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I • Minutes, Regular Meeting, La Porte City Council September 19, 1984, Page 5 11. Council considered an ordinance appointing a member to the Civil Service Commission. The City Attorney read: ORDINANCE 1413 - AN ORDINANCE RE- APPOINTING KEITH TRAINER AS MEMBER OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. Motion was made .by Councilperson Skelton to adopt Ordinance 1413 as read by the City Attorney. Second by Councilperson Westergren. The motion carried, 6 ayes and 0 nays. Ayes: Councilpersons Westergren, Malone, Pfeiffer, Gay, Skelton and Mayor Cline Nays: None 12. There were no administrative reports. 13. Council Action Malone: Wishes the paper would run something on taxes and why we have this "wonderful" Harris County Taxing Board we have, • that we have nothing to do with equalization and evaluation of property. His taxes for the year were $1221, and he can see when people receive that amount of taxes on a house and a lot how they would get disturbed about it. Doesn't know what we as a City Council can do about it at this time. They need to know that the "wonderful" government body we have at Austin did this about three years ago with a bill, and our hands are tied. Pfeiffer: Would like to add further to Norman's comments. As a Council we still haven't set our tax rate. There's still a lot of fighting to be done with the evaluations. The rates haven't been set by lots of the districts; there'll be a lot of screaming up until the time they do get those rates set. That figure that is on your tax is actually an estimated tax and will not be the true rate that you will actually be paying because as a City Councilman I'll see~that the~City of La Porte rates are going to go down. Our budget this year has not increased over 3~~of last year's, so the amount of money we're going to need will not increase in any percentages to what . your tax rate for the City of La Porte has increased due to the evaluation. Gay: He is pleased we had so many volunteers on the committee; • they're going to have a great job to do within the next six weeks to come up with some of the solutions that we will have on the Comprehensive Plan. I