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Mr. Sharpe also said that he keeps looking at the alarm calls on the police
reports at businesses. It seems that most of these are employee errors.
It seems there should be a cut off point whereby we could charge a user's
fee.
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Mr. Gilmore was to investigate and make recommendation to the Council.
Mr. Baldwin said he had received confirmation for five people to attend
the Grantsmanship seminar.
Mr. Aguilar asked the status of the puddle in front of the Dairy Queen.
Mr. Gilmore advised that the owner of Circle K was in with representative
of the Highway Department. Each wants to wait on the other to start work.
Mrs. Lawler gave a short update on the Senior Citizen Day scheduled for
May 14, 1983. The theme will be "0ur Labor of Love", with participants
being the Air Force Drum and Bugle Corps from Lackland, BVYA and the
Schertz Library to present a film festival.
#10 ITEMS BY MAYOR: Mayor Sawyer gave a list of Alice Austin's
accomplishments from her beginning employment
in 1973.
8:02 P.M.
#11 ADJOURNMENT: On a motion by Mr. Sharpe, seconded by Mr. Baldwin
and unanimously carried, the meeting adjourned at
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SPECIAL SESSION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FEBRUARY 9, 1983
The Schertz City Council convened in Special Workshop Session, Wednesday,
February 9, 1983, 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; Hal Baldwin; Adolph Aguilar and Jacqueline
Lawler. Staff were Cityl,Manager Jinrny G. Gilmore and City Secretary June G.
Krause. '
Mayor Sawyer read a proclamation proclaiming February 14, 1983
as "We Believe in Marriage Day" in Schertz. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Kunz of
World Wide Marriage Encounter received the proclamation and explained a 0
little about their aims and goals. This is an international pro-marriage
organization open to all married couples seeking to strengthen their
marriage and family life.
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#1 Water and sewer extensions. Mr. Gilmore said that the city has
all the plans from the engineer and
took them to the IDC, who will approach the property owners along FM 3009
and across I 35 to see if they do desire to participate in sewer lines.
This would be a 70% land owner and 30% city participation.
He has givenTom Anderlitch, Financial Advisory, a list of the capital improve-
ments. He will be work!ing with this list for a couple of weeks as to differ-
ent ways of financing the projects. After a discussion with the City Manager,
he will meet with the Council.
Mr. Sharpe asked about the brochure. The Mayor said he thought the only
thing we were waiting on was the cover and layout. Mr. Gilmore was to check
with Mr. Duffield and get back to Council.
#2 Swimming pool - Mr. Gilmore said that it is time to look at the
swimming pool rates. He recommended going with
the same rates as last year because if the rates are increased~ we would
reduce use of the pool and therefore revenues.
Mr. Aguilar asked if the City had ever thought of coupon books and was told
no, but that it would be investigated. Concensus of Council was to leave
the rates as they are.
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#3 Business Club Jubilee contract. Mayor Sawyer mentionedthat this
is the contract with the Busi-
ness Club we have signed every year whereby they put on the jubilee. They
have done an outstanding job of it in the past with last year's being one
of the best.
Mr. Gilmore said that the city provides $500 toward the band and furnishes
cleanup. Last year we had a professional cleaning company do the cleanup
at a cheaper rate than it would cost the city to do it in house,by the time
you pay the workers overtime and use of the equipment. They did a very
good job for us last year. The jubilee contract last year called for them
to close down at midnight. Council concensus was to renew the contract
as it is, using the professionals for the cleanup.
Mr. Sharpe suggested that the different departments of the city send letters
to the Business Club just saying thank you for a job well done. Mr. Gilmore
said he would prepare a letter and have it at the next Council meeting.
#4 Budget transfer of appropriations. Mr. Gilmore explained the
various transfers he was
recommending and the reasons for the transfers. Council concensus was for
this item to be on the next agenda.
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#5 General Discussion. Mrs. Lawler asked if anything new had been
heard from the State about the Circle K
and Dairy Queen driveway drainage problem. Mr. Gilmore said it is up to the
State at this point.
Mr. Gilmore said he would like to have Walter Bhlers from the Highway Dept.
at the next workshop to talk about FM 78 and perhaps he could address this
problem at the same time.
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Mr. Gilmore also mentioned that the pothole amendment will come before the
legislature again. This was sponsored by Mr. Traeger and we need to get
Representative Kuempel to back the bill also.
Mr. Baldwin asked the status of the Housing Finance Corporation. Mr.
Gilmore said the names had been sent to Richard Harris and he is pre-
paring the paperwork for the petition now.
It was announced that: the Business Club meets the 4th Monday of each
month at the Fire Station - February 20th is the Suburban Day Event at
the Rodeo - February 20th is the BVYA benefit dance.
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Mr. Baldwin asked the location of the some of the subdivisions mentioned
the the P&Z minutes.
#6 Executive Session. None needed.
#7 City Manager's Report. A. G.V.E.C. representatives will be at
at the regular council meeting to
present the city with the gross receipts check and answer any questions.
B. We have been operating the police department understreng~h and we will
be losing one officer who is going to Cibolo. He then gave starting salary
for eight entities in the area, all of which was higher than Schertz.
