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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
JUNE 13, 1984
The Schertz City Council convened in Special Workshop Session,
Wednesday, June 13, 1984, at 7:00 P.M. in the Conference Room of
the Municipal Complex, 1400 Live Oak Road with the following
members present: Mayor Earl W. Sawyer, presiding, Charles B.
Sharpe, Ross Hoover, Adolph Aguilar and Ken Greenwald. Absent:
Hal Baldwin. Staff present were City Manager Jimmy G. Gilmore
and City Secretary June G. Krause.
Mayor Sawyer asked to move to item 12 as Mr. Hoover would
have to leave early. He explained that this item is one to be
voted on by Council, which is not a normal procedure for
workshops.
12 Council vote on awarding bid on new water line. Mr.
Saw~er referred to a letter recommendation from the City
eng1neer, who had review all bids received and recommended
awarding the bid to the low bidder.
Mr. Greenwald moved to award the bid to Heath Construction, in
the amount of $263,156.00, for construction improvements to the
water system. Mr. Hoover seconded the motion, which carried with
the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Sharpe, Hoover, Aguilar and Greenwald
NAYS: None
11 HEARING OF RESIDENTS: Mr. Gene Anderson, representing
BVYA, gave an update of their plans for the two tournaments
planned for this summer. He said they do have limited
sponsorship from Coca-cola now, they will give BVYA $600 up front
and all supplies including bringing a truck with 800 bags of ice.
They have two local organizations to act as ticket takers, the
large circus type tents have been donated. SAFES has volunteers
for all shifts but they had not heard directly from the police.
Mr. Gilmore said there would be pOlice coverage, that some had
volunteered time and the we would have to pay to~ some ().f the
time put in by police. Mr. Anderson said one problem always
happens - the restrooms at the concession stand always back up.
Therefore, they will close those to the public and have porta-
johns well placed throughout the area. It was agreed that the
City would furnish pool passes for tournament participants -
approximately 1000.
Mr. Hoover had to leave the meeting at 7:33 P.M.
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13 Discussion of utility easement at end of Lindberg.
The City had received a letter from Mr. Rick Saenz, owner of
three lots which abut the unpaved/dead end portion of Lindberg n
Avenue. He said vehicles are using this right-of-way, which are U
not utility vehicles. It has become a hazard to his family and
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adjoining property owners. Mr. Saenz requested consideration of
deeding this area equally to the property owners on each side of
the utility easement. If this is done, Mr. Saenz said he would
put in acceptable curb and gutter along Aviation with curb cuts
into his property and Mr. Nordmeyer's property. He plans to
purchase the Nordmeyer property and requested permission to build
a single family dwelling on this property.
Mr. Gilmore said the right-of-way is of no use to the City and is
a hazard to neighbors. However, you do have to allow ingress and
egress to people that live along there. He recommended deeding
the ROW at a nominal cost - have Mr. Saenz get an engineer to
replat the property, identifying a utility and drainage easement,
with the curb and gutters and close the street completely. The
total cost should be Mr. Saenz's.
After Council discussion, Mayor Sawyer said he would instruct the
City Manager to work with Mr. Saenz on this request and if Mr.
Saenz does not go through with the requests made by the City,
then the property would revert back to the City.
#4 Discussion of a proposed nBBn gun ordinance. Mr.
Gilmore said the proposed ordinance given Council at the last
meeting was really not a good one at all. Mr. Harris is working
on an ordinance that would be enforceable.
Mr. Gilmore was instructed to try to have a workable ordinance
for consideration at the next workshop.
Mayor Sawyer called a recess at 8:00 P.M.
The meeting was reconvened at 8:05 P.M. .
is Discussion of future annexations. Mr. Gilmore said he
should have the information in the next few days to close in the
area which includes the Biegert tract and he talked with the
engineer about annexations off 135 at end of our city limits.
Mayor Sawyer said that if we go one mile, then we should circle
Cibolo. We want to keep stressing annexations.
#6 Discussion of water tap fee. Mr. Gilmore said this goes
right along with development. At 81.026 water connections per
mile, we have about 4238 new connections in undeveloped land.
The City Manager recommended we charge $425 water fee connection,
plus the $75.00 cost of meter for a total cost of $500.00. He
said we feel that at this time, the $500 would meet our
requirements and pay for future development. In the event that
other work would have to be done, other than the normal hook-up,
there would be an additional charge for that.
Mayor Sawyer instructed the City Manager to send a letter to CCMA
asking them that rather than continually raising rates to
consider increasing their tap fee for future expansion.
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.7 Discussion of animal adoption fees. Mr. Gilmore said he
had a request from the Animal Control Officer to increase the
animal adoption fees to $7.00 for animals that have received two n
shots and remain at $5.00 for ones that had only received an
initial shot. The Humane Society is currently paying for an L-.i
initial and booster shot for all animals and with splitting the
fees for adoption 50/50 with the City, they are not even breaking
even.
Council agreed this should be an item on the next regular agenda.
.8 City Manager1s Report: A. Mr. Gilmore said he would
have the ordinance with the pass-through sewer rates as set by
CCMA on the next agenda.
B. There will be a Manufactured Housing tour to Austin Thursday
morning. All interested will meet at Country Corner at 7:45 and
leave on a bus for Austin. Mr. Greenwald said he gave Mr.
