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SPECIAL WORKSHOP SESSION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
JULY 10, 1991
The Schertz City Council convened in Special Workshop Session,
Wednesday July 10, 1991 at 7:00 p.m. in the Conference Room of
the Municipal Complex, 1400 Schertz Parkway, Schertz, Texas.
The following members were present: Mayor Earl W. Sawyer,
presiding; Hal Baldwin; Barbara Stanhope; Mary Marsh and Ken
Greenwald. Absent: Joe Potempa. Staff present were City
Manager Kerry Sweatt and City Secretary June Krause.
#1 HEARING OF RESIDENTS: A. One gentleman asked if it
would be possible to consider moving the "Hearing of Residents"
to the bottom of the agenda so that citizens could speak on all
items.
Mayor Sawyer explained that he is very liberal in workshop
meetings and does allow citizens to interject comments and
questions on all items, after their being recognized.
B. Bobbie Vonada mentioned that the intersection of IH-35 and
the access road at FM 3009 is very dangerous because you cannot
see the cars crossing the bridge from the access road.
Mr. Sweatt advised
Department to see if
frontage road back
care of that problem.
that
they
about
he will
will move
five feet.
check with the Highway
the stop line on the
He felt this would take
#2 Quarterly report by representative of the Randolph
Metrocom Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Bill Lindemann first congratulated the Mayor and Council on
a terrific July 4th celebration.
Mr. Lindemann referred to the update that was recently
distributed to the councils in the area, saying the guide has
been published and the last issue was the May issue. Some of
the things the Chamber has done in the last three months are:
A. Realigned the organizational chart.
B. By-laws have been passed by the Board of Directors.
C. CDBG grants submitted for cities requesting funds.
D. Horse racing - the Chamber has really gotten involved in
this when found it was going in Selma.
E. Golf course - they think this is a good idea.
F. Tourism updating all cities on additional signage they
thought necessary to draw people off IH-35.
G. They are looking into a Leadership Program,
H. Membership dues were restructured.
I, Luncheons and mixers are continuing to be good opportunity
for networking.
Mrs. Marsh asked if the new dues structure would be less income
that before. Mr. Lindemann said it would lower the larger sales
tax cities such as Universal City, Live Oak and Schertz.
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Mrs. Marsh then called attention to the glossy paper used for
the Progress and asked if they could look at using recycled
paper to reduce the costs. She also asked about the Profile and
Mr, Lindemann said the Herald is doing it now and hoped to get
it out soon.
#3 Discussion of the Green Valley Water SupplY
Company's plan to convert into a Special utility District.
Mr. Sweatt advised that the map and information, as well as a
COpy of their filing to be converted to the Special Water
District have been received. The do not indicate that they
have any other intentions than providing water to their
customers. They say they have no plans to levy taxes. We do
have areas in which they have Certificate of Convenience and
Necessity in our city limits. This area would be included in
the district to be made. He added that there are several other
parts of our ETJ that would be in their district. He suggested
that we see no threat but did propose that we limit our
non-objection saying that we understand they are doing it to
provide water.
MR. POTEMPA ARRIVED AT 7:28 PM.
Mr. Greenwald said that if they become a
District, the law allows them to go into these
districts such as sewer, fire, recreation, etc.
Special Utility
other special
Mr. Baldwin said he wanted to go on record as saying we should
send them a letter saying we do not support this at all.
Mrs. Marsh said we should send the proposed letter and see what
they have to say.
Mr. Greenwald said he had no heartburn about asking questions;
but said he did not think we would get answers.
Mr. Sweatt said he believes we are in better shape to control
later on if we do send this letter aSking questions,
#4 Discussion of the appointment of Sylvia Marbach as
County Representative on the Library Advisory Board.
Mrs. Stanhope advised that the Library Advisory Board
recommended appointing Sylvia Marbach as their County
representative. Mrs. Marbach is a nurse at Smithson Valley and
is a resident of Cibolo. The Board has been without a county
representative for quite some time. There were two or three
other names under consideration. The Board members seem to
think very highly of Mrs. Marbach.
#5 Review discussion and plans from the July 6th Tour
program.
Mr. Sweatt said that in order to keep the tour goals in our
minds we would like to identify them as "Transforming Schertz
Visions into Reality". August 10th is set as the next meeting
date.
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Mrs. Stanhope said the packet was very good and the meeting was
excellent - seeing how everyone was willing to participate.
Mr. Sweatt said at the next meeting he will give a commentary on
the list of suggestions; adding that all of this is a
springboard for our Five Year and Ten Year Plans.
Mrs. Marsh suggested that to make the meeting flow, we should
let the council speak as one, the P&Z as one and EDTF as one.
#6 CITY MANAGER'S REPORT: a. He said that the last
quarter he gave a verbal report and wanted to do that again. We
are 75% through the fiscal year and at this stage the general
fund revenues are 85% received; Water/Sewer only 53.5% received.
This is because we have had a lot of rain and our peak user time
is approaching. SAFES revenues is right on target at 78.5%.
Generally, the General Fund is 68% expended - there are always a
couple of areas that are off, Tax because it is a small
department; legal we have had several special items of
litigation; Administration is slightly below - this is also a
small department; Non-departmental is 82.4% expended - this is a
group of functions including data processing and bond payments.
Water/Sewer we are at 54% expended because we have exercised
tight control because of the decrease in revenues. SAFES is at
69,5% of budget.
Ad Valorem Taxes are at 101.6% of estimate; Sales Tax is 84.5%;
building permits only 50.0% of estimate; Court fines only 43%.
With the conservation project going, we are averaging about $700
per month decrease in power demands - also the roof repairs have
resulted in energy savings factor. Some of the major
expenditures are payments to the delinquent tax attorney; repair
of Hertz jaws-of-life; dump truck body; data processing; new
diving boards; payments to the Appraisal District and SAFES and
the Engineering Department payments on several major projects.
B. Called attention to the third place trophy won by our float
at Charlotte.
#7 ITEMS BY COUNCIL: ~~. Potempa commented about our
July 4th Jubilee being a huge success.
Mr. Baldwin reported on a meeting at the Housing Authority on
the use of the Senior Citizen van. He said there were a lot of
misconceptions about it being a van to be used only in this
area. He said that in October, they had a reorganization and
pulled all vans into a central pool. He said from what he
heard, the senior citizens still have access to the van with a
1-800 telephone number.
Mr. Baldwin apologized for not being on the tour as he had out
of town visitors.
Mr. Greenwald advised that BVYA had a tournament starting
weekend and they had invited the Council to all attend.
would have about sixty teams competing.
that
They
#8 ITEMS BY MAYOR: A. He had received a call about
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trees in the easement in back of Chestnut. The lady said if the
trees are on City property, and they are, then the City should
cut them. Mr. Sweatt said he would check on this.
B. Mayor Sawyer wanted to thank city staff personnel that gave
the tour, saying he had been on several and this was the most
interesting.
#9 ADJOURNMENT:
come before Council,
adjourned at 8:22 pm.
There being no further business to
Mayor Sawyer declared the meeting to be
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