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MINUTES - REGIILAR MEET IbTG
LA PORTE CITY CCMMISSICN -MARCH 9, 1950
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T Regular: meeting of tjRe City Copsnissien was aa~led t• orders br Mo`yer H. J,. Pfeiffer,
with the following mesabers a8d oity effioials presents Cosnai.ssiaere Wm. P. Jones
and Jas. 5. Crate, Jr. Raleigh Erwin, Supt. of Ptiblfo 17erlaa, lUr. ~ llTaggeaer, repre-
senting Myatt C. Hedrick, City Engiseeer, ad J. E. Muldoon, City Clerk.
Minutes of the last meeting were read,snd approved.
The City Clerk presented aheoks from the Housta Natural Gas Corporation is ties
amount of ~837~•53, name being fa 2~ gross tau on ~l°D76.25 sale of gas to aoa-
sumere for residential purpaee.~
The Ceaanission unanire~uely taeepted the Houston. Natural Gan Corporation's checks
in the amount of X837.53, sub3eot t• further examinat ion of the Gas Cacporat ism.
re,aords, and iastraated the City Clerk t• advise them of their notion.
Carried.
Motion, by Crate, seeon$ by Jae, authorising the City Clerk t• issue a.ehsok to
Century Caaestruatien Compsny, for X12,201.58, on their Estimate 8e. 2.
Carried.
•` The City Cemaissi~ee -instructed their Htogiaeer to o~srtaot the Te~caa Highwsyy pe••.
partment to install a system of traffio control signal lights at flee Five Pints
iater~seotiue of Texas Hi~w~. 1~ and 225 wide Ssn Jaainte Street •.
The City Commissiat unanimously instructed the City Clerk t• write a letter to
idoore ~ 3[ooro,. General Coatraetora, is sodaeotioa wick their failure to eomplote
oastruation of the Imhoff Tank, is aeasrd.anos with tleei,r eoect,rxet dwted ~gnst
3. 149, and to put them upon notice t• ooeiplete said oonstructia one, •r before
March 15, 1950, or suffer .forleitvre of pertorsoaaoe booed made by tle,sm ire esnnea-
tioee with said ooeitraat= and to register letter.
Carried.
Mr. T. F. Smitie appeared before the Cenamd.seioee and oos<plained ~' water standing
in ditoh in fromct oP his reside~noe. The Supt. of Pleblia lfirl~ was instructed t•
investigate his oaplaint, and t• remedy same.
Mr. B. F. Lane, Mara er of. the Mississi i Valle Tank C
g PP Y ~pa~0.Y• appeared btfir+e
the Commies is and asked for flee Sob of painting the crater Tower and Tank. The
Commission informed him they lead no imoeediate plans ter this work, but lee oeuld
make an iaspeotiaa~t and submit an estimate.
Upa motion by Jones, eesond by Crate, this meeting wan recessed at 1s16 P. l[.,
until Yarah 10, 1950, at 9=30 A. Y.
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MARCH lA, 195A
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The regular meeting of the City Cearai+is8~.eat, which was recessed by the Ceawi.ssian
until 9:30 e'oleak A. M., wan called to order by Mayer H. J. Pfeiffer, with the
Pellew3ag members amd city officials present: Cea~anissietters Jae. S. Crate, Jr.,
and ~. P. Jeates, Carl C. Pktriok, City Att~rey, and J. E. Muldoon, City Clerk.
The Mayer introduced am ordinance, whial~ was read ii fulh Ceauaiasi+ater Crate
made a motieit that the ~~rdinaaot be adapted as read. The motion wan seoeatdod
by Cemmnissiener Jones, amcl carried by the following wte: AYgSs Magror Pfeiffer,
Cemtnissiaatea"a Crate and J~eat, NOES; Neste, that Ordi.Ya~noa No. 39g, being
AN ORDINANCE CALLING THE REGULAR $IEAINIAL ELECT ION OF CITY 4FFIC IAiS PORSUANT
- TO ART ICIL II, SECTIONS 12 of seq, AND A'RT ICLS VIII, SECT IONS 83•, et saq, OF
THE HC~ RULE CHARTER FOR THE C TTY OF LA POR'PE,~ TEXAS; PROV~TDINa FOR NOTR;E'
OF S AID II,ECT ION AND THE RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE SA~dE NOT COVERED
IN SAID CHA~tTER.
Carri'ed'.
The° Cemmissiea3 uunimewly iastruc~ted tLo City Clerk to have printed sad pest
notion of the City eledtieaa to be held eat April 25, 195A, Pea" the election of
a ldayor, and titre (2) C~issieasers, in aooordanbe with Ordiauuioe No. 393.
Carried.
The City ClerY wan instructed to gips Netioa to Kidders that the City Weald re-
aei~re bids eat April 6, 19gA, for the purchase of sate (1)-Teat Chewralet ~r
Ford truolc {Standard Pickup...body?;: ouch bids to b e aocempauied by a bid Per
the puroha8e,~ as trade-in ~ said truck, of a 19i~a l+4da1 8 N Ford traeter, to-
gether with access cries .
The City Attorney was instructed to draw an Ordinance for a taaioab franchise
in favor ~ M. •. Berg.. -
Metieat by Crate, eecord by Jess that the meeting adjourn.
Carried.
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