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Home My WebLink About022204 ORD - 04/04/1995AN ORDINANCE CALLING A RUNOFF ELECTION FOR COUNCIL MEMBER DISTRICT TWO AND COUNCIL MEMBER DISTRICT THREE, IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, TO BE HELD ON THE 15TH DAY OF APRIL, 1995; DESIGNATING POLLING PLACE LOCATIONS FOR SUCH ELECTION; ENACTING PROVISIONS INCIDENT AND RELATING TO THE SUBJECT AND PURPOSE OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, the regular City election for Mayor and eight (8) Council Members in the City of Corpus Christi was held on April 1, 1995, in accordance with law; WHEREAS, the official canvass of said election reveals that none of the candidates for the offices of Council Member District Two and Council Member District Three received the number of votes required for election; and WHEREAS, Article II, Section 3, of the City Charter sets the runoff election for the second Saturday following the regular election. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, THAT: SECTION 1. That a runoff election for the offices of Council Member District Two, and Council Member District Three, in the City of Corpus Christi, shall be held in the City of Corpus Christi on April 15, 1995, with the names of the following candidates for the respective office as follows: Council Member, District Two Cezar Galindo Betty Black Council Member, District Three John Longoria Ruben Canales SECTION 2. That at said election herein ordered all the qualified voters of the City of Corpus Christi eligible to vote in the runoff election shall be permitted to vote. SECTION 3. That the names of candidates for said office shall be placed on said ballot in the manner and form prescribed by law. SECTION 4. That voting machines shall be employed at the election in accordance with 022204 the Texas Election Code and the election shall be held at the polling places in the regularly prescribed precincts of the City of Corpus Christi, as set forth on Attachment A hereto, incorporated by reference and made part of this ordinance. The Election shall be held in accordance with the election laws of the State of Texas. The polls shall be open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on the day of the Election. SECTION 5. The City Secretary shall conduct the Election as directed by ordinance of the City Council and by law. SECTION 6. Voting machines shall be used for the conduct of the Election on election day and paper ballots shall be used for conducting early voting. Early voting in person at each of the temporary branch polling places shall be conducted form 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., beginning on April 8, 1995, and ending on April 11, 1995. Such early voting in person may be conducted at the main early polling place located in the lobby of City Hall, adjacent to the office of the City Secretary, 1201 Leopard, or at the temporary branch polling places hereby established as follows: Westside Site Southside Site 4040 Greenwood Greenwood Senior Citizen Center 5151 McArdle C. C. Area Council for the Deaf In addition, early voting in person may be conducted at the mobile temporary branch polling places set forth in the attached Exhibit B, incorporated by reference and made a part of this ordinance, during the days and hours specified therein. The City Secretary is authorized, in the event of an emergency, preventing any of the designated polling places from being utilized, to provide for suitable replacement locations. Each branch polling place and the main early polling place shall serve all election precincts. SECTION 7. The City Secretary is directed to post and publish such election notices as are required by the Election laws of the State of Texas. SECTION 8 By approving and signing this ordinance, the Mayor officially confirms as her action all matters recited in this ordinance which by law come within her jurisdiction. SECTION 9. