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REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FEBRUARY 16, 1988
The Schertz City Council convened in Regular Meeting Tuesday,
February 16, 1988, 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;
Charles B. Sharpe; Ray Stanhope; Adolph Aguilar and Ken
Greenwald. Absent: Hal Baldwin. Staff present were City
Manager Jimmy G. Gilmore and City Secretary June G. Krause.
After welcoming everyone to the meeting, Mayor Sawyer introduced
Mr. Roe Yoakum, representing Hermann Sons, who presented checks
to the Schertz Fire Department, Harvey Land accepting; and SAFES,
Torn Funk and Mary Lou Malone accepting.
Mayor Sawyer then presented a plaque of appreciation, on behalf
of the City and Police Department, to Robert Bond who had
assisted the Police Department in apprehending three suspects.
#l APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Mr. Sharpe moved to approve the
minutes of the Workshop Meeting of January 27, 1988. Mr.
Stanhope seconded the motion, which carried as follows:
AYES:
NAYS:
Councilmen Sharpe, Stanhope, Aguilar and Greenwald.
None
#2 BEARING OF RESIDENTS: Carlene Corner of 1~5 Robert
Stevens asked about the policy of selling cars on FM 3009. She
said there has been quite a few sitting there for sale recently.
The previous weekend there were four cars parked on the lot
between the two entrances of Woodland Oaks with For Sale signs.
Another question Ms. Corner had was that she had noticed that the
Schertz Baptist Church were picking up trash the previous weekend
along FM 3009, which was very good. However they just left the
bags there and they need to be picked up.
Mayor Sawyer assured her that we would see that the bags were
picked up and would check into the legality of the cars being
parked on F.M. 3~09 with For Sale signs.
Mr. Earl Hartzog of 517 Pecan Drive referred to the recent power
outage in Schertz, saying that the Council should discuss with
GVEC the necessity of having our electric system looped so we do
not have the same thing again.
Mr. Mazian of Deer Haven reported that there are several manholes
in his area where the lids are never bolted back down creating a
dangerous situation. Mayor Sawyer assured him we would look into
that.
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Mr. Mazian also asked about the possibility of getting some
additional speed signs in Deer Haven. He said the only two they
have are at the entrance and they need some at the back cross
street on both Antler and Fawn Drives. Mayor Sawyer said that
would be looked into also.
#3 ORDINANCE: Mayor Sawyer introduced and read the caption
on an ordinance 'as follows:
ORDINANCE NO. 88-D-4
AN ORDINANCE BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SCHERTZ, TEXAS, PROVIDING THAT THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES, CITY OF SCHERTZ, TEXAS BE AMENDED
BY REVISING SECTIONS 12-1, 12-4, 12-6, l8~16,
18-29, 18~78, AND 19-37 TO CLARIFY PREVIOUSLY
AMENDED SECTIONS OF SAID CODE; AND SECTIONS
2-2i 2-ll, 18-32, 18-33, 28-45, 18~58, 18-76,
18-91 TO CLARIFY THE RENAMING OF LIVE OAK
ROAD TO SCHERTZ PARKWAY; 'REPEALING ALL
ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
WITH THIS ORDINANCE.
Mr. Aguilar moved to approve the final consideration of an
ordinance amending the Code by rev1s1ng sections to clarify
previously amended sections and revising sections to clarify the
name change to Schertz Parkway. Mr. Greenwald seconded the ~
motion, which carried with the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Sharpe, Stanhope, Aguilar and Greenwald.
NAYS: None
#4 ORDINANCE: Mayor Sawyer introduced and read the caption
on an ordinance as follows:
AN ORDINANCE
BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SCHERTZ,
TEXAS, CALLING AN ELECTION TO BE HELD ON MAY
7, 1988, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING A MAYOR
AND TWO (2) COUNCILMEMBERS FOR SAID CITY.
Mr. Stanhope moved to approve the first reading of an ordinance
calling an election for May 7, 1988. Mr. Greenwald seconded the
motion, which carried with the .following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Sharpe, Stanhope, Aguilar and Greenwald.
