HomeMy WebLinkAbout87-2698ORDINANCE NO. 87-2698 AN APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PLAINVIEW, TEXAS, APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE UPDATE OF THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Plainview, Texas, finds it necessary to appropriate specific funds out of the General Fund; Water and Sewer Fund; Sanitation Fund and Service Center Fund for the upgrading of the telephone system; and WHEREAS, Southwestern Public Service will be electronic switching equipment in the near future; and installing WHEREAS, the installation of the equipment will allow the City of Plainview to improve phone service for its citizens at the City Offices; and WHERE,, this Ordinance deals with the daily operation of City Departments in the public interest which creates an emergency. NOW, THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Plainview, Texas that the following appropriation is made for the acquisition of equipment to update the existing phone systems for the City Offices: General Fund - Water and Sewer Funds - Sanitation Fund - Service Center Fund - $ 8,200.00 900.00 200.00 700.00 TOTAL $10,000.00 BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that an emergency exists as shown in the preamble of this Ordinance, therefore the enactment of this Ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure thereby creating a public necessity that the rule requiring proposed Ordinances to be presented at two separate Council Meetings be dispensed with; and this Ordinance shall be effective from the date of its passage. 1 of 2 PASSED AND APPROVED on this the llth day of August, 1987. E.V. RIDLEHUBER, Mayor A~E~: ~E~YL/OWEN, City Secretary APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: NORMAN HUGGINS, of Finance APPROVED AS TO FORM: DAVID BLACKBURN, AsSistant City Attorney 2 of 2