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<br /> ""':=';1',"Y<;:~/~I1:~F,":~~'1~~2~5~_~~~,~,. ------:-::::J::r:ti~-::~~';: :;::-:~"--- <br /> Minutes, Public ~ring and Special Called ~ting, <br /> La Porte City Council <br /> December 14, 1983, Page 5 <br />. City Manager Owen: I can't take'any,6fthecredit on that. <br /> Counci1person Graves: One other thing--clarify something <br /> for me, Mr. Askins. On our wrecker ordinance, a persons <br /> involved in an accident, his car's not driveable, or maybe <br /> it is driveab1e and he wants a wrecker to pick it up; he's <br /> not incapacitated, he's standing there at the scene. Can <br /> he specify a wrecker company that is permitted in the City of <br /> La Porte to tow him in? <br /> City Attorney Askins: The ordinance says its strict rotation. <br /> As a matter of practice the police department has been allowing <br /> otherwise and John Armstrong is working with the Chief and a <br /> committee of wrecker drivers to do a comprehensive kind of a <br /> re-write of the whole City ordinance. A new ordinance will be <br /> brought to Council soon. <br /> City Manager Owen: In my conference with the police department <br /> on this--if the police department calls the wrecker themselves <br /> they call rotation only. However, if the individual desires-- <br /> could go to the phone he could call the wrecker of his choice. <br /> Mayor Cline: The gray area in some of these cases might be <br /> if the officer determines it's an accident and that he has to <br />. call in. If I ran my car off in a ditch, it wasn't an accident <br /> but the police would respond. In a situation like that I feel <br /> I have the right to call the wrecker of my choice. <br /> City Attorney Askins: I think the test is going to be, is the <br /> location of the wrecked vehicle a danger to the public at that <br /> moment, that it requires quick action and not somebody who <br /> might be dazed from an accident finding a pay phone. The <br /> public safety is going to have to come first. <br /> Mayor Cline: Does any other Council member have anything to <br /> br~ng before the Council tonight? <br /> Counci1person Longley: We're just getting going on our airport <br /> and getting some good things going for us, and folks I thought <br /> were our friends--the HGAC--dropped the bomb on our airport <br /> here by not designating it as a reliever airport. <br /> Counci1person Skelton: I have some comments on that, John. <br /> Before we say it's HGAC--I have been in contact with Steve <br /> Howard of the HGAC staff, directly under Jack Steele, the <br /> executive director. And I'll back up and say I did put a copy <br /> that was in the Post today on each one of your tables. There <br /> is an airport cVlwuittee that is appointed. The airport committee <br /> is a sub-committee of the transportation committee and the <br />. airport committee has been working on this for five (5) months. <br /> But, I wasn't aware of the work they were doing. Herman Hooks <br /> has been the chairman of the airport committee, which has the <br /> Hooks Airport and it was one of those designated--Hooks Memorial <br />