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ccreg 11-15-1988 <) .... \ 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 L_~ ( 3 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: I \ 4 \ 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. ( 5 '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. \ 6 \ 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. ( , . \ 7 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: