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AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER FOR AND ON
BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TO ENTER INTO
A CONTRACT WITH CENTRAL POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY WHEREBY
CENTRAL POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY AGREES TO FURNISH
ELECTRIC SERVICE TOTHE CITY FOR STREET LIGHTING AT
LOCATIONS LISTED IN EXHIBIT "A" AND EXHIBIT "B" OF
THE CONTRACT, SAID CONTRACT BEING MADE A PART HEREOF
BY REFERENCE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. THAT THE CITY MANAGER BE, AVID HE IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED
AND DIRECTED FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TO ENTER INTO
A CONTRACT WITH CENTRAL POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY WI- ICREDY CENTRAL POWER AND
LIGHT COMPANY AGREES TO FURNISH ELECTRIC SERVICE TO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
FOR STREET LIGHTING AT LOCATIONS LISTED IN EXHIBIT "A" AND LXhIIDIT "B" OF THE
CONTRACT, SAID CONTRACT BEING MADE A PART HEREOF BY REFERENCE ON FILE IN THE
OFFICE OF THIS CITY SECRETARY.
SECTION 2. THE NECESSITY FOR ENTERING INTO THE CONTRACT DESCRIBED
114 SECTION 1 HEREOF TO PROVIDE ELECTRIC SERVICE TO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
FOR STREET LIGHTING CREATES A PUBLIC NECESSITY AND EMERGENCY REQUIRING THE SUS-
PENSION OF THE :,HARTER RULE 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 SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR,
HAVING DECLARED SUCH PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY TO EXIST, AND
HAV114G REQUESTED THAT SUCH CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE
BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IVI
FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE At. AY of NOvEMBER, 1955.
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ATTEST: MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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CITY SECRETARY
APPROVED AS 0 LEG,.L FORM
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November 9, 1955
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, 102 Current Fund
Fund from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not
appropriated for any other purpose.
Director of Finance
Corpus Christie Texas
TO.THE:KEKBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus: Christ ie.Texas
Gent l ewn:
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing
ar"saoce, a public emergency and imperative necessity exist for the suspen-
siow of the .Charter role 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,
MAYO
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The Charter Rule was suspended by the following vote:
Farrell D. Smith
Minor Culli
W, J. Roberts
B, E. Bigler
Manuel P. Maldonado
The above ordinance was passea by the following vote:
Farrell D. Smith
Minor Culli
W, J, Roberts
B, E. Bigler
Manuel P, Maldonado
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