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REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
NOVEMBER 15, 1988
The Schertz City Council convened in Reqular Session, Tuesday,
November 15, 1988, at 7: 00 p. m. in the Council Chambers of the
Municipal Complex, 1400 Schertz Parkway, Schertz, Texas. The
followinq members were present: Mayor Earl W. Sawyer, presiding;
Earl P. Hartzoq; Hal Baldwin; Ray Stanhope; Adolph Aquilar and
Ken Greenwald. Staff present were City Manaqer Kerry R. Sweatt
and City Secretary June G. Krause.
Mayor Sawyer recoqnized and welcome Garden Ridqe Mayor Yohey,
Mayor Pro Tern Phillips, their Chief of Police and Court Judqe.
PUBLIC HEARING: The City Council to receive input on the
proposed annexation of 30.63 acres of land out of Comal and
Guadalupe Counties.
Mr. Sweatt advised that this is the second public hearing on this
subject. The land is located immediately adjacent to the city
limits off I-35 and F.M. 1103. This is the area that was
proposed for annexation several years ago and was postponed by
litigation from Green Valley Water Corporation. We have now re-
instituted proceedings. Fire, police and EMS services are
immediately available and water service can be achieved. We
recommend Council action in favor of this annexation.
There were no citizens wishinq to speak for or aqainst this
proposition.
Mayor Sawyer declared the public hearing closed at 7:03 p.m.
#1 APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Mr. Stanhope moved to approve the
minutes of the Regular Meeting of October 18th, the Special
Meeting of October 25th and the Reqular Meeting of November 1,
1988. Mr. Greenwald seconded the motion.
Mr. Aquilar requested the minutes of the Regular Meetinq of
October 18th, item #10, last sentence of second paraqraph of C be
changed to read as follows: "Mr. Barnard was representinq this
area but he is now secretary to the committee."
Mr. Hartzog corrected the last sentence of item *10 B to read as
follows: "We are real proud of them because most of the kids in
the band are freshmen."
Mayor Sawyer then called for a vote on the motion before Council.
The motion carried with the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Hartzog, Baldwin, Stanhope, Aquilar and
Greenwald.
NAYS: None
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The children having arrived, Mayor Sawyer presented a
Proclamation to the Librarian and nine children, proclaiming the
week of November 14th through 20th, 1988 as "National Children's
Book Week".
#2 HEARING OF RESIDENTS: Ron Quiros, Juvenile Probation
Officer reported on his activities since being permanently
assigned to Schertz.
Mr. Quiros remarked that he had four objectives when he came to
Schertz j namely, to work closer on case loads, to work closer
with the police department, to work closer with the community and
to work closer with the schools. He advised that three months
later all four of the objectives are going well, in fact
exceeding his expectations. He said he was reall y please with
the cooperation of especially Sgt. Starr and Chief Agee and the
schools have been very receptive. He is looking to get the
schools more involved in the drug area with peer groups. Mr.
Quiros then thanked Council for making the office space available
to him.
Mayor Sawyer thanked him for the report, adding that he had had
good reports on Mr. Quiros also.
# 3 ORDINANCE: Mayor Sawyer introduced an ordinance and
read the caption as follows:
ORDINANCE NO. 88-H-21
AN ORDINANCE BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SCHERTZ, TEXAS, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 85-
H-18, SCHEDULE "A" GARBAGE COLLECTION FEES
AND PROVIDING FOR A SERVICE FEE INCREASE;
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE i AND REPEALING
ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN
CONFLICT.
Mr. Hartzog moved to approve the final reading of an ordinance
amending 8 5-H-18 , Schedule "A" Garbage Collection Fees. Mr.
Stanhope seconded the motion.
Mr. Sweatt remarked that Council had asked him to look into the
Class II and III classifications. The charges for those classes
are less than that of residential famil y rates. This
classification has one customer. Mr. Sweatt said he had
discussed this with Mr. Gutierrez and now thinks the rate is
generall y correct. Maybe some adjustment will be made after
further study.
