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• • MINUTES - REGULAR MEETIIIX'x LA PORTE CITY COM~dISSION -AUGUST 20~ 1954 4:3o P. M. Regular meeting of the City Conani.ssion was called ,to o xder by Mayor M. D. Bur- gin~ with the fo7lave:ing members aryl city officials present: Coaanissioners L. R. Rigby, aad H. P. Pfeiffer, Supt, of Public Yorks W. A. Arthur, Special Counsel Jno. S, giibler, and City Clerk J.E, Muldoon. Minutes of the last meetings were read and approved. Motion by Rigby, second by Pfeiffer, that the following Resolution be adopted: RESOLUTION WHEREAS, heretofore, the Mayor of the City of La Porte prepared and sub- mitted to the Board of Commissioners, at its meeting held on August 3rd, 1954, his proposed budget for the fiscal year, July 1, 1954 to June 30, 1955. WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners filed such proposed budget with the Clerk of the City on the 3rd day of August, 1954, and designated thata public hearing on such budget be held at the City Hal]. at 4:30 P. M. on August 20th, 1954, and caused public notice of such hearing to be made; and, WHEREAS, such public .hearing has been held, it is therefore, ordered ' by the Board of Co~ani.ssioners that the budget, as prepared and submitted by the Mayer, is hereby finally approved by the Board of Comnnissioners and it is hereby ordered that a true copy of such approved budget, together with 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 G~ounty, Texas, and the State , Comptroller at Austin, Texas. Carried. The Mayor introduced an Ordinance which was read in full. Commissioner Pfeiffer made a motion that the Ordinance be adopted as read. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Rigby and carried by the following vote: AYES, Mayor Burgin Commissioners Rigby and Pfeiffer. NOES, None. The OrdinatLCe thus adopted follows: ORDINANCE N0. 473 AN ORDINANCE FIXING THE BOUNDARY LIMITS OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE, TEXAS, AND EN- LARGING AND EXTENDING THE BOUNDARY LIME TS OF SAID CITY AND ANNEXING ADDITIONAL TERRITORY LYING ADJACENT TO SAID CITYYITII~UT THE CONSENT OF'THE TERRITORY AND THE INHABITANTS ANNIICID; PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATIC~1 OF THE ORDIldANCE AFTER ITS INITIAL INTRODUCTION AND PASSAGE BY THE CITY COMd0tSSI0N OF SAID CITY'; PROVIDING THAT ANY CITT~1 OF THE SAID CITY OR OF THE TERRITCItY TO BE ANNEXID SHALL HAVE THE RIGRT TO CONTEST SUCH ANNEXATION AND BE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD; AND PROVIDIl~tG A SAVINGS CLA~9~. 241