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• C~ • Minutes, Regular Meeting, La Porte City Council February 3, 1982, Page 5 a part of these minutes). We appreciate Mrs. Lawler's letter and knowing there is someone who cares. Councilperson Simons: Jack, on behalf of the Council, I was glad to see you get that plaque. It was very little for 25 years of dedicated service, but we are proud to have known and worked with you. Councilperson Longley: Mr. Mayor Pro-tem, I want first of all to commend you on the excellent job you have done as Mayor Pro-tem tonight, and I want to welcome Doug. I'd like to commend all the candidates on an excellent race and person- ally thank them for getting involved in the City. I was just very glad to see the participation. Also, I would like to apologize for being a little bit late; I have to lay part of that blame to Southern Pacific. Councilperson Faris: Mr. Mayor, I need to bend your ear for a moment tonight. A few weeks ago, J. J. appointed me from this Council and from the Harris County Mayors' and Council- -. • men's Association, to be a liason between those bodies and any group in Harris County that were interested in fighting the chemical dump that the Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority was intending to put in at the intersection of Red Bluff and Bay Area Boulevard. I had said last week that I would have a letter available tonight, and I do have that letter avail- able. I'm going to read it and then I have a couple of things to say about it. (Letter included as a part of the official minutes of the City of La Porte 2-3-82.) In talking to Mrs. Waters today, we agreed or worked out, a plan to send this letter to all the surrounding newspapers, legislators, congress- men, high school and San Jacinto College newspapers. I worked out an agreement with some of the instructors in the govern- ment department at San Jacinto College to allow the students in their particular classes to work a certain number of hours for the proposal in lieu of a paper or book report. We are going to send a copy to Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority, radio stations, TV stations. We really wanted to get a big effort to get this thing killed once and for all in the entire area. I have put in some effort on it. And the, reading the Bayshore Sun today, I find that Stablex Corporation, the company that was going to provide the technology and services for changing the state of the chemicals that were going to be dumped down there, has broken off all negotiations with Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority, so it is very possible that none of these efforts are going to be needed at this point in • time. But I will be contacting Gulf Coast Wast Disposal Authority tomorrow to find out if they have any future plans and if they do we will be proceeding; if not, we will kind of put it on the back burner and see what happens next.