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ccreg 09-15-1992 290 REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL SEPTEMBER 15. 1992 The Schertz City Council convened in Regular Session on Tuesday, September 15, 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 opened the meeting by welcoming everyone and asking them to join him in the Pledge of Allegiance. #1 PUBLIC HEARING: The purpose of the hearing was for Council to receive citizens comments on the proposed budget for fiscal year 1992-93. Mayor Sawyer asked if proposed budget; and comment. anyone wished to comment on there were no citizens wishing the to Mr. Sweatt presented several slides, which showed the Historical Tax Rates and Taxable Value for years 1982 through 1992, break-down of General Fund Revenues and Expenditures, expenditures by service and by funds. This showed a total budget of all funds of $5,170,354.51, with the General Fund being 51% of that, SAFES 7%, Fleet Service 1%, Capital Recovery 3% and Water/WasteWater 37%. Mr. Sweatt added that one question was raised at the last workshop and that concerned the amount of revenue received from Bexar County for School Crossing Guards. That amount is approximately $250 for the year. There being no further questions or comments from the audience or Council, Mayor Sawyer closed the public hearing at 7: 12 p.m. #2 APPROVAL OF MINUTES: 8-18-92. A. Regular Meeting of Mr. Baldwin_ mo~~g to approve the minutes of the Regular Meeting of August 18, 1992, with Mr. Greenwald seconding the motion, which carried with the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Potempa, Baldwin, Stanhope, Marsh and Greenwald. NAYS: None #3 HEARING OF RESIDENTS: Mr. Wayne Hofferichter said he lives in Schertz in the Schirmerville area. He said that two weeks previously his son was hit by a vehicle as he got 4 L off a bus. He said that 9-1-1 does work beautifully as an officer was on the scene within minutes. as well as SAFES. He just wanted to assure everyone that 9-1-1 certainly works well - he said he would have hated to think of the time it would have taken without 9-1-1. #4 ORDINANCE: Mayor Sawyer introduced an ordinance and read the caption as follows: ORDINANCE NO. 92-M-20 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FUNDS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 1992 AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1993, BY APPROVING THE BUDGET FOR SAID PERIOD AND APPROPRIATING THE NECESSARY FUNDS OUT OF THE GENERAL AND OTHER REVENUES OF THE CITY OF SCHERTZ, TEXAS, FOR SAID YEAR FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS AND FOR VARIOUS ACTIVITIES AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE CITY; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. Mrs. Marsh_.moyeci to approve the ordinance as an emergency measure. Mrs. Stanhope seconded the motion, which carried as follows: AYES: Councilmembers Potempa, Baldwin, Stanhope, Marsh and Greenwald. NAYS: None #5 ORDINANCE: Mayor Sawyer introduced an ordinance and read the caption as follows: ORDINANCE NO. 92-T-21 AN ORDINANCE LEVYING AND ASSESSING ALL TAXABLE PROPERTY WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF SCHERTZ, TEXAS, FOR THE YEAR 1992; PROVIDING THE BASIS OF ASSESSMENT OF 100% APPRAISED VALUE AND PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTION THEREOF AT THE RATE OF $0.4255 ON THE ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR ($100.00) ASSESSED VALUATION AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. Mr. GreenwaldmQy.~d to approve the ordinance as an emergency measure. Mr. Baldwin seconded the motion, which carried with the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Potempa, Baldwin, Stanhope, Marsh and Greenwald. NAYS: None Mr. Sweatt expressed his appreciation for Council's continued attention to what staff believes are the needs of the City of Schertz and it's citizens. 292 #6 BID AWARD: Consider and take action on awarding bid for the removal of underground storage tanks. Mr. Sweatt reminded Council that staff had solicited bids for the removal of two tanks that are not in use by the City and because of the EPA regulations we believe it appropriate to have these tanks removed. He said that, hopefully, we will not experience any contamination. There were six bids received and based on additional costs , if contamination of soil is located, we recommend awarding the bid to Certified Properties, in the base bid amount of $4,984. Mr. Potempa moved to award the bid for removal of two storage tanks to Certified Properties for the base bid amount of $4984. Mrs. Stanhope seconded the motion, which carried with the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Potempa, Baldwin, Stanhope, Marsh and Greenwald. NAYS: None #7 and read follows: RESOLUTION: the entire Mayor Sawyer introduced a resolution, the caption resolution of which RESOLUTION NO. 92-R07 A RESOLUTION TO BEGIN THE PROCESS HEARINGS WITH THE INTENT TO RE-NAMING JACK HAYS BOULEVARD/F.M. RECOGNITION OF THE LATE DR. ROY SR. OF PUBLIC CONSIDER 3009 IN RICHARD, Mr. Baldwin moved to approve the resolution to begin the process of renaming Jack Hays Boulevard. Mr. Potempa seconded the motion. Mr. Greenwald asked for the reason for just changing the name from F.M. 78 to I-35. Mr. Sweatt advised that in the past the had named from 1-35 to the city limits "Natural Bridge Caverns Road". When the Jack Hays Boulevard designation was given several years ago, this was the only portion involved. Mrs. Froboese asked the extent of this proposal. Mayor Sawyer said that this is merely an intent to start the process of the public hearings, etc. to consider renaming F.M. 3009 from F.M. 78 to I-35 in recognition of the late Roy Richard, Sr. He advised that many years ago, it was named "Greenfield Road" but the action was never taken to finalize that designation. Then later it was legally named "Jack Hays Boulevard". Now we would like to honor Dr. Richard and this resolution will merely set the process in motion. We will be holding public hearings to give all the residents a chance to give their comments. We will be 293 sending out notices to those fronting on F.M. 3009 and will get the word out to the people in every way we can. Mayor Sawyer then called for a vote on the motion, which carried as follows: AYES: Councilmembers Potempa, Baldwin, Stanhope, Marsh and Greenwald. NAYS: None #8 HEALTH regarding renewal agreements. INSURANCE: Consider of health and life and take insurance action coverage Mr. Sweatt reminded that over a year ago we solicited proposals for the furnishing of employee hospitalization insurance. After reviewing the proposals, we awarded the contract to PacifiCare, which is a HMO organization. That organization has performed well for us. Because of a number of factors, our fiscal year and contract year were not running concurrently. We have extended PacifiCare's current agreement to the end of September so we are now back on a fiscal year basis. We have reviewed various informal proposals from other companies and our insurance advisory, Mr. Bob Feike, has assisted us with a number of other providers as to what a similar policy would provide. After reviewing all of these, we recommend renewing with PacifiCare contract, with the one change that was mandated by State law concerning mental health coverage. The new rate would be $118.23 per employee. That is an overall 10.9% increase. At the same time, with Mr. Fieke's help, we have been able to negotiate a revised life insurance coverage rate, which reflects a change from the current rate of 44 cents per thousand to 33 cents per thousand. That decrease will partially offset the increase from PacifiCare and we recommend renewing our health insurance with PacifiCare. There were no questions from the audience on this proposal. Mrs. MarshJ.T1Qy'~_ci to approve the renewal of the employees hospital insurance with PacifiCare. Mr. Greenwald seconded the motion, which carried with the following vote: AYES: Councilmember Potempa, Baldwin, Stanhope, Marsh and Greenwald. NAYS: None Mr. Sweatt advised that we will continue with the wellness clinic again this year. Mr. Baldwin commented that in this weeks San Antonio Business News there was an article stating that PacifiCare now has 65,000 enrollees. He said one of the complaints he heard from an employee dependent was the lack of providers with only two in the area. ~ 294 Mr. Feike advised that by the end of the year we would have a new facility in this area and also the Live Oak Medical Clinic has opened for new enrollees. #9 CITY MANAGER'S REPORT: A. Remind Council of the Schertz Business Appreciation Dinner on September 17th at 7:30 with the social hour starting at 6:30. This is the Economic Development Task Force annual program to recognize Schertz businesses and express appreciation for those businesses for being here. #10 ITEMS BY COUNCIL: _Mr. Baldwin: A. There is a used car lot on Main Street that looks as if it is closed down and is really shabby looking now. Mr. Sweatt them and as violated the do about it. said the City Inspector has been dealing with long as it is a business and they have not junked car ordinance, there is not much we can B. He noticed that it looks like someone is erecting an enormous sign on F.M. 3009 right at Woodland Oaks Subdivision. Is that a temporary sign or what? Mr. Sweatt said this is the sign advertising the Dover Construction Company, which has purchased all the main vacant lots in Woodland Oaks. _Mrs. Marsh just wanted to comment that the only reason Council deserved the nice comments on the budget is because Mr. Sweatt provided a document that was logical, workable, readable and was scrubbed over and over again so that they were not presented with a raw document that would have taken months to weed out. She wanted to thank Mr. Sweatt for that. Mr. Greenwald asked that the next workshop agenda include a discussion of the City logo and possibly amending the charter. #11 ITEMS BY MAYOR: None #12 ADJOURNMENT: Mr. Baldwin moved the meeting be adjourned at 7:37 p.m. with Mrs. Stanhope seconding the motion, which was unanimously approved. Texas ATTEST: