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• Minutes, Regular Meeting, August 5, 1981, Page 3 City Attorney Askins read: AN ORDINANCE VACATING, ABANDONING AND CLOSING CERTAIN ALLEYS AND VACATING, ABANDONING AND CLOSING CERTAIN PORTIONS OF CERTAIN STREETS, ALL WITHIN THE CITY OF LA PORTE, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS. A motion was made by Ordinance No. 1269 as The motion carried, 7 Ayes: Councilpersons Westergren and Nays: None ~ouncilperson Faris to approve and adopt read. Seconded by Councilperson Kibodeaux. ayes and 0 nays. Longley, Faris, Kibodeaux, Gay, Skelton, Mayor Meza 10. Mayor Meza recognized Jimmie Ray Spradling, 3302 Valley Brooke Drive. Spradling passed copies of letters to the Council that the Fairmont Park Homes Association, Inc., sent to Jim Green of the Harris County Flood Control, and a letter from Jim Green to their Teeter. Spradling: First, I want to talk about drainage.. As far as I am concerned, and a lot of people who live in La Porte agree • with me, drainage is one of the most important things facing us today. There has been a lot written, rumored and spoken about what to do about drainage. Now what I'm hereabout to- night is to try to solicit some aid from the City. As a repre- sentative of the Fairmont Park Homes Association, we have written numerous letter to Harris County Flood Control, month after month every year for the past three or four years. I've talked to them from Jim Green on down to the lesser people up there, and we are not getting anything done in the City of La Porte that I know of. Some of you may be aware of something in this part of the City or some other part of the City that I'm unaware of. Out in the Fairmont Park area, Big Island Slough carries maybe not all the water but most of it, and most of Lomax. This. ditch is silted up badly and grown up badly and it needs some attention. I wrote this letter to Mr. Green, the one I gave you, last October and he wrote me back, saying he would have a drag line in operation shortly to clean it out. Well, I haven't seen anything out there yet. Maybe something is down the road from me, across the parkway south, I don't know. I just haven't seen anything. Also, I attended a meeting Mr. Green was at in January 1980, at the Church on Spencer across from Fairmont Park. He stated at that time there was no reason why it couldn't be cleaned out in 1980. Well, we waited until October before we wrote the letter and then he said he would,. and we talked to him this year and he said he would. They ` haven't yet. I read an article in the paper where he told the • people in Brookglen the same thing. Still nothing has been done.