPTION OF AN 80.00 ACRE TRACT OUT OF A 132.96 ACRE TRACT OUT OF THE P. HINOJOSA SURVEY # 422 IN NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS. Beginning at a point in the west line of the H. E. WOODRUFF 132.96 Acre tract. Said point also being in the east line of Rolling Acres Subdivision #2. Said point bearing south 1,372.83 feet sc:.n from the northeast corner of Rolling Acres Subdivision #2. THENCE: South with the east line of Rolling Acres Subdivision #2 365.83 ft. to a point for corner. THENCE: South 32° 13' west with the southeast line of Rolling Acres Subdivision #2 589.17 feet to a point for corner. THENCE: South 57° 47, east 530.00 feet to a point for corner. THENCE: North 321 13' east 523.75 feet to a point for corner. THENCE: South 57° 47: east 756.69 feet to a point for corner. THENCE: South 180.27 feet to a point for corner. Said corner being also a corner of the 132.96 acre tract. THENCE: East with the most easterly south line of said 132.96 acre tract 1,505.22 feet to the southeast corner of said tract. THENCE: North with the east line of said 132.96 acre tract 1,072.46 feet to a point in the south line of Shell Road and being the northeast corner of the 132.96 acre tract. THENCE: North 71° 54, west with the south boundary line of Shell Road 320.50 feet to a point for corner. ` THENCE: North 650 331 west with the south boundary line of Shell Road 316.10 feet to a point for corner. THENCE: North 439 431 west with the south boundary line of Shell Road 1,014.49 feet to a point for corner. THENCE: South 379 12, west 597.89 feet to a point for corner. THENCE: South 46° 39' west 149.80 feet to a point for corner. THENCE. South 65° 331 west 149.80 feet to a point for corner. THENCE: South 75° 00' west 411.64 feet to a point for corner. THENCE: West 260.00 feet to the place of beginning. The above •dbscribed tract containing 80.00 acres of land. Corpus Christi, Texas TO THE MEMBERS 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, MAYOR City of Corpus Christi, Texas The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Leslie Wasserman Jack DeForrest Barney Cott Sydney E. Herndon (///��'�p George L. Lowman [�Gt , The above ordinance was passed by the following votes Leslie Wasserman Jack LeForrest `%.L Barney Cott + Sydney E. Herndon George L. Lowman 303 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. / /�4_c Q � C � Fund from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not appropriated for any other purpose. 669Lr p 'Director of Finance '�'