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• ~75~ MINUTF~ - REGULAR 1~ECIlVG LA PORTE CQTY C0144~'1ISSIOPd - SEPTEb~BER 27, 1957 4:30 P.M. Regular meeting of the City Cccnmission was ca7l,ed to order by &i~,yor Prot em L.R.Rigby, with the fo]1aw~ing members and city officials present: Commissioner H, P. Pfeiffer Special Counsel John S. Kiibler, and City Clerk Frank G. Bahr. Minutes of -the last meeting were read and approved, Carried. The following ~rere also present: Cliff Hyde, Al Wadsworth, Doc Copelarri, and Chas. Brown, Architect. Motior_ by Pfeiffer, second by Rigbyt that Cashiers Check No. b7g500, i.n the amount of X8,000 in payment of advance rentals, and certified check No. 919 in the amount of $10,000 as contribution, was received with the understanding and a~ee?nerlt that if for any reason the money is not spent in the surfacing of the Northwest-Southeast rurn~ay, such funds will be refunded by City. Motion by Pfeiffer, second by Rigby, that the following Resolution be adopted: '~ RESOLUTION STATE OF TEX.~.S ~ COUNTY OF' HARRIS ~u WI~REAS, on the 10th day of February, A. D. 1947, a lease was executed between A rthur J. Mandel, A.W. Wadsv~@rth, W.W. Mc Millan and Herman Wright as Lessees, and. the City of La Porte, Texas, as Lessor, covering the use of La ~ Porte Municipal Airport by Lessees; the execution of such lease was du],y authorized ar~d approved by the City Council of the Cit of La Porter by Ordinance Pdo.330, on the 10th day of February, A. d. 197; and WHFREkS, on tY~ 27th day of February, A. D. 1947, ~ accordance with the terms of said lease, the Lessees assigned such lease to Hou Port Aviation, Inc., a Texas Corporation; and WHEREAS, s ~.id lease pr ovides that Lessees shall maintain the ai rport to conform to the Civil Aeronautics Ac~n3.nistrati on spe cif ications and to peep said airport on tr,e C.A.A. Approved list; and WI~.EAS, the said lease and certain amendments thereto provide that the Lessee has certain options to extend the term of the lease for additional periods, on terms not more than ten per cent.{10;x) less favorable to Lessee than ~t the preceding term; and "" ~"~fiF1tEAS, in cooperation Z~rith the City of La Porte and t'ne Civil Aero- nautics Administration, to have the Narthw~est-southeast rurnvay on the La Porte T~unicipal Airport hard-surfaced, in accordance with C. A.A. specifications