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:~ • • Minutes, Regular Meeting, La Porte City Council February 3, 1982, Page 3 6. City Attorney Askins read: AN ORDINANCE CALLING AN ELECTION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TO BE HELD APRIL 3, 1982, FOR THE ELECTOR OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS, TO LEGALIZE BINGO GAMES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS AUTHORIZED BY THE TEXAS BINGO ENABLING ACT IN THE CITY OF LA PORTE; DESIGNATING ELEC- TION PRECINCTS AND POLLING PLACES; PROVIDING FOR THE USE OF VOTING MACHINES; APPOINTING ELECTION OFFICIALS; PROVIDING FOR METHOD AND DATES OF ABSENTEE VOTING; PROVIDING FOR RETURN AND CANVASS OF VOTES OF SAID ELECTION; PROVIDING FOR NOTICE; PROVIDING FOR THE HOLDING OF A JOINT ELECTION WITH THE LA PORTE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; FINDING COMPLIANCE WITH THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. A motion was made by Councilperson Simons to pass and approve Ordinance No. 1299 as read by the City Attorney. Seconded by Councilperson Gay. The motion carried, 7 ayes and 0 nays. Ayes: Councilpersons Longley, Faris, Latimer, Simons, Gay, Skelton and Mayor Pro-tem Malone Nays: None • 7. City Attorney Askins read: A RESOLUTION ENDORSING ALL PROPOSITIONS FOR THE HARRIS COUNTY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ON THE FEBRUARY 23, 1982, BOND ELECTION Faris: Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a couple of comments about this before we go any further with it. Last week when we dis- cussed this I made some comments about La Porte not getting the attention from the County I felt like the community deserved and since last week I have talked to Commissioner Fonteno and a couple of people in his office, and have learned some things a little bit different about this bond issue and about the area than what I was led to believe prior to the discussion with his office. One is that the list of roads that Mayor Meza read last week that were to be considered as County priorities in this bond issue that covered, I believe, two million dollars, Underwood Road was left out of that list. Underwood Road was mentioned, but the dollar figure was left out of the two mil- lion dollars. There is something like three and a half mil- lion dollars worth of work to be done expanding it to a four lane street. So there is another three and a half million dollars or so that is not necessarily alloted but is under consideration in this bond proposal in the La Porte area. Also, a lot of the flood control that is under consideration is not for the La Porte area, but is in areas like Seabrook and Kemah, which directly affects this area. The next thing that • I took issue with was that we had bonds that had been passed several years ago for the extension of Fairmont Parkway from