10-11-21 Drainage and Flooding Committee Meeting Minutes

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JAY MARTIN, CHAIRMAN MAYOR PRO TEM MANDI WILLIAMS COUNCILPERSON CHUCK ENGELKEN COUNCiLPERSON BILL BENTLEY, ALTERNATE COUNCILPERSON I MINUTES OF THE DRAINAGE AND FLOODING COMMITTEE MEETING OCTOBER 11, 2021 The Drainage and Flooding Committee of the City of La Porte met on Monday, October 11, 2021, at the City Hall Council Chambers, 60'4 West Fairmont Parkway, La Porte, Texas, at 5:00 p.m. to consider the following items of business: Committee Members present: Jay Martin, Chuck Engelken, Mandi Williams Committee Members attending remotely: None Committee Members absent: Bill Bentley (alternate) Council -appointed officers present: Corby Alexander, City Manager; Lee Woodward, City Secretary CALL TO ORDER — Chairman Martin called the meeting to order at 5:�00 p.m. 2. CITIZEN COMMENT (Generally limited to five minutes per person, in accordance with state law, the time may be reduced if there is a high number of speakers or other considerations.) There were no citizen comments, 3. CONSENT AGENDA (Approval of Consent Agenda items authorizes each to be implemented in accordance with staff recommendations provided. An item may be removed from the consent agenda and added to the Statutory Agenda for full discussion upon request by a member of the Committee present at this meeting.) There were no items for the consent agenda. 4. STATUTORY AGENDA a. Presentation, discussion, and possible action to approve the minutes of the September 13, 2021, meeting. [Councilperson Martin, Chairman] Member Engelken moved to approve the minutes the motion was seconded by Member Williams-, the motion was adopted, 3-0. b. Presentation, discussion, and possible action regarding status of 100 acre-foot detention pond project near the Pasadena Convention Center, associated with the in:terlocal agreement between the City of La Porte and the City of Pasadena. [Lorenzo Wingate, Assistant Director of Public Works] Mr. Wingate noted Halff Associates has negotiated a contract for the project and that it was actually 550 calendar days, unlike the 400 in the draft document. He added that the Pasadena City Council is set to consider this item at the end of Octoberlbeginning of November, Member Engelken moved to recommend to the City Council approval of a engineering. services contract with Halff Associates, Inc. for the 100 Acre -Foot Interlocal Detention Pond ProFect; the motion was seconded by Member Williams the motion was adopted, 3-0. October 11, 2021 - Drainage and Flooding Committee Minutes