HomeMy WebLinkAbout12534 RES - 03/12/1975A RESOLUTION
RESOLUTION ENDORSING THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI'S 1975
ANNUAL PROGRAM OF PROJECTS FOR SECTION 5 FUNDS,, AS
PROVIDED BY THE URBAN MASS TRANSPORTATION ACT OF 1964,
AS AMENDED, AND AS PARTICULARLY AMENDED BY THE NATIONAL
TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1974; AND DECLARING AN
EMERGENCY,
WHEREAS, the City of Corpus Christi is the Metropolitan Planning
Organization for the Corpus Christi Urbanized Area;
WHEREAS, the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended,
and as particularly amended by the National Transportation Assistance Act
of 1974 (THE ACT), requires Metropolitan Planning Organizations to en-
dorse annually programs for Section 5 funds in their respective urban-
ized areas; k
WHEREAS, the City of Corpus Christi, as the only operator of a
public transit system in the urbanized area, has submitted the 1975 annual
program of projects for Section 5 funds as required by THE ACT; and,
WHEREAS, the Corpus Christi Metropolitan Planning Organization has
reviewed the above program and has found the projects to be consistent with
the current transit development program and the comprehensive planning pro -`:
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cess; I
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Corpus Christi,
as the Corpus Christi Metropolitan Planning Organization for the Corpus
Christi Urbanized Area, hereby endorses the City of Corpus Christi's 1975 '
annual program of4projects for Section 5 funds.
BE'IT FURTHER RESOLVED that to endorse the City's 1975 annual
program of projects for Section 5 funds as provided by the Urban Mass
Transportation Actiof 1964, as amended, 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 but 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 exist, and having requested
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the suspension of the Charter rule and that this resolution be passed
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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 RESOLVED,
this the 12th day of March, 1975.
ATTEST:
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L�y Secretary
!M DAY DAY OF MARCH, 1975:
Acting City Attorney
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MAYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
Corpus Christi, Texas
day of , 19?�
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
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,
request that you suspend said Charter rule or requirement and pass this ordi-
nance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the
City Council.
Respectfully,
MAYOR
HE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The Charter rule was suspended by the following vote:
Jason Luby
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Jason Luby
James T. Acuff
Rev. Harold T. Branch
Thomas V. Gonzales
Ricardo Gonzalez
Gabe Lozano, Sr.
J. Howard Stark