HomeMy WebLinkAbout03222 ORD - 03/11/1952AN ORDINANCE
APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF THIRTY THOUSAND
FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS AND EIGHTY SI.X CENTS
($30,400.86) FROM NO. 296 IMPROVEMENT BONDS
1950 CONSTRUCTION FUND (STREET TRAFFIC
CONTROL SYSTEM) FOR THE INSTALLATION OF,
FIXTURES, CABLE AND CONTROLLERS ON THE
TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM OF CHAPARRAL AND
MESQUITE STREETS BETWEEN TWIGG STREET AND
COOPERS ALLEY; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, IT HAS BEEN AND IS NECESSARY FOR THE INSTALLATION OF
FIXTURES, CABLE AND CONTROLLERS ON THE TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM OF
CHAPARRAL AND MESQUITE STREETS BETWEEN TWIGG STREET AND COOPERS ALLEY;
AND
WHEREAS, FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE OUT OF NO. 296 IMPROVEMENT BONDS
19550 CONSTRUCTION FUND (STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM);
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1: THAT THERE IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED THE SUM OF THIRTY
THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS AND EIGHTY SIX CENTS ($30,400.8) FROM
N0. 296 IMPROVEMENT BONDS 1950 CONSTRUCTION FUND (STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL
SYSTEM) FOR THE INSTALLATION OF FIXTURES, CABLE AND CONTROLLERS ON THE
TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM AS FOLLOWS:
MATERIAL LABOR TOTAL
CHAPARRAL STREET- -TWIGG TO COOPER'S
ALLEY 12,181.19 3,442.00 15,623.19
MESQUITE STREET- -TWIGG TO COOPERS
ALLEY 11,677.67 3,100.00 142777-67
TOTALS $23,858.86 $6,5Tz oo $30
WHICH ITEMS TOTAL THE AMOUNT OF THIRTY THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS AND
EIGHTY SIX CENTS ($30,4DD.86).
SECTION 2: THE NECESSITY FOR INSTALLATION OF SAID TRAFFIC
CONTROL SYSTEM IN CONNECTION WITH THE OVERALL CITY PLAN FOR THE CENTRAL
BUSINESS AREA 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 DECLARED SUCH EMERGENCY AND
NECESSITY TO EXIST, REQUESTING THAT SAID CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED AND
THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND TAKE
EFFECT AND REIN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS
ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE � AY OF
A. D. 1952.
MA OR
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
EST:
CITY SECRETARY
APPROVED AS LEGAL FORM:
CITY ATTO NEYY
Corpus Christi, Texas
TO TGE 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 DeForrest
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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$30, 400 .86 , ' / — 'I� &.g.S 2_
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 SYSTEM)
Fund from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not
appropriated for any other purpose.
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