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• • MINUTES - REGULAR MET~lNG ~ FORTE CITY COI~ISSION -OCTOBER 7TH, 1955 10:00 A. M. Regular meeting of the City ComIId.ssion was_ called to order by Mayor M.D. Hurgin, with the following members and city officials present: Commi.ssior~ers L.R. Rigby, and H. P. Pfeiffer, ~. A.Arthur, Supt, of Public Worms, and City Clerk Frank G. Haber. Also p¢~esent were Mrs. 'ri.A. Stabs, Sr. ~ Reporter, Mr. Guy Robertson, Mr. W. D. and Mr. Jim Mayas. Minutes of the previous meetings were read and approved. Motion by Rigby, second by Pfeiffer, that the following Resolution be passed: RESOLUTION 11~HII~.EAS THE State Highway Commission of the State of Texas, on September 20, 1955, passed Minute Order No. 38785, directing the State Highway Eaigineer to proceed with location surveys arxi to flirnish local authorities with Deeds fcr a minimum three hundred (300) foot right-of- way locaton to be approved by the State Highway Engineer for the future construction of a minimum fox' lane facility with controlled access on State Hig~ray 1t~6 frown the three level interchange at the junction with State Highway 225 North of La Porte to a point on present State Highwa~q lli6 South of La Porte, a distance of approximately three ~ four miles at a total estimated cost of Nine Hundred Fifty Thousand ($950,000.00) Dollars on condition that the City of La Porte will declare the portion lying within the corporate limits of La Ports a freeway in accordance with the provisions of House Bill 1x51, 52nd Legislature, and will exe- cute the Texas Highwatiy De pastmerrt~ s standard forms far construction and mai~rtenamee of Highway projects inside corporate Cities and Towns, and providing further that such Minute shall become operative upon acceptance by Harris County and the City of La Porte within ninety (90) days of the date thereof; NO~t, THE~.E~tE, BE IT RESOLVED EY THE CITY COMMISSION OF TIC CITY OF LA FORTE, TEXAS, that theCity of La Porte does hereby expressly accept State Highs~ay Commission Minute Order No. 38785, passed on September 20, 1955, and agree to all of the ter~ss, conditions and provisions therein contained. BE IT FURTHER RF.SOLVID that certified copies of this Resolut ion be transmitted to the Texas Highway Department and the Commissioners Court of Harris County, Texas. AND I'I' IS SO ORDERED. ;!r f Carried.