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APPROPRIATING.FROM NO. 141 WATER OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE
THE SUM OF FIVE 1HOUSAND ($5,000) DOLLARS TO BE PAID*AS THE
PRO RATA COST OF THE CITY FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES AND REPORTS
FROM AREA DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,OF
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION I. THAT THERE IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED FROM ND. 141 WATER
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE THE SUM OF FIVE THOUSAND ($5,000) DOLLARS TO
BE PAID AS THE PRO RATA COST OF THE CITY FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES AND RE-
PORTS FROM AREA DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS.
SECTION 2. THAT THE NECESSITY OF MAKING THE AFORESAID APPROPRIATION
IMMEDIATELY FOR SUCH SERVICES AND REPORTS, SAID SERVICES AND REPORTS BEING
OF THE GREATESTIMPORTANCE OF PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY AND GENERAL WELFARE INS r
THE PRESERVATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF GOOD GOVERNMENT OF SAID CITY BY PLAN-
NING FOR THE IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF SAID CITY IN ANTICIPATION OF
ITS RAPID GROWTH AND FUTURE NEEDS 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 INTRODUC-
TION 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, REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF SAID CHARTER RULE, AND
TIAT 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 PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE lz OF NOVEMBER, A.
D. 1952.
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THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
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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.
Respectfully,
MAYOR Pq r,
City of Opus 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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NOVEMBER 6, 1952
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.141 WATER OPERATIONS AND MAINMENANCE
Fund from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not
appropriated for any other purpose.
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Director of Finance