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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
AUGUST 31, 1988
The Schertz City Council convened in Special Workshop Session,
Wednesday, August 31, 1988, at 7:00 p.m. in the Conference Room
of the Municipal Complex; 1490 Schertz Parkway, Schertz, Texas.
The following members were present: Mayor Earl W. Sawyer,
presiding; Earl Hartzog; Hal Baldwin; Adolph Aguilar and Ken
Greenwald. Absent: Ray Stanhope. Staff present were Interim
City Manager Steve Simonson and City secretary June Krause.
II IlBARING OF RESmER!'S:
S~nday afternoon he was looking
patrol car on the other side of
in that area and he did not feel
A. Mr. Ed Mazian related that
over his back yard and notice a
the fence. There are no houses
the car should have been there.
Mayor Sawyer said the City has a lot of areas where there are no
house but small roads and we do patrol in there at times; but he
would have the City Manager look into that.
B. Mr. Joe Potempa advised that several people have
noticing trains coming through our city. at excessive speeds.
arms go down on the crossing fast and he felt someone would
an accident.
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Mayor Sawyer suggested asking the railroad representatives to
come to one of the meetings and explain about their speeds to
Council again.
C. Mark Vaughan of Vaughan Homes said he had talked Planning and
Zoning about a request to an exception to the zoning ordinance
concerning a lot in Greenshire Oaks Subdivision. He said they
are asking for a 19 foot set back rather than the 20 foot setback
called for in the ordinance. He said they at first did not feel
the 28 foot setback applied to them as they had developed under a
POD. He said P&Z had recommended approval and he thought he
would get that approval from Council at this meeting.
Mr. Hartzog asked if this request had to go before the Board of
Adjustment. Mr. Simonson said no, just P&Z who made a
recommendation to Council. '
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Mr. Vaughan said he would like to propose Council give him some
indication of their views so that he could go ahead and start
construction since the owner is pushing him.
Mayor Sawyer asked for a concensus of Councilmembers, who all
agreed they would have no problem approving the recommendation.
12 Discussion of Fawn Drive residents petition concerning
tbeir street.
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Mayor Sawyer referred to the petition submitted by residents of I
Fawn Drive in Deer Haven, in which they request the City put in a
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new street with no assessment to residents. He then asked Mr.
Baldwin about the meeting he had with those residents of Deer
Haven.
Mr. Baldwin said a lot of people turned out for his meeting and
some thought the residents of Antler spoke out more than Fawn
residents. Mr. Baldwin said he personally thinks the City should
do some type of study and get back with those people. The City
should see what the engineer says about adding two feet onto the
road. Mr. J.D. Jones, who is in the street construction
business, says it would not be feasible; but we should have the
I engineer look at it and give his recommendation as to safety,
etc.
Mr. Hartzog said Council needs to decide and then tell the
engineer what to go with. He felt the Council should not put in
less that a standard city street according to ordinance. He said
that ten years ago we had the mone"y and the residents did not
want it and today we have some or the same people signing a
petition. He said he felt if the City is going to put in curb
and gutters then they should assess the people. If Council
elects to widen the street, maybe the street Department personnel
can do it in house.
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Mr. Baldwin stated that anything the City would do with the
street would make it easier to speed.
Mr. Simonson said one of the things Council needs to address is
if the road is changed very much, it will change the drainage and
that could become another problem. The flat curbs requested are
not going to work, it would just allow the water to drain on
someone's property where it had not been before.
Mr. Aguilar reminded Council that the people do not want a
standard city street so why waste all the time and money on the
study if they do not want it to city standards.
i Mr. Hartzog asked who is going to pay for all this. He said we
still have some bond money to pay for some of it.
Mayor Sawyer said he did not recall it being in the bond issue to
, do subdivision streets.
Mr. Baldwin said Council could still have the engineer look at
the trees. Mr. Duffield said one tree in particular had been hit
at least four or five times. Mr. Baldwin also suggested having
the engineer determine the right of way for this street.
Mr. Hartzog agreed, saying it is something that has to be done.
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Mayor Sawyer said the City should find out where the right of way
is and get a rough estimate of the cost to do a good street in
there.
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Mr. Baldwin said if Council is looking at a major project in Deer
Haven, then he felt drainage needs to be done first.
Mayor Sawyer asked Mr. Simonson to see if he could have the
engineer's findings within four weeks at that workshop.
13 Discussion of request by Mr. Ratc~ concerning
reco-.endations for a lot nezt to bi. on Kline Circle.
Mayor Sawyer referred to Mr. Ratchman' s written request, which
included the City putting up two fences across the lot next to
2620 Kl ine Circle, which would be about 43 feet long. Mr.
Ratchman then would seed and maintain the lot at his expense. He
said this lot is really an eye sore.
Mr. Simonson said this is a drainage right of way.
Mr. Ratchman said he had lived at 2620 Kline Circle for three
years. At first this was a ditch and he was led to believe that
the City and/or Gemcraft would fill it in and he was told that
the City would clean it. He said he had been cleaning it for
about 1-1/2 years. He said last Sunday a small kid on a small
bike hit a rock in that lot and was hurt.
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Mr. Simonson said a lot of things done in Woodland Oaks, we had
to redo or make them redo.
Mr. Ty Brisgill said you could not put a fence at the end of 01
Hidden Grove because of the pipe in there.
Mayor Sawyer suggested sending this to Planning & Zoning and have
them study it and come back to Council with a recommendation.
