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ccreg 05-01-1990 204 REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL MAY 1. 1990 The Schertz City Council convened in Regular Session, Tuesday, May 1, 1990, 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; Earl Hartzog; Hal Baldwin; Barbara Stanhope; Mary Marsh and Ken Greenwald. Staff present were City Manager Kerry Sweatt and City Secretary June Krause. # 1 PUBLIC HEARING: The Counci 1 to cons ider adoption of Impact Fees for new or expanded water and waste water service extension or connection to the Municipal Utilities System. Mayor Sawyer asked Mr. Ty Brisgill, Chairman of the SB336 Advisory Committee to make a few comments. Mr. Brisgill said that according to SB336 the City Council must appoint an Advisory Committee to work with an engineering firm to make recommendations to the Council on the impact fees. The Council appointed the Planning & Zoning Commission to act in this capacity. The members of this committee meet requirement of the state law. Some of the functions of the committee are to advise and assist the City Council on land use assumptions; review the capital improvement plan regarding water and waste water capital improvements; monitor and evaluate the implementation of the program; advise Council of updating or revision of the program and/or fees, if necessary; file a semi-annual report eval uating the progress of the City; and file written comments with the City on the plan not less than five days before the public hearing. Mr. Br isgill said that after several months of meetings, the Advisory Committee has made their recommendation concerning the Impact Fees on water and waste water. After considering all information, the committee has agreed with the rate structure submitted by Mr. Bierschwale, City Water/Waste Water Superintendent. The rate for water connection should be $550 per Living Unit Equivalent and $650 per Living Unit Equivalent for Waste Water. These rates are under the maximum allowed under SB336. He then recognized Ms. Mickey Fishbeck with Rimrock Consulting Company. Ms. Fisbeck went over the requirements of SB336 for the benefit of the public, who might not be aware of the process. She said it is a two step process. The first being to develop planning assumption, which was presented to and passed by the Council previously. This hearing specifically deals with the Capital Improvements Program that was developed to determine the construction costs and development of the fees Basically the steps they were required to go through according to law were first to develop a service unit that was the basis on which to charge the fees. They chose to use the water meter to determine the Living Unit Equivalent. Next. they had to estimate current and future demands. She advised that there is sufficient ). /. capacity in the system fer residents; and within the next ten ye::u period there will be a need for additional water supply facilities and ground storage facilities. There, of course, will also be a need for additional line work. With waste water, the Schertz fee will include onlY line work because waste water treatment is provided by CCMA or HBU. Both of those entities are proposing or have adopted impact fees, which will be passed along to Schertz and we are incorporating them into this process. After the demand projections were performed, the law required the engineer to perform an inventory of existing capital facilities, determine their capacity and what amount of t~at capacity was needed for existing customers, and how much \'IIas reserved for growth. What resul ted from all this was a weighted cost per' Living Unit Equivalent for the various types of facilities that are required for service. That weighted cost gave the fee payer the benefit of having the lower cost associated with being able to utilize facilitles that are already in the system and require them to pay a proportionate share of future facilities that will be bui 1 t at genera 11 y higher cos t s . As you can see from the charts, the costs for providing water service is $1211 and th3.t for sewer service is $1377. We also were able to add the cost of performing the study on top of that. Mr. Ed Ford then discus sed what faci 1 it ies were in the Capi ta 1 Improvements Procram ICIPJ, saying that at the last public hearing we discussed the plant facility and cc>st alloc:ated to each. For water pumping, we have two wells in Universa~ city and two wells at Nacogdoches that are provid.ing water to the ,::itv. There is an additional well that is being pre'jected on Lookout Road that would add to the system. The current population is using about a .86 million of gallons out of a total capacity of over a million gallons a day. With the future facilities. that will bring 1.32 million 9allons on line, which will be part of the usage for future development. FJr groun,j storage, we have the existing facilities which are the Live Oak tank, the Ware- Seguin tank, and the Deer Haven tank. Then i.Ie have the elevated tank located on Nacogdoches and two gre,und storage tanks in Universal City, that are classified as elevated storage because cf the physical characteristics of the tanks. We do have a future tank that will be going in ()n Lookou't Road. which is a 1-1/2 million gallon capacity, and it's cost would be prorated into the future grDwth. As growth takes place we will update the impact fees. For the transmission or providing facilities to transport water from these facilities to the community, 'vole have taken into consideration the 18". 