HomeMy WebLinkAbout18911 RES - 07/02/1985A RESOLUTION
AGREEING TO INCLUDE IN THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BOND
REFERENDUM ANTICIPATED FOR 1986, AT LEAST $1,300,000 FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION OF AN ADDITION TO THE CORPUS CHRISTI MUSEUM;
AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi through its
official action on June 18, 1985, requested that the Texas Antiquities Committee
designate the Corpus Christi Museum as the depository for the artifacts from the
Spanish Shipwreck found off Padre Island, known as the Platoro/Keenan/Purvis
Collection; and
WHEREAS, the Texas Antiquities Committee entrusted the San Esteban
Collection of artifacts to the Corpus Christi Museum under an agreement executed
March 19, 1984; and
WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to give the Texas Antiquities
Committee assurance of their good faith efforts to fund the construction of an
addition to the Museum suitable to house the Shipwreck Collections; and
WHEREAS, the Museum Advisory Board is proposing to raise funds from
private sources to supplement public funding of the construction of an
addition to the Corpus Christi Museum for exhibit, storage laboratory, and
support areas for the Shipwreck Collections.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the City Council will include in the Capital
Improvement Bond Referendum to be proposed to the voters in early 1986, at least
$1,300,000 to fund the construction of an Archeology Wing onto the Corpus
Christi Museum to house the San Esteban and Platoro/Keenan/Purvis Collections.
SECTION 2. That the City Council will support the passage of the bond
proposition and the fund raising activities of the Museum Advisory Board.
SECTION 3. That the City Secretary is hereby authorized and directed
to forward a certified copy of this resolution to the Texas Antiquities
Committee at Austin, Texas.
SECTION 4. That upon written request of the Mayor or five Council
members, copy attached, to find and declare an emergency because of the
necessity to establish the Archeology Wing of the Museum as a priority for the
Capital Improvement Bond Program, such emergency made and declare requires
suspension of the Charter rule as to consideration and voting upon ordinances or
resolutions at three regular meetings so that this resolution is passed and
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shall take effect upon first reading as an emergency measure this 2nd day of
July, 1985.
ATTEST:
City Secretary V 'MAYOR
THE "ITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
APPROVED: % ma DAY OF JULY, 1985
ssistant
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Corpus Christi, Te s
irc2j%Q/ day of , 1985
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
Corpus Christi, Texas
For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance
or resolution, an emergency exists requiring suspension of the Charter rule
as to consideration and voting upon ordinances or resolutions at three
regular meetings; I/we, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule
and pass this ordinance or resolution finally on the date it is introduced,
or at the present meeting of the City Council.
Respectfully, Respectfully,
Council Members
The above ordinance
Luther Jones
Dr. Jack Best
David Berlanga, Sr.
Leo Guerrero
Joe McComb
Frank Mendez
Bill Pruet
Mary Pat Slavik
Linda Strong
was passed
by
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
the following vote:
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