HomeMy WebLinkAbout03358 ORD - 11/28/1952AN ORDINANCE
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INCREASING THE APPROPRIATION AUTHORIZED BY ORDINANCE NO. 2933,
PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE 21ST DAY OF'
NOVEMBER, A.D. 1950, BY APPROPRIATING THE ADDITIONAL AMOUNT
OF $487.64 TO COVER THE BALANCE OF COST IN EXCESS OF THE ESTI-
MATE ON THE COST OF INSTALLING TRAFFIC SIGNALS AND REARRANGING
TRACKS FOR LIPAN STREET CROSSING, SUCH AMOUNT TO BE PAID SAN
ANTONIO, UVALDE AND GULF RAILROAD COMPANY, DEBTOR, GUY A. THOMPSON,
TRUSTEE (MISSOURI PACIFIC LNES) AS A PORTION OF THE CONSIDERATION
FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF A RIGHT -OF -WAY IN CONNECTION THE EXTENSION
OF LIPAN STREET, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF EXPENSES
ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF; SAID AMOUNT OF $487.64 IS.
HEREBY APPROPRIATED FROM NO. 297 IMPROVEMENT BONDS 1954 CONSTRUC-
TION FUND (STREET IMPROVEMENTS); AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, BY ORDINANCE No. 2933, PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
ON THE 21ST DAY OF NOVEMBER, A.D. 1950, THERE WAS APPROPRIATED $7,468.00 TO
BE PAID SAN ANTONIO, UVALDE & GULF RAILROAD FOR THE ESTIMATED COST OF INSTALL-
ING TRAFFIC SIGNALS AND REARRANGING TRACKS, AS CONSIDERATION OF THE CONVEY-
ANCE BY SAID RAILROAD OF RIGHT -OF -WAY FOR THE EXTENSION OF LIPAN STREET; AND
WHEREAS, BY THE TERMS OF THE RIGHT -OF -WAY DEED AND DEDICATION, A
COPY OF WHICH WAS A PART OF SAID ORDINANCE, IT WAS AGREED, AND SUCH CONVEY-
ANCE WAS CONDITIONED UPON SAME, THAT THE CITY PAY SUCH AMOUNT AS IS NECES-
SARY TO REARRANGE CERTAIN TRACTS AND INSTALL FIVE RAIL CROSSINGS AND ONE SIGNAL
WARNING LIGHT, WHICH AMOUNT WAS AT THAT TIME ESTIMATED AT $7,468.00;
WHEREAS, SAID APPROPRIATION BEING INSUFFICIENT TO COVER THE COST OF
SAID PROJECT, IT IS NOW NECESSARY TO MAKE ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION TO COVER
THE SAME IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SAID RIGHT -OF -WAY DEED
AND - DEDICATION:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
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CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT THERE IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED THE SUM OF FOUR HUNDRED
EIGHTY -SEVEN DOLLARS AND SIXTY -FOUR CENTS ($487.64) FROM N0. 297, IMPROVEMENT
BONDS 195111 CONSTRUCTION FUND (STREET IMPROVEMENTS) TO COVER THE COST IN EXCESS
OF THE ORIGINAL ESTIMATE OF INSTALLING TRAFFIC SIGNALS AND REARRANGING TRACTS,
TO BE PAID SAN ANTONIO, UVALDE AND GULF RAILROAD COMPANY, DEBTOR, GUY A.
THOMPSON, TRUSTEE (MISSOURI PACIFIC LINES) FOR SUCH INSTALLATION AS A PORTION
OF THE CONSIDERATION PAID FOR SAID CONVEYANCE FOR THE EXTENSION OF LIPAN
STREET, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH CONVEYANCE AND THE ORDIANCE AUTHORIZING SAME.
SECTION 2. THAT THE NECESSITY OF C OMPLYING WITH THE CONDITIONS
OF SAID CONVEYANCE BY MAKING THE AFORESAID APPROPRIATION IMMEDIATELY CREATES
A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPEN-
SION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINAL-
LY 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, HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPEN-
SION 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 FROM
AND AFTER ITS PASSAGES IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED THIS THE
DAY OF NOVEMBER, A.D. 1952. '
MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
�TTEST:
CITY SECRETARY
APPROVED AS :7GAL FORM:
CITY AT 0 • "Y
Corpus Christi, Texas
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TO THE MEM13ERS 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.
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Respectfully,
MAYOR
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the
following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
rn. a�Y
George L. Lowman
Frank E. Williamson
The above ordinance was passed by the
following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Jack DeForrest
m. 7. Yuu:lur,. &• .
George L. Lowman
Frank E. Williamson
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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
Fund from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not
appropriated for any other purpose.
Director of Finance ,