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The City of La Porte City Council meeting was held November 10, 2026. The council approved its consent agenda, including a $294,354 award to Brooks Concrete Inc. for Bay Forest Golf Course cart-path replacement, with an additional $15,953.96 contingency, and a $301,948.18 purchase of Motorola radios and vehicle chargers through TX-WAR 2025 contract 38451. The agenda also included a sponsorship of up to $10,000 for the San Jacinto Texas Independence Fund Run and a fiscal-year budget amendment. Separately, the council approved a $151,045 professional-services agreement with Cobb, Fendley & Associates for engineering design, bidding, and construction-phase services for the Parks Yard Expansion Project; council members emphasized planning for future needs and requested realistic cost estimates. In closed session, the council voted to direct the city manager to proceed with a property acquisition if feasible; no price was stated.

Council discussed an RFP for delinquent-property-tax collection legal services: staff scored Perdue Brandon 80 points and Linebarger 75, and a council member expressed support for Linebarger, citing the value of periodically changing firms. The transcript does not capture a final vote or selection. The council also approved a staff committee recommendation on employee health coverage, including discontinuing a gene-therapy rider; the discussion cited a 50% stop-loss renewal increase. A separate presentation described a 14.44% increase for the Humana retiree Medicare Advantage plan, but no vote on that item is captured. The council received updates on the Lomax lift-station project, including resident damage complaints and upcoming phases, and heard a presentation on the planned San Jacinto visitor center; no new contract award for that project was made at this meeting.