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Home My WebLink About03095 ORD - 07/17/1951�j AN ORDINANCE CANVASSING RETURN AND DECLARING THE RESULTS OF AN ELECTION OF THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT A CONTRACT BE APPROVED AND THE CITY COUN- CIL BE AUTHORIZED TO CAUSE SAID CONTRACT TOBE E33:OUTID BY AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY AND REYNOLDS METAIS CO1,1PANY, A CORPORATION, FOR THE SUPPLYING OF WATER IN SPECIFIED QUANTITIES AT SPECIFIED RATES HELD ON THE 14 DAY OF JULY, 1951; AIM DECLARING AN ' EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, Heretofore on the 12th day of June, 1951, the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, passed an Ordi- nance, being Ordinance No. 3071, calling an election to be held in said City on the L;th day of July, 1951, on the following proposi- tion: PROPOSITION "A" "Shall the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi be authorized to cause to be executed a contract, for and on behalf of the City of Corpus Christi, with Reynolds Metals Company, a corporation, for the supplying of water in specified quantities at specified rates, said contract containing provision for certain fran- chise rights in the use of public lands and streets for the laying of pipe lines, for re- negotiation of the price of water, for certain option in the City, for assignment by the Rey- nolds Metals Company of the rights under said contract under certain conditions or with the approval of the City Council, and said contract as shown by its terms to run for a period of thirty (30) years, all as provided under the terms and as contained in a proposed contract as said proposed contract is set out in Ordinance No. 3071, passed and approved by the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi on June 19, 1951." affil, WBFWAS, Notice of said election was actually given as required by law and as directed in said ordinance, as is shown by affidavit properly filed in the office of the City Secretary; and WHEREAS, Said election was duly and legally held on the ll,th day of July, A. D. 1951, in conformity with the election 1pws of the State of Texas, and the results of said election has been certified and returned by the proper judges and clerks thereof, and WHEREM, This Council has today considered the returns, of said election held on the 14th day of July, A. D. 1951; and WHEREAS, It appears to the Council and the Council so finds that the said election was in all respects lawfully held; and WHEREAS, It appears to the Council and the Council so finds that the City Secretary has tabulated the results of said election and certified such tabulation to the Council, and that such tabulation is correct: IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY CF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEW: SECTION 1. That the tabulation of votes cast in the election on the question of whether or not a contract be approved by vote and the City Council be authorized to cause said contract to be executed by and on behalf of the City by and between the City of Corpus Christi and Reynolds Yatala Compasy, a corporation, for the supplying of water in specified quantities at specified rates held on the 74th day of July, 1951, made and certified to by the City Secretary of the City of Corpus Christi, is as follows: PWMCI NO. AIM VOTING PLACE APPROVAL C9 WE CC9TRACT'WITR REMOLDS NEWS CO., A CORPONATICN PER AGAINST TOTAL Absentee — City Nall 7 0 P No. 1 = Artesian Park : 116 4 125 No. 2 — Crossley School 61 7 68 No. 3 — Driscoll School 136 25 162 Ho. 4 — Central Church of Christ 168 28 196 No. 5 — Morgan Street Fire Station 126 14 3.42 No. 6 - Lozano School 75 2 78 N6. 7 — Fisher School 274 38 312 No. 8 — Panniu School 230 27 257 TOTAL 1,193 145 1,3117 STATE CP TEM r COMMr CF NM= r I, C. W. Vattern, City Secretary of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the tabulation of returas.made of the election held July Ili, 1951, for tho purpose of deciding whether or not the City of Corpus Christi execute a contract with the Reynolds Metals Co., a Corporation, for the supplying of water for a thirty —year period. RIECQT:W This 16th day of July, 1951. City Secretary City of Corpus Christi, Tom a - SECTION 2. That the proposition to authorize and approve a contract between the City and Reynolds Metals Company, a corpora- tion, and to authorize the City Council to cause said contract to be executed as described in Section 1 hereof and said Ordinance No. 3071, passed and approved by the City Council on the 12th day of June, 1951, was sustained by a 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 is authorized to cause to be executed said contract with Reynolds Metals Company. SECTION 3. That the necessity of promptly putting into effect the wishes of the qualified electors of the City as expressed in the aforesaid election by authorizing the execution of said con- tract with Reynolds Metals Company and to make an official canvass of votes cast in the aforesaid election and declare the said results of said election creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordi- nance or resolution shall be passed finally on the date of its intro- duction and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at three several meetings of the City Council, and the Meyor, having declared such emergency and necessity to exist, requesting 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 farce and effect from and after its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO APPROVED AND PASSED, This the 47_ day of July, A. D. 1951. MY TEST: CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS City Secretary APPR S TO LEGAL FORM- City Attorpy Corpus Christi, Texas 195 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Tema 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 ordinanoe or resolution shall be read at.three meetings of the City Counoil; 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, �� d �'-- lf$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 (may_ The above ordinance was passed by the follwi.ng .votes Leslie lfasserman Jack LeForrest Barney Cott Sydney E. Herndon George L. Lowman 2,�15—