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RESOLUTION NO. 81- /1
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WHEREAS, the City of La Porte, pursuant to a Charter
Election passed and approved by the Citizens of La Porte
in August of 1980, changed its form of government from
Commission to Council/Manager; and
WHEREAS, the Commission form of government provided that
elected officials serve as department heads over specific
city departments thereby necessitating that elected officials
be closely involved in the day to day operations of their
respective departments; and
WHEREAS, the Council/Manager form of government now pro-
vides that the City Council serve as a legislative and policy
making body and by Charter delegate the implementation of
policy and the day to day operations to a City Manager and the
City staff; and
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WHEREAS, incumbent members of the City Council who were
members of the Commission under the previous Charter and form
of government had in their possession and use for the discharge
of their duties certain communication equipment, to wit: Two-
way mobile car radios, two-way walkie-talkie radio, pagers and
scanner monitors all of which relate to the police, fire and
public works frequencies; and
~~EREAS, the change in the form of government and the
relative duties of City Council members under the Council/Manager
form of government removes the necessity of said Council members
to have the aforementioned communications equipment; and,
furthermore, said equipment now being used by members of Council
could better be used in the operat~ng departments of the City.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS,
that, the following policy shall become effective from and after
the passage of this resolution.
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SECTION ONE: All existing communication equipment and
scanner monitors above listed now in the possession of
elected officials shall be turned in for distribution
to the operating departments of the City as needed.
SECTION TWO: It shall be the policy of the City of
La Porte that municipal funds will not be expended to
provide any communications equipment to elected offi-
cials except that the Mayor of the City may, at his
discretion, be provided a pager. The pager is to be
used to contact the Mayor in cases related to the pro-
vision of magistrate warnings needed during police
investigations when a Justice of the Peace or the Muni-
cipal Court Judge are unavailable and the ~ayor cannot
be contacted by telephone.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the e!l/J/-L day of ~~
- J. J.~r
, 1981.
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