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AN ORDINANCE
APPROPRIATING FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY DOLLARS AND
TWENTY ONE CENTS ($520.21) AND AUTHORIZING PAYMENT
OF SAID SUM TO C. L. CASTOR FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF
A CONCRETE TRAFFIC ISLAND AT THE INTERSECTION OF
PEOPLES AND SCHATZEL STREETS, AND A CONCRETE SIDEWALK
ACROSS LOUISIANA PARKWAY ON THE EAST SIDE OF ALAMEDA,
ALL IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI; AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY. '
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1: THERE IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED THE SUM OF FIVE HUNDRED AND
TWENTY DOLLARS AND TWENTY ONE CENTS ($520.2 1 FROM NO. 297 IMPROVEMENT BOND 1951
CONSTRUCTION FUND (STREET IMPROVEMENTS), FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONCRETE TRAFFIC ISLAND AT THE INTERSECTION OF PEOPLES AND
SCHATZEL STREETS, AND A CONCRETE SIDEWALK ACROSS LOUISIANA PARKWAY ON THE EAST
SIDE OF ALAMEDA, CONSTRUCTED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI AT A TOTAL COST OF FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY DOLLARS
AND TWENTY ONE CENTS ($520.21).
SECTION 2: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IMPROVEMENTS MENTIONED IN SECTION 1
HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND ACCEPTED BY THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI BY AND THROUGH ITS
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, AND PAYMENT IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED TO BE MADE TO C. L.
CASTOR IN THE AMOUNT OF FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY DOLLARS ANDTWENTY ONE CENTS
($520.21) FROM THE FUNDS APPROPRIATED IN SECTION 1 HEREOF.
SECTION 3: THE NECESSITY FOR ACCEPTANCE AND PAYMENT OF THE WORK AND
IMPROVEMENTS DESCRIBED HEREIN CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND 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 PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY
TO EXIST, REQUESTING THE SUSPENSION OF SUCH 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 ITS PASSAGE, IS IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED THIS
,DAY OF APRIL, A. D. 1952.
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CITY SECRETARY WAR
CITY OF-CORPUS CHRISTI
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
CITY ATTORNEY
Corpus Christi, Texas
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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,
Respectf lly,
MAYOR ;
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
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The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
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Jack DeForrest
Sydney E. Herndon
George L. Lowman
Frank E. Williamson
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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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$520.21 Z12-5-.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. 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 X,►