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A RESOLUTION
DESIGNATING AND NAMING THAT CERTAIN PARK AND RECREATION
AREA OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI DESCRIBED-IN ORDINANCE
NO. 3243, BEING APPROXIMATELY 20 ACRES OF LAND OUT OF CITY
OWNED PROPERTY ON GOLLIHAR ROAD, THE EVELYN PRICE PARK;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, MRS. EVELYN ARMSTRONG PRICE HAS EXHIBITED UNUSUAL INTEREST
IN AND HAS•GREATLY CONTRIBUTED TOWARD THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PARK SYSTEM
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS; AND
WHEREAS, IT IS FITTING THAT HER CONTRIBUTION TO THE BEAUTIFICATION
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, THROUGH THE IMPROVEMENT OF ITS PARK
AND RECREATION SYSTEM, AND AS A MEMBER OF THE PARK AND RECREATION GOAD OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, BE RECOGNIZED AND THAT SUCH RECOGNITION BE
GIVEN BY THE NAMING OF A PARK AND RECREATION AREA IN COMMEMORATION OF HER
EFFORTS; AND
WHEREAS, ORDINANCE N0. 3243, PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI ON THE 8TH DAY OF APRIL, 1952, DID SET ASIDE
AND DESIGNATE APPROXIMATELY 20 ACRES OF LAND OUT OF CITY OWNED PROPERTY
ON GOLLIHAR ROAD AS A PARK SITE; AND SAID SITE IS AS YET UNNAMED, AND THE
RECOMMENDATION OF MANY CITIZENS OF CORPUS CHRISTI, INCLUDING THE PARK AND
RECREATION BOARD OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, HAS BEEN EXPRESSED
AS BEING FAVORABLE TO THE NAMING OF SAID PARK AREA THE EVELYN PRICE PARK;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION I. THAT THAT CERTAIN PARK AND RECREATION AREA BEING AP-
PROXIMATELY 20 ACRES OUT OF CITY OWNED LAND ON GOLLIHAR ROAD, MORE PARTICU-
LARLY DESCRIBED IN ORDINANCE NO. 3243 OF UHE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS,
BE, AND THE SAME IS HEREBY, DESIGNATED AND NAMED EVELYN PRICE PARK IN COM-
MEMORATION OF THE EFFORTS OF MRS. EVELYN ARMSTRONG PRICE ON BEHALF OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS.
SECTION II. THE IMMEDIATE NEED OF EXPRESSING THE PUBLIC FAVOR AND
IMMEIDATELY NAMING SUCH PARK AREA CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERA-
TIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO
ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION
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AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE SEVERAL MEET-
INGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR HAVING DECLARED SUCH EMERGENCY AND
NECESSITY TO EXIST, REQUESTING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE AND THAT
THIS RESOLUTION 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 RESOLVED. /
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS THE/ DAY OF JULY, A.D. 1952•
MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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CITY SECRETARY
APP OVED AST LEGAL FORM:
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CITY ATTO N Y
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Corpus Christi, Texas
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TO TUE 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,
Respect full
MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended
by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
Sydney E. Herndon
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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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