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Home My WebLink About1972-09-07 Regular Meeting~ ~ MI NU'D'ES - REGULAR MEETING • OF THE LA PORTE CITY COMMISSION, LA PORTE TEXAS SEPTEMBER 7, 1972 7:00 P.M. MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION PRESENT: Mayor E. A. Thomas, Commissioners C. D. Christensen, I. J. Kibodeaux, G. E. Sampson and C. D. Boyle. MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION ABSENT: None. OTHER CITY OFFICIALS PRESENT: Larry Broussard, Director of Finance; Virginia Cline, City Clerk; Knox Askins, City Attorney; Robert Cline, Director of Public Works, and H. F. Freeman, Chief of Police. • PRESIDING: Ma or Thomas. y Invocation was offered by Comm. Boyle. 1. Motion by Comm. Kibodeaux, seconded by Comm. Sampson to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of August 21, 1972 and the special meeting of August 24, 1972 as presented. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Commissioners Christensen, Kibodeaux, Sampson and Boyle. NAYS: None. + + + 2. Motion by Comm. Boyle, seconded by Comm. Kibodeaux to approve the accounts payable • as presented. (See exhibit A) Motion • Regular Meeting 9/7/72 - continued • carried by the following vote: AYES: Commissioners Christensen, Kibodeaux, Sampson and Boyle. NAYS: None. + + + 3. Motion by Comm. Kibodeaux, seconded by Comm. Boyle to approve $2,810.89 as first payment of engineering fees to Baytown Engineering on the Garden Walk Townhouse project. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Commissioners Christensen, Kibodeaux, Sampson and Boyle. NAYS: None. + + + • 4. Motion by Comm. Kibodeaux, seconded by Comm. Christensen to adopt Ordinance No. 759-C as read. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Commissioners Christensen, Kibodeaux, and Sampson. NAYS: Commissioner Boyle. CAPTION: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 2 OF ORDINANCE N0. 759, AS AMENDED BY OFtDINA~ICE N0. 759-B, AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. + + + 5. Motion by Comm. Kibodeaux, seconded by Comm. Christensen to adopt Ordinance No. 935 as read. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Commissioners Christensen, Kibodeaux, Sampson and Boyle. NAYS: None. • CAPTION: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 26, ARTICLE II, Regular Meeting 9/x/72 - continued • OF THE CODE OF ORDINAl~TCES OF THE CITY OF LA PORTS; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. + + + 6. Motion by Comm. Christensen, seconded by Comm. Kibodeaux to adopt Ordinance No. 936 as read. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Commissioners Christensen, Kibodeaux, Sampson and Boyle. NAYS: None. CAPTION: AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING THE DISCONTINUATION OF ELECTRIC SERVICE ON BROKEN OR UNSAFE ELECTRIC WIRES; PROVIDING FOR NOTICE BY THE BUILDING INSPECTOR TO THE LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY; PROVIDING THAT ANY PERSON VIOLATING THE TERMS OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE DEEMED GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND UPON CONVICTION SHALL BE FINED • IN ANY SUM NOT MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200.00); AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. + + + 7. Motion by Comm. Kibodeaux, seconded by Comm. Boyle to ratify action authorizing sixty-two (62) sepia prints made of the block maps at a cost of $509.95• Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Commissioners Christensen, Kibodeaux, Sampson and Boyle. NAYS: None. + + + 8. Motion by Comm. Sampson, seconded by Comm. Kibodeaux to approve installation of a side- walk between "E" and "F" Streets on South • Broadway. Motion carried by the following vote: • Regular Meeting 9/x/']2 - continued C~ AYES: Commissioners Christensen, Kibodeaux, Sampson and Boyle. NAYS: None. + + + 9. Motion by Comm. Kibodeaux, seconded by Comm. Christensen to approve chap e order No. 3 (relocation of lift station on the Garden Walk Townhouse project. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Commissioners Christensen, Kibodeaux, Sampson and Boyle. NAYS: None. + + + 10. Motion by Comm. Kibodeaux, seconded by Comm. • Boyle to approve the final payment of $8,065.25 to Hollico Inc., for work completed on the water and sewer line extensions in Fairmont Park and approve payment of $848.83 to Baytown Engineering as final payment for engineering work on the project. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Commissioners Christensen, Kibodeaux, Sampson and Boyle. NAYS: None. + + + 11. Motion by Comm. Sampson, seconded by Comm. Boyle to approve granting an easement to Houston Lighting and Power in connection with the O'Meara-Rush Project, a copy of said easement is attached to and made a part of these minutes. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Commissioners Christensen, Kibodeaux, Sampson and Boyle. • NAYS: None. + + + • Regular Meeting 9/'7/72 - continued • 12. Motion by Comm. Kibodeaux, seconded by Comm. Boyle to call a public hearing with the Planning and Zoning Commission on October 2, 19']2 to consider the rezoning of the West Half of Block 11'71; West Fialf of Block 1182; East Half of Block 1174; East Half of Block 1179 and all of Blocks 11'72, 113, 1180 and 1181 from Residential to Commercial. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Commissioners Christensen, Kibodeaux, Sampson and Boyle. NAYS: None. + + + 13. Motion by Comm. Kibodeaux, seconded by Comm. Sampson to ratify sending letter to Spenwick Place Municipal Utility District, a copy of said letter is ~_ttached to and made a part of these minutes. Motion carried by the follow- ing vote: • AYES: Commissioners Christensen, Kibodeaux, Sampson and Boyle. NAYS: None. + + + 14. Mayor Thomas reported he had received a letter from Alfred H. Koebig requestin the City of La Porte to notify (by tele~;ram~ Senators Bentsen and Tower urging their support of the Revenue Sharing Fund Bill HR 1430. Mayor Thomas stated a telegram had been sent regarding this matter. + + + 15. Mayor Thomas stated he had met with Engineer Carlos Smith; Contractor L. H. "Sonny" McKey; Engineer A. J. Busch; Public Works Director • Robert Cline and Inspector V. L. Sims to discuss the revisions of force main sewer crossing • Regular Meeting 9/7/72 - continued Little Cedar Bayou. Mr. Busch's recommendation was to lower pipe to plan grade and fill casing with grout, the conveyance tested for water tightness before grouting and after it is in place. The construction methods adopted shall be the option of the contractor. Everyone was in agreement to Mr. Busch's recommendation. + + + • 16. Motion by Comm. Kibodeaux, seconded by Comm. Sampson that the meeting be adjourned. Motion carried unanimously. The meeting of the City Commission was adjourned at 7:50 P.M. approved this the 18th day of September, 1972. V' ginia Cline, City Clerk C~ _ ~ E. A. Thomas, Mayor. • • • • ACCOUNTS PAYABLE September 7, 1972 • Baytown Engineering Houston Natural Gas Floyd Adcox Ad Valorem ARCO A.G. Bailey Bayshore Lumber Baytown Communications Ted Bente Interiors Bertie's Kitchen Briggs-Weaver Brooks Products Brown & Root Childs Truck Equipment Dickey Clay Co. Page-dittman Motors Dixie Chemical Co. , Gary Hamilton H & H Supply Houston Fire & Safety Hughes Office Supply I B M Jones Supply Co. • Kling Air Conditioning Co La Porte Automotive $ 8,065.25 56.96 60.00 412.30 115.08 57.35 148.95 140.05 60.00 6.52 11.66 217.50 1,027.62 33.60 848.37 635.94 138.00 312.58 101.45 112.50 376.15 20.00 243.95 31.22 10.50 Exhibit • . C • Accounts rayable September 7, 19'72 La Porte Ins. Agency 30.00 Lone Star Industries 48.51 Lumus Baytown Dodge 40.11 Mainland Tire Co. 29.94 G. M. Miller 28.00 La Porte Launderette 4.20 Pfeiffer Gambrell, Inc. 149.72 Public Sanitary Products 96.00 Servomation 27.88 Smith Corona (Maintenance on 95.00 Tax Office Calculator) Southwest Meter & Supply 59.55 Ted's Supply 10.73 Texas A & M 425.00 Texas Fire & Safety 10.25 TIFCO 77.41 Ventech Engineers 192.50 Waukesha-Pearce Industries 52.70 White Supply Co.. 30.93 • „: ""/~/hc 7/13/' M L.YP 2n 12721 • STATE OF TEXAS CO[JNTY OF HARRIS EASEEf~T KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: Filc No. . Job No. WA 25823 County Harri s Map L-1025=D ~4~G253 THAT~~JC of.J a rta a M~~;,;~i