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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CI~ COUNCIL
MARCH 28, 1984
The Schertz City Council convnened in Special Workshop Session,
Wednesday, March 28, 1984, at 7:00 P.M. in the Conference Room of
the Municipal Complex with the following members present: Mayor
Earl W. Sawyer, presiding, Charles B. Sharpe, Hal Baldwin, Ross
Hoover, Adolph Aguilar and Ken Greenwald.
11 HEARING OF RESIDENTS: After welcoming everyone to the
meeting, Mayor Sawyer recognized Mr. Ed Thorpe and Mr. Hal
Knowles, representatives of the Randolph Area Rotary Club.
Mr. Thorpe explained that the Rotary Club had agreed to sponsor
some senior citizen housing through HUD in this area. They have
been looking for sites for the project and have talked to the
City Managers in the area cities. Live Oak and Universal City is
priced completely out of their range. They will only have at the
most $100,000 for the land. There are two sites in Schertz that
might be suitable, one in back of the Fire Station and the other
in back of City Hall. Their consultant advised that the Fire
Station site would more nearly meet the requirements of HUD. Mr.
Thorpe said they were addressing the Council to see if the
Council would either donate or sell some land at a price they can
afford.
Mr. Knowles said this project would be 100% funded similar to the
Housing Authority complex. The Rotary would not make anything
from the venture but would act as managers.
After Council discussion, Mayor Sawyer thanked the gentlemen for
coming in and asked if they could wait until Tuesday night for a
decision as the Council would like to think it over and discuss
it some more. Mr. Knowles said they would press on in their
pursuit of land.
12 Briefing by Ed Ford, Schertz engineer, to Schertz and
Cibolo Councils in regard to water supply to the City of Cibolo.
Before Mr. Ford gave his briefing, it was explained that he would
be talking about the lower Schertz water supply system only. He
presented a chart which showed that at present Schertz is at
capacity on storage and transmission and with all the development
in the area, expansion was going to have to take place
immediately. In planning for the next ten year per iod the
storage, transmission and well all need expansion. Cibolo' s
share of this expansion would be approximately $1,017,000, which
would include the construction of internal storage of 2,000,000
gallons, extend the 20ft main, and provide capitol cost cash for
water well expansion.
After the briefing, Mayor Little said it was logical on the
storage and also on the 20ft line. He then thanked Schertz for
asking them to the meeting.
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Mayor Sawyer said that we would appreciate a reply soon and
thanked them for coming.
The Mayor then called a recess at 8:04 P.M.
The Regular meeting was reconvened at 8:10 P.M.
Mayor Sawyer said he thought by our next workshop would be ample
time to wait for an answer from Cibolo.
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.3 Discussion of proposed amendment to the Traffic
ordinance.
After studying the proposed amendments to the traffic ordinance,
Mr. Sharpe asked if it would be feasible to put the block number
on the street name signs in the future. Mr. Gilmore said he
would look into the additional costs.
The item is to be on the next regular agenda.
.4 Discussion of annexation.
Mr. Gilmore said that we need to fill in the blanks on the lower
section of the city as previously discussed. Then on I 35,
rather than annex blocks, think about when someone comes in with
a plat, use those metes and bounds and just annex that particular C
area. It would save both time and money without creating undue
problems. Council concurred with this plan.
Mayor Sawyer said we should think about extending at the end of
our limits on 135 to the left and right. Mr. Baldwin suggested
that we might also extend into the area of the Garden
Ridge/Schertz ETJ line.
.5 Schaefer Water briefing.
Mr. Gilmore said we hope to be able to take over Schaefer Water
system on April 15th. He explained the way the billing would be
handled for the first month or so, stating that we will be
keeping separate records on this for several months at least to
show that it will pay for itself.
.6 EXECUTIVE SESSION: None needed
.7 CITY MANAGER'S REPORT: A. Mr. Gilmore said we are
starting to lay the lines in Maria Subdivision. Letters have
been prepared to go to the customers explaining what it will cost
them and setting up a day when they can come in and discuss it.
