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TEXAS:
AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER FOR AND ON
BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TO ENTER INTO A
CONTRACT WITH BROWN & ROOT, INC., FOR THE SUBSTRUCTURE
AND FENDERS FOR THE LIFT BRIDGE OVER TULE LAKE CHANNEL
IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, AS
I'40RE FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS
AND CONTRACT DOCUMENTS MADE A PART HEREOF BY REFERENCE;
APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF $782,870.00 OUT OF NO. 230
BR@DGE REMOVAL AND RELOCATION BOND FUND TO COVER THE
COST OF CONSTRUCTION, OF WHICH $715,370.00 IS THE CON-
TRACT PRICE AND $37,500.00 IS THE AMOUNT ALLOWED FOR
ENGINEERING AND CONTINGENCIES; AND DECLARING AN
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
SECTION 1. THAT THE CITY ;TANAGER IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED
TO EXECUTE FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI A CONTRACT WITH
BROWN u. ROOT, INC., FOR THE SUBSTRUCTURE AND FENDERS FOR THE LIFT BRIDGE OVER
TULE LAKE CHANNEL IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, AS MORE
FULLY DESCRIBED IN THE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS AND CONTRACT DOCUMENTS ON FILE
IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY SECRETARY, ALL OF WHICH ARE MADE A PART HEREOF BY
REFERENCE, AND ACCORDING TO THE BID OF BROWN & ROOT, INC., OPENED ON THE 7TH
DAY OF DECEMBER, 1955, SAID BID BEING THE LOWEST AND MOST ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE
CITY.
SECTION 2. THATTHERE IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED THE SUM OF $782,870.00
OUT OF ND. 230 BRIDGE REMOVAL AND RELOCATION BOND FUND TO COVER THE COST OF
CONSTRUCTION OF SAID SUBSTRUCTURE AND FENDERS, OF WHICH '$745,370.00 IS THE CON-
TRACT PRICE AND $371500.00 IS THE AMOUNT ALLOWED FOR ENGINEERING AND CONTINGENCIES.
SECTION 3. THE NECESSITY FOR COMMENCING SUBSTRUCTURE AND FENDERS
FOR THE LIFT BRIDGE OVER THE TULE LAKE CHANNEL 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 MEERINGS OF
THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR, HAVING DECLARED THAT SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY
EXIST, REQUESTS THAT SUCH CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE
PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED AND TAKE EFFECT AND DE IN FULL FORCE
AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
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PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE DAY OF FEURUARYj 1956.
MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
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CITY A'TTO'RNEY
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 r1 /o /7 ptis+.FrL z
Fund from which it is proposed to be drawn, and such money is not
appropriated for any other purpose.
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Director of Finance
Corpus- ,Christi. Texas
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TO THE. MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus, Chri.stiy.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-
siow 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,
MAYO
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The Charter Rule was suspended by the following vote:
Farrell D. Smith /Y-/, —
Minor Culli
W. J. Roberts
B, E. Bigler
Manuel P, Maldonado
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Farrell D. Smith
Minor Culli
W, J. Roberts
B, E. Bigler —�
Manuel P, Maldonado
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