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• • Minutes, Regular Meeting, La Porte City Council October 7, 1981, Page 17 Jim it's like talking to a brick wall. He's got his mind made up and I want to, I was here about a month ago and I talked to you people and I suggested some things to you. I am going to suggest some things again to you tonight. He works for y'~all and y'all work for us, and T think there is nothing wrong with y'all questioning him. He, the City Attorney, or any of the City employees, they are all working for the City Council. T don't think this has been done down here by everybody, anyway. I would suggest to y'all that y'all don't let Jim tell y'all how the City is to be run. Y'al1 tell him how the City is supposed to be run. And another little story about the cable television. When I got back home there was 5 light company trucks out there - 5, mind you, and a goodly number of light company employees, and I did what Jim suggested., I talked to some of those people. He told me on the street lights to call Houston Light and Power to find out why the street lights wasn't in. Well, I think that's his job. After over a year he ought to call and find out why they are not in instead of me. That's his job. But anyhow, there was 5 light company trucks out there, so I went and I talked to the supervisor, and T asked him why he was out there, and he said, "Well, the TV cable people ripped out the power lines here and we are restoring power." Well, after a while another telephone company truck came out and I said, "What are you doing out here?", and he said,"Well, I'm fixing. this lady's telephone over here." Now this is the one on the north side of me, the one the day before had been on the south side, and Jim told me I could. stay home. and watch my house. That's what i was doing; I was staying home watch- ing because I knew dern well he didn't care. Now the. bottom line on this is, that. somebody pays for that, and I feel like that the City should not let people be ripped off., because we are gutting a rate increase and the light company passes this on, and T talked to both of these employees and the telephone company. told me, he said, "Well, we got 3 times as much work going on out here since those cable people have come in." And he said, "You know they are not going to pay us for it." He said, "It's kind of an unwritten law between these utility companies that we don't charge each other." I'll tell you who they charge - they charge us, the people, the consumers. But if you had somebody down here at City Hall that understood. that, that that's what's happening, and said, "Hey., there's no need in us letting this go on because we can do something about it." But no, not Mr. Hudgens. -He said government's too big and they are into stuff they oughtn't be and some of the things they should be into, .they are not into.