We also have some that will not pay and they will have to pay all
back bills before they will be served. He said he would send
John Bierschwale and Jerry Marin to hand carry the letters and do 0
what explaining would be necessary. We want to make it as easy
for them as possible but they should also pay according to our "-
other customers.
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B. Have received estimates on the sidewalks that were missed
between Maple and Aviation on Randolph and Vicki Lynn and
Chestnut, ih the amount of $3,853. Council concensus was to go
ahead and get the work done.
C. A letter from our engineer was distr ibuted concerning the
drainage problem in Village #4 that the young man presented to
Council.
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D. With regard to the letter sent to Randolph concerning SAFES
providing service, another letter has been sent from SAFES. They
made a unanimous decision and in all fairness to all others,
effective April 1,1984, SAFES will no longer respond to Randolph.
Mr. Baldwin reported on an EMS meeting he attended on this same
subject. The base said they would not be able to participate in
a per capata contract. They said they could not back up SAFES
unless of a disaster. They would be willing to pay double or
triple for transfer calls from their clinic. The final decision
at this meeting was to postpone the cutoff date 30 days and work
out costs of individual calls. Mayor Sawyer said it would have
to equitable to others served.
E. P&Z has recommended a joint public hearing for the 17th of
April on David Johnson's request to rezone the frontage along FM
3009 of the Oak Run Subdivision from apartments to a neighborhood
service district with a specific use for some apartments. Also a
zoning classification of 10.5 acres recently annexed back into
the city limits as Industrial District.
F. P&Z also recommended parking not be permitted along Elbel
Road from Live Oak to FM 3009 and also no parking on Live Oak
Road for the entire length. Council agreed and asked that this
be included in the amendments to the traffic ordinance on the
next agenda.
G. The Reserve Officer Review Committee met the 28th with four
applicants. Both Arthur Young, Jr. and Stephen Starr qualify and
have been recommended for approval. The other two will be going
to school and should qualify in May and will be presented at that
time.
H. Mr. Gilmore had a packet from The Larry Thomas Company
covering several areas to be considered in the development of FM
3009 and other major arteries.
I. Several examples of furniture for the reception area of the
Municipal Building were presented. At Mr. Baldwin's suggestion,
Council agreed to establish $1,000 to purchase what is needed.
J. Also presented were suggestions for an amplifying system for
the community center. It was suggested that we get costs from
Fred Ross on dropping the ceiling or putting in another floor.
Mr. Greenwald was appointed to look into the needs for the
amplifying system.
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.8 ITEMS BY COUNCIL: Mr. Aguilar asked what the digging in
front of Deer Haven and on Main Street is all about. Mr. Gilmore 0
said that Main Street concerned an abandoned fire hydrant that J
they are trying to reactivate. At Deer Haven, they are trying to
comply with State where you have an entrance over a water line,
you have to comply with certain standards. He will get more
details later.
Mr. Greenwald reported that CVADAC has gotten Cibolo Bank to
sponsor some buttons for the kids. Also they have done a
beautiful job on their building. They are looking for input of
what direction and goals they should set.
Mr. Greenwald said that BVYA is coming to Council with a letter
about the two tournaments. Mr. Gilmore said he had talked with
the people about the fence around the apartments and they said
that they leased the fence for about 90 a foot. Perhaps BVYA
could do the same.
Mr. Baldwin reported the traffic light at FM 78 and Live Oak Road
is fixed.
.9 ITEMS BY MAYOR: Mayor Sawyer asked what Council thought
about the Rotary Club's request for land. Mr. Sharpe said that a
lot of study went into it before being presented to the Rotary
and after it was presented and everyone went along with it, they 0
started looking for a location. He mentioned several locations
they looked into. Mr. Sharpe said he did not think we should
entirely donate the land because we are talking about tax money.
These units would be for a little higher income bracket than the
Housing Authority. Council then discussed the pros and cons of
the project and asked Mr. Gilmore to try to get a fair market
value on the land to determine a reasonable price they could ask
for the land.
Mr. Sawyer announed the Library Book Sale for the weekend.
.10 ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business to come
before Council, Mayor Sawyer declared the m:eti:9 ~ourned at
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