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• • Minutes, Regular Meeting, La Porte City Council October 7, 1981, Page 16 Fairmont Park Homes Association, and I try to represent the people. Whenever they ask me to do something, I try to help them out. Well, anyway, the lady next door to me had her phone cable ripped down by the people who was installing the cable and I understood that some other people has had cables cut over in some of the other sections of Fairmont Park. How- ever, they weren't in our jurisdiction so I didn't get in- volved init. I talked to Jim Hudgens about it. I asked him, I said, "Well, Jim, don't you think we have some kind of responsibility to the citizens? If we give them a franchise and they are damaging property, which they have been, knocking peoples' phone out and power," and he said, "Well, no, no, we don't." He said, "If it's an isolated case we don't, but if there's a lot of it going on, well, yes, we could." He wanted to know if we should put an inspector.. out there and I said., "Well, yes, if that's what's necessary to save .peoples' telephone service we ought to do it, or make them stop ox make them do whatever is necessary to keep them from tearing up peoples' property." O.K., then we went on and we talked about some .other things. • I brought up an ordinance that had been drawn up back in the summer and has never been passed, and I asked him why and he said well, somebody down here decided they didn't need it. I questioned him and I questioned him pretty hard on lots of things. Now, I don't think .there is anything wrong with ques- tinning that City Manager. Some of you may disagree with me, but I think he needs to be questioned. T questioned him about some other work that had been done by contractors. where they had torn up the esplanades out there and. the entrances, and peoples' back yard's, and he said, "Well, we're not going to fix things like you do your yard, Jimmie. Whenever we have work done, there's going to be scars left." That's what he tells me all the time. There are certain things he is not going to do. O.K., T asked him about some street lights that I asked. him about July a year ago. They are at the entrance to the park out there. The park is used. by everybody in this City and people in other cities, not just Fairmont Park. He keeps reminding me there's other things that need to be done in the City and I am well aware of that, but there are things that needs to be done in that park out there that concerns everybody in the City. Anyway, after a while he jumped up and ordered me out of his office and said he didn't have to take that kind of stuff off of me. Well, I've been taking a lot of stuff off of Jim for about 3 years, and so have some of the other citizens in this town. Some of them tell me whenever they call down here and talk to