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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
MAY 11, 1988
The Schertz City Council convened in Special Workshop Session,
Wednesday, May 11, 1988, 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;
Charles B. Sharpe; Hal Baldwin; Ray Stanhope; Adolph Aguilar and
Ken Greenwald. Staff present were City Manager Jimmy G. Gilmore
and Deputy City Secretary Alice Austin. Also present were Mr.
Earl Hartzog, newly elected Councilman for Place 1 and
approximately 25 to 30 citizens.
#1 BEARING OF RESIDENTS: Mr. Ron Neely of the First
Baptist church advised that they- would like to put on a Run and
Fun Day in Schertz. He advised that it would include a 5 mile
run, a three mile wheelchair race and a one mile walk. Mr. Neely
advised that they would like to have the event hosted by the
First Baptist Church and the City of Schertz. He also advised
that he had brought one of the head runners for the San Antonio
Running Club out and that they were very impressed with the
streets in the city. Mr. Neely said they had been guaranteed 2~~
runners from the San Antonio Running Club and 10~ runners from
Randolph and that as yet they had not contacted any other
organizations. Mr. Neely advised that with our streets we could
probably look forward to more runs in the future which would
bring very good publicity to the city. Mr. Neely advised that
any proceeds would be donated to RACAP. Entry fee would be $8.013
per person which would cover t shirts and insurance. He also
advised that they would provide the manpower to clean the area
after the conclusion of the race. Council consensus was for Mr.
Neely to proceed with setting up the races.
Mr. Jack Stomackin advised that he was appearing in behalf of the
Literacy Council and that he was here to ask for $5130.~0 from the
City of Schertz. Mr. Stomackin advised that the Literacy
Councils were uniting to help save money but that they had lost
some of their funding. He explained that they take everybody who
does not speak english or has not graduated (from 2nd grade to
high school) Consensus of Council was that they would like to
discuss this further during their budgeting period. Mayor Sawyer
invited Mr. Stomackin to return during that period. Mr. Sharpe
advised that the council would benefit by knowing where other
donations were coming from.
Br ian Doerk advised that he had copies to pass out of letters
from 5 ex employees making known their views and hopefully being
able to pass on to the council some of the reasons that they have
in fact left the Schertz Police Department.
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After passing out the copies Mr. Doerk spoke to council as
follows:
" The only thing I would ask is after you read all of these
letters and hopefully will give you a little insite about some of
the things that really does happen over at the police department.
I don't know if you plan on voting whether to investigate or
whatever you can do tonight or if your going to table it to the
next council meeting or whatever. The only thing I would ask is
that after seeing some of these statements and also some of the
things that I have found out personally. I would hope that
either we could appoint some type of investigative person an
outside person as the City of Live Oak does, or maybe a committee
be formed of councilmen themselves. Its my opinion after reading
and hearing from some of these people, I don't believe the City
Manager can do a biased investigation of the police department.
I just hope that you'll will think about that when it comes
around time to decide what you'll are going to do."
Michelle Tereletsky of the Humane Society asked to address the
Council in regards to the lack of publicity that Schertz seems to
get for the good things that they do. And she requested that the
Council try to request the Herald give more publicity as far as
volunteers are concerned and give us a little insight into the
good that we do versus the bad. She also requested that the
Schertz Humane Society be put on the next Council agenda to
present a check for $355.57 which is the final installment on
over $2,~~~ in cat cages which the Humane Society had donated to
the Schertz Animal Shelter. She explained that although they had
already officially given the check to the city, they felt it was
important for the individuals who volunteered their time and
effort to know that they are helping the shelter. She advised
that in addition to the picture that had not appeared in the
Herald, their add had not been run for two weeks in a row. She
advised that she had contacted the Recorder Times and they are
more than happy and more than willing to run an add for the
Humane Society and she requested the City place an add with them
for their adoptions. She advised that the key to helping was
education in spaying and docking and that is what the Society is
here for.
Doris Courtney advised that she supported Brian Doerk
wholeheartedly and that he had gotten involved because of
infamous letters. She said that she had approached council twice
and had tried to abide by the rules to get them to listen to her.
She said that she was not here to fight with council but only to
help. She said that it seemed like they were trying to sweep it
under the rug. She requested that Council reconsider an ad hoc
committee and that she agreed with Mr. Doerk that it should be an
outside committee. Mrs. Courtney also advised that see was still
doing her petition and had 155 signatures. She said that she had
been planning to present :t at this meeting but would wait until
the Meeting on Tuesday.
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John Yeater addressed the Council as follows;
"My name is John Yeater. I am a former police officer for the
City of Scheitz as of FebLuary 29, I have been setting kind of
patiently watching thisf what I'm kind of looking at as a charade
in a sense, and trying to decide whether or not I should approach
the council on an inhouse terms w~th some problems that I believe
to need to be addressed or whether or not to bring suit against
the City and certain officials that represent the city.
Basically I m not that familiar with the procedu~es of the
council since of course police officers were always shunned from
getting ~nvolved ~n city government. I would like to talk with
some of you'll a ~_ttle b~t more on maybe how we can address some
of these problems. As of today, like I sa~di I ve waited kind of
patiently. I see that nothing has really been done as far as any
investigations in the police department. It should be more than
obvious that there is trouble over there. That should be obvious
to eve~ybody. However, if any of you 11 have any suggestions on
how you 11 would like to work it out w_th me then I 11 be mOLe
than happy to work with you 11. I d rather do it like I said in
an inhouse way because I m not here to smear any person or the
CLty of Sche~tz. That s one of the fULthest things that we want
to do right now. I will say that the FBI, Texas RangeLs and some
otheL people from the Distr~ct Attorneys office ~s involved on a
standby type thing now and thei r waiting on some documents and
some i.nfo~mation that I have that I m holding. I don t want,
like I said I don t want to go that route unless its abso~utely
necessa.y and 1..f we have to go that route with getting those
other agencies involved then there also will be a civil ~awsuit
and I m trYLng to stay away fLom that a..i..So. So _n other wo....ds
I m try~ng to work directly w~th council in an in house thing. I
do not want to get out in the news and smear anybody l.n the
pape:cs or with the mediao I just want to talk wi,th you .L.L
dil.ect..LY so maybe we can come up w.:.th something a way to do
this."
#2 REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS:
A. Discussion of ordinance revising Section 18-45 of the Code on
Weight limit on Schertz Parkway and East Live Oak Road.
Mr. Agu_lar ask if the terminology of 15,000 pounds to through
traff~c would allow others to have a h~gher we~ght. Mr. Gilmore
explained that this was true for persons who had business in the
a.ea.
Mr. Baldwin asked what would be done about persons taking their
18 wheelers home and parking them on the street. Mr. G~.:"'more
adv~sed that the city had other ordinances that prohib~t thiS.
Consensus of Council was to place this ~tem on the May 17 agenda.
B. Discussion of an ordinance revising Code Section 12-1/2 Parks
and Recreation.
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There was no discussion.
May 17 agenda.
13. Discussion of bids on Seal Coating Streets.
Consensus was to place this ~tem on the
Mr. Gllmore advised that the two ~ow bidders had bid exactly the
same for thi.s job He also advised that Ford Eng lneer ing had
investigated and both companies were equally qualified and
re.:..iable. Consensus of Council was to draw from these two
bidders at the meeting on May 17 and award to the winner_
14. Discussion of Board of Adjustment request by Tom
Wright for a home occupation permit.
Mr. Agu~:i.a:_ sa.Ld that this should not be transferable. Mr.
Stanhope advised that this man s backyard currently looked like a
junk yard and requested that a limit be placed on the number of
mowers he could have in his yard. Consensus of Council was to
place item on May 17 agenda and Mr. Gilmore to ...eword with
J.lm:... tat ions.
