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REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
Agenda Date Requested: 06-12-06
Requested By: D.~ Q~
Bud2et
Source of Funds: NI A
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Planning Department
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Inter-local Aereement
Budgeted Item: YES NO
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SUMMARY & RECOMMENDATION
The City does not have a health department with registered sanitarians who perform food-establishment inspections.
Rather than hire certified staff to perform these duties, in 19% City Council chose to enter an inter-local agreement
with Harris County and allow their Environmental Health Specialists to perform health inspections within the city.
The agreement identifies that the County will provide a food establishment surveillance program, issue health
permits, notify the city of health ordinance violations, provide written semi-annual reports to the city and approve
training and certification of restaurant managers where required by ordinance. The County receives the fees
associated with those services and there is no cost to the City.
The past two ordinances each provided a five-year period beginning with Ordinance #96-l743-B and the current
inter-local agreement approved with the passage of Ordinance #2001-2496 is scheduled to expire May 31, 2006.
Staff has been in contact with Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services personnel and they are
interested in continuing the agreement with our city. There is a proposed language change to the inter-local
agreement that eliminates the five-year term and establishes a one-year term, renewal automatically. The agreement
still provides the city or county to opt out with a minimum 30-day written notice prior to any upcoming renewal
date. That language has been reviewed by our legal department and they have no objection to the change.
Action Required bv Council:
Consider approval of the Ordinance and Harris County Inter-local Agreement
Aooroved for City Council A2enda
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ORDINANCE NO. 2006- .2 'lq ,_
AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING AN INTERLOCAL
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF LA PORTE AND HARRIS COUNTY,
FOR HARRIS COUNTY TO PROVIDE FOOD ESTABLISHMENT
SURVEILLANCE SERVICES TO THE CITY OF LA PORTE; MAKING
VARIOUS FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT;
FINDING COMPLIANCE WITH THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW; PROVIDING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE:
Section 1. The City Council hereby approves and authorizes the contract,
agreement, or other undertaking described in the title of this ordinance, in
substantially the form as shown in the document which is attached hereto and
incorporated herein by this reference. The Mayor is hereby authorized to execute
such document and all related documents on behalf of the City of La Porte. The
City Secretary is hereby authorized to attest to all such signatures and to affix the
seal of the City to all such documents.
Section 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the terms of
this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall be
only to the extent of such inconsistency and in all other respects this ordinance
shall be cumulative of other ordinances regulating and governing the subject
matter covered by this ordinance.
Section 3. If any section, sentence, phrase, clause, or any part of any section,
sentence, phrase or clause, of this Ordinance shall, for any reason, be held invalid,
such invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of the Ordinance, and it is
hereby declared to the intention of this City Council to have passed each section,
sentence, phrase, or clause, or part thereof, irrespective of the fact that any other
section, sentence, phrase, or clause, or part thereof, may be declared invalid.
Section 4. The City Council officially finds, determines, recites, and declares that
a sufficient written notice of the date, hour, place and subject of this meeting of
the City Council is posted at a place convenient to the public at the City Hall of
the City for the time required by law preceding this meeting, as required by the
Chapter 551, Tx. Gov't Code; and that this meeting has been open to the public as
required by law at all times during which this ordinance and the subject matter
thereof has been discussed, considered and formally acted upon. The City
Council further ratifies, approves and confirms such written notice and the
contents and posting thereof
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ORDINANCE NO. 2006 -J.X q I
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Section 5. This Ordinance shall be effective from and after its passage and
approval, and it is so ordered.
PASSED AND APPROVED, this I ~ day of ~ 2006,
:~TY~y~
Mayor
ATTEST:
APPROVED:
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City Attorney