HomeMy WebLinkAbout03366 ORD - 12/09/1952AN ORDINANCE
APPROPRIATING FROM NO. 296 IMPROVEMENT BONDS
1950 CONSTRUCTION FUND (STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL)
THE SUM OF $747.37 TO COVER THE COST OF A TRAFFIC
SIGNAL SYSTEM AT THE INTERSECTION OF KOSTDRYZ ROAD
AND SOUTH STAPLES STREET, SAID WORK TO BE DONE BY
CITY FORCES; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY'OF CORPUS
CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT THERE IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED FROM No. 296
IMPROVEMENT BONDS 1950 CONSTRUCTION FUND (STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL) THE
SUM OF SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY -SEVEN DOLLARS AND THIRTY -SEVEN CENTS ($747.37)
TO COVER THE COST OF A TRAFFIC SIGNAL SYSTEM AT THE INTERSECTION OF
KOSTORYZ ROAD AND SOUTH STAPLES STREET IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ESTIMATE AND REQUEST ATTACHED HERETO AND
MADE A PART HEREOF.
SECTION 2. THAT THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS IS HEREBY
AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO PROCEED WITH SUCH INSTALLATIONS WITH CITY
FORCES-.
SECTION 3. THAT THE NECESSITY OF PROMPTLY MAKING SUCH IN-
STALLATION WHEN NEEDED AS A PART OF THE TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM OF THE CITY
CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING
THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO RESOLUTION OR ORDINANCE 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, HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF THE 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,
IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE ? &_DAY OF DECEMBER, A.
D. 1952. r '
MAY JItl�R r
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
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CITY SECRETARY
LAPP VED AS TO EGAL FORM:
CITY AlrT6R4EY �n
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
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
' Leslie Wasserman
Frank E. Williamson
Jack DeForrest
George L. Lowman
M. A. Needham,Jr.
' The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Leslie Wasserman
Frank E. Williamson s�
Jack DeForrest
George L. Lowman
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M. A. Needham, Jr.
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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. —P
Fund from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not
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appropriated for any other purpose.
Director of Finance