NAYS: None
#5 LIBRARY CONTRACT: Consideration of approving Change
Order #l to the Library Addition contract.
Mr. Gilmore said this was discussed at the last Workshop.
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Mr. Aguilar moved to approve Change Order No. I to the Library
Addition Contract to include a solid core door for $350 . Mr.
Stanhope seconded the motion, which carried as follows:
AYES:
NAYS:
Councilmen Sharpe, Stanhope, Aguilar and Greenwald.
None
41=6 P&Z RECOMMENDATION: Consideration of approving P&Z
recommendation on updated street plan.
Mr. Greenwald moved to approve the P& Z recommendat ion on the
updated street plan. Mr. Aguilar seconded the motion.
Mr. Sharpe said he did not feel this plan was complete and would
like to discuss it at another workshop.
Mr. Aguilar said this can be approved and then can always be
added to. He said he really thought Council should take action
on this now and then take another look at amending it later.
Mayor Sawyer said he agreed, that Council could always continue
to look at updating it further. He then called for a vote on the
motion before Council, with the following results:
AYES:
NAYS:
Councilmen Sharpe, Stanhope, Aguilar and Greenwald.
None
#7 CITY MANAGER'S REPORT: A. Attended a meeting with GVEC
this date with regards to the recent blackout. They have no idea
as to what caused the pole to give way. They are cons ider ing
three different routes to bring a loop system into the City of
Schertz. One is the possibility of connecting with CPS. They
are also checking all poles along the 17 mile route and will be
putting guy wires on them. The are also thinking of putting in a
lattice, 4 leg, tower instead of the pedestal pole. They expect
it to be from 60 to 120 days to complete the project. They have
3 different routes they are looking at to be sure we have a loop
system with the hope it does not happen again.
B. The Herald Sun is corning out with their annual Progress
Edi tion. In the past we have subsc r ibed to a quarter page ad.
Does Council desire to continue that - the rate would be $250.
Council said go ahead but to update the copy.
C. With regard to the blackout Friday, the operation within the
City in the various departments went off very well. The
emergency generator did go out and we were able to bring one of
the fire trucks up and operated off that generator until we could
get a replacement. The SAFES organization not only stayed on
duty but canvassed the senior citizen housing area to see if
there were any problems. We also worked with Autumn Winds
Retirement Horne to provide any needed help. All in all, as far
as city staff went, the maintenance of services continued, the
emergency plan worked very well; but we did find a few glitches.
And of course, it did cost the city some additional money.
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D. At the next workshop I would suggest that we have an
executive session to discuss obtaining some additional park land.
Mr. Gilmore gave a handout just to give an idea of how it could
work. Since it is dealing with the purchase of land, it can be
discuss in executive session.
# 8 ITEMS BY COORCIL: Mr. Sharpe announced the SAFES
Jamboree on February 28th at the VFW Hall in Schertz.
Mr. Stanhope said he understood that the Humane Society and
Library did quite well on their recent dance and auction.
Mr. Stanhope advised that there is a bag of garbage on the corner
of Randolph and FM 78 that has been there for about three weeks.
Mr. Aguilar said that most of us learned quite a bit by our power
outage and we will benefit by what we have learned.
Mr. Aguilar expressed condolences to Mr. Baldwin, whose
grandmother passed away.
Mr. Greenwald asked if Mr. Gilmore was going to be able to put a
dollar figure on what the blackout cost the City. Mr. Gilmore
said he was getting the figures together now.
#9 ITEMS BY MAYOR: Mayor Sawyer said he would like to have
the Housing Authority included in our emergency plan if possible.
He also said he would like to talk about buying emergency
generators at the next workshop; and also get our telephone
system updated to include emergency operations.
Mr. Sawyer announced that he had lunch with the Black Awareness
Group.
tl0 ADJOURNMENT: Mr. Aguilar moved the meeting be
adjourned at 7:29 p.m. 'Mr. Stanhope seconded the motion, which
was carried unanimously.
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