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• • • Minutes, Regular Meeting, La Porte City Council January 6, 1982, Page 15 Authority, which it was written by a bond attorney in Houston in cooperation with the Texas Water Resources Board. In the very structure of it is to have a really clean operation, in other words, a set of books on the Authority that's going to have nothing on them of any municipal function except the pur- chase of raw, untreated surface water, the construction of the plant and the day-to-day operation of that plant and the pump- ing of it to the customers. There won't be any fire depart- . ment on it or anything else. It's going to be clean in that sense. That way, when you go to a customer they won't say, well, have you put some of the overhead of the light bill of some of La Porte City Hall on this water contract? We can say, no, these expenses are just the expenses of the Authority. Now another reason that Baytown did their authority the way they did, Baytown is about 9 years ahead of the City of La Porte on this effort. They have been very cooperative in this effort, by telling us what they did. In some cases we made some changes in their bill because they said if they had it to do over again, we would have done this and this different. Sort of like an older brother on the playground. Fritz Lanham, their City Manager, is Executive Director of it and he has been most helpful. Meza: If it pleases the Council, we have answered most of the questions and I feel we should move on. If any citizen wishes to approach any Councilperson after this meeting or by telephone, they will be more than happy to answer any questions. At this time we will move on to Administrative Reports. 10. Administrative Reports: John Joerns reported Brown & Root is installing an eight (8) inch water line to serve their 18-acre tract south of Fairmont Parkway and adjacent to the Southern Pacific Railroad. It is recommended that a portion of the water main be oversized to twelve (12) inches to accommodate the City's plan of extending a twelve (12) inch water main from S.H. .146 westward along Fairmont Parkway to Underwood Road. The total estimated cost of participating in the oversizing is $4,265.00. The Engineering Department recommends that Council approve and fund the over- sizing. A motion was made by Councilperson Faris to allocate $4,265.00 from the Water and Sewer Improvement Fund for t e oversizen of the 8 inch line being lai by Brown & Root to a 2 inc line. Seconded y Councilperson Simons. T e motion carried, 8 ayes • and 0 nays.