Mayor Sawyer then called for a vote on the motion before Council
and the motion carried with the following vote:
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AYES:
Greenwald.
NAYS:
Councilmen Hartzog, Baldwin, Stanhope, Aquilar and
None
#4 ORDINANCE: Mayor Sawyer introduced an ordinance and read
the caption as follows:
AN ORDINANCE
BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SCHERTZ,
TEXAS, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 87-S-9, THE
ORDINANCE CREATING CITY PLANNING AND ZONING
COMMISSION, SECTION 4, ORGANIZATION.
Mr. Greenwald moved to approve the first readinq of an ordinance
amendinq ordinance No. 87-S-9, Section 4. Mr. Aquilar seconded
the motion, which carried as follows:
AYES: Councilmen Hartzoq, Baldwin, Stanhope, Aquilar and
Greenwald.
NAYS: None
#5 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Mr. Sweatt advised that included
in the Council packets was a letter from the Randolph Metrocom
Chamber of Commerce showing our city's share of the annual
Investment would be $1250. This is based on a percentaqe of the
1987 sales tax for our city. Mr. Sweatt said he felt this is a
fair method for all cities involved and recommended approval of
the request.
Mr. Baldwin moved to pay the Annual Investment fee of $1250 to
the Randolph Metrocom Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hartzoq seconded
the motion, which carried as follows:
AYES: Councilmen Hartzog, Baldwin, Stanhope, Aguilar and
Greenwald.
NAYS: None.
#6 CHARTER AMENDMENT: Mayor Sawyer advised that after
readinq the amendments that'were recommended, he felt they should
be approved for election.
Mr. Greenwald moved to take action to have the amendments put up
for citizen vote at the next City qeneral election. Mr. Stanhope
seconded the motion, which carried with the followinq vote:
AYES: Councilmen Hartzoq, Baldwin, Stanhope, Aquilar and
Greenwald.
NAYS: None
Mayor Sawyer pointed out that these amendments were written by a
qroup of volunteers headed up by Mr. Aquilar and he thanked Mr.
Aguilar for his participation.
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'7 INTERLOCAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT:
Mr. Sweatt reminded Council and audience that the City of Schertz
has participated for some time with the United Suburban Cities in
negotiations on behal f of a number of suburban cities, in this
instance City Public Service. Most recent discussions have
indicated disparity in the manner in which some things have been
handled between the support city and the suburban cities. The
resul ts is that the USC has proposed an inter local agreement
which, among other things, proposes to employ an attorney to
represent USC in negotiations with City Public Service for the
settlement of those negotiations concerning franchise fees. It
was decided there needed to be some type of funding by the
cities. It was agreed to a .01 cent fee based on the annual
franchise paid by CPS to the various cities. In our case, this
would be approximately $117.61. Most of the other cites would be
participating at a higher rate because of their larger service
areas. We recommend you allow us to inter into this Interlocal
Agreement and participate.
Mayor Sawyer said he also recommend approval of this agreement.
Mr. Hartzog moved to take action and approve these fund on
participation with the USC through Interlocal Cooperation
Agreement for professional service agreement. Mr. Greenwald
seconded the motion, which carried with the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Hartzog, Baldwin, Stanhope, Aguilar and
Greenwald.
NAYS: None
Mayor Sawyer advised that he had asked Mr. Hartzog to be a
representative on this board.
#8 CITY MANAGER'S REPORT: A. On November 11, Chief Agee
and some of his officers participated in the Alamo Area Task
Force in the execution of a narcotic search warrant in our
community. This represents part of our goal and view of how our
police department work with other agencies. Because of the
nature of the warrants, he preferred not to go into specifics but
Chief Agee was present if Council had any general questions.
