HomeMy WebLinkAbout03173 ORD - 12/04/1951AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER FOR
AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH J. M. DELLINGER,
INC. FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF STREET IMPROVE-
MENTS, NAMELY THE EXTENSION OF LIPAN STREET
FROM NINETEENTH STREET TO PALM DRIVE; APPRO-
PRIATING THE AMOUNT OF TEN THOUSAND. NINE HUN-
DRED AND SIX DOLLARS AND TWENTY -FIVE CENTS
($10,906.25) FROM NO. 297 IMPROVEMENT BONDS
1951 CONSTRUCTION FUND (STREET IMPROVEMENTS)
FOR SAID CONSTRUCTION; AND DECLARING AN EMER-
GENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the City Manager is hereby authorized and
directed to execute for and on behalf of the City of Corpus Christi a con-
tract for the agreed contract price for the construction of the extension
of Lipan Street from Nineteenth Street to Palm Drive as described in such
contract with J. M. Dellinger, Inc. in accordance with the plans, specifi-
cations, and contract documents on file in the office of the City Secretary,
all of which are incorporated and made a part hereof by reference, AND in
accordance with " -trie bid of said J. M. Dellinger, Inc. opened on the 27th
day of November, 1951 and being most advantageous to the City of Corpus
Christi, Texas.
SECTION 2. That there is hereby appropriated out of No. 297
Improvement Bonds 1951 Construction Fund (Street Improvements) the sum of
Ten Thousand Nine Hundred and Six Dollars and Twenty -five Cents ($10,906.25),
the contract price being $9,914.78 plus $991.47 for engineering and contin-
gencies, to pay for the extension of Lipan Street from Nineteenth Street to
Palm Drive according to the terms of the contract described in Section 1 hereof.
SECTION 3. The necessity of extending Lipan Street from Nine-
teenth Street to Palm Drive as a part of the street traffic control system to
provide a safer traffic pattern for the citizens of the City of Corpus Christi,
Texas, creates a public 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 Mayor, having
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declared 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 -the date of its passage, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO
ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, This the r- day of
A. D. 1951.
MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
City Secretary - •
APPROVED AS TO GAL FOUL:
City Attorney
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Corpus Christi, Texas
December 9 19SI
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Gentlemen:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing
ordinance, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspen-
sion 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 DeForrestD-
Sydney E. Herndon +(
George L. Lowman
Frank E. Williamson
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
Frank E. Williamson
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$10,906.25 December 4. 1951
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. 297 Improvement Bonds 1951
Construction Fund (Street Improvements)
Fund from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not
appropriated for any other purpose.
Director of Finance �.
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