1983-05-02 CC MinutesCITY OF FARMERS BRANCH
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CITY COUNCIL
MINUTES OF AN EMERGENCY MEETING
MAY 2, 1983
6:00 P.M.
COUNCIL CHAMBER
POLICE BUILDING
The following members of the City Council were present:
Mayor
Council Members
John Dodd
David Blair
Carol Dingman
Bill Glancy
Herb Weidinger
The following member of the City Council was absent:
Mayor Pro Tem
Fred Johnson
The following members of the City Administration were present:
City Manager Paul M. West
Assistant City Manager Roy Patton
Legal Counsel: John Boyle
Skip Newsom
City Secretary J. W. Wade
Recording Secretary Ruth Ann Parish
Mayor Dodd called the emergency meeting of May 2, 1983 to order
and announced that an Executive Session would be held. The
meeting will reconvene into General Session after the item has
been discussed in the Executive Session. Article 6252-17,
Section 2 of the Open meeting law provides that such item as
contemplated litigation may be discussed in closed session.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
Discuss Pending and Contemplated Litigation
Legal Counsel Skip Newsom gave an up-to-date status report on
the Water Rate Case.
THE COUNCIL RECONVENED INTO GENERAL SESSION.
NECESSARY ACTION ON PENDING AND CONTEMPLATED LITIGATION DISCUSSED
IN THE EXECUTIVE SESSION.
A motion by Councilman Weidinger, a second by Councilman Glancy,
all voting "aye", authorized the Special Water Counsel, the law
firm of Booth, Lloyd and Simmons, P.C., of Austin, Texas, to file
on behalf of the City of Farmers Branch a Limited Purpose Inter-
vention in the pending application before the Texas Water Commission
for the Lake Fork Reservoir.
WAS ADJOURNED AT 7:15 P.M..
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