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• • MINUTES - SPECIAL ~fi7NG LA Ptr`~. TE CITY Co~'1t.ZLSS ION -JULY 15, 1955 lo:oo A. ~. Special Heating of the City Cemni.ssion ~ra,s called to cr der by ~atyer ~.A. Burgin, ~-ith the f ollc~ixag raes~bers and city officials, present : ~ Cmmnissio~rs L.R. Rigby and H. P. Pfeiffer, Special Counsel Jno. S. Kiibler, Supt, of Public C~'orks ~. l~. Arthur, and Assistant City Clerk Eula grin. L~i.nutes of the last ~e ting tivere read and approved.. Iir. Alwyn S. R®ehler, representir~ V,tyatt C. Hedrick, Architect-~gireer, appeaxed beflere the Con+~ission to discuss the progress cif the serer c®ristructi©n ~©rk n~rr being d©ue by the City. Dotion by Pfeiffer, sec®nd by Rigby, .instructing the Special Attorney, Jno. S. Kiibler to take legal action against Balco, Inc., far their failure tm make ° necessary repairs to the Cityts streets. Carried. Ths C0~1].SS1©n unanimously adopted the foll~ving,Resolution: STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF HARRT;S ~ ° 'UVIIlERFAS, the tw® lane high~r~r ©n State Hi~hznray 1.Li,6 aril State Hi~h~ray 225 passing through the railr®ad uncerpass North of LaPorte and at the ~~traffic ir.~ erchange~~ on the appr®ach to the B ;ytv~m 3~a Porte Tunnel anal cor~tinuir~~ on Soutli to LaPorte c©nstitutes a bottleneck and. an increasingly hazaralc~us situa- ti©n; anal ti ~ AS, the flees of high speeel traffic along State High~ray lli.6 past the La Porte Scho®ls creates an ever increasing hazard to the children attending the La Porte Schools: ' NON, TH~EI+'GR,E, BE Tr RESOLVED BY THE QTY COr~SSION OF THE CITY OF' LA POF4'E, TEXAS that the Texas Highvray Department give serious consideration and study to the correcti®n of these conditi®ns by widenixig the railr®ad under- pass N®rth ©f La P®rte on State Highway 225 and 1La.6 and the c®nstruction of a fear lane highway fron that point South continuing on 10th Street across Spencer High~ray in a Southerly direction, t© a suitable p®int of intersection with State HighvPay 1l~6 South of the La Porte School grounds; a~~i BE IT FU'rtTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this resolutimn be fertivarded to the office of. the District Engineer of the State Hightiray Department, in Houston, Texas. AND IT IS SO ORDERED. 323 (Signed) Z4. D. B urgin Llayor oft City of La Por e, Tex.