15. ELECTION CANVASS~ Mayor Sawyer and councll
checked the ta.1ly sheets fro'm the Election held on May 7. 1988
and dete~m.ned the resuits to be as follows:
Earl W. Sawyer for Mayor
Cha_les B. Sharpe for Place 1
Ear~ P. Hartzog for Place 1
Ha_old D Baldwin for Place 2
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Mr. Baldwin made the motion to accept results of canvass of May
II, 1988, Mr. Aguilar seconded the motion which cauled with the
following vote:
AYES: Counc~lmembeL Sharpe, Baldwin;
Greenwald
NAYS: None
Stanhope,Aguilal and
16 Discussion of Mayor Pro Tem to be voted on at the 5.,
17--88 meeting.
Consensus of council was to appoint Mr. Aguilar as Mayor Pro Tern.
17. CITY MANAGER'S REPORT:
Mr. G.Llmo.e advised that Mayor, Councilor members of staff were
invlted to the Steering Committee meeting to be held on May 12 at
Converse City Hall.
Mr. GllmoLe advised that council had received a _isting of the
various liaison areas that Mr. Sharpe had been participating in
and that council needs to ~ook at replacements In these a~eas.
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He advised that Nanette walkingstick had received a scholarship
from the u.s. Humane Society to attend school in Washington DC.
The scholarship covers the tuition. The city would have to pay
for plane fare and lodging which would be approximately $700.
Consensus was to expend the money but additional information
would be needed on exact expenditures.
Mr. GL_mol.e advised that counCll had .i.eceived Infoi:mation on
enlarging the dispatch office to accommodate 911 equipment whIch
they will be instaLling in the next 2 or 3 weeks. He advised
that they would lose much of what was currently reception area.
Mayor Sawyer as for consensus of council on expending monies for
enlarging dispatch offIce. Consensus was yes.
Mr. GL,more advised that there was a ;etter from County Judge
Sagebiel congratulating Safes.
Mayor SawyeL advised that several citizens from Northc~iffe were
in attendance to discuss deannexation of their al.ea. Consensus
of councl,l was to proceed with deannexation pLoceedings.
18. ITEMS BY COUNCIL. Mr. Aguilar said that we had
had the gl.and opening for the new Load but there weLe no
indlcations that there was a new road. Mr. Gilmore adVIsed the
we a e in the process of getting s_gns and lighting. ML. AguilaL
asked if the information on the retention of Police department
pe~sonne~ requested was available. Mr. Gilmore advised that hiS
report was not complete but he would have it on Tuesday.
Mr. Sha.pe said that we had a good turnout for the Schertz
Parkway opening and that all of the staff involved in helping dId
an outstand~ng job
ML. GL"eenwald advised that there was a p~oblem with bus~nesses
opening and ali.eady in building before we know about it. He
asked :...f we cou~d issue an annual or _.e- issue an occupat..on
permIt when a new business opens. He advised that P&Z was
conceLned with someone opening a busness WhiCh hand~ed haza~dous
chem~ca~s. Mr. G~lmore was asked to look into the problem.
Mr. Greenwald advised that just past Maske Road on ScheLtz
Parkway there was an old barn and brush whjch ~ooked very
hazal.dous. He also stated that a s~gn was needed to des~gnate
the n_ght deposit box.
19. ITEMS BY MAYOR~ Mayor advised that two area boys
Mike Black of Cibo~o and Billy Cress, Jr. of Schertz had went to
Boys State UniveLslty of Texas, He a~so advised that he had been
contacted by several senior citizens who expressed a wish to have
a bench :.nstal.Led between Wuest and the Senior Complex.
Mayor said he had ridden WJ_ th Off .J..cer GaL land of the Po:u..ce
depa tment and had had a very uneventful night. Mayor advised
that he thought it would be a good idea if some of the other
counc~l membe~s would L:...de with the pat~olmen.
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f18 ADJOURNMENT:
the meeting was adjourned at
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