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MINUTES OF A SPECIAL MEETING
OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTO'iN
June 29, 1971
The City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas met in special session
on Tuesday, June 29, 1971 at 4:30 p.m., in the Conference Room of the
Baytown City Hall with the following members in attendance:
C. 0. Walker
Councilman
Jody Lander
Councilman
Leonard Stasney
Councilman
Jim McWilliams
Councilman
C. Glen Walker
Mayor
D. R. Voelkel
City Manager
Howard Northcutt
Administrative Assn't
Edna Oliver
City Clerk
Absent: Ted Kloesel Councilman
Allen Cannon Councilman
Mayor Walker called the meeting to order, and stated the purposes of the
meeting was to consider filing an application, prior to the deadline of June 30th,
for federal funds out of this fiscal year's budget through the EPA program. Each
year funds are made available to States to reimburse local governments for
sanitary sewer improvements and in this fiscal year Texas has $41 M. The Federal
government will contribute 558 if the State will contribute 259 and Texas has
voted an amendment to the Constitution to allow the State to sell $100 M in bonds
to loan the cities for this purpose. It is not known whether the $100 M
will be sufficient to provide funds for all applications so, in order to have
a backup, the alternate is proposed which permits the City to contract a
Memorandum Agreement with some authority such as San Jacinto River Authority.,.
the Gulf Coast Waste Disposal whereby the Authority agrees to loan the
City the State allocation of 258. When the project is completed, the City would
get the money. In order to meet the deadline, some compact agreement must be
filed with the Water Quality Board in Austin prior to June 30th, in order to
quality. The Administration is now asking the Council to enter into one of
the Memorandum Compact Agreements with the San Jacinto River Authority, place
it on file with the Texas Water Quality Board prior to the deadline. If the
City is unable to get funds from the bonds which will be sold in Texas at a later
date, the City could then use this avenue of acquiring the 559 federal funds to
build the sanitary sewer project. This Will be a grant of $1,235 M - our total
project cost being $2,246 M. The Council discussed the proposal at length.
Councilman McWilliams expressed some concern over entering into a contract
agreement without the opinion of the City Attorney who was out of town. Following
some further discussion, Councilman Walker moved to adopt ordinance approving the
memorandum agreement between The City of Baytown and the San Jacinto River Authority.
Councilman Stasney seconded the motion. The vote follows:
Ayes: Councilmen Walker, Lander and Stasney
Mayor Walker
Nays: None
Abstained: Councilman McWilliams
The caption of the ordinance follows:
ORDINANCE NO. 1104
AN ORDINANCE APPROVING MEMORANDUM AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF BAYTOWN
AND SAN JACINTO RIVER AUTHORITY AND AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE EXECUTION
THEREOF AND SETTING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
Adjourn
There being no further business to come before the Council, the motion was made and
seconded that the meeting adjourn. The ayes were unanimous the Mayor declared the
meeting adjourned. )
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