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AN ORDINANCE
APPROPRIATING $572 FROM NO. 296 IMPROVEMENT BONDS
1950 CONSTRUCTION FUND (STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL) FOR
PAYMENT TO NO. -102 CURRENT FUND TO REIMBURSE THE
POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR EXPENDITURE'-UN--THE INSTALLA.
TION OF A TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL AT THE CORNER OF
SANTA FE AND CRAIG STREETS IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
SAID INSTALLATION HAYING BEEN MADE WITH CITY FORCES,
AND.DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, There is needed approximately $572 to cover the
cost of material used in the installation of Street Traffic Con-
trol Signal at the corner of Santa Fe and Craig in the City of
Coxpus Christi, Texas; and
WHEREAS, Such installation has been completed with force
account labor and material by the Traffic Division of the Police
Department; and
WHEREAS, There are sufficient funds available and unappro-
priated in No. 296 Improvement Bonds 1950 Construction Fund (Street
Traffic Control) with which to reimburse the Police Department for
expenditures on this project:
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. 296 Im-
provement Bonds 1950 Construction Fund (Street Traffic Control) $572
for payment to No. 102 Current Fund reimbursing the Police Depart-
ment for expenditures in the installation of a traffic control signal
at the corner of Santa Fe and Craig, which project has been completed
with force account labor and material by the Traffic Division of the
Police Department, in accordance with their request for reimbursement
attached hereto and made a part hereof.
SECTION 2. That the necessity, for'imtmediately reimbursing said
Traffic Division for said expenditure in said projects such traffic
control signals being vital to the public health, safety, and general
welfare, 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 intro -
duction and that such ordinance or resolution shall be read at
three several meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor, having
declared such emergency and necessity to exist, having requested
the suspension of said Charter rule and that this ordinance be
passed finally on the datt of its introduction and take effect
and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, IT
IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED This theoZIr—t of September,
A.D. 1951.
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CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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CITY SEGRzTARX
aVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
CITY ATTORNEY
orpus Christi, Texas .
TO THE REMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemens
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,
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MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following votes
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
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Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lc wman
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The above ordinance was passed by the following votes
Leslie Wasserman
Jack LeForrest`�
Barney Cott
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
September 20, 1951
$572.00
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. 296 Improvement Bonds 1950
Construction Fund (Street Traffic Control)
Fund from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not
appropriated for any other purpose.
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Director of Finance
INTER - OFFICE COMMUNICATION
Dept. rubj 5 c_ Say .y
Mr. W. B. Collier
To— Mr. W. G. Graf
From W. L. Baskett Date —
Subject Appropriation for Street Traffic Control
There was recently authorized the installation of a traffic
control signal at the corner of Santa Fe and Craig in accord-
ance YLLth your verbal authorization. This work has now been
completed with force account labor and material by the Traffic
Division of the Police Department.
Will you therefore have an ordinance prepared appropriating the
sum of $572.00 from No. 296 Improvement Bonds, 1950 Construction,
Fund Street Traffic Control, for payment to No. 102 Current Fund
reimbursing the Police Department for expenditures on this project.
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W. L. Baskett
Traffic Coordinator
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