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• • Minutes, Regular Meeting, La Porte City Council February 17, 1982, Page 2 Subdivision 8, Paragraph C of the Texas Election Code. There is a copy of that following the letter in your agenda, which says they can charge up to 10 percent of the cost of the machine as a daily rate. This appears in pretty plain English to me that what they are going to do is charge $25.00 per day per voting machine. Mrs. Waters advises tonight that she has been in conversation with some of the officials in the voting machine department and the County Clerk's office, and the let- ter doesn't mean, apparently, what it said. They do intend to stay with the old established policy of the County, which is to charge a flat rate for the entire period of absentee voting rather than so much a day. In other words, we pay so much for each machine for the entire period of absentee voting and so much for each machine on election day. If that be the case, the letter which I have drafted perhaps would not be in order. I would propose perhaps, that Council authorize us to investigate this further and if the City office can get an exact determination from somebody in authority to the fact that we are not going to be billed such an exorbitant bill of $425.00 per machine during absentee voting, we can let the • matter rest. However, if we can't get this determination, I think we should have some authority from the Council to pursue it. Meza: I will entertain a motion from the Council to authorize our Secretary to continue investigating this until we deter- mine what is the proper charge for the voting equipment, if we will indeed be paying on a daily basis, or if we will have the previous arrangement. Faris: I so move. Simons: I second the motion. Meza: We have a motion and a second. Do we have any questions? Longley: It was my understanding that the counters would not be necessary, that we already have that equipment. Is that correct? Askins: No, that is not correct. We will need one of those; it will be brought down here for use that night. The motion carried, 8 ayes and 0 nays. Ayes: Councilpersons Malone, Longley, Faris, Latimer, Simons, • Gay, Skelton and Mayor Meza Nays: None