HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes City Council - 11/10/1997 - JointI HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the minutes of the
Special Council Meeting of the City of Corpus Christi of November 10, 1997, which were approved
by the City Council on November 18, 1997.
WITNESSETH MY HAND AND SEAL, this 18th day of November, 1997
Armando Chapa
City Secretary
SEAL
MINUTES
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
Special Joint Meeting
City Council/Crime Control District Board of Directors
November 10, 1997
10:00 a.m.
City Council Members Present:
Arnold Gonzales
Edward Martin
City Staff Present:
Assistant City Manager Tom Utter
City Attorney James R. Bray Jr.
City Secretary Armando Chapa
Temporary Board/Crime Control District Present:
Laurie Cook
Sandra Lanier -Lerma
Cefe Valenzuela
Rose Vela
Council Member Martin called the meeting to order in the Council Chambers of City Hall.
City Secretary Chapa checked the roll and verified that the necessary quorum of the Council
and the required charter officers were present to conduct the meeting. (Note: Election law allows that
only two members of the Council are required to be present and constitute a quorum for purposes
of canvassing election results.)
Assistant City Manager Utter explained that the Council would canvass the election results
of Proposition 2 on the ballot (Community Progress Partnership proposals), and then the Crime
Control District Board members would move to another location to canvass the election results of
Proposition 1 on the ballot.
Mr. Chapa then explained that the information in front of the Council were the results that
the election judges presented to Mayor Neal on election night November 4, 1997. The results in the
book are the election results printed by the County Clerk as reported to him that evening. He said
to canvass the votes, they could conduct a spot check of some precincts presented to the Mayor and
compare them to the results reported by the County Clerk. Mr, Martin said he did not think they
needed to do a spot check of the precinct results; Mr. Chapa said he had checked all the results.
Mr. Martin then made a motion to approve the following ordinance, seconded by Council
Member Gonzales:
1. ORDINANCE NO 023127
Ordinance canvassing returns and declaring the results of the special election held on
November 4, 1997, in the City of Corpus Christi for the adoption of a Section 4B sales and
use tax rate of three-eighths of one percent to undertake community projects pursuant to
Section 4B of Article 5190.6.
Minutes
Joint Council Meeting
November 10, 1997
Page 2
An emergency was declared and the foregoing ordinance passed by the following vote:
Gonzales and Martin voting "Aye."
Mr. Martin called for comments from the audience, and there were none. He asked when the
Council needed to appoint the permanent board members of the Crime Control District. City
Attorney Bray replied that he did not think there was a specific date by which they needed to be
appointed, but he thought it should occur in the relatively near future. Mr. Martin asked if they
would be unilateral appointments by each Council member, and Mr. Bray replied that they would
be. He added that staff was discussing this issue with the Comptroller's Office to be sure they are
following their procedures. He said it may be that the Council will need to formally adopt that
specific manner in the statute in a Council action as a whole, whereby then each Council member
would make his or her one appointment.
There being no further business to come before the Council, Mr. Martin declared the joint
meeting adjourned at 10:13 a.m. on November 10, 1997.
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