Mr. Agree explained that the group is comprised of officers from
various agencies of the surrounding area. It is funded by grant
money through the Texas Crime & War on Drugs. In the past they
had hesitated to operate in the City of Schertz. They did
contact us and we immediately decided we would participate. The
residence involved is at 308 Brooks. We have known about it for
some time but were unable to develop the right cl ue that would
allow us to get in there with a warrant. The success of it was
the arrest of two people. The object of hitting the mid-line
dealers, and we are convinced these are, is to begin to develop
an information base. We are looking at two other places in the
ci ty. The Task Force has agreed to cooperate with the Schertz
Police in order to attempt to get inside those two places.
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Mayor Sawyer added that all the officers were very professional.
B. Concerning the USC, we plan to attend a meeting on November
17 to discuss area of full concern that is Roqers Cablevision
sale.
#8-A EXECUTIVE SESSION: Mayor Sawyer called an Executive
Session at 7: 27 p. m., under Article 6252-17, Section 2 (e) of
Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, to review possible litiqation
relating to annexation and personnel matters.
The Regular Session was reconvened at 8:36 p.m.
,a-B Consider and take action on matters discussed in
preceding Executive Session, item 'a-A.
Mayor Sawyer advised that an Executive Session was held where
Council had a briefing on personnel by Mr. Sweatt on our Chief
and discussed the Garden Ridqe annexation and as a result of that
discussed Mr. Sweatt will attend the public hearing at Garden
Ridge the next night.
#9 ITEMS BY COUNCIL:
Mr. Hartzoa: a. The Business Club will meet November 22nd at
noon at the Kountry Kitchen and have invited the Chief of Police
to meet the people.
b. Should we send a letter of appreciation to the people who
served on the Charter Review Committee. Mayor Sawyer said he
would prepare a letter to them and to the members of the City
Manager Selection Committee.
c. We talked about having some type of reception for the City
Manager, are we still planninq on something like that.
d. We qot in our package a copy of the financial report and Mr.
Hartzog said he had some questions on it but he could talk with
the City Manager if no one else had questions.
Mr. Baldwin: In line with that, would like to announce that the
Audit Committee looked at this report and we are in the process
of selecting a couple or three financial reports that we think
our computer can handle i and we will be presentinq those. One
will look like the present one that will show fund balances and
department expenditures.
Mr. Stanhope: a. The Beautification Committee met the previous
night and not too many were there. We aqreed to buy a Christmas
tree for the children to decorate. We feel this committee is
really excited about beautification.
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b. Council brought up one time about looking into buying that
building on FM 1518, that use to house the Coach thing. If we
don't want to buy, maybe we could lease it.
Mr. Aauilar: a. they did good work on the streets.
b. In addition to the building Mr. Stanhope was talking about,
there are other buildings along F.M. 1518 that are empty.
Mr. Greenwald: The Cibolo Valley Alcohol & Drug Abuse Council
will present a seminar on Suicide Prevention at the Schertz
Library at 7-8 p.m. Thursday December 8th. Dr. Brody of Hill
Country Hospital will be the speaker. Mr. Sweatt said he would
get an article in the City newsletter also.
Mr. Hartzoa: Some of the striping on the streets is starting to
fade, especially on Elbel. Mr. Simonson advised the streets had
to be striped quickly and we knew that it would not last too
long. We have already planned for restriping those streets.
Mayor Sawyer asked when the parking lot
Municipal BUilding was going to be painted.
this is also in the plans.
out front of the
Steve Simonson said
# 10 ITEMS BY MAYOR: Mayor Sawyer advised that the San
Antonio Economic Development Corporation Inc. was out talking to
us about a large company locating in the City of Schertz. They
thought enough of the presentation of Mr. Sweatt and Mr. Simonson
that they sent a letter complimenting us on the presentation. We
are trying to bring some business into our city.
#11 ADJOURNMENT: Mr. Baldwin made a motion the meeting be
adjourned at 8:35 p.m. The motion was duly seconded and
unanimously carried.
ATTEST: