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LA POP~TE CITY COMP.2ISS ION -FEBRUARY 23, 1950
:: 10 :00 A . ii.
Regular meeting of the City Commission eras called to order,by I~~ayor H. J. Pfeiffer,
.. with the following members and city officials present: Commissioner ~'hn. P. Jones,
Carl C. Patrick, City Attorney, I7m. I~taness, representing ti'Fyatt C. Hedrick, City
En.gineer,_Raleigh Erwin, Supt. of Public ~~~orks, and J. E. 1:Iuldoan, City Clerk.
LIinutes of the last meeting vrere read and approved.
i:Ir. Knott and IVIr. VYillard Fisher appeared before the Commission and requested to
use a loud speaker on the streets of La Porte to advertise the "Come to the Baby
Fair" at ~Iebster, money derived from fair to be given to the Hedgecroft Polio
Hospital. The Commission unanimously gave their permission.
Commissioner Jas. S. Crate, Jr., came into the meeting at this time.
`l'he City Attorney was requested to draw a Resolution in behalf of the ].ate Buil-
ding and Plumbing Inspecta+r, James A. L4c Cauley, vrith a copy to his family.
After much discussion relative to the enlarging and extending the boundary limits
' of the City of La Porte, which vrere set out in Ordinance ATo. 387 and passed Septem-
ber 13th, 19l~.9, in accordance vrith Section 10 of the Home Rule Charter of the City
of La Porte, the rltayor instructed the City Clerk to read Ordinance PTo. 387 in full.
~_. Upon reading the Ordinance in full, Commissioner Jones made a motion, v.~.ich eras
seconded by Commissioner Crate, that Ordinance No. 387, being
AN OP.DIDTANCE ENLA3tGING AND EXTENDING THE BOUNDARY LIPiITS OF THE CITY
OF Lk PORTE, TEXAS, AI~TD AI~i~TEXII~TG ADDITIONAL ADJACENT TERRITORX' TO SAID
CITY,
be adopted on its second and final reading.
. Carried.
The Commission unanimously instructed the City Clerk to have published in the
city's official nevrspaper, Ordinance No. 392, which was passed cn its first read-
ing January 19th, 1950.
Carried .
T:Ir. I~laziess, representing 1Yyatt C. Hedrick, City Engineer, estimated it would cost
from ;300.00 to ~~.00.00 to prepare plans for curb and gutter and to shave drainage
_~ elevations from Main to E streets, and from 1st Street to 6th Street, South of Irain.
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Wotion by Jones, second by Crate, authorizing the City engineer to prepare plans
for curb and gutter and show the drainage elevations from Wain to ~, and from
1st Street to 6th Street, south of Main Street.
Carried.
Motion by Crete, second by Jones, that the meeting adjourn.
Carr i.ed .
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J. :?uldoon, City lerk ofthe City of J. e' r yor of -the City of
Porte, Texas La Po te, ox
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