HomeMy WebLinkAbout03374 ORD - 12/23/1952AN ORDINANCE
APPROPRIATING FROM NO. 296 IMPROVEMENT BONDS 1950
CONSTRUCTION FUND (STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL) THE
SUM OF $280.01+ TO COVER THE COST OF A TRAFFIC SIGNAL
SYSTEM AT THE INTERSECTION OF ANTELOPE STREET AND
PORT AVENUE, SUCH INSTALLATION TO BE MADE 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 15 HEREBY APPROPRIATED FROM No. 296
IMPROVEMENT BONDS 1950 CONSTRUCTION FUND (STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL)
THE SUM OF $250.04 TO COVER THE COST OF A TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT THE
INTERSECTION OF ANTELOPE STREET AND PORT AVENUE IN THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, SUCH INSTALLATIONS TO BE MADE BY CITY FORCES.
SECTION 2. THAT THE NECESSITY OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE TRAFFIC
SIGNALS IMMEDIATELY AS A PART OF THE TRAFFIC SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC
NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDI-
NANCE 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
DECLARED SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY, REQUESTING 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 FROM AND AFTERRITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY PASSED AND
APPROVED, THIS THE�//❑AY OF 1952.
__AlT MAYOR
TEST: THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
CITY SECRETARY
APP VED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
CITY A TORT EY
Corpus Christi, Texas
DFfFmsFR 231 1�
TO TLE 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. WILLIAMS ON
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JACK DEFORREST
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George L, Lowman
MAKE A. NEEDHAM JR.
The above ordinance was passed by
the following voted
Leslie Wasserman
FRANK E. WI LLIAMSON
JACK DEFORREST
George Lowman
MIKE A. NEEDH AM JR.
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INTER - OFFICE COMMUNICATION
Dept. P02 i ro
TO T.Ag'al Department
From Sg+t. W L Baakoi +� Traffin Coordinator Date December 19, 195 _
Subject_ - A=ouriation Ordinance
This Department requests that an ordinance be drawn appropriating $280.04
from Fund #296, Improvement Bonds 1950 Construction Fund, Street Traffic
Control, to cover the cost of a traffic signal system at the intersection
of Antelope Street and Port Avenue. Listed below is the cost of equipment
and labor:
One - 3 section non - adjustable traffic signal 205.04
Labor 75.00
280.04
Respectfully submitted,
Sgt. W. L. Baskett ....
Traffic Coordinator
WLB:pl
cc: H. H. Stirman
W. J. Burke
W. G. Graf
W. A. Duck
DECEMBER 23, 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. pa(, IMPpn\/FmFNT anNnc 1955Q
CONSTRUCTION FUND (STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL)
Fund from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not
appropriated for any other purpose.
Director of Finance