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• • • Minutes, Regular Meeting, La Porte City Council January 18, 1984, Page 5 Skelton: Requested that Council start receiving the monthly financial statements again. Reported on the H-GAC board meeting he attended.. Unfortunately did .not have. the cooperation and representation from our repre- sentatives of small cities that he expected.. He had. talked to Mayor Tom Reid of Pearland and Sandy Pickett from Liberty at length on the telephone about the status of the La Porte Muni- cipal Airport as a reliever airport and informed them that the FAA had established La Porte as a reliever, which the knew. He requested them to do everything in their power to see .that we kept that status. They not only did not work to do that, but favored the recommendation of the committee. Mr. Walt Cunningham took over the chairmanship of the committee recently after the untirely death of Mrs. Trma Hooks. He and the com- mittee have different conceptions as to reliever airports from what La Porte considers a reliever airport.. Mr. Skelton did all- he could to change the board's mind but the board is headed by judges who have been there many years, and-they feel if they appoint a committee then they'll listen • to the committee. Mr. Skelton had talked to Mary. Elizabeth Wilbanks, the repre- sentative from Baytown; he even made a motion to amend their motion, to allow Baytown and La Porte to come in since they were on the east side and both recognized as reliever airports. He got no second to his motion, even from the councilwoman from Baytown. Judge Ray Holbrook from Galveston made a motion to amend to include all 8 that had been taken out; he got a second from Mary Elizabeth Wilbanks, but no one voted on it. They did agree to have a study on the east side, which would in- clude La Porte, Baytown, Chambers and Liberty Counties, as well as Ellington. He understands that the staff talked to FAA of ter the meeting and FAA said. there was nothing to be real concerned with; they indicated that if H-GAC didn't put us on there as a reliever status that they would. Even though we lost the first round, he feels there is still a chance we will retain the reliever status through FAA after recommendation from the Airport Advisory Committee and H-GAC Board of Directors to the FAA. • Cline: Spoke with Commissioner Jim Fonteno and he said if City Council would pass a resolution requesting that Sylvan Beach be put back, it might help him in his efforts. with the