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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FEBRUARY 25, 1987
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the Schertz City Council convened in Special Workshop Session,
~ednesday, February 25, 1987, at 7:00 p.m. in the Conference Room
~f the Municipal Complex, l400 Live Oak Road, Schertz, Texas.
{he following members were present: Mayor Earl W. Sawyer,
residing; Charle, s B. Sharpe, Hal Baldwin, Ray Stanhope, Adolph
guilar and Ken Greenwald. Staff present were City Manager Jimmy
. Gilmore and City Secretary June G. Krause.
t' ayor Sawyer welcomed everyone to the meeting, saying he had two
roclamations to read. The first was declaring the month of
arch "Youth Art Month" and the second proclaimed March 20th
~hrough April 18th as "Spring Spruce Up Month".
II BBAB.IBG OF B.ESIDEBTS: Mr. Merwin Wi llman ment ioned a
~usiness on Main' Street t'hat leaves garbage out all the time.
~r. Gilmore said he would check it out.
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#2 Cons idera t ion of bid s for const ruc t ion of Cre s t Oak
prainage.
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~r. Gilmore said although this has been discuss previously, now
r.' t needs to be considered in conjunction with the work the
ighway Department is doing in that area. Bids came in better
than expected. The low bidder was checked out thoroughly and our
!engineer recommends awarding to the low bidder Hugh Johnson
Construction whose bid was for $65,660. This will be to build a
bridge and drainage at Crest Oak in Oak Forest.
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Mr. Baldwin said he thought the City was suppose to do Circle Oak
under the agreeMent with Mr. Simmons. Mr. Gilmore advised that
~e had to change to Crest Oak before anything is done with Circle
10ak.
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IMr. Stanhope asked if this change was in writing and Mr. Gilmore
Isaid Mr. Simmons was told but he did not sign anything. Mr.
IGilmore said if we don't fix this now, we will have problems
ifurther up the road - this will relieve problems on the Ripps
Iproper t y.
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IMayor Sawyer received concurrence from Council for this item to
be on the next agenda.
#3 Consideration of bids on striping machine.
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IMr. Gilmore advised that of the three bids received only one
!meets the specifications, that being Saf-T-Mark in the amount of
$4390.00.
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Council having no questions, Mayor Sawyer asked that this be
placed on the next agenda.
#4 Consideration of approving specifications for
Water/Waste Water vehicle.
Council asked if this vehicle would replace one and Mr. GilMore
said this would be an addition to provide vehicles for each crew.
He also advised that this is a budgeted iteM.
Mr. Greenwald noticed that everything was heavy duty but with a 4
cyc Ie eng ine - he adv ised that if the truck YOU ld be hau ling
anything he really should consider a larger engine.
Mr. Stanhope suggested the City should start standardizing colors
for vehicles.
It was Council suggestion that the specifications ~e revised to
reflect a larger engine.
15 Consideration of replacing fire truck tanker.
Mr. Melton, Fire Chief, advised the Fire DepartMent would like to
replace the tanker but a new replaceMent would cost at least
$100,000. The one presented for cons idera t ion is a 1982 Mode I
from a city who contract with Austin. Austin is requiring them
to to get a larger pumper. At present if there is an accident,
the departm~nthas to send two vehicles and More man power. With
this one, would only have to send the one vehicle with less
manpower to operate. They are asking $45,000 for the tanker.
Chief Melton advised that the fire truck fund could handle some
of the Money but he would still need about $20,000 frOM the City
for this purchase. The prefJent tanker is dangerous and really
should not be driven. Mr. Melton: advised that the bank has
agreed to a note like they did before with no int~rest costs.
Mayor Sawyer poled Councilmembers, who agreed to go ahead with a
letter of commitMent.
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#6 Consideration of a letter supporting Schertz Housing
Authority.
Mr. Gilmore said the Housing Authority is asking for additional
funds to repair, improve, etc. the housing for the elderly and
are reque st ing the Counc i 1 support them by s isning the let ter.
This will be the saMe as we have done in the past - waive permits
fees and such.
Mr. Aguilar suggested the terM "coMmunity" is all inclusive and 0
he suggested changing that to the "City of 'Schertz".
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Mr. Greenwald said we need to reaffirm with the Housing Authority
Board that we are not looking for any additional low income
housing.
#7 Discussion
by adding a new
Schertz Parkway".
of an ordinance amending the zoning ordinance
section entitled "Special Overlay District
Mayor Sawyer said this was put on the agenda in case Council has
any further questions.
Mr. Greenwald suggested that this ordinance first go to Planning
and Zoning for consideration.
Before proceeding with the next agenda item, Mayor Sawyer
recogni zed Br ian Beck, Pre s iden t of the Scher t z Vo lunt eel:' Fire
Department, who had a proposal he asked to present to Council.
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Mr. Beck said the volunteers have run into problems with the
refrigerator truck. It has to be towed to the site of use as it
is no longer running. The volunteers were asking for Council
permission to construct a new building 16 x 24 feet at the large
pavilion site, with a walk in cooler and place to serve their
beer at the suppers, Jubilee, etc.. They would like to locate it
away from the kitchen but on the same side and would extend the
wall to the top of the pavilion to cut off the heat from the
sunshine.
Mayor Sawyer, af ter po 11 ing Counc iI, adv i sed Mr. Beck he cou ld
consider Council concurrence but the item would be placed on the
next agenda for formal approval.
#8 City Manager's Report: A. There is a vacant lot on
Robert Stevens in Greenfield Subdivision that was kept vacant in
case the City wanted to consider purchasing it for future
extension of Will Rogers. The owner now wants to build on the
lot and would like Council's wishes be made known. They would
offer the lot to the City for about $18,000 to $20,000. It is a
9600 square foot lot. Mr. Vaughan owns the lot and has held off
just as long as possible hoping that he could purchase the Butler
property in back of this but Butler does not want to sell.
Council discussed the possibility of purchasing this lot and
agreed it was not worth the price to them.
B. Mr. Gilmore announced that the City has their first
police officer starting work on March 2nd. She has
approximately a year in Kirby and comes well recommended.
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C. The question was asked at last meeting about letters that
were sent to businesses along F.M. 78 in rega~ds to flashing or
temporary lights. Mr. Gilmore listed the businesses who had been
sent letters, which was all inclusive. The letters state the
violation involved and ask the owners to please remove the signs.
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Mr. Baldwin asked about the blinking lights on the Frontier Ice
House building. Mr. Gilmore was to check this out.
D. Just to update, we are now at 92.12% collection rate on
taxes.
E. Mr. Gilmore said just for inforMation he had asked Mrs.
Austin to put together figures on the new water rates for
Councilmembers bills. He also said we are going to Northcliffe
to raise their rates.
Mayor Sawyer said he had asked Mr. Gi lmore to check wi th our
legal advisors to see if could raise Northcliffe the amount that
would include the base rate our citizens are paying.
F. Mr. GilMore said he has
.pplication from the Texa$ Water
They are asking for new COMMents
will be sending a letter.
been notified of receipt of
Commission on the sewer plant.
pro or con. The Forbes people
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G. The City Manager said he had talked with New Braunfels and
they say the Majority of the Board is very favor.ble on the sewer
que st ion but want to wa i t unt i 1 after the elect ion to .'ake a
decision.
19 Items by Council: Mr. Greenwald said that the Planning
and Zoning had discussed the possibility of having alternate
Members appointed as they caMe close to not even having a quorum.
They would like for staff to get copies of other city ordinances
and bring back a suggested ordinance allowing alternates.
Mr. Flores, eng ineer for Wood land Oaks, was . t the P&Z meet ing
although he was not on the agenda, with possible changes to the
drainage problems. Before they can do this, they need
preliMinary plat approval.
Mr. Flores addressed Council saying they were told the night
before that Council has put a stop order on everything being done
in Woodland Oaks. He said they have been trying to address all
the probleMS that'exist. He said they are aware of the probleMS
and realize that developMent of Unit 4 would put theM in a More
liable position. He said he is trying to solve the drainage 0
probleMS and it needs some construction in Unit 4. He was asking
for preliMinary approval of Unit 4.
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!Mr. Greenwald said the City needs to lift their stop work order.
IMr. Baldwin said that the
Istop order we could put
,something done.