Mr. Gilmore said we do have a Sgt. position open now but he has a man on
board to fill that. He woul~ like to create a new position within the
patrol ranks of Patrolman II, a, b. and c. This will give the men means of
advancing within the patrol ranks. There is money in the budget created
by holding back on hiring in the past. He said he feels we should plan 0'
or try to maintain four people in that department long term. Those being
the Chief, Sgt., investigator and a patrolman. We should consider four
years maximum on all but those four. Mr. Gilmore was asked to furnish
Council with a list of beginning patrol salaries mentione and to give
thought to a Mama Patrol policy.
C. With regard to the City Plan, P&Z has made a recommendation that it be
adopted with two additional suggestions. We neglected to include drainage
in capital imp~ovements. This will be placed on the March 1 agenda
Mr. Baldwin said he really thinks that this city needs to buy a word
processor. He explained some of the practical applications and the time
savings involved. The Mayor suggested we add this to the bell ringer list.
#9 Items by Mayor. Mr. Sawyer advised that Judge Sagebiel had been
in Schertz most of the day and he was taken
on a tour of the city mainly to the places such as Library, SAFES and Fire
Department, where county money is spent. He wanted the judge to see what
kind of city we have and the kind of people we have. The main thing was
to convince him that we wnated the county to spend more money in Schertz.
Mayor Sawyer announced that he would be attending the Base Change of Com-
mand as the city's representative.
*10 Adjournment. There being no further business 0 come before the 0
'II Council, Mayor Sawyer eclare he meeting adjou.rned
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REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FEBRUARY 15, 1983
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The Schertz City Council convened in Regular Session, Tuesday, February 15,
1983 at 7:00 P.M. in the Council Chambers of the Municipal Complex, 1400
Live Oak Road with the following members present: Mayor Earl W. Sawyer,
presiding; Charles B. Sharpe; Hal Baldwin; Adolph Aguilar and Jacqueline
Lawler. City Staff were City Manager Jimmy G. Gilmore and City Secretary
June G. Krause.
#1 APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Mr. Baldwin moved to accept the minutes of
the Regular Meeting of February 1, 1983 and
the Workshop Meeting of February 9, 1983, as written. Mrs. Lawler seconded
the motion which carried with the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Sharpe, Baldwin, .,Aguilar and Lawler' 1,\'1
NAYS: None
#2 HEARING OF RESIDENTS: None
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#3 G.V.E.C.: Mayor Sawyer introduced Mr. Milton D. Hines, representing
Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, who presented the
Mayor with a gross receipts check in the amount of $50,887.00 for 1982 gross
receipts taxes. Mr. Hines said the G.V.E.C. has 340 street lights within the
City that he hoped were doing what was intended of them. The only problem
being that the contract calls for steel poles for any installations after
the contract date. The steel poles today are almost cost prohibitive. He
would like to sit down with Mr. Gilmore and talk about doing what is best for
the City and G.V.E.C. in this respect. He advised that if any of the lights
in Schertz are causing problems, to please be sure and call the local office.
He went on to give an update of the system and invited Council to visit the
generating plant in Beeville and other plants. He would make arrangements
for a bus if Council was interested. Plans are to be made when the weather
gets a little warmer, as all the Council expressed an interest in the trip.
#4 ORDINANCE: The Mayor introduced an ordinance for final consideration
and read the caption as follows:
ORDINANCE NO. 83-E-l
AN ORDINANCE BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SCHERTZ,
TEXAS, CALLING AN ELECTION TO BE HELD ON APRIL 2, 1983,
FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING FOUR (4) COUNCILMEMBERS FOR
SAID CITY.
Mrs. Lawler moved to accept the final consideration of the ordinance calling
an election for April 2, 1983. Mr. Aguilar seconded the motion which carried
as follows:
AYES: Councilmembers Sharpe, Baldwin, Aguilar and Lawler
NAYS: None
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#5 FEE CHARGES: Mr. Gilmore said that as discussed at workshop, he
is reconmending to increase dispatch service to
Cibolo by $50.00 maki.ng it a total of $200.00 per month for this service.
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He also recommended the fee for cell usage be placed at $10.00 per prisoner
and non-police case connected fingerprinting at a rate of $5.00 per set.
This is to cover the additional costs of computer service and maintenance,
salaries, etc.
Mr. Aguilar moved to accept the recommendations of the City Manager for
police department fees as listed in the memo to Council. Mrs. Lawler
seconded the motion which carried with the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Sharpe, Baldwin, Aguilar and Lawler
NAYS: None
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#6 BUDGET: Mayor Sawyer said this item was a consideration of trans-
fer of appropriations as requested by the City Manager,
which was also discussed at workshop.
Mr. Sharpe moved to transfer the funds under Section 7.07(a)of the City
Charter, as recommended by the City Manager. Mr. Baldwin seconded the
motion which carried with the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Sharpe, Baldwin, Aguilar and Lawler
NAYS: None
#7 EXECUTIVE SESSION: None was needed.
#8 CITY MANAGER1S REPORT: A. Mr. Gilmore discussed the number of
burglary alarm calls listed in the
monthly reports and said that he was trying to get some ordinances from
other communities to consider the pOSSibility of a user fee after a cer-
tain number of calls from the same establishment.
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B. He reported that the crossing guard job description is being worked