HomeMy WebLinkAbout04711 ORD - 01/02/1957IMS /TS/1 -2 -57
AN ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF CIVILIAN DEFENSE
AIR RAID WARNING SYSTEM EQUIPMENT FROM ELECTRIC
CONSTRUCTION COMPANY ON THEIR BID IN THE TOTAL
AMOUNT OF $7,352,00 TO BE PAID OUT OF NO. 205
CIVILIAN DEFENSE FUND; APPROPRIATING THE SUN OF
$7,352.00 OUT OF NO. 205 CIVILIAN DEFENSE FUND;
AUTHORIZING THE USE OF $3,691.98 FROM THE GENERAL
FUND OF THE, CITY UNTIL THE REIMBURSEMENT BY THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND APPROPRIATING AND RE—
APPROPRIATING THE SUM: OF $72.25 FROM THE EMERGENCY
AND NON— RECURRING APPROPRIATION — CURRENT FUND: AND
DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS
CHRISTI:
SECTION I. THAT THE CITY MANAGER IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED AND
DIRECTED TO PURCHASE, FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
CIVILIAN DEFENSE AIR RAID WARNING SYSTEM EQUIPMENT FROM ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION
COMPANY ON THEIR BID IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $7,352.00 TO BE PAID OUT OF NO.
205 CIVILIAN DEFENSE FUND.
SECTION 2. THAT THERE IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED THE SUM OF
$7,352.00 OUT OF N0. 205 CIVILIAN DEFENSE FUND.
SECTION 3. THAT AN ADVANCE OF $3,619.73 IS HEREBY
AUTHORIZED TO BE PAID FROM THE GENERAL FUND OF THE CITY INTO FUND N0.205
CIVILIAN DEFENSE FUND UNTIL THE REIMBURSEMENT BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SECTION 4. THAT THERE IS HEREBY APPROPRIATED AND
REAPPROPRIATED THE SUM OF $72.25 FROM THE EMERGENCY AND NON - RECURRING
APPROPRIATION- CURRENT FUND TO BE TRANSFERRED INTO FUND NO. 205 CIVILIAN
DEFENSE FUND.
SECTION 5. THE NECESSITY OF PROVIDING DISASTER WARNING SIGNALS
IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI 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 REGULAR MEETINGS OF THE
CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR, HAVING DECLARED THAT SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY
EXIST, REQUESTING THAT SUCH CHARTER RULE BE SUSPENDED AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE
BE PASSED ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE
AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, IT IS ACCORJDINGLY SO ORDAINED.
PASSED AND APPROVED, THIS THE ! DAY OF JANUARY, 1957.
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CITY ATT RNE
December 31, 1956
I certify to the City Council that the money required for
the contract, agreement, obligation, or expenditure contemplated it
the above and foregoing Ordinance is in the Treasury of the City of
Corpus Christi to the credit of No, 205 Civilian Defense Fund
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
C,07US CHRISTI, TEXAS
1959
TO THE MEMBERS OF-THE CITY COUNCIL
CORPUS CHRISTI. TEXAS
GENTLEMEN:
FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF.TNE FORE-
GOING ORDINANCE, A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR THE
SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLU-
TION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT 15 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 INTRO -
OUCED, OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
RESPECTFULLY, f/
MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
FARRELL D. SMITH
M. J. ROBERTS `
MINOR CULLI
B. E. BIGLER
J
MANUEL P. MALDONADO
THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWINd VOTE:
FAR04 ,Q. SMITH ~
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W. J. ROBERTS
MINOR CULLI
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B. E. BIGLER
MANUEL P. MALDONADO
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