ORANGE —
The first order of new business at the Orange City Council meeting July 24, 2012 was for Mayor Jimmy Sims to read a proclamation declaring Friday July 27, 2012 DuPont Goodrich Federal Credit Union Day. The proclamation was in recognition of the credit union’s more than 50 years of service to the community.
Henry Lowe addressed the council in the Citizen Comments section. Lowe represented the Navy Park Homeowners Association. The Association is concerned that new public housing being built in Navy Park is going to bring in tenants that will be people that will bring crime into the area and threaten the current elderly residents of the neighborhood. “The housing authority has allowed four houses to be built in Navy Park. At the present time I can go into my garden and mow my yard and feel safe. Most of the citizens who are my neighbors are elderly, I’m 74 myself. With another half dozen houses being built, there may be some ‘thugs’ come in that may decide to take over and stand in the street not let me pass until they get ready to let me go,” said Lowe. “It is a deep concern to us when over on Park Avenue there about a hundred units setting vacant. We are going to follow this issue closely and see what we can do to keep new houses that may bring trouble come into our neighborhood.”
The homeowners association cannot understand why if housing is needed and the housing is already in place on Park Avenue (the old Pine Grove apartments), that property cannot be renovated and used. The residents of Navy Park seem to be satisfied with the current conditions. Lowe related that the children are playing outside and that the park is going to be reopened in the near future.
“It only takes a few bad people to ruin a good neighborhood and we do not want to see that happen,” said Lowe.
The final reading has been done to allow the city to establish an ordinance to establish rules and regulations regarding sanitation and pollution control of the areas in proximity of the City’ public water supply wells.
The city is waiting on some regulations and information from the State before beginning work on the ordinance.
The council passed a resolution to suspend the requested rate increase by Centerpoint Energy for 90 days. City Manager Shawn Oubre reported that this is a similar process to the one the city follows with Entergy when Entergy request a rate hike for electricity. “This difference in this rate increase and the one that Entergy requests is that natural gas increases have to be worked out within the guidelines of the Railroad Commission of Texas. All this is doing is giving us 90 days to work out the amount of the rate increase,” said Oubre.
After a report on the Quarterly Investment Report on the city’s finances, the council voted to accept the report as given.
A motion was made by Councilman Bill Mello, and seconded by Councilman Charles Guillory, to appoint Joseph W. Robinson to the Orange Housing Authority Board for the term ending October 10, 2014. The motion passed the council vote with no opposition.
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