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MINUT ~ LA PORTE CITY COt?NC IL NOVEb4BER 27,1939, 8 : ~ P.M. Meeting was called to order by Mayor Sharp with the following Aldermen present: C.M. Agee, J.J. Roark„ Fred R. Ruff. Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Bills ~"otion by Agee, second by Ruff that the bill of the Gulf Cities Nat. Gas Co. in the amount of ~1.5l~ and bill of ':"~.R. Vickers in the amount of X2.50 be ordered paid. C~xried. ~Tarrants The City Secr°tary reported need of post cards for water bills. Motion by Agee, second by Roark that warrant for $10.00 for 1,000 post cards be allowed and that U'~arrant No. 3185 in the amount of X3.00 to O.F. Walzell be ratified. Carried. Nelson The City Secretary reported that the City's Anticipating Warrant No. 31t~.t, dated November 1,1939, in favor of Mrs Lillian Nelson, in the amount of X300.00 and due on or before January31,19~.0, had been paid with interest in the amount of 90 cents. This was the final payment due Mrs Nelson on Lots 17 ~c 18, Block 39, City of La Yorte. Vickers The City Secretary reported that Harold Vickers had made a deposit of X58.00 Deposit with the City to cover his 2/`j of the cost of-apxosdin~ 60 yards of shell, delivered, ~ $1.15 per yard, spread, on First Street from the N.E. corner of Shell Lot 18, Block 110, La torte to the S.E. corner of Lot 27, Block 131, La Porte, a distance of approximately 270 feet. Motion by Agee, second by Ruff, that the City buy 100 yards of shell from V'7.A. Arthur at X1.10 per yard, 60 yards to be used on the above described shelling on First Street, the balance for general City use. Carried. Prestone The City secretary was instructed to get prices from the different filling stations in town on Ever Ready Prestone to be put in the radiators of the City Trucks for the winter. Time laiotion by Agee, second by Roark that A.S. Hamilton and L.L. Price be in- structed to work on their regular days off during the time Jack Olive is gone, providing an extra man is not hired in Olive's place during that time. Carried. Raise Motion by Agee, second by Ruff, that the salary of the Assistant City Sec- Sal. reta~!y be raised X10.00 per month, retroactive to November lst,1939• Carried. Special Motion by Ruff, second by Agee, that, beginning December 1st, 1939,,. twenty eater Impt~'ive percent of all water collections be deposited in the special ~aater Fund Improvements Fund, a separate bank account. Carried. ,~ over