HomeMy WebLinkAbout03077 ORD - 07/03/1951AN ORDINANCE
APPROPRIATING FROM NO. 270, CITY HALL IMPROVEMM '
FUNDS, THE SUM OF $26,732.30 FOR THE ACQUISITION
OF FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND SPECIAL EQUIPMENT FOR
USE IN THE CITY HALL 11ELQDING COUNCIL ROOM AND
CCRPORATION COURT AND POLICE DEPARTMENT; ACID DE-
CLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, much of the furniture, fixtures and special equip-
ment now located in the City Hall for the use of the Departmentsand Per-
sonnel now located therein is inadequate, outmoded, and in a deteriorated
condition; and
WHEREAS, there are funds on hand in No. 270, City Hall
Improvement Funds, in the amount of $26,712.30 which should be applied
on the cost of the acquisition of said furniture, fixtures and special
equipment;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That there is hereby appropriated from No. 270,
City Hall Improvement Funds, $26,712.30 to use in the acquisition of furni-
ture, fixtures and special equipment for the use of the Departments and
Personnel now located in the City Hall, said furniture, fixtures and spe-
cial equipment to be acquired by the City Purchasing Agent with the appro-
val of the City Manager, no parcel of which shall be acquired without bide
where the amount of same equals or exceeds the sum of One Thousand Dollars
($1,000.00).
SECTION 2. The mediate necessity of obtaining furniture,
fixtures, and special equipment hereinabove described creates an emergency
and an Imperative public necessity 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 Mlayor, declaring such
emergency and necessity to exist, 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 full force and effect from and after
its passage, IT IS ACCORDIKOLY PASSEO.AND APPROVED, This the day
of July, A. D. 1951.
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M9YOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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City Secretary
A OVER AS TO LEGAL FORM:
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' 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 vas suspended by the folll-ming votes ,
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest'
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lawman O `
The above ordinance vas passed by the following votes
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest e
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman /yi
July 3, 1951
$26,712.30
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. 270, Citg Hall Improvement
Funds.
Find from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not
appropriated for any other purpose.
WAR' / &t'-
Director of Finance