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Minutes, Public H•ring, La Porte City Counc~~ December 5, 1983, Page 3 su~una.rize it all. First of all, though, I'd like to clear • up one point. The hearing that Mr. Burnley spoke of, Knox, with Pasadena, there wasn't any way--and correct me if I'm wrong--that Pasadena could ever have come here and annexed Brookglen with them being in our ETJ. Mr. Burnley: Without the approval of La Porte Mayor Cline: But La Porte had never indicated they were ever going to turn it loose, Cary. Some discussion was then held on various time periods that College View had been involved in public hearings for different: annexations involving Pasadena. Mayor Cline: Mr. Burnley, what-I'm speaking to is when I was in City Hall and Mr. Askins was the attorney, and the City Council of La Porte made the agreement with the City of Pasadena then about the college district, and that was back in 1969 and '70. Councilperson Ed Matuszak: May I ask just what bearing this has on this action? It's past history. Mayor Cline: You have some questions here that want to be answered, Ed, and that's what we're here for. City Attorney Askins: I think it's important to point out to the residents, Mayor, that there is no dispute of any kind between Pasadena and La Porte over territory. Those .who have lived in this City a long time know that there were annexation wars in the early '60's--fights, as you pointed out--between Pasadena, La Porte and Houston. La Porte lost the lawsuit to Houston, Pasadena won a lawsuit from Houston on the Bayport Industrial District. In '69 and '70, as the Mayor pointed out, the City of La Porte and Pasadena officials negotiated a formal contract, just drawing a line--it was called an extraterritorial jurisdiction division--and the line went down a common boundary between College View .and the college and then went down into Bayport and divided up that area. Here a few years ago, Pasadena bought the rodeo tract from Friendswood. It turned out the tract of land they bought was on La Porte's side of the line. It would have been embarrassing for Pasadena to have their Civic center in La Porte, and we didn't want it, because you don't get any. taxes off an exempt piece of property. So they said would you amend the agreement to give us that acreage, and we paid fine, if you'll give us a similar .amount of acreage off your land, then we'll just swap. And we did, and we amended the contract. I can only imagine that if Pasadena, including College View in a recent annexation who has annexation 3urisdiction, so to speak. La Porte supervised the creation of the College View district. I flew to Austin with the bond attorneys and the .people who formed the district, to the Legislative hearings in the 1960's. La Porte had written into the Bill the supervision of the College View district for planning purposes. And the same