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REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
MAY 19. 1992
The Schertz City Council convened in Regular Session.
Tuesday, May 19. 1992 at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers
of the Municipal Complex. 1400 Schertz Parkway. Schertz,
Texas. The following members were present: Mayor Earl W.
Sawyer, presiding; Joe Potempa, Hal Baldwin, Barbara
Stanhope. Mary Marsh and Ken Greenwald. Staff present were
City Manager Kerry Sweatt and City Secretary June Krause.
Mayor Sawyer welcomed everyone to the meeting and requested
they join him in the Pledge of Allegiance.
#1 APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Special meeting of 4-29-92.
Mrs. Marsh ~Qyed to approve the minutes of
Meeting of April 29. 1992. Mr. Greenwald
motion. which carried with the following vote:
the special
seconded the
AYES: Councilmembers Potempa, Baldwin. Stanhope, Marsh and
Greenwald.
NAYS: None
#2 HEARING OF RESIDENTS: None
#3 ORDINANCE: Mayor Sawyer introduced an ordinance
and read the caption as follows:
ORDINANCE NO. 92-L-ll
AN ORDINANCE BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SCHERTZ. TEXAS. AMENDING THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES, CITY OF SCHERTZ, TEXAS. CHAPTER
10. ARTICLE VI GARAGE SALES. SECTION 10-100
DEFINITIONS AND SECTION 10-106 NUMBER OF
GARAGE SALES LIMITED AND REPEALING ALL
ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN
CONFLICT WITH THIS ORDINANCE.
Mrs. Stanhopemov~g to approve on final consideration an
ordinance amending the Code. Chapter 10. Article VI Garage
Sales. Mr. Baldwin seconded the motion, which carried as
follows:
AYES: Councilmembers Potempa. Baldwin, Stanhope. Marsh and
Greenwald.
NAYS: None
#4 RESOLUTION: Mayor Sawyer introduced a resolution
and read the caption as follows:
RESOLUTION NO. 92-R-6
A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT
OF TRANSPORTATION'S ASSISTANCE IN
CONSTRUCTING. RECONSTRUCTING AND WIDENING OF
LOOKOUT ROAD.
Mr. Greenwald moved to aoorove the resolution oertaininq to
Lookout Road imorovements. Mrs. Marsh seconded the motion.
which carried with the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Potempa. Baldwin.
Greenwald.
NAYS: None
Stanhooe. Marsh and
#5 EXECUTIVE SESSION: Mavor
executive session at 7:03 p.m. under
Section 2 (f) land acquisition and 2
Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes.
Sawyer called an
Article 6252-17.
(g) Dersonnel of
The Regular Meeting was reconvened at 8: 13 p.m.
#6 Consider and take action, if any, on the above
executive session items.
Mayor Sawyer advised the Council did have an executive
session under Vernon's regulations and discussed land
acquisition. They informed the City Manager to proceed with
the purchase. They also discussed the evaluation of the
City Manager.
#7 CITY MANAGER'S REPORT: A. As has been discussed
on several occasions. the Kiwanis will De doina some
landscaping work at the Municipal Buildina over the weekend.
This is the next phase of the landscaping here and the
Kiwanis will be furnishing the labor and staff is furnishina
the planning.
B. Gave a brief report of Guadalupe County financial woes
There has been quite a bit of information in the papers aid
on television. It is a shortfall in general revenues due to
lessening receipts in fines and forfeitures and other areas:
as well as 4ail receiDts for housing contract prisoners.
There has been a projected shortfall of between $300.000 and
$600.000. There has been a request that a number of county
offices reduce their cost by closing their offices one day a
month. We understand that there are no olans at this time
o~ closing the Schertz County office.
C. We had a question last meeting about septic tanks in
Mohile Villa. It is a state requirement and the size of the
lots can be grandfathered prOVided that the septic tank ana
retention and drainage fields are engineered properly.
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D. Another question dealt with street lights in that area.
We found out from CPS that the current street lights fit our
basic criteria - roughly every four hundred feet. After a
question by Mr. Potempa. Mr. Sweatt said he would look
into changing out the lights so that they could be brighter.
Mayor Sawyer advised that County Commissioner Brannon was
probably going to ask Schertz to support their purchase of
the bank bUilding for county office space.
#8 ITEMS BY COUNCIL:H:r;-,__B~!].dVJJIl - A. Reminded
everyone about the Senior Citizen Appreciation Day on June
20th and asked Council contact businesses for prizes. He
said that Bill Neller has constructed some games that he has
offered to be used that day. Maybe we could offer some type
of casino type thing and give them chips and whoever got the
most chips at the end could exchange them for gifts.
~~p~Ma~~h advised that on May 24 the Business Club would be
sponsoring a jamboree.
1SerL_Gr~~n"",alg - A. BVYA is hosting mid-season tournament
this year. weather permitting.
B. Asked the City to trim the tree out in front as it rakes
the top of his truck.
#9 ITEMS BY MAYOR: On the 14th of May. he attended
the CDBG grant application meeting with Mr. Sweatt and Ken
Greenwald. There were lots of requests made and Mrs.
Dutmer said the main things they are looking for are safety.
well-being and health but not necessary in that order. Mr.
Sweatt made a very masterful appeal on our behalf. Mark
Marquez made a presentation on our Development Foundation
and Mike DeLeon. representing Rittimann Addition. gave their
sanitation system presentation. There were quite a large
group from Schertz. including a large group from
Schirmerville and SAFES. He said one of our group, Coralee
Fenner gave a good presentation of the needs on Pfeil Road.
#10 ADJOURNMENT: Mr.
adjourned at 8:30 p.m. Mr.
which carried unanimously.
Potempa moved the meeting be
Baldwin seconded the motion,
ATTEST:
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