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MINUTES -REGULAR MEETING
LA PORTE CITY COMMISSION - AUGUST 19, 1955
4:3o P. M.
Regular meeting of the City Commission was called to order by Mayor M. D.
Burgin, with the following members and pity officials present: Commissioners
H. P. Pfeiffer .,and L. R. Rigby, Supt. of Public Works W. A. Arthur, Special
Counsel Jno. S. Biibler, and Asst. City C~:erk Eula Erwin.
Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
Mr. Bob Harris of Pasadena appeared before the Commission to inquire into
the possibilty of the City furnishing dater and sewer services.in a proposed
residential development about one mile south of the La Porte city limits on
Highway 1l~b.
The Commission promised Mr. Harris they would see what they could work out.
Mr. James E. Stewart and Mr. Al Wadsworth appeared before the Commission and
asked the City to write a latter to Houston Lighting & Power Co. requesting
them to remove four light poles at the City's Airport, near the South East
corner runway and to bury the hi-line.
Motion by Rigby, second by Pfeiffer that City write a letter as Mr. Stewart
requested.
Motion by Pfeiffer, second by Rigby, that personal taxes on Bartley's Pharmacy
be reduced from ~557.61~ to X160.00.
Carried.
Motion by Pfeiffer, second by Rigby, that the following Resolution be adopted:
RESOLUTION
WHEREA..S, heretofore, the Mayor of the City of La Porte prepared and sub-
mitted to the Board of Commissioners, at its meeting head on August 5th, 1955,
his proposed budget for the Piseal year, July 1, 1955 to June 30, 1956.
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners filed such proposed budget with the
Asst. Clerk of the City on the 5th day of August, 1955, and designated that ae
public hearing on such budget be held at the City Ha11 at L}s30 P. M. on August
19th,, 1955, and paused public notice of suoh hearing to be me,de; and,.
WHEREAS, suoh public hearing has been held, it is therefor®, ordered by the
Board of Commissioners that the budget, as prepared and submitted by the Mayor,
is hereby finally approved by the Board of Commissioners and it is hereby ordered
that a true copy of such approi~ed budge~c, together wi th a copy of this order,
~° shall be filed in each of the offices of the Clerk of the City of La Porte, the
County Clerk of Harris County, Texas, and the State Comptroller at Austin, Texas.
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Carried.
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Motion by Rigby, second by Pfeiffer to purchase 75 Street Signs from
Viking Supply Co. at X7.40 each, delivered.
Carried.
Upon recommendation oP the Mayor, motion by Pfeiffer, second by Rigby to
have a member of the Auxiliary Police relieve Chief of Police Russia
Jacobi so that he may serve Warrants of arrest.
_ ~ Carried. _
Motion by Rigby, second by Pfeiffer, to accept check of H. W. Angel in
the amount of $151.05 in payment of Curb and Gutter in Block 53, La Porte.
Carried;
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The Commission went on record as supporting the Wheel Tax and the proposed
high bridge across the ship channel.
Motion by Pfeiffer, second by Rigby, to have Houston Lighting and Power
install a street light at the intersection of 11th and B Streets.
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Carried.
The Commission instructed Special Counsel John S. Kiibler to draw up an
easement for a sewer line~Block 8, Sylvan Beach.
Motion by Rigby, second by Pfeiffer, that the following persons be appointed
as Auxiliary Policemen: George Lundy, Brock L. Morrow, Elvis Ray Strickland,
Morris Lemons(col) and Rudell Phillips(col)~ and to accept.the resignation
of the following: D. B. Hearn, Joe Jardinorand Ralph Gissler.
Carried.
There being no further business, upon motion by Rigby, second by Pfeiffer,
that the meeting ad3ourn.
Carried.
ATTEST
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Eula mein, Asst. City Clerk of the
City of La Porte, Texas
. D. urgin, Ma f thee- ity of
La Porte, Texas