HomeMy WebLinkAbout03315 ORD - 09/02/1952_ . - -- AN ORDINANCE
APPROPRIATING FROM tO. 297 IMPROVEMENT BONDS 19551 CONSTRUCTION
FUND STREET IMPROVEMENTS) ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED THIRTY -FOUR
DOLLARS AND ELEVEN CENTS ($1,231F.11) TO COVER THE COST OF IN-
STALLATION OF SIDEWALKS, CURBS, GUTTERS, INLET BASINS AND THE
RESURFACING AND ADDITION OF BASE OF PAVEMENT ON THE WEST SIDE OF
UPPER BROADWAY BETWEEN MESTENYA STREET AND LEOPARD STREET IN THE
CITY, SUCH WORK TO BE PERFORMED BY CITY FORCES; DIRECTING THE
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS TO PROCEED WITH SAID PROJECT; AND DE-
CLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, THERE IS NEEDED ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED THIRTY -FOUR AND
11100 DOLLARS ($1,234.11) FOR STREET AND SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS ON UPPER
BROADWAY BETWEEN MESTENYA STREET AND LEOPARD STREET TO REPLACE AND IMPROVE
SAME; AND
WHEREAS, THERE ARE SUFFICIENT FUNDS AVAILABLE AND UNAPPROPRIATED IN
No. 297 IMPROVEMENT BONDS 1951 CONSTRUCTION FUND (STREET IMPROVEMENTS) FROM
WHICH TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS TO COVER THE COST OF SAID INSTALLATIONS; AND
WHEREAS, IT IS CONTEMPLATE THAT SAID WORK IS TO BE DONE BY CITY FORCES;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT THERE IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED
THIRTY FOUR AND 11100 DOLLARS ($1,234.11) FROM NO. 297 IMPROVEMENT BONDS 1951
CONSTRUCTION FUND (STREET IMPROVEMENTS) TO COVER THE COST OF SIDEWALK AND OTHER
STREET IMPROVEMENTS AND PAVEMENT TO WIDEN UPPER BROADWAY BETWEEN MESTENYA
AND LEOPARD STREETS AND TO REPLACE CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS NOW EXISTING, AS
SUCH INSTALLATIONS ARE SET FORTH IN THE ESTIMATE MADE BY THE DIRECTOR OF
PUBLIC WORKS, ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF, SUCH WORK TO BE DONE
BY CITY FORCES.
SECTION 2. THAT THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED
AND DIRECTED TO PROCEED WITH SAID PROJECT AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 HEREOF
AND THE ESTIMATE ATTACHED HERETO.
SECTION 3. THAT THE NECESSITY OF MAKING THE AFORESAID APPROPRIATION
IMMEDIATELY SO THAT CITY'FORCES MAY PROCEED WITH SAID WORK OF WIDENING AND
IMPROVING SAID STREET, SUCH STREET IMPROVEMENTS BEING TO THE BENEFIT OF THE
SAFETY, HEALTH, AND GENERAL WELFARE OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, CREATES AN 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 IN-
TRODUCTION AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE SEVERAL
MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR, HAVING ®'E(CLARED SUCH EMERGENCY
�3IS
AND NECESSITY TO EXIST, HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF SAID 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 F� AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS
ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE —DAY of SEPTEMBER, A.D. 1952.
MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
TTEST:
ITY SECRETARY
APP OVED AST LE%L FORM:
CITY ATT69NEY
Corpus Christi, Texas
TO TI;E MEMBERS OF TO 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
33'IS
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 1
r
ORDINANCE IS AN APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE, AS WELL AS FILLING OUT FIRST PAGE,
AST GIVE THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
USE 0 PROPRIATED MONEY:
To widen Broadwgp between Yestena Street and Leopard Stresty
CORRECT FUND OR %Seat
Bond Fend No. rprovementa 3F BUM FUND, PLORM'Y FOR OPRIATION:
BREAKDOWN OF APPROPRIATION: \
See estimate below.
*PRIVATE CONTRACT CITY FORCES:(NAML)
City For
ASE ATTACH UNSIGNED CERTIFICATION OF SUFFIC3ENTY OF AVAILABLE 17S:
TTAOH ESTIMATE OF COSTS, ETC. \
*IF BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, FILL OUT PAGE 3
REFERENCES OR RMAARRS.
BREAKDOWN OF APPROPRIATIONT
ESTIMATE
Coat to widen Upper Broadway from Mestena Street 1001 North and 31' wide.
Existing curb and gutter was removed and one new catch basin put ifio
Excavated aubgrade and placed 6" Ready6&x Concrete and 10 of Rook Asphalt
for surface.
Material and Labor Coat:
Ready—six Concrete 21 cu. yds. 0 $9.90 per on. yd. $ 207090
321 Reinforced Concrete Pipe ® $0.83 per foot 26.56
Eight sacks cement ' 8000
Three (3) Cu. Yda. concrete sand 6.15
Select Material 16 on. yde. ® $0.35 per cu. yd. 5.60
Rock Asphalt 14 cu. yde. 0 $4950 per cu. yd. 63.00
RC»2 Liquid Asphalt 28 gala. 0 .31580 per gal. 3.24
Labor and Supervision 511.76
96 lino ft. of curb and gutter ® $1.50 per lin. ft. 14600
528 sq. ft. of 4" concrete sidewalk ! $0.15 per sq. ft. 237.60
1 set Concrete Steps 20.00
Total Coat $1,234.31
Porpose of this work is the widening of Upper Broadwgp in order to improve
the flow of traffic and parking conditions in this ea. We recommend '
authorisation of this appropriation.
H. H. Stirman,
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