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ccswks 08-13-1986 206 SPEx::IAL SESSION OF TBE CITY COUNCIL AUGUST 13, 1986' n The Sch-artz City Council convened in Special Workshop Session, Wednesday, A,pgust 13, 1986, at 7 :,00 p.m. in the Conference Room of the Municipal Complex, 1400 Live Oak Road, Schertz, Texas. The following members were present: Mayor. Earl,W. Sawyer, presiding; Councilmen Charles B. Sharpe; Hal Baldwin; Ray Stanhope; Adolph Aguilar and Ken Greenwald. Staff present were City Manager' Jimmy G. Gilmore and City Secretary June G. Krause. PUBLIC BBARIRG: Mayor Sawyer announced that the purpose of this pUblic hearing was to receive comments on the proposed 1986-87 budget. There were no citizens wishing ,to make comments. Mayor Sawyer closed the public hearing at 7 :01 p.m. .1 BBARIIIG OF RIB,IDIIftS: none - . 12 ,QjQ)I"'-:JC: ,Mayor Sawyer introduced' .an or.dinance and read the caption as fal:lows: , AN 'ORDINANCE BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SCHERTZ, TEXAS, AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY 'TO FURNISH. A LmAL D'g'EH)-E TO' MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND OTHm CITY OFFICIALS. D Mr. Greenwald moved to approve the first reading of an ordinance authorizing the City Attorney to furnish a legal defense to members of the City Council, P&Z Commission and other City officials. Mr. Stanhope seconded the motion, which carried with the following vote: AYES: Councilmen Sharpe, Baldwin, Stanhope, Aguilar and Greenwald. NAYS: None 13 SOooBr JIORKSBOP: Council started with page lS-SAFES for the budget'discussions. Mr. Gilmore said there was really no growth in this section - just cost increases. He said we have gone to the County to see if we can be placed on their budget but have not heard as yet. Mr. Gilmore said we really need a capitol recovery line item for SAFES ~ Mr. Gilmore was reminded to again contact the City of Marion about participating in SAFES. He was also asked if SAFES g,ets some money, outsic:fe the budget, how would it affect the other D cities. Mr. Gilmore said he would hope it would be used to hire more people or something like that. He stated that the ~, ";l\~~;.,.... _t . "" ~ if '. ~~.. ::~f.t""""t.,: " >>~ -;~_~,. a,._., .4,.. :c4~~__,;:!f~ \L.a,. ,1ill I l r- I I 1 ~ 207 volunteers also come up with additional money that is not in the budget. In discussing personnel, it was noted that the budget includes two additional Water/Sewer, two additional streets/Parks, two firemen, two patrolmen, one clerk and one inspector. Mr. Aguilar asked to keep in mind that the library would need an additional employee before too long. Mr. Aguilar also said the library was going to need an additional phone line. This wOuld help them in making phone calls regarding overdue books. Page 8 - streets and Parks. After lengthy discussion, Council agreed to reduce Training Schools and Meetings/Travel in both streets and Parks so the four line items would total $3900.00. Mayor Sawyer asked Council concensus to appoint Margaret Riley as lay representative for the City of Schertz. Council agreed. Mayor Sawyer and Hal Baldwin left the meeting at 10:02 p.m. To finalize the budget discussion Council agreed that there were only corrections to made to pages 2, which is the recapitulation page; pages 8, 11, 1'5 and 18. When asked by Mr. Gilmore, Council agreed that no further workshops would be necessary. Mr. Gilmore apologized that he could not spend as much time on this budget as he has in the past. #4 CITY MARAGm'S REPORT: A. Received a request from the School District. They have asked if the City would assist them in building an asphalt walkway under the stands in the football stadium. Council agreed to the request. B. Mr. Gilmore related a good operation by our police department the previous week regarding a burglary of Garden Ridge Pottery. C. The Animal Control-Officers have had some bad confrontations with citizens during the past week or so. Mr. Gilmore said he has asked them to back off and get a police officer to go out and give a citation or whatever is needed. D. Have received a great number of compliments from the people of Schirmerville area on the streets, Water and Police departments. We are trying to get some type of water to them and also working to have a smooth transfer on garbage collections. E. The Schertz Parkway group will be going out for bids and hope to start construction in December or January. F. The Ripps have been taken care of but we are going to have to look at one street in Oak Forest. We are trying to get Coy Simmons to release us from doing the lower drain because we need to do the upper drain. 208 G. We ,are having Gemcraft in Woodland Oaks to do some drainage modification. They are starting on their second unit. IS I.TBII BY COUBCIL~ Mr. Aguilar reported that the library Board is 'going full blas-t tryin9 to brick their building. They are very enthused about it, it w1ll probably. cost between $16,000 and $20,000. o Mr. Gilmore reported that we bad-three air conditioners go out at the Animal Shelter -, one in the cat shelter. There is a portable building for sale at the bank in very good shape. Mr. Gola has said that he will take it down to the yard and set it up, for a given amount spread out Qver two years. Actually the bank will pay, the amount each y~ and will ~orgive the interest at the end~By moving the present building from the yard to the Animal Shelte~~ this w~uld take care 9f improvements to the cat shelter ,witho~~ costing very much. Council said go with it. Mr. Aguilar mentioned the TML Region meeting in Del Rio but no one wanted to go on the holiday weekend. Mr. Sharpe reported on .anAppraisal District meeting he attended. He said they se'ein 'to bave, a realistic bud9et~ - ,He said he told them of our displeasure that they did not complete the reappraisal thIs year and asked them if they had sufficient people and money to complete it next year in order to give us a timely tax roll. They talked about getting a certified rollout by the 21st of September this year. Mr. Aguilar' reported on a Corridor meeting he and Mr. Sharpe attended in Austin. o Mr. Sharpe said that he attended an Economic Development meeting with the Chamber and they have lost the material the Chamber sent them on TEXCEI.. Mr. Sharpe brought .up about perhaps the City taking over the Jubilee from the Business Club. Mr. Gilmore said the person who organized th,e last one said there was discussion that there was not too much interest and we said maybe we should bring it back into the city functions. Mr. Sharpe suggested that sometime after budget, we invite the Business Club to a workshop and discuss the Jubilee. Mr. Stanhope ~sked how the State budget cutback would affect the FM 1009/I35 interchange. Mr. Gilmore said the talk is that the money is al~~ady appropri~ted but we really don't know as yet. Mr. Stanhope asked who cut the grass on FM 78. Mr. Gilmore said we got both the State and Railroad to cut. Mr. Stanhope mentioned a bad situation on Randolph at Maple where 0 a wooden houee sits back off the street, the driveway is full of holes. He a180 asked to recheck on the house on Maple where all the animals are kept as he had received another call on that. :,~,-.' ~ :,. '" .. :.:';: r I i r r- i I l 209 Mr. Greenwald reported that Don Wilson was coming down Jack Hays on Saturday and come upon a deer that had been hit but was still alive. It was reported but on Monday the deer carcass was still there and bloated. Mr. Greenwald said he has received complaints about trucks speeding, dirt, trash and gravel flying. Mr. Gilmore said he is using a pol~ceman four hours a day now and he will have him check these things. Mr. Greenwald suggested the sign ordinance be on the first workshop in September. Mr. Stanhope reported seeing a garage sale sign on a traffic control sign. .6 ITEMS BY MAYOR: Mayor Pro Tern Greenwald had already given his report. #7 ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business to come before Council; 'Mayor Pro Tem Greenwald declared the meeting adjourned at 12:04 p.m. ATTEST: