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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />Page 2 - City Council Minutes 12/14/98 <br /> <br />5. PRESENTATIONS <br /> <br />Employee of the Quarter - July, August & September 1998 <br /> <br />Stephen Barr and Marlene Rigby presented Parks and Recreation Department Christina <br />Sehnert with a plaque for being chosen as Employee of the Quarter. <br /> <br />Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting <br /> <br />Assistant City Manager John Joerns presented the Certificate of Achievement for <br />Excellence in Financial Reporting to Assistant Finance Director Cynthia Alexander and <br />Accounting Manager Kathy Hutton. This is the seventeenth consecutive year the City <br />has received this award. <br /> <br />6. Public Hearing - For the purpose of condemning and ordering demolition of a <br />dangerous building. <br /> <br />Open Public Hearing - Opened at 6:18 P.M. <br /> <br />Review By Staff - Planning Director Doug Kneupper reviewed the recommendation to <br />consider condemning a substandard building at 8502 Ashwyne Layne, La Porte, Texas <br />77571. <br /> <br />Public Input - Jeff Counts, 4002 Valley Green Ct. informed Council he owned the <br />property next to 8502 Ashwyne Layne and urged City Council to condemn this property <br />as soon as possible due to hazards. <br /> <br />Recommendation By Staff - Staff recommended the building be condemned. <br /> <br />Close Public Hearing -The Public Hearing was closed at 6:40 P.M. <br /> <br />7. Council considered the approval of an Ordinance condemning the building at 8502 <br />Ashwyne Layne, La Porte, Texas 77571. <br /> <br />City Attorney Read: ORDINANCE 98-2301 - CONSIDER APPROVAL OR OTHER <br />ACTION REGARDING AN ORDINANCE DECLARING THE BULDINGS <br />LOCATED ON LOT(S) 22, BLOCK 6, ADDmON BROOKGLEN, SECTION 2, <br />HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, TO BE IN FACT A NUISANCE; ORDERING SUCH <br />BUILDING CONDEMNED; FINDING THAT JOHN W. JOINER IS THE RECORD <br />OWNER(S) OF SAID PROPERTY; ORDERING THE SAID OWNER(S) TO <br />ENTIRELY REMOVE OR TEAR DOWN SUCH BUILDING; ORDERING THE <br />SAID OWNER(S) TO COMMENCE SAID REMOVAL OR DEMOLmON WITHIN <br />(10) DAYS FROM THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ORDINANCE; ORDERING <br />THE BOARD OF INSPECTION TO PLACE A NOTICE ON SAID BULDING; <br />ORDERING THE CITY SECRETARY TO FORWARD A COPY OF THIS <br />ORDINANCE TO SAID OWNER(S); PROVIDING FOR THE REMOVAL OF SAID <br />PREMISES BY THE CITY OF LA PORTE IF NOT REMOVED BY SAID <br />