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgement of a court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, work, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent of this City council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose. SECTION 10. The fact that it is necessary and essential that the governing body of the City of Corpus Christi order elections pertaining to municipal affairs, that the notice of such election should be promptly posted and published, that a runoff election shall be held on the second Saturday following the regularly scheduled election, and that the requirements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 may be timely met, and immediate action is necessary for the efficient and effective administration of the City's affairs, creates a public emergency and an imperative public necessity requiring the suspension of the Charter rule that no ordinance shall be passed finally on the date of its introduction but that such ordinance shall be read at two meetings of the City Council, and the Mayor, having declared that such emergency and necessity exist, having requested the suspension of the Charter rule and that this ordinance be passed finally on the date of its introduction and take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, the Council hereby finds that such emergency and necessity do exist, and IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, this the L� day of April, 1995. ATTEST: City Secretary MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI APPROVED: d DAY OF April, 1995 JAMES R. BRAY, JR., CITY ATTORNEY TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL Corpus Christi, Texas For the reasons set forth in the emergency clause of the foregoing ordinance an emergency exists requiring suspension of the Charter rule as to consideration and voting upon ordinances at two regular meeting; I/we, therefore, request that you suspend said Charter rule and pass this ordinance finally on the date it is introduced, or at the present meeting of the City Council. Respectfully, Respectfully, Council Members MAYOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI The above ordinance was passed by the following vote: Mary Rhodes CtAle Jack Best //��t� Melody Cooper l'YJ.V.LA Cezar Galindo Ll/✓ Betty Jean Longoria aLy Edward Martin Clif Moss David McNicholsp David Noyola 022204 PRECINCT 1 CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI RUNOFF ELECTION APRIL 15, 1995 POLLING PLACE & ADDRESS DISTRICT First Presbyterian Church 2 430 S. Carancahua 4 Kostoryz Elementary School 3 3602 Panama 20 Galvan Elementary School 3 3126 Masterson 21 Kiwanis Recreation Center 2 3933 Timon Boulevard 24 Del Mar College (West) - Coleman Center, Room 106 3 Old Brownsville Road 31 Vasquez Garage 2 1025 10th Street 33 George Evans Elementary School 2 1315 Comanche *34 Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church 3 1080 S. Clarkwood 39 Ayers Street Church of Christ 2 1610 Lawnview at Ayers 43 Travis Elementary School 2 1645 Tarlton 48 Mosier Garage 3 4637 Branscomb 50 & 59 Lindale Recreation Center 2 3133 Swantner 53 Sam Houston Elementary School 2 363 Norton Street 56 La Armada Boys & Girls Hall 2 1455 Southgate 57 Del Mar College, Richardson Auditorium 2 Baldwin & Ayers * Indicates partially outside the city limits. Only voters residing inside the city limits may vote. PRECINCT POLLING PLACE & ADDRESS DISTRICT 58 Menger Elementary School 2401 S. Alameda 60 Adult Learning Center 3902 Morgan Avenue 62 Wynn Seale Middle School 1707 Ayers Street 66 Bayshore Bible Church 901 Brawner Parkway 67 Recreation Warehouse 821 Louisiana 68 Bledsoe Garage 1430 Ormond 69 Baker Middle School 3445 Pecan Street 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 71 & 95 Lexington Elementary School 3 2901 McArdle 72 Central Park Elementary School 3602 McArdle 73 James W. Fannin Elementary 2730 Gollihar 74 Cunningham Middle