09-21-10 Special Called Regular Meeting and Public Hearing of the La Porte Wrecker Committe

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City of La Porte Wrecker Committee Minutes of September 21, 2010 Committee Members Present: Tim Tietjens, Planning Director (designated representative of the City Manager); Martha Gillett, City Secretary; and Lt. Gary Rice (designated representative of the Police Chief) Staff Members Present: Clark Askins, Assistant City Attorney; Sherry Jennings, Inspection Services Coordinator; Kyle Jones, Police Officer; and Peggy Lee, Office Coordinator 1. Call to order. Meeting called to order by Chairman Tim Tietjens at 2:04 p.m. 2. Roll call of members. Tim Tietjens, Martha Gillett, and Lt. Gary Rice were present for roll call. 3. Consider approval of May 25, 2010, meeting minutes. Motion by Martha Gillett to approve the Minutes of May 25, 2010. Second by Gary Rice. The motion carried unanimously. 4. Conduct workshop on possible amendments to the Code of Ordinances Chapter 78 Vehicles for Hire, Article III Automobile Wreckers and Towing Vehicles. The following items were discussed and will be used to help draft the ordinance amendments that will be considered at the next meeting: o Remove the word "without" from the definition of auto wrecker — Auto wrecker means a towing vehicle which may lawfully appear at the scene of an accident where a vehicle has collided with another vehicle or other object or which has been wrecked or disabled in any manner for the purpose or expectation of towing, removing or hauling away the wrecked vehicle from the scene of the accident without having been expressly summoned there by the police department or the owner of one of the vehicles involved in the accident. o Restructure call out rotation list so that each auto wrecker company, regardless of the number of vehicles, has only one rotation on the list. When called, a company could send any available wrecker that has been issued a permit by the City to operate. Additionally, the rotation list maintained by the Police Department shall contain the names and addresses of each wrecker service.