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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04458 ORD - 02/08/1956AC:2/9/56 AN ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF $8,000.00 OUT OF THE UN- APPROPRIATED FUND BALANCE OF NO. 108 STREET FUND TO PURCHASE EQUIPMENT FOR THE STREET DIVISION OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT; 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 THE SUM OF $8,000.00 OUT OF THE UNAPPROPRIATED FUND BALANCE OF N0. 108 STREET FUND, WHICH HAS ACCRUED FROM EXCESS OF REVENUE OVER ESTIMATED REVENUE AS SHOWN IN THE CITY BUDGET, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACQUIRING WORKING EQUIPMENT FOR THE STREET DIVISION OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AS MAY BE REQUIRED, WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL, PRIOR TO THE PURCHASE OF SUCH EQUIPMENT. SECTION 2. THE NECESSITY FOR PROVIDING FUNDS FOR THE PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT FOR THE STREET DIVISION OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT CREATES A PUBLIC - EMERGENCY AND AN IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION 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 THAT SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY TO EY,IST, AND HAVING 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 IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED. PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE �KDAY OF FEBRUARY, 1956. MAYOR J THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS ATT�T. CITY SE RE ARY APPROVED AS TO LEGAL F M FESRUA Y 8, lg 6: CITY ATTORNEY �f4S� 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. /a b JZ�, A Fund from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not appropriated for any other purpose, 22L, /J 1 II-I Director of Finance Co Pp hristi, Texas �G 9 14, 1 TO THE..MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus.Chri.sti, 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 resolhtion 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 - 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 passed by the following vote: Farrell D. Smith Minor Cull! W, J, Roberts B. E. Bigler Manuel P. Maldonado �qs�F (` y