School 4321 Prescott 75 David Crockett Elementary School 2625 Belton 78 John F. Kennedy School (Cafeteria) 5040 Rockford 80 Skinner Elementary School (Cafeteria) 1001 Bloomington 83 Gulf Coast Council of La Raza 2203 Baldwin Blvd. 85 T.G. Allen Elementary School 2002 Elizabeth Indicates partially outside the city limits. Only voters residing inside the city limits may vote. 2 2 3 2 3 3 2 2 PRECINCT POLLING PLACE & ADDRESS DISTRICT 87 Carroll Lane Elementary School 4120 Carroll Lane 93 Water Utilities Building (Conference Room) 2726 Holly Road 94 Calk Elementary School 4621 Marie 96 Kirton Garage 3013 Brawner Parkway 97 Rosas Garage 4462 Dinn 98 Foy H. Moody High School 1818 Trojan Drive 2 3 2 2 2 3 106 Tom Browne Middle School 3 4301 Schanen 113 Garcia Elementary School 3 4401 Greenwood *114 & *15 St. John's Baptist Church Annex 3 5445 Greenwood 118 Trinity Church of the Nazarene 3 6225 Weber 121 Yeager Elementary School 5414 Tripoli * Indicates partially outside the city limits. Only voters residing inside the city limits may vote. 3 EE EE do. as 00 00 00 00 rz-: io r` O 0 0 0 EE EE WI oO oO O O N r r r r 0 W Z I -O in f= La rn CD CD 1.0 1.0 Z W r CD CD rn rn ~ W r r r r Q LL J w co' co" O) O) U.! to Q as c`�a JZa 0 QQ Q¢ O re v v 5 W OD w ce 0 0 Q z O Q 0 J 3 • O 3 0 c= c= a • )o- 2a 0 vi 0 to O) r O) r NI- N ' 7 N 0 V O O O O 3 3 c c a) a) a) a) 0 6 a • m . i U m U li E m E m � o� April 10, 1995 April 11, 1995 Nueces County Courthouse Nueces County Courthouse PUBLISHER'S AIIIII)AVIT State of Texas, } CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI County of Nueces } ss: Ad 8'8769 PO# Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came Darrell G. Coleman, who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is Vice -President and Chief Financial Officer of the Corpus Christi Caller -Times, a daily newspaper published at Corpus Christi in said County and State, generally circulated in Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Cameron, Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Karnes, Kenedy, Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio, San Patrick), Victoria, and Webb Counties, and that the publication of NOTICE OF ELECTION (AVISO DEL ELECCION) TO THE REGISTERED VOTERS OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI. TEXAS: (A LOS VOLTANTES REGISTRADOS DE LA CIUDAD DE CORPUS CHRISTI. TEXAS): which the annexed is a true copy, was published in the Corpus Christi Caller -Times on the 5TH day(s) of APRIL. 1995. ONE (1) Time(s) $ 511.?O PJ G'• L C'. rc Vice -President and Chief Financial Officer Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17TH day APRIL. 1995. � _'-CIA_a_ S Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas CONNIE HARALSON Print or Type Name of Notary Public My commission expires on 5/14/97. 1110 NOTICE OF ELECTION (AVISO DE ELECCION) -To the Registered Voters of the City of Corpus Christi, ,Texas: (A los Votantes Registrados `de la Ciudad de Corpus Chris - 'ti, Texas): Notice is hereby given that -the polling places will be open 'from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. cin Saturday, April 15, 1995, for voting in a Runoff Election in the City of Corpus Christi. _Only those polling places lo- cated in precincts :participating in a run-off elec- tion will be utilized. IPor la presente se da aviso qua los sitios de votacion es- taran abiertos de las 7 a.m. a .las 7 p.m. el sabado 15 de ebril, 1995, pare voter en la Eleccion Eliminatoria en la Ciu- dad de Corpus Christi. Nada mas aquellos sitios de vota- cion localizados en los precintos que participaran en una eleccion eliminatoria sar- an utilizados.) Early voting by personal ap- pearance will be conducted each weekday from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday, Sun- day, Monday, and Tuesday. beginning on April 8, 1995 and ending on April 11. 