orporation of Narr;o r~~~nt„ Texas, acting herein by and through its 'Mayor E A THOMAS of Harris County, Texas, for and in consideration of One Dollar ($1.00) to it in hand paid by Houston Lighting & Power Company, have, and by these presents do grant unto Houston Lighting & Power Company, its successors and assigns, aright-of-way for distribution lines, consisting of wires, poles and other necessary equipment across, under and over the following described lands located in Harris County, Texas: That certain tract or parcel of land in the Johnson~Hunter League, Abstract 35, and being the same property described in a deed dated March 7, 1972, from O'MEARA - RUSH, a joint venture, to City of La Porte, filed in the Harris County CLerk's Office, dated March 28, 1972, and bearing file number D-555063. The easement herein granted is • the location of which is shown prepared 6y Houston Lighting & part hereof, together with an wide from a plane twenty (20) southwesterly of, adjacent to easement, an unobstructed easement ten (10) feet wide, 6y a crosshatched area on Sketch No. 72-818, Power Company, hereto attached and made a unobstructed aerial easement five (5) feet feet above the ground upward, located and adjoining said ten (10) feet wide The herein granted easement shall apply only insofar as the boundaries of the above described property wi71 permit, • together with the rights of ingress and egress to or from said' right-of-way for the purpose of con- structing, inspecting, repairing, maintaining, and removing said lines. WITNESS mY hand this ATTEST: • V' ginia Cline, City Clerk 31st day of August~, , 19__Z_2 CITY OF LA PORTE BY: / Mayor • ~,,~ `'~; !"~ ~~ ~, ~~ ~~,. ;: ~ ~1 ~ ~~ ~~ `\ E ~y `, ~~. ~~ ~`,~` (i ~ ^! f ~I `~~ a W Q ~s,c ~~ h~ F ,~ n ~0 M a~ ~N~d O ul d W Q ~~G'/ ON ~ /~'1 /'7'> ~G 1~/" ~ O l70 O' FJ o~ ~~ n o ~~ ~ ~~ ^0 'til m ti o~ ~~ ~~Q~ h W Q~~ h QQa v~~ 0 ~ ~J ~~W ~~~ . 31 5~ Q V ,~,~ \ON j ~' ~ o°~ ~~ ~~ Q~\ i 3~J ~aa Q~Q a~ ~~W ~~ mil !~' A'lyY'O' ~\ I ~ ~~ 1 ON> ,~ ~ W 0. ~ ~ • August 22, 1972 Mr. Eduard Dale Campbell, President Spenwick Place Municipal Utility District 9509 Carlow Lane La Porte, Texas 77571 Dear Mr. Campbell: Thank you for your letter of August 1, 1972, concerning the planned water .and sewer system for Spenwick Place Municipal Utility District. Your letter has been discussed by the La Porte City Commission, and we wish to advise as follows: (i) Subject to negotiation of a detailed agreement, the La Porte City Commission is agreeable in principle, • to furnishing potable water and sewage treatment to Spenwick Place M.U.D. (2) We would expect the District to construct, at its expense, and in accordance with plans and specifications to be approved by our engi:,eering firm, Baytown Engineering Company, necessary water and sewer mains from our Fairmont Park water and sewer plants, to your District boundry line, such mains to be constructed in city or county rights- of-way, and deeded over to the City of La Porte upon completion, after which time they would be under control and maintenance of the City of La Porte. (3) The City of La Pcrte would expect Spenwick Place M.U.D. to pay the fees of Baytown Engineering Company to the City of La Porte, fcr its consultation and advice to the City of La Porte concerning this project. The signature of appropriate officers of the Spenwick Place M.U.D. on this letter will indicate the District's acceptance and agreement to pay the fees of Baytown Engineering Company in this regard, and authorization to Baytown Engineering Company to initiate contacts with Mr. Don Roberts of Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, the District's engineers, to proceed with this project. ~ ! Mr. Edward Dale Campbell - 2 August 22, 1972 If this letter meets with your approval, please note your acceptance on this copy of the letter enclosed herewith, and forward it to the undersigned, retaining the original of this letter as your copy of the agreement. Yours very truly, CITY OF LA PORTS E. A. Thomas, Mayor • ACCEPTED AND AGREED: SPENWICK PLACE MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT By Edward Dale Campbell, President U