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SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING
September 10, 1961
6:50 P.M.
PRESENT:
Mayor Ben F. McDonald
Commissioners:
Tom R. Swantner City Manager Herbert W. Whitney
Dr. James L. Barnard Ass't City Attorney W. D. Pilcher
J. R. de Leen City Secretary T. Ray Kring
W. J. Roberts
Jia Young
Mayor Ben F. McDonald called the meeting to order, and announced the
purpose of the special meeting vas for adopting on final reading a Municipal
Civil Defense and Disaster Relief Organization ordinance.
City Secretary T. Ray Kring called the roll of those in attendance.
THIRD AND FINAL READING OF AN ORDINANCE:
ORDINANCE NO. 6273
CREATING A MUNICIPAL CIVIL DEFENSE AND DISASTER RELIEF ORGANIZATION FOR THE CITY
OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND SPECIFYING THE POWERS OF SUCH ORGANIZATION; CREATING A CIVIL
DErENSE COUNCIL AND A CONGRESS OF CIVIL DEFENSE FOR THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI AND
ESTABLISHING THE OFFICE OF MUNICIPAL DEFENSE COORDINATOR AND CHAIRMAN OF CIVIL
DEFENSE COUNCIL AND CHAIRMAN OF CIVIL DEFENSE CONGRESS AND PROVIDING THE DUTIES
AND RESPONSIT'TITIES OF SUCH OFFICES; CREATING AN OPERATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND
SPECIFYING ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO BE UNDERTAKEN AND CHANGE OF COMMAND;
GRANTING ALL NECESSARY POWERS TO COPE WITH URGENCY THREATENING LIFE AND PROPER-
TY IN THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI; AUTHORIZING C00PERATION AND MUTUAL AID AGREE-
MENTS FOR RELIEF WORK BETWEEN CORPUS CHRISTI AND NUECES COUNTY, AND BETWEEN CORPUS
CHRISTI AND OTHER CITIES AND COUNTIES AND PROVIDING FOR MUTUAL AID AGREEMENTS WITH
RED CROSS AND OTHER NON-GOVERNMENTAL AND QUASI-GOVE3RNMENTAL AGENCIES AND FOR RE-
LATED.PSJBPOSES; FURTHER PROVIDING FOR WARNING SIGNALS AND ALL -CLEAR SIGNALS AND
PROHIBITING UNAUTHORIZED LIGHTS; AND PROVIDING GENERAL EMERGENCYPOWERSOF A CIVIL
DEFENSE COORDINATOR AND OTHER OFFICES HEREIN ESTABLISHED; FURTHER PROVIDING FOR
CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMNNT AND PRESERVATION OF RECORDS IN TIME OF CITY OR AREA DIS-
ASTERS AND MAKING VIOLATIONS A MISDEMEANOR, PUNISHABLE BY A FINE NOT EXCEEDING TWO
HUNDRED ($200.00) DOLLARS; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION.
The foregoing ordinance was read for the third time and passed fiwally
by the following vote: Mayor McDonald, Commissioners Swantner, Barnard, de Leon,
Roberts, and Young, and Commissioner Maldonado, absent.
There being no further business to come before the Council, the special
meeting was adjourned.
THE STATE OF
COUNTY' OF 1'UECES
CITF OF CORPUS CHRISTI
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, TLE CITY MANAGER" THE CITY SECRETARY
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M D CITY ATTORNEY TO THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS:
NOTICE is hereby given that a special meeting of the City Council of the
City of Corpus Christi, Texas, will be held in the City of Corp,�u/s` Christi, Tis,
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BEN F. MC DONALD, Mayor
City of Corpus Christi, Texas
CONSENT TO MEWING
We, the undersigned members of the City Council, the City Manager, the
City Secretary and the City Attorney of Corpus Christi, Texas, hereby accept
service of the foregoing notice, waiving any and all irregularities in such service
and. consent and agree that said meeting shall. be at the time and place therein
named and. for the purpose therein stated.
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