Mr. Ratchman asked about him going to Gemcraft for help and was
told it couldn't hurt.
14 CIft IlARAGER'S REPOft: A. Mr. Simonson reported that
everyone in the City had been given a raise in salary except the
City Secretary.
Mayor Sawyer said he thought Council had discussed in the past
about putting the City Secretary in the grade structure so they
would not overlook her pay.
It was decided that this item should be on the next workshop.
B. Bob Sohn of New Braunfels utilities will be at the workshop
of September 28th to discuss proposal of bringing sewer to 1-35
area. Paul Brown will also be in attendance.
C. The Water Department personnel have laid the pipe on Ware-
Seguin to within about 200 feet of the tank and will put that in D
as soon as finish painting it. ,
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Mayor Sawyer said he had talked with Mr. Brown and they are very
. interested in I-3S.
Mr. Baldwin said we are talking about a lot of money and we need
something more from him than interest.
Mr. Hartzog asked if we could get a price from the San Antonio
River Authority on a small package plant.
D. We have received a lot of complaints about the south bound
exit on 1-35 to FM 3089. People take this exit and then turn
completely around and go back to Garden Ridge Pottery. Mr.
Simonson said he had talked with the Highway Department and they
wanted to know if we wanted to move the ramp or put in an
additional ramp. Have written them a letter on this.
Mr. Baldwin said they will probably wait and do that when they
are doing I-3S north. To help now, it seems it would be simple
to put a "No u-turn" sign at that point. We could also suggest
to Eric White that he should put up a sing further up at the next
exit saying "last chance to Garden Ridge Pottery".
Mr. Brisgill suggested something should also be done at the Flea
Market place.
#5 ITEIIS BY COURCIL:
Mr. Aquilar: Several weeks ago people came from Aero and wanted
help. He asked Mr. Simonson if he had had any luck helping them.
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Mr.. Simonson said the one house they complained about has been
cleaned up. On the other one, we had to go in and clean up and
the VA will refund the money to us. They don't know where the
i people got the idea of a half-way house because it is not now nor
was ever considered for one.
i B. he said he knew that the Streets/Parks people keep our lawns,
etc. and they are real busy; but who takes care of the area just
past Stop & Go. It is an eyesore. Mr. Simonson was to contact
the Highway Department about this.
. Mr. Hartzog: A. The striping is complete and he felt our people
did an excellent job getting it done before school starts.
B. They are also doing a good job on the Cibolo Creek clean up.
, Cibolo Creek needs to be put on a fact list and checked more
often.
C. Water pressure is low in our area, what is the status of the
16 inch line.
f""- Mr. Simonson said Council should have the status report at the
, next workshop.
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D. Lone Oak Park - the citizens of that area are watering that
park. The last time the city mowed, they took the sprinkler
fiead. Is it possible, since we are no longer using wafer hose
out front, to give them one of our hoses and the sprinkler head.
E. Got a call about 509 Mitchell, there is a bunch of trash in
the carport and they are working on a vehicle there.
F. Last Monday he got a call from someone that was upset about
animals getting in trash. Could we have the Animal control
people put on split shift to help cut down on overturned cans.
They seem to have a lot of overtime hours and this might help
there too.
Mr. Simonson said they get a lot of calls after hours on animals
running at large, hurt animals etc.
G. Also had complaint about police patrolling on 1-35 from 2 to
6 am. It seems two officers were leaning heavy on 1-35. It came
over the scanner about a light out on FM 78 and they could not
respond because they were too busy on 1-35.
Mr. Simonson said he would check that out.
Mr. Baldwin: A. Have they started construction on the 1-1/2
mill ion gallon tank. Mr. Simonson said they are on the second
ring now and should take another five weeks.
B. Mr. Baldwin announced that school would start the following
day.
Mr. Greenwald: At the Home Owners of Oak Forest meeting, we were
asked to check at San Marcos to see if an'architect could design
a plan to dress up FM 78.
Mayor Sawyer said he understood they did that for some other
cities and maybe we could get in touch with them to come down
here.
B. Has there been any headway done on the City brochure. Mr.
Sharpe said he had not done anything since that was given to
someone else to do.
16 I~ BY MAYOR: A. Received a letter from the Highway
Department 'and they will not put a light at River Road and FM 78.
B. Cibolo sent a nice letter complimenting our staff.
C. Our application for a park grant was turned down so we are
going to s~art spending ouroond money on the park.
D. The Department of Health has postponed the landfield hearing
until December 5th.
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E. The Guadalupe County Appraisal District will have their
budget hearing on September 12th at 7:88 p.m.. Mr. Sharpe and
his board have come up with an acceptable budget.
F. Attended a party honoring Mr. Funk on Monday night. Mayor
Sawyer said he read a proclamation making the 30th "Tom Funk Day"
and added that Tom has done a remarkable job for the city.
i Mr. Aguilar asked what was being done about advertising for a
Police Chief. Mr. Simonson said it will be in this weeks paper
and we have been receiving applications from allover.
Mr. Hartzog gave a report on the August 19th meeting of the
Greater Austin/San Antonio Corridor Council. There was a writeup
about it in the paper that was fairly factual. One of the things
brought out was that the Council is pulling back a little on what
they are doing. They are mainly concerned with Economic
Development.
17 ADJOORRKE~: Mayor Sawyer declared the meeting to be
adjourned at'8:94' p.m.
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