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M'INUTE5 - REGULAR MEETIlaG LA PORTE CITY COI~ISSION -OCTOBER 2, 1952 ~' 7:30 P. M. Regular meeting of the City Commission was called to order by Mayor M, D.Burgin, with the follc~ring members and city officials present: Com:ni.ssioners L. R. Rigby and Robert A. White, Supt. of Publ3,c ',storks ~. A. Arthur, City Attorney Edward J. Cade, and City Clerk J.E. Muldoon. Minutes of t he last meetings were read and approved. A lengthy discussion was held with ~. Ernest Bro~rn, Bond Broker, in connection with contemplated street and building bond issue. It was Mr. Brown's opinion the City could float an issue of X200,000.00, with an increase in the tax rate to twenty-one cents (~,21y~) per hundred, He suggested to the Commission that they have their engineer,.drag a plan to ascertain. the cost and for selling issue to the people. The Commission authorized the Mayor to contact A. B. Moore, Engineer, fcr the cost of dra:sing a tentative plan for street work contemplated, The Comn~i.ssion instructed the City Attorney to draw up as ordinance making it a penalty for a~ person not duly authorized, to tamper with the city's water meters or any other appurtenances to the city's water lines. Motion by White, second by Rigby, authorizing the Supt. of Public Works to pur- chase four winging trash cans and. place in appropriate, locations on Main Street. • Carried. Biotion by White, secorri by Rigby, that Ordinance No. h33, bei ng AN ORDINANCE PROV]DING EUR THE TERMINATION OF LEGAL SERVICES OF MR. ERNEST A. HIJIPP IN CONNECTION WITH CAUSE N0. 391,299 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF HARRIS COUNTY, TEAS, $0TH JUDICIAL- DISTRICT, STYLED "STATE OF TERAS, E~. REL., SITE PILLOT ET. AL. VS. THE CITY OF LA PCEiTE, ET. AL.; AND FURTHER PROVIDIl~ FOR PAYMENT OF ATT~?.NEY' S FEES TO CITY ATT(~tNEY, ED@PARD J. CADS, FOR SERVICES RENDERID IN. OONNECTION THFREVPITH OVER AND ABOVE REQrULAR DUTIES AS CITY ATTORNEY, be adopted as read. Carried. The Commission unanimously instructed the City Clerk to pay the State and County taxes aryl court costs on Lots 18 to 28, Block 66, Bay Front Addition, and to proc~e tax certificate. Carried. Motion by ~xite, :secorxl by Rigby,- to re-appoint the La Porte Liberal, as the Cityt s official neePSpaper. Carried.