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~„ '`'~' /37 DELINQUENT TAXES La Porte Independent School District and City of La Porte T0: `The Members of the City Commission of the City of La Porte and The Board of Trustees, La Porte Independent School District Gentlemen: Mr. John Kiibler, Sr., Mr. Richard Osborne, Mr. Frank Baker and Ernest Brown met this morning to formulate a course of procedure to be jointly followed by the School District and the City in an effort to try and collect delinquent taxes and to improve current tax collections in the future. At this meeting the following items were considered and agreed upon: (1) No effort will be made to make any list of total delinquent tax- r payers in either district. (2) Mr. Osborne and P'ir. Baker will prepare a record of all delinquent taxpayers shown on the 1950 tax roll. It was concluded that initial steps should be directed towards people who are delinquent on 1950 taxes, or prior years, and on subsequent years. After taxpayers on the 1950 roll have been exhausted, then it is recommended that we proceed to the 1955 roll and then come forward. (3) The 1950 rolls will be compared and each Tax Department will at- tempt to mail a letter (Letter No. 1) to those persons shown as delinquent on both rolls, the purpose being to try and have these taxpayers receive a letter from each taxing authority at the same time. (!~) Letter No. 1 is to be drafted by Mr. Kiibler, with the help and L_J cooperation of the two Tax Assessors. This letter will not make reference to either a lawsuit or to the fact that this item will be referred to the attorney but will state that the taxing authority intends to use due diligence to enforce collection. (5) At some reasonable time after the mailing of Letter No. 1, the Assessor & Collector in each case will submit to his Board the names of persons who have received Letter No. 1 and have not paid their taxes. At this point the City Council, or the Board of Trustees, will determine whether or not these delinquents should be sued. If it is their opinion that suits should be filed, then the Assessor & Collector will send out a second letter (Letter No. 2).