Council had hoped that by iMposing the
some leverage on the deve loper to get
IMr. Greenwa ld sa id Counc i I
11l00k at preliminary plat
!eng ineer ing data.
needs to
and if
lift the letter and let P&Z
it passes, start on the
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IMayor Sawyer said our concern is that the developer is not going
,to do anything about the drainage and just leave. He went on to
Isay he felt our purpose was served, as Council got their
iattention. Mr. Sawyer then asked for a concensus of Council to
iremove restrictions. Concensus of Council was three for
Itemporarily lifting restrictions with two wanting to lift the
irestrictions. Mayor Sawyer advised Mr. Flores that Council would
Isend the letter saying they would temporarily lift the
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IMr. Greenwa ld
Pfeil Road and
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asked that the Street Department
repair pot holes.
crews go out on
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IMr. Greenwa ld announced that Mr s. Bu llock had asked for the C'tJ ;.-,":i!
ICommunity Center on June 20 and July 16th for Pony Baseball and 7J,,,,;;::J
Ihad agreed to take care of any cleanup necessary. Pf~
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iMr. Greenwald announced that vehicles are being parked on the
lacce ss road of 1-35 a t the 'shade tree mechanic' location. We
need to notify the Highway Department to install "No Parking"
is igns in tha t area. ' '
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IMr. Ba ldwin sa id he had ta lked wi th Henry Gut ierre z concerning
!the request of Waste Management to place another building on
'their property. Mr. Guetierrez said this request should be
Iseparate from the donation of landfill for a city park. These
Itwo things are by two separate companies. Mr. Baldwin said that
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!Waste Management has purchase land on the south side of San
IAnton io and wi 11 move the who Ie operation before long. Mr.
IGilmore said the request was for 90 to 120 days.
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IMr. Sharpe suggested giving them the variance for six months.
Mr. Stanhope said then if they want to go beyond that time limit,
they can come back to the Council.
!Mayor Sawyer suggested making it the inspector job to monitor the
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I[Mr. Ba ldwin reported that the' SAFES Jamboree grossed about $3400,
mostly from raffle sales.
!Mr. Baldwin said he went to the SAFES meeting to see what their
!feelings were on 9-1-1. They had no great objections, just some
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questions. Mr. Funk said they would still push for the use of
the 658-5321 numb~r.
Mr. Rehman suggested something be done about the water in the
ditch at Jack Hays and Antler Drive. The ditch needs to be dug
out. Mayor Sawyer asked that staff get the engineer to look into
that.
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Mr. Stanhope announced that there wi II be a benef i t d inner in
Marion on Sunday for Charlene Doss' son, who was hurt in the car
accident and has been in a coma for three Months.
Mr. Stanhope also said the pot hole on Maple and Randolph has not
been fixed, but the one at Pecan was repaired.
Mr. Sharpe said the transportation map needs updating. Mr.
Gilmore said that P&Z are in that process now. f
Mr. Sharpe asked what Council was going to do about the Rogers
Franchise. Mayor Sawyer asked that this be on the next aaenda.
Mr. Aguilar said with regards to drainage, one of
the drainage ditch on the south side of F.M. 78.
in this area. Can we have the inspector check on
just do not seem to work.
his concerns is
Bia trucks park
thi. - barriers
Mr. Aguilar also suggested that the reflector. need to be
replaced at the corner of East Live Oak Road and Live Oak Road.
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Mr. ,Ba ldwin advised that there was a Meeting aoing on at the
library in Universal City with citizens wanting to withdraw from
the S-C-UC School District. They want to form their own di.trict
or join with Judson. One of the things the UC people say i. that
they pa-y a greater port ion of t\1e taxes; however 28% of the
students live in Universal City so there is no iMbalance.
Mr. Gi IMore reported that Dr. Stee Ie said they are havina a
policy problem because of elections and the U.C. problem for them
to do SOMething right now on the property for ,the .ater tank.
They are hirina an appraiser. Mr. Baldwin .aid soae are
concerned about lowering the chances of selling etc. with the
large tank on the back of the lot.
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survey to build another church.
a map of the city because the
dated.
The Catholic Church is taking a
He said he sent Father SilverMan
one he was using was very out
The Mayor said he was contacted and asked why Council vas not
doing something for Cecil Tilgman. He has been delivery fruit to
senior citizens for a long tiMe. We should recognize hiM in SOMe
way. Mr. Baldwin suggested working it into the Senior Citizen
Day activities.
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IOn March 4th there will be a tour of the school district starting
off with a continental breakfast.
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: #11 Adjournment. There being no further business to come
before Council, Mayor Sawyer declared the meeting to be adjourned
at 10:26 p.m.
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