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Minutes Public Hearin La Porte Cit Counc• g~ Y December 5, 1983, Page 6 City Manager Jack Owen: As far as the police, we do have a service plan drawn up by the Police Department personnel. We have not ironed out exactly how many we will be asking the Council to put on, but I would think using the ratio we have in present force, we, would be .looking at a minimum of three additional policemen in order to serve this area. That would be the minimum that we'd be looking at. Now as far as water and sewer rates, I do not know off the top of my head the exact comparison to your present rates and the City of La Porte rates.. The City of La Porte's are high; how much I cannot, off the top of my head, say. You must remember you'll be getting services here under your taxes that-you don't get at this time. Your 71 cents here, part of that is used for your debt retirement and things of that nature, whereas in ours it is supported solely with water and sewer rates. It will be an ex- change of the use of your tax fund for other services, such as street lights, street maintenance, things of that nature. Your street lighting, where you have a homeowners association tax, that would be up to the homeowners association tax what they'd give up. We would be taking over the payment of the street lights. Tom Tarver, 8834 Oakhaven: May I ask a question? We're talking a out street lighting and the cost of street lighting. At this point in time, the BCIA, the Brookglen Community Improvement Association is paid by the homeowners a fee, every year, for such things as the maintenance of street lights, maintenance of swi~ning pool, public areas, etc. Now if we're going to pay additional funds to pay for the street lights and still pay the BCIA, is that not double taxation? Mayor Cline: First of all, who sets the rate for you to pay the BCIA? Mr. Tarver: The mortgage that you took out; it's built into your deed. Mr. Burnley: The BCIA is a public corporation under the laws of the State of Texas; it is a maintenance tax .which was put into the deed restrictions when the subdivision was established. And that provides for $5.00 a month, a total of $60.00 a year to be paid to the BCIA. And it's been that since day one and has never gone up and never would go up. Councilperson Longley: I live in Fairmont Park, across Underwood there. We also .have a homeowners association which we pay $60.00 a year to. The bulk of that money goes into maintenance of the swimming pool and improvement of the common area there. I guess it is in a way a double tax, or an extra tax which you pay for the benefits of living in that particular area. It has the amenities of a swimming pool. Mr. Tarver: What I'm saying is this--we already have these street lights, we already have the swimming pool. I don't care about