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SPECIAL SESSION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FEBRUARY 28, 1990
The Schertz City Council convened in Special Workshop Session,
Wednesday, February 28, 1990, 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; Earl P. Hartzog; Hal Baldwin; Barbara Stanhope; and
Ken Greenwald. Absent: Mary Marsh. Staff present were City
Manager Kerry Sweatt and City Secretary June Krause.
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HEARING OF RESIDENTS: Mr. Bill Neller explained about
a call from the American Legion in seguin concerning a
wanting a flag placed in the cemetery in Cibolo on
flag days. He advised that they would be doing this.
Mr. Neller said that last year the American Legion received a
call from a school administrator who said they had a student in
the Junior class that wanted to go to Boys State in Austin and he
wanted to know if they would sponsor him. It would cost about
$200 and that is about what they had in their treasury, so they
sent him. In the event they get alike request this year, they
wanted to know if they could possiblY contact citizens of
Schertz; and for a minimal amount of money, they would paint the
house number on the curb in front of their homes. He asked if a
permit was required for this.
Mr. Sweatt said there is an ordinance that requires a solicitors
1 icense for persons going door to door sell ing a product or a
del i very of items. He said they would need the names of the
people who would be going. He said perhaps they could waive the
fee for an exempt organization but the organization would need to
make the application. Mr. Neller also asked if they could
possibly use the Newsletter to inform the citizens that they will
be contacting the people with this request. Mayor Sawyer agreed.
12 Discussion of an ordinance amending the Zoning Ordinance
by rezoning 5 tracts of land out of Comal and Guadalupe Counties.
Mayor Sawyer asked if anyone had any new information or questions
on this item and received none.
#3 Discussion of an ordinance calling an election for May
5, 1990 for the purpose of electing a Mayor and Councilmembers
Places 1 and 2.
There was no new comments on this ordinance.
#4 Discussion of an ordinance abandoning right-of-way and
authorizing the Mayor to execute a Quitclaim Deed conveying 0.40
acres of land to the Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent
School District.
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Mayor Sawyer reminded Council that
gentleman questioned this conveyance.
as best he could and asked Mr. Baldwin
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He said he had explained
to give the school's point
Mr. Baldwin said the extension of Williams Street in front of the
Schertz Elementary was not deeded to the School District when
they bought the property. The City does not have any record of
it being City property either. It has always been considered as
belonging to the school and the school has accepted that and has
maintained it. Now part of the bond issue they just passed is to
pave that street, put in curbs and a parking lot on one side; and
they did not want to do that unless they owned the street. Their
attorney said the best way to handle it was to have the City
assume it was their property and Quitclaim it to the School
Distr ict. He went on to say that it probabl y is a City street
because utilites on in there. He said the meter is on the school
side of the street and they would like to relocate the water line
and the gas line and put the meter in the alley.
#5 Discussion of the City's recommendation regarding
revision to Federal Communication Commission's Cable Regulations.
Mr. Sweatt said we included in the packets a May 1989 letter that
was sent to Senator Benson, Senator Graham and Representative
Laughlin regarding cable legislation. Also attached letters of
reply from these letters and a new article relating to the FCC
Regulations. As you are aware, Paragon has filed their request
and statement of intent to increase cable rates.
Mr. Greenwald said the reason he had asked that this be on the
agenda is that it is ironic that right after the article
appeared, Paragon filed their intent to increase rates. The
article explains some of the things the FCC is considering. He
said we should send a letter or resolution to the FCC and
encourage all our surrounding cities do the same. We should
quote Mr. Guerrero who said they would not increase over 7. 9%
maximum; and in less than six weeks, they went up almost 20% and
now they are gOing up another 10%. We need as much input into
the FCC as we can possible get to them.
Mr. Baldwin said we should get the
Paragon to cut us all out and then get
come in. If all cities in the Randolph
want your service when our contracts
done.
RandOlph Region to tell
another cable company to
Region said we no longer
end, something would be
Mr. Sweatt said the other companies he had contacted said they
could not afford to compete with the present company. The
alternative would be that they buyout Paragon or at the time the
franchise expires, we would cut out. However, all the contracts
with Paragon do not expire at the same time.
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Mrs. Stanhope said the people are the ones that can bring them to
their knees by giving up their service.
Mr. Greenwald said right now there is no one that has any control
over the rate structure. When we had some control, we could keep
the rate within reason.
Mayor Sawyer said we could try to get the United Suburban Cities
to pass resolutions with us. He then asked if Council would be
ready to act on a resolution at the next meeting and they agreed
they would be ready to act.
#6 Discussion of an ordinance amending the Code by adding
Chapter 15-1/2 Sexually Oriented Businesses.
Mr. Sweatt said Council adopted a comprehensive ordinance dealing
with this. We amended the Code but we would like now to set it
up as a Chapter number in the Code.
#7 Review of preliminary specifications for Official Notice
of Publication.
Mr. Sweatt said that some time ago we had discussed various means
of communication regarding our official notice of publication.
He is asking tonight for any comments or recommendations to add
to items we should include in our request for proposals. It is
our intent to solicit proposals from various newspapers. He went
over about ten items: 1. Legal Notice items - price per column
inch in classified section; 2. Help wanted charges - price per
word rate; 3. Charges for legals that must, by law, appear in
some other section besides the Legal Section and that have
special heading specifications - price per column inch through
the general news section; 4. Deadl ine for receipt by the paper
for legal notices; 5. Circulation date - both an audit statement
and information as to distribution in the City of Schertz; 6.
Area of coverage; 7. Question as to furnishing galley proofs
prior to publication time; 8. Do they provide discount on
notices, either classified or others, that repeat within 14 days;
9. Sol ici t a charge for monthl y distribution in Schertz area
only of the newsletter furnished by the city; and 10. A written
statement as to how the newspaper qualifies as a newspaper of
general circulation in the City of Schertz.
Mr. Hartzog asked about garage sa Ie notices
item asking what percentage of newsprint
material.
and to incl ude an
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#8 EXECUTIVE SESSION: Mayor Sawyer called an executive
session under Article 6252-17 V.T.C.S., Section 2 {f} for a
discussion of land acquisition and Section 2 {g} discussion of
personnel at 7: 19 p.m..
The Special Session was reconvened at 8:40 p.m.
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#9 Consider and take action, if any, on the items discussed
in No. 8 above.
Mr. Greenwald moved to authorize Mr. Sweatt to proceed with the
land acquisition for widening of FM 78 and proceed with land
acquisition discussions for a water well site. Mr. Hartzog
seconded the motion, which carried with the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Hartzog, Baldwin, Stanhope and
Greenwald.
NAYS: None
Mayor Sawyer advised that under the second part of the Executive
Session, there was no action necessary because they merely
discussed rating of personnel.
#10 CITY MANAGER'S REPORT: A. Acknowledge recent
resignation from our Police Service - Officer Tony Garland has
resigned.
B. He distributed a tabulation of bids received this date for
vehicles that are a part of our budget and capital acquisition
program. We would like to place this on our next action agenda
to be acted upon. This is for three vehicles - a I-ton truck in
the Street Department for sign maintenance and the other I-ton to
be for the Water Department as part of their maintenance and the
half-ton truck for the Park Department. We had originally
solicited these bids and asked that Council reject them because
of an advertising problem. We received three bids and on each
Bluebonnet Motors is the apparent low bidder.
C. Presented the schematic showing the 1-35 off-ramps.
D. Reminder of a notice of the Texas Lutheran College meeting on
March 20th on Economic Community Development matters.
#11 ITEMS BY COUNCIL: Mrs. Stanhope: A. She had a couple
of calls regarding the van being used for senior citizens. It is
no longer under the Housing Authority's jurisdiction, Guadalupe
County took it back. This was brought about by an accident and
there are some new guidelines; but they are still going to Wuests
etc. and seem to think it will eventually be coming back.
B.
sign.
She asked if staff was working on the logo for the front
Mr. Sweatt said staff was working on that.
C. She then asked if anything was being done about the speed on
Schertz Parkway. Mr. Sweatt said the Chief of Police is handling
that.
D. When a new business comes in, do we have a packet for them.
Mr. Sweatt said yes we do have the Newcomer's packet that goes to
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putting a map in the packet.
Mrs. Stanhope suggested
Mr. Baldwin: A. Said as he had promised, he went to Las Colinas
when he was in Dallas and took several pictures of the overlay
district there.
Mr. Greenwald: A. The Child Care services sign at the Corner of
Curtiss and Schertz Parkway really looks terrible. Mayor Sawyer
suggested checking with the dentist to see if he thinks it is the
city's property and that we want those signs to be placed there.
B. Cibolo Valley Alcohol and Drug Abuse will have their monthly
presentation at the Schertz Library with Dennis Smith of HCA Hill
Country speaking on "Is There Crisis in Your Marriage?".
C. On March 10th, there will be the ribbon cutting at the
Library; the Closing Day Ceremonies for BVYA and the basketball
game at 1:00 p.m.. KENS TV will be out filming the game.
#12 ITEMS BY MAYOR: A. A man talked to him about putting a
speed trap on Nell Deane; also about the skateboard thing in the
same area being dangerous.
B. On March 13th, the VFW will entertain 30 people from Audie
Murphy Hospital. They will have some games etc. and will be
there from 10:00 a.m. until about 2:00 p.m.
C. He has been invited to speak to different classes at the
schools - the 4th and 6th grades.
# 13 ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business, Mayor
Sawyer declared the meeting adJourned at 9'13 p m
ATTEST:
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