HomeMy WebLinkAbout025758 ORD - 05/18/2004ORDINANCE
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 025443 WHICH APPROPRIATED
FUNDS FOR OPERATION OF 9-1-1 SYSTEM AND OTHER
OPERATIONAL EXPENSES BY REDUCING AMOUNT
APPROPRIATED FROM $277,'154.07 TO $35,000.00; AND DECLARING
AN EMERGENCY
WHEREAS, on August 26, 2003, in Ordinance No. 025443 City Council authorized the
appropriation of $277,154.07 from the General Fund Reserve for 911 Wireless Service
to pay the Coastal Bend Council of Governments for six months operation costs for 911
system during transition period under settlement agreement with the Texas Commission
on State Emergency Communications and for other operational expenses;
WHEREAS, $242,154.07 in invoices for six months of 911 system transition costs was
actually accrued in FY 2002-2003;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That Ordinance No. 025443 is amended to reduce the amount
appropriated from $277,154.07 to $35,000.
SECTION 2. That the FY 2003-2004 Operating Budget adopted by Ordinance No.
025394 is amended to decrease appropriations by $242,154.07.
SECTION 3. That upon written request of the Mayor or five Council members, copy
attached, the City Council (1) finds and declares an emergency due to the need for
immediate action necessary for the efficient and effective administration of City affairs
and (2) suspends the Charter rule that requires consideration of and voting upon
ordinances at two regular meetings so that this ordinance is passed and takes effect
upon first reading as an emergency measure this the ~day of ~, 2004.
Armando Chapa
City Secretary
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
S~uel L. N~-al;Jr. ~'
Mayor
Approved: May 12, 2004
Assistant City Attomey
for City Attorney
025758
Corpus Christi, Texas
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 meetings: Ih~ve, 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,
City of Corpus Christi
Council Members
The above ordinance was passed by the following vote:
Samuel L. Neal, Jr.
Brent Chesney
Javier D. Colmenero
Melody Cooper
Henry Garrett
Bill Kelly
Rex A. Kinnison
Jesse Noyola
Mark Scott