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• • Minutes, Regular Meeting, August 5, 1981, Page 5 here again, and we still don't have anything done, just talk. So anyway, we need some things done. Didn't the City have a study done? It's not complete yet? O.K. Then the City of Houston spent over a hundred thousand. Some of them say it's just a waste of money because I think we all know what's wrong. But anyway, I think it's a crime that the City continues to let houses be built in a flood prone area when they know it's going to flood.. I understand from people in Fairmont Park that some of those new homes being built over in the Creekmont subdivision, some of those houses would have had water in them in June, because water was over the slab. That was no rain hardly at all.. So if we get any big rains, all those people are going to be flooded. Spradling passed out another letter, this one from County Commissioner Tom Bass. Spradling: As you can see, this letter is from Tom Bass. It refers to signs on County roads. Now the signs out on Fairmont parkway are a sight. You can't pull off the highway, you can't mow it, if somebody ever decides to mow it, which is doubtful - • it doesn't happen very often. How out there around Bayport Bank, I don't know if any of you have paid any attention to it or not, but it looks kind of like a junk yard. The bank spent quite a bit of money landscaping. and they got signs all over and one sign in the esplanade. It's not a sign saying "Creek- mont", it's a realtor's sign. Mr. Hodge told me he was going to take them down and the City was going to take them down. The City was going to start mowing Spencer because the County wouldn't do it. Somebody mowed a little, but ,the signs are still there. The signs are ugly. I don't know why it isn't stopped. I have talked to various people at the City Hall. People that's responsible, and so far. nothing has been done about that. I would personally like to see some. pressure there. I have written letters, talked to realtors and developers, all to no avail. Now, streets. Some of the streets out in Fairmont are in real bad shape. Farrington is one of them. Jim Hudgens told me in 1979 they were going to fix them then. I don't even know if they've got a time table now or not. But it is in very bad condition. Valley Brook is cracked. and it's getting in the same shape. It's dangerous to travel down it. I'm told one truck going down it and a tire bounced out of the back of the truck and rolled over into somebody's yard. That's bad, when things bounce out of your vehicle like that. There's a hole there at the corner of Farrington and. Catlett that has been • patched and it's sunk and it's been patched again. Typical City job, you all know. Then, when they run the liner through