1995 at the following locations: City Hall, 1201 Leopard; Greenwood Senior Citizens Center, 4040 Greenwood; and C.C. Area Council for the Deaf, 5151 McArdle. Early voting in person will also be conducted at mobile polling places. (La votacion adelantada en persona se Ilevara a cabo de las 8:00 a.m. haste las 5:00 p.m.. sabado, domingo. lunes, y manes, empezando el 8 de abril de 1995 y termi- nando el 11 de abril de 1995 en las siguientes locaciones: City Hall, 1201 Leopard; Greenwood Senior Citizens Center, 4040 Greenwood; y C.C. Area Council for the Deaf, 5151 McArdle. La vota- cion adelantada en persona se Ilevara a cabo en los sitios de votacion movibles.) Applications for ballot by mail shall be mailed to: Armando Chapa, Early Voting Clerk. P.O. Box 9277, Corpus Chris- ti, Texas 78469-9277 Applications for ballots by mail must be received no later than the close of business on April 7, 1995. (Aplicaciones para boletas por correo deben ser recibi- das al fin del dia de negocio del 7 de abril de 1995. Las aplicaciones para boletas por correo deben ser enviadas a: Armando Chapa, empleado encargado de la votacion ade- lantada, P.O. Box 9277, Corpus Christi, Texas 78469-9277) /s/ Armando Chapa City Secretary City of Corpus Christi /s/ Miry RlsBssI Qty et Corpus CMMy Moyer C12/Corpus Christi Caller -Times Wednesday, April 5, 1995 1110 GTI OF CORPUS CHRISTI RUNOFF ELECTION APRIL 15, 1995 PRECINCT; DISTRICT: POI ING PLACE & ADDRESS • Indicates partially outsi the city limits. Only voters i siding inside the city Nm may vote. 1; 2; First Presby- terian Church 430 S. Carancahua 4; 3; Kostoryz Ele- mentary School 3602 Panama 20; 3; Galvan Ele- mentary School 3126 Masterson 21; 2; Kiwanis Re- creation Center 3933 Timon Boulevard 24; 3; Del Mar College (West) - Coleman Center, Room 106 Old Brownsville Road 31; 2; Vasquez Garage 1025 10th Street 33; 2; George Evans Elementary School 1315 Comanche '34; 3; Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church 1080 S. Clarkwood 39; 2; Ayers Street Church of Christ • 1610 Lawnview at Ayers 43; 2; Travis Ele- mentary School 1645 Tarlton 48; 3; Mosier Garage 4637 Branscomb 50 & 59; 2; Lindale Re- creation Center 3133 Swantner 53; 2; Sam Houston Elementary School 3S3 Norton Street 58; 2; La Armada Boys & Girls Hall 1455 Southgate 57; 2; Del Mar College, Richardson Auditorium Baldwin & Ayers 58; 2; Menger Ele- mentary School 2401 S. Alameda 60; 3; Adult Learning Cern 3902 Morgan Avenue 62; 2; Wynn Seale Mlddle School 1707 Ayers Street 66; 2; Beyshore Bible Chur h 901 Brawner Parkway 67; 2: Recreation Wareho se 821 Louisiana 68; 2; Bledsoe Garage 1430 Ormond 69; 2; Baker Middle Scho 3445 Pecan Street 71 & 95; 3; Lexington Elementary School 2901 McArdle 72; 2; Central Park Elementary School 3602 McArdle yy73; 2; James W. iia 2730 Elementary tenni Golliher Elementary 74; 3; Cunningham Middle School 4321 Prescott 75; 2; David Crockett Elementary School 2825 Belton 78; 3; John F. Kenn School (Cafeteria) 5040 Rockford 80; 3; Skinner Element School (Cafeteria) 1001 Bloomington 83; 2; Gulf Coast Council of Le Ram 2203 Baldwin Blvd. 85; 2; T.G. Allen Elementary School 2002 Elizabeth 87; 2; Carroll Lane Elementary School 4120 Carroll Lane 93; 3; Water Utilities Bui (CoMerence Room) 2726 Holly Road 94; 2; Calk Elementary Sc 4621 Made 96; 2; Kirton Garage 3013 Browner Parkway 97; 2; Rosas Garage 4462 Dinn 98; 3; Foy H. Moody High School 1818 Trojan Drive 108; 3; Tom Browne Middle School 4301 Schanen 113; 3; Garcia Ele- nlentsry School 4401 Greenwood '114 & '15; 3; St. John Baptist Church Annex 5445 Greenwood 118; 3; Trinity Church a ins Nazarene 6225 Weber 121; 3; Yeager Ele- rtUry School 5414 Tripoli MOBILE VOTING SITES RUNOFF ELECTION APRIL 15, 1995 LOCATION; ADDRESS; DATE; TIME Srn's Club; 4949 Greenwood; April 8, 1995; 10:00 am to 7:00 pm Wal -Men at Greenwood; 1821 S.P.I.D.; April 8, 1995; 10:00 am to 7:00 pm Sam's Club; 4949 Greenwood; April 9, 1995; 12:00 pm to 6:130 pm Wal-Mart at Greenwood' 1821 S.P.I.D.; April 9, 1995; 10:00 am to 7:00 pm