1997-02-10 Public Hearing and Regular Meeting of City Council

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. . MINUTES OF THE PUBLIC HEARING AND REGULAR MEETING OF LA PORTE CITY COUNCIL FEBRUARY 10, 1997 PLEASE NOTE - THE AUDIO TAPE, DUE TO A MALFUNCTION, DID NOT RECORD THE FIRST FOUR ITEMS ON THE AGENDA. WRITTEN MINUTES ARE RECORDED PER NOTES TAKEN BY THE CITY SECRETARY AND EXIllBIT A, LEITER FROM MRS. WANDA THROWER AS READ BY MAYOR NORMAN L. MALONE. 1. CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order by Mayor Norman L. Malone at 6:00 P.M. Members of City Council Present: Mayor Norman L. Malone, Councilpersons Guy Sutherland, Mike Cooper, Bob McLaughlin, Alton Porter, Deotis Gay, Jack Maxwell and Jerry Clarke Members of Council Absent: None Members of City Staff and City Employees Present: City Manager Robert T. Herrera, City Attorney Knox Askins, City Secretary Sue Lenes, Assistant City Manager John Joerns, Director of Finance/ACM Jeff Litchfield, Director of Administrative Services Louis Rigby, Director of Public Works Steve Gillett, Director of Planning Guy Rankin, Police Chief Bobby Powell, Assistant City Secretary Rbonda Yockov, Assistant Finance Director Cynthia Alexander, City Engineer Doug Knuepper, Purchasing Agent Susan Kelley, and Municipal Court Judge J. B. Williamson Others Present: John Black, representing the La Porte Bayshore Sun and several La Porte citizens ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING THE DEATII OF COUNCILPERSON ROBERT E. "BOB" THROWER DISTRICT 3 - Mayor Malone Mayor Malone read a letter from Mrs. Wanda Thrower thanking the City for its expression of sympathy in the death of Councilperson Thrower. (Exhibit A) Mayor Malone expressed the City's heart felt sympathy to the Thrower family. 2. INVOCATION BY REV. OLIVER STILLWELL - FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH In the absence of Rev. Oliver Stillwell, Kevin LeVrier, Deacon at the First Assembly of God Church, La Porte, delivered the invocation.