Hartzog some questions to ask about the manufactured housing.
C. The City received a letter from the First (Baptist Church
requesting the City to put crosswalks between their parking lot
and church. We don't have crosswalks at other places and if we
put them in and someone gets injured, the City will be
responsible because we did not have someone there to monitor the
walks at all times.
D. There has been repeated violations of the Cibolo Animal
Contract. They are br inging injured and sick animals over and
leaving them even though the contract says we will only take
healthy animals. Then of course we have to pay for the
euthanasia. The Animal Control Officer has suggested that we
cancel the contract with Cibolo. Ilr. Sharpe said he felt we
should go back to them and try to work out the problem rather
than just cancelling. Mr. Gilmore said he had approached them on
an informal basis but he would go back on a more formal basis.
Council suggested several things such as maybe going up on the
rates to include the costs incurred for either euthanasia or
expanding our facilities.
E. Mr. Gilmore asked Council if they wanted to consider changing
the date of the first meeting in July as it falls on the 3rd and
both the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem will be out of the City. This
is to be an agenda item.
F. Guadalupe County Judge Sagebiel will be in our offices on
Thursday at 1:30 p.m.
G. The Transportation group will be meeting in our conference
room Thursday morning at 9:00 a.m.
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H. The City Historical marker has arrived and we are setting up 10
the dates and time for formal unveiling.
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I. Mr. Gilmore said he would like for Council to consider the
possibility of increasing water rates about January 1985. We
have not gone up in three years. We are looking at 3 to 4 cents
increase. We will just tell Northcliffe that inflation justifies
the increase. Mayor Sawyer said in talking with lawyers, they
all say cities have a right to make a profit off utilities. At
several TML seminars, it has been said that cities sell their
utilities too cheaply.
J. Mr. Gilmore said he hoped to have the preliminary budget
ready about the 1st of July. He said the payment in lieu of
taxes has always been too low. We should have an auditor
appraise the property as though the utility was a tax paying
entity. He said he would have all the paperwork to support this.
Mr. Gilmore said governmental bugeting is different in that
depreciation is a cash movement in our budget. Mayor Sawyer said
he liked Mr. Gilmore's budget it is easy to read and
understand. He said Mr. Gilmore's budget is the best since he
has anything to do with City budgeting.
K. Mr. Gilmore br iefly brought Council up to date on the
Maldonado lawsuit.
L. Mr. Gilmore said he had found the right people to talk to
around Servtex for a well site - some people from Dallas.
.9 Items by Council: Mr. Aguilar reported on a meeting in
Austin of the Corr idor Committee. He said most of it was
presentations by Chamber of Commerce from seven communities.
They named four task forces - Engineering, transportation, water
and economic development. The Council will be established in San
Marcos and the meetings will be on the second Fr iday of each
month.
Mr. Aguilar asked if the developers were going to be required to
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put in sidewalks at the apartments on Elbel Road. Mr.
said we are dealing with them now to see if we can get
put in sidewalks and a fence. Mayor Sawyer said we
remember that when someone else comes in, we put
requirement for sidewalks from the first.
Mr. Aguilar also asked the status of the Cibolo Water Contract.
The City Manager said our attorney has the information and is
checking everything out thoroughly, even having their Real Estate
attorney check it out.
Mr. Aguilar asked about the repair work going on on Main Street.
That is work being done by Entex and they were patching it late
this afternoon.
Councilman Aguilar mentioned that it had been reported that .a
police car was under the overpass at FM 3009, they thought it was
a Selma police unit. Mr. Gilmore said we have had problems with
them in our city limits before. Mayor Sawyer said perhaps we
should write to Mayor Gose about this.
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Mr. Sharpe asked the City Manager to have the inspector check the
slab being put in out by CCMA because it seems very close to the 0
right-of-way.
Mr. Sharpe said there was a meeting recently on the Edwards
Acquifer and they allocated $1,000,000 for a study. Mr. Sharpe
said he had misgivings on this as he did not think they had
produced one ounce of water. Mayor Sawyer said that Schertz is
not even mentioned on the list but they did send him a letter
asking us to participate in the study. . Council felt that we
really don't need them to tell us when or how to conserve water -
we already have an ordinance so we really don't need them.
Mr. Greenwald reported that at the last Planning & Zoning meeting
we have two new carwash places coming in to our city. The City
Manager was asked to check the law and see if carwashes have to
pay sales tax.
Mr. Greenwald said he had also attended a Chemical People meeting
and between them and Cibolo Valley Alcohol and Drug Abuse, they
have been discussing prevention of drugs.
Mr. Greenwald asked staff to check to be sure that our liability
insurance covers civil rights cases.
.10 Items by Mayor: Mr. Sawyer said the Randolph 0
Transportation Study Group had discussed improvements to both FM ,I,
1103 and FM 3009. _
Also the Community .Council of Mayors will meet July l2t.h and w.ill
be discussing some of these same items.
Mayor Sawyer announced the Ground Breaking ceremonies for Negley
Paint Company as being on Tuesday, June 19 at 10:00 a.m.
.11 ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business to
discuss, the meeting was declared adjourned at 10:16 P.M. by
Mayor Sawyer.
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