HomeMy WebLinkAbout18638 RES - 01/15/1985A RESOLUTION
SUPPORTING THE SULPHUR CREEK WATERSHED LAND TREATMENT
PROGRAM AND AGREEING TO ACT A5 A COSPONSOR ALONG 1417H LIVE
OAK, BEE, AND KARNES-GOLIAD SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION
DISTRICTS.
WHEREAS, the Sulphur Creek Watershed consists of 101,768 acres
in
three counties which are rapidly eroding at critical levels resulting to silt
collecting in the Lake Corpus Christi Reservoir operated by the City of Corpus
Christi thus reducing the capacity of said reservoir to hold water, and
WHEREAS, land treatment measures will solve the active gully erosion
and sheet and rill erosion, will keep the soil in place, sustain or improve
yields, improve the quality of water throughout the watershed and aid in
reducing sediments reaching Lake Corpus Christi which supplies water for
approxiimately
400,000 people
16 Corpus
Bluff, 01100, Kingsville, Beeville,
g y, port -Fulton, Aransas Pass,
Clarkwood, Annaville, Tuloso-Midway, Calailen, Mathis, Orange Grove, Banquete,
Bishop, Taft, Odem, Ingleside, Part Aransas, Ague Dulce, Ricardo, Driscoll, and
Violet, and
WHEREAS, existing cost share programs fall extremely short in meeting
the needs in the watershed for the high cost remedial practices such a
Terraces, Waterways, Grade Stabilization Structures, Critical Area Treatment,
Brush Management and Reseeding of Rangeland and Pasture land,
CORPUS CHRISTI
NOW, , 10THEREF660ORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SECTION 1. That the City Council on behalf of the people of Corpus
Christi wholeheartedly supports the Sulphur Greek Watershed Land Treatment
Program and urges the U.S. Soil Conservation Service to fund said programs.
SECTION 2 That the City Council agrees to act as a cosponsor of the
project along with the following Soil and Water Conservation Districts Live
Oak SWCD #323; Bee SWGO #344 and Karnes Gelled NCO #343.
SECTION 3. That the City Manager is authorized to ad to an
application for Federal assistance der the Watershed Protection andFlood
Prevention Act. t supplyall necessary information and to execute a grant
agreement on behalf of the City ofCorpus Christi to carry out such project.
SECTION 4. That upon written request of the Mayor or five Council
tubers copy attached, to find and declare an emergency due to the need for
land treatment measures due to depressed agricultural economy and long term
drought conditions, such o findig f an emergency is s de and declared requiring
suspension of the Charter rule as to consideration andvoting upon ordinances or
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resolutions at three regular meetings so that this resolution is passej and
shall take effect upon first reading as an emergency measure this the /S day
of January, 1985.
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APPPROVED: DAY OF JANUARY, 1985
?r,Alleck, ty Attorney
MAYOR
THE CITY 0 CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
Corpus�dd//� Christi, T
ia'"` day of i 198 3—
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
Far the reasonsset forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance
or resolution,emergency exists requiring suspension of the Charter rule
as to consideration and voting upon ordinances or esolutions at three
regular meetings, I/we, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule
and Lass this ordinance o resolution finally on the date it is introduced,
ora the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully, Respectfully,
Council Members
MAYOR
THE CIT OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
The above ordinance was passed b the folio
Luther Jones
Betty N. Turner
David Berlanga, Sr.
Welder Brown
Leo Guerrero
Dr. Charles W. Kennedy
Jae McComb
Frank Mendez
Mary Pat Slavik
ng vote.
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