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~ ~ MINUTES - REGULAR MEETING LA PORTS CITY COP~'~LISSIORT -AUGUST 4TIi, 1961 7:00 P. I~;. Regular meeting of the City Commission was called to order b3' Mayor H. P. Pfeiffer, ~Tith the following members present: Commissioners Dunham, Stabs and Osborn, (Brown absent due to ~4•ork), Supt. Arthur, and City Clerk Frank G. Baker. Also present were Mr. Childs ~d.th Power Equipment Co., Mr. Pendergrass and Mrs. Brummerhop (Press), and Tx. Brummerhop. Minutes of the last meeting were read a_nd approved. Carried. A letter from Houston Power Equipment Company was handed to the Mayor and each Commissioner, outlining their feeling pertaining to the Mott Mop^•er attachment. It teas decided to ask a representative of the Mott Mower Company to come and talk to the Commission and at that time they will decide on mower. Motion by Osborn, second by Stabs, that HouGto n Lighting & P ower Company be autho rued to install 1.0 street lights as designated. Carried. Motion by Dunham, second by Osborn, that Secretary be authorized to check into the cost of installing a payment box in wall of City Hall. Carried. Motion by Osborn, second by Dunham, that Tax Collector be authorized to cancel delinquent taxes as listed, except Certificate X170, or arty other that may have been put on cancellation list, Carried. Motion by Stabs, second by Dunham, that Officer Williams be put on full time as Patrolman, effective August 1, 1961. Carried. Motion by Stabs, second by Dunham, that Ordinance No. 459-A, be adopted as read. The caption of such adopted ordinance reads as follows: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE N0. 459 OF Ti-~ CITY OF LA PORTS, PF~O?i IDING AN IrJCREASE Ir~1 TIC SALARY OF THE FIFE MAR- SHALL, AND MAKIDIG i'h'E NE?^J ?n,'OF~DI?7G OF SECTION 1 ORDI?~IA_NCE 459 EF'_~CT- IVE UPO?~' PASSAGE. Carried.