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MINUTES - SPECIAL MEET I~1G
LA PCRTE CITY coMMISSION -JULY 26, 1~9
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Special meeting of the City Commission was called to order by Mayor H. ~•
Pfeiffer, with the f®llowiag members and city officials presents Com~misaioner
ism. P. Jones, Supt. of Axblio ~or~ Raleigh Erwin, City Attorney Carl C. Pat-
rick, Plumbing and Building Inspector Jas. A. Mcs Cauley, and City Clerk J. E•
Muldoon.
Motion by Jones, second by Pfeiffer, instructing the City Attorney to write an
amendment t o Ordinance No. 366 permitting 1" decking to be used ~ Dist s pao fng
24" on cent®r, or 2" decking to be used foist spacing 36" on oertter.
Carried.
The Maya~r handed the City Clerk an opinion from the City Attorney in eonnee-
tion with the use of garbage disposal funds. and ordered same written into the
minutes. The opinion read as follows
Hon. H. J. Pfeiffer, Mayor
City of Ia Port e
La Porte, Teaas
Re: IIse of garbage disposal funds
Dear Mayor Pfeiffer:
In reply to the request Wade by you and the City Council as to
whether or not the proceeds of a bond issue voted for the pur-
port of purchasing an incinerator to be used in garbage dispos-
al can be diverted for the purchase of a different type of gar-
bage disposal equipment, please be advised that I hairs thnroughiy
bri®fed the proposition and also counseled with the bond attorney
for the pity, Mr. victor Boaldin. After briefing the question
and discussing it with Mr. Boulciin, I am of the opinion that no
specific statutory authority exists that would determine the an-
swer to the question.
It is my further opinion that the procseeds in question can be
used faa~ th® purahas® of a different type of equipment so long
as such equipment will be used for garbage disposal and will,
at the same time, be as effioi®nt and ecanomioal as the incin-
erator originally planned to be ,purchased.
The necessa,-ry transfer of Sunds is a matt®r that lies solely
w].thin the d is cr®ti on of you and the C ouno il. If, in the opin-
ion of you and the Council, you have now determined a better
and more ecaa~o~mi.cal means of garbage disposal than can be aupp-
lied by the incinerator, you certainly wou3.d net be abusing the
discretionary pourers vested in your offices if you proceeded
to avail yourselves of such means.
Respectfully submitted,
CCP~oms CARL C. PATRICK, Attorney, City of La Porte
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In view of this opinion the Commissiosa instructed the City Attorney to draw up
a Notice for Bids an a Bulldozer for handling garbage.
Motion by Jones, seoond by Pteiff®r, instruoting the City Clerk to issue Ed
Niles a oheok drawn. on the Revenue Bond Fund in the amount of X7,169.27, in pay-
ment of his statements dated July 25th, 1N.i.9.
Carried.
The° C om¢nis s ion unanimously agreed t o run sewer within 300' of Lots 31~ and 35.
Blook 68, Bay Front, and Mr. Dan Burns, Jr., is to bring it from that point to
his lots.
A lengthy d3saussian was held on the new plumbing ordinanoe adopted July 1, 1~9.
The City Attorney stated he would have ohanges Wade and ready for adoption at
the ne~ct meeting.
The City Attorney read a Dopy of a letter dated July 15, 14L}9, addressed to the
Hon. Tighe Woods, Federal Housing Expeditor and signed by Governor Allen Shivers,
in whioh he approved resolution oertit`ying rent oantrol was no longer needed in
La Porte, Texas.
Motion by Jones, second by Pfeiffer, that the meeting ad3oura.
Carried.
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