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Home My WebLink About03190 ORD - 01/08/1952ORDINANCE NOJI'70 -AN ORDINANCE CREATING THE CITY - COUNTY WELFARE BOARD, DEFINING,ITS POWERS -AND JURISDICTION, PRQVIDING F0$ TBE.QVALIFTCATIONS, AUOINT=T,AND TERMS OJF,1T6., MEMBERS,,T? I$.AtkVALr. TINGS, COMPENSATION AND WENSES;,DEFINING_CERTAIN TERMS; PROVIDING. FOR _ , BEEPING OF.AEg0�2DS AND,4VPROPR1ATION 01 9NEY, s- - gROVTDING FOR TBE, TIME WBEN THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE SBALL BECOME EPPE_dT' VE; AND_DECLARING AN r3ykE,RGENCY. - WBEAEAS, it has been determined that it is desirable to have a combination of City and County Welfare Departments and that such com- bination would be more effective in the field of public welfare and more economical in operation; and WHEREAS, it is the desire of both the City of Corpus Christi x acting through the City Council, and the County of Nueces acting through its Commissioners' Court'to create such a-City- County Welfare Board and to vest power of administration of public welfare matters in Welfare Board and provide for the financing of expenses and activities of said board: "Now therefore, be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi ": SECTION I: There is hereby created a Board composed of seven (7) members to be known as the "City- County Board of Public Welfare" which said Board shall be composed of two (2) members of the'City Council appointed by the Council; two (2) members of the County Commissioners' Court appointed by the Commissioners' Court; two (2) resident citizens of Nueces County, one of whom shall be appointed by the City Council and one by the County Commissioners' Court; and one (1) person to be selected by the majority vote of the six appointed members. This seventh member shall be a resident citizen of the City of Corpus Christi and Nueces County, Texas, who is not thebDlder of any public office, and who upon selection shall act as Chairman of the Board. SECTION II: DEFINITIONS: Whenever the term "City" is used herein then the term shall mean the City -of Corpus Christi acting by and through its City Council, and whenever the term "County" is used the name shall mean the County of Nueces acting by and through its County Commissioners' Court. The term "members of the City Council" shall include the Commissioners and the Mayor. And the term "County Commissioners' Court" shall include the County Commissioners and the County Judge of Nueces County. SECTION III: No compensation shall be paid to the members of the Board for their services on the Board. SECTION 17: The terms of office shall be for two (2) years and until their successors shall have been appointed and du]y qualified except that the terms of those appointed prior to May 1, 1953, shall expire May 10 1953. Thereafter, the terms shall run from May 1 of each odd - numbered year for two (2) years. SECTION V. The members of said Board shall take an oath of office such as is'r'equired of State Officers under the constitution. The Board shall hold at least one meeting each month, to be designated by the Board, and the failure of any member to attend three (3) consecutive regular meetings shall cause a vacancy in his office unless said absence is excused by formal action of the Board. Any member of said Board may be removed from office by the joint action of the City Manager and County Judge: )Any board member so removed by the City Manager and County Judge may, within five days after such removal, request in writing a public hearing before a joint session of the governing body and Commissioners' Court XAt such hearing a majority vote of each governing body voting for oragainst the sustaining of 'said removal shall be taken and in the event one body votes to sustain and the other reject the action of the City Manager and the County Judge, then, in that event, the removal as ordered by the City Manager and the County Judge shall be deemed to be sustained. SECTION VI: The City - County Welfare Board, upon appointment and qualification, shall select from their own members a Vice - Chairman and Secretary. The Board shall have the general supervision, management and control over the administration of relief to the indigent and poor who are residents of Nueces County, Texas, and subject to the terms of the City Charter over all matters of public welfare. The Board shall have power to make such rules end regulations as may be necessary or proper to carry out the duties with reference to handling of public relief and administration of -2- public welfare in the City of Corpus Christi and County of Nueces; provided that no rules shall be inconsistent with the laws of the State of Texas or with the Charter or Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi. / SECTION VII: The Board shall have the power and authority to provide for keeping of records and adopt such rules as may be deemed expedient, c. subject, however, to the Charter and Ordinances of the City of Corpus Christi and the applicable laws of the State of Texas and the United States. SECTION VIII: The City- County Welfare Board shall recommend to the governing body of the City of Corpus Christi and the Commissioners? Court of Nueces County the probable amount of money necessary to administer needed relief in the City of Corpus Christi and the County of Nuedes. Such recommen- dation shall be made on or before the first (1st) day of June of each year, or at such time as may be required by the budgetary officers of the City and of the County of Nueces, and the amount actually allotted for this purpose shall be agreed upon by the City and County of Nueces. The appropriation made by the governing body and the Commissioners? Court shall be in the proportion as may be agreed upon by the City and County covering the cost, conduct and operation of the relief provided for under this Ordinance. SECTION IX: The said City - County Welfare Board shall keep a record of its official proceedings, a copy of which shall be furnished to the City Manager of the City of Corpus Christi and another copy to the County Judge of the County of Nueces. The Chairman of the Board shall be responsible for the keeping of these minutes and the distribution thereof as hereinabove set forth. SECTION X: The City and County will provide in their respective budgets proposed eipenditures in detail, and no expenditures shall be made that are not provided for therein. SECTION XIs This Ordinance shall become effective upon passage thereof by the City Council as provided for by the City Charter and upon the approval thereof by the Commissioners' Court of Nueces County by passing by such County Commissioners' Court of a resolution approving the terms and provisions of this ordinance by causing said resolution, together with a copy of this Ordinance to be spread upon the minutes of the Commissioners Court. ^ =3- SECTION %II: The fact that closer cooperation between City - County Public Welfare Agencies is needed and that such cooperation can be accomplished by City- County Welfare Board creates a public emergency and imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the City 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 several i meetins of the City Council, and the Mayor having declared that such public emergency and imperative public necessity exist, and having requested that said Charter rule be suspended andthat 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 ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED. PASSED AND APPROVED this the_o day , A. D. 19R MAYOR, .. ....... City of Corpus Christi, Texas TTEST: . T y.. Secretary . . ........ APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM: ''.City •Atto ey .. • .. . r 3 Corpus Christi, Texas )4� 15.c.?., 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, Respectfull MAYOR City of Corpus Christi, Texas The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote: Leslie Wasserman Jack DeForrest/ Sydney E. Herndon �.• George L. Lowman r Frank E. Williamson �y The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Leslie Wasserman Jack DeForrest vow Sydney E. Herndon George L. Lowman -� Frank E. Williamson 31ga