20" and 16" mains that the city has constructed; and we are taking intJ consideration the future mains that will be going in ana connected to the Lookout Road facility and in the Schirmerville area. Mr. Ford said the primary area for sanitary sewer is the extension of waste water lines and collector lines that will be associated with the New Braunfels colle..::tion line extersions. These were all used to come up with the costs. , -~, ( , iI" ~ <Ie ";;-" ~V"-' Ms. Fisbeck advised that the law says that you cannot charge more than the fees established. She then explained the law in detail. She explained the mechanism used in the past was the Equity Residual Model and has been around for five or six years and has been used by a number of cities and has been found to be one of the best systems in Texas. She then illustrated the concept used in developing the fee amount. Mr. Simonson then stated that from the date of this public hear ing, the ordinance must be adopted wi thin thirty days. We therefore, ask you to consider the ordinance on first reading at this meeting even though there may be some minor changes. Mayor Sawyer declared the public hearing closed at 7:25 p.m.. He then asked everyone to join him in the Pledge of Allegiance to open the regular meeting. #2 APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Special meeting of 3-28-90. Mr. Hartzog moved to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of March 28, 1990. Mrs. Stanhope seconded the motion. Mr. Baldwin asked if the wording "passed on first reading" was correct. Mr. Sweatt advised that the first reading of an ordinance is either ~passed or approved~, whichever is preferred. Mr. Baldwin also corrected Baldwin's section A to read as 50 foot rights-of-way that go should get rid of them.~ the second follows: no where sentence of #10 Mr. ~He said these are two and he felt the City Mayor Sawyer then called for a vote on the motion, which carried as follows: AYES: Councilmembers Hartzog, Baldwin, Stanhope, Marsh and Greenwald. NAYS: None # 3 HEARING OF RESIDENTS: Mr. Sharpe, representi ng Guadal upe County Appraisal Distr ict, said they interviewed 11 applicants out of 35 received. On Monday night they hired a new Chief Appraiser, Mrs. Pat Fox, the Deputy Assistant to Comal County. He added that she brings a wealth of experience to this posi tion, having been in the appraisal district for about ten years and prior to that in tax offices and real estate. She will take over her position on the 15th of May. Then he advised that on the 15th of May, they will begin mailing out appraisal notices to everyone. #4 ORDINANCE: Mayor Sawyer introduced an ordinance and read the caption as follows: ) AN ORDINANCE BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE C:TY OF SCHERTZ. TEXAS, PROVIDING THAT THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, CITY OF SCHERTZ, TEXAS BE AMENDED BY REVISING SECTION 18-76 OF SAID CODE; PROVIDING FOR SPEED LIMIT ON SCHERTZ PARKW1W AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT. Mrs. Marsh mo\,l~cl to approve the first reading of an ordinance regulating speed limits on Schertz Parkway. Mr. Hartzog seconded the motion, which carried with the folloWing vote: AYES: Councilmembers Hartzog, Baldwin, Stanhope, Marsh and Greenwald. NAYS: None #5 ORDINANCE: Mayor Sawyer introduced an ordinance and read the caption as follows: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SCHERTZ, TEXAS PROVIDING THAT THE CITY CODE BE HEREBY AMENDED BY REVISING ARTICLE V OF CHAPTER 19 TO READ AS FOLLOWS: Mr. Greenwald moved to approve the first reading of the ordinance on capital recovery fees. Mr. Baldwin seconded the rno~ion. which carried with the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Hartzog. Baldwin. Stanhope, Marsh and Greenwald. NAYS: None #6 CITY MANAGER'S REPORT: Mr. Sweatt asked the Council to mark their calendars for June 2nd for the annual Volunteer Fire Department breakfas t. They have i nv i ted the Mayor, Count::; i 1 and staff to a breakfast at 7:30 that morning. # 7 ITEMS BY COUNCIL : l1r:,__H~xtZQq : preliminary reports had been received on the said we have not received any word. A. Asked census. Mr. if any Sweatt B. There has been mention some time in the past about the possibility of extending the sewer line or puttlng a sleeve under 1-35 for Mobile Villa; has staff looked at that? Mr. Sweatt advised the area would be served by going on that side of 1-35 rather than going under. Mr. Baldwin asked for everyone to stay tor a committee meeting to discuss Senior Citizen Appreciation Day after this meeting. '}OO ...:;., D Mr. Greenwa.ld announced that CVAOAC is. qoin.c to 00 .out ofM" ~f grant and are gOlng 'LO be asklIl'g r'ot ct ret:te-r '0 support from Schertz and the city of Cibolo for increased services. #8 ITEMS BY MAYOR: Mayor Sawyer asked Mr. Sweatt to find out how often our patrol officers go through a subdivision. He also advised that on Webster, just off FM 3009. there is a big hole, please check to see if it is our responsibility or that of the State. #9 ADJOURNMENT: at 7:37 p.m., with carried unanimously. Mr. Baldwin mOv~g the meeting be adjourned Mr. Hartzog seconding the motion, which k~~A~ Mayor, city of sche~, Texas ATTEST: )