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AN ORDINANCE
APPROPRIATING FROM NO. 295 IMPROVMNT BONDS 3.946
COPST1707MON T-1 (STREET IMPROVEMENTS) THE SUM OF
$469.50 FOR THE QCK-STR-UG-T-1-0N--0—F-0-CTMTE CURBS AND
GUTTERS ALONG FIFTEENTH STREET EXTENSION B T
THE NORTH AND UISIANA IN THE CITY
OF- CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS; AUTHORIZIlM—IND DIRECTING
THE CITY MANAGER,TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH C.
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`� L. CASTOR`FOR SUCH IMPROVEMENTS, • AID —MIM nlG AN
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AREAS, Certain improvements have been determined to be
necessary to connect the south drive and north drive on Louisiana
Avenue at a point approximately midway between Alameda Street and
Swantner Drive to improve traffic conditions as recommended by the
Citizens Traffic Commission and the Director of Public Works; and
WHEREAS, There ara sufficient funds available and unap-
propriated in No. 295 Improvement Bonds 1948 Construction Fund (Street
Improvements) to cover the cost of said improvements; and
WHEREASs It now becomes necessary to appropriate said sum
and to enter into an agreement to have such improvements made;
NOW. THEREFORE] BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS;
SECTION 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of No. 295
Improvement Bonds 1948 Construction Fund (Street Improvements) the
sum of $469.50 to cover the cost of concrete curbs and gutters to be
constructed along Fifteenth Street extension between the north and
south lanes of Louisiana, being 313 linear feet of curbs and,guttsrs
at $14.50 per linear foot, in accordance with the negotiated contract
authorized and described in Section 2.
SECTION 2. That the City Manager is hereby authorized to
negotiate and to enter into an agreement with C. L. Castor, Contractor,
for the construction of the improvements described herein at the cost
of $469.50.
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SECTION 3o That the necessity of providing for a better
interchange of traffic between the north and south lanes of Louisiana
by the construction of the aforesaid improvements immediately creates
a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the
suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance or resolution shall
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be passed finally on the date of its introduction and that such ordi-
nance or resolution,shall be read at three several meetings of the
City Council, and the Mayor, having declared such emergency and neces-
sity to exist, having requested the suspension of said Charter rule
and that this ordinance be approved and passed on the date of its
introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from
and after its passages, IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED This
the1_1Lr of December, A.D. 1951.
MAYOR
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
ESTED:
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APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
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Corpus Christi, Texas
December 1m 1951
y ,y TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
M1 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 DeForrest
Sydney E. Herndon°"s
George L. Lowman(
Frank E. Williamson
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
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Sydney E. Herndon��°
George L. Lowman
Frank E. Williamson
December 10, 1951
° =fi•_. r_:. 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. 295 Improvement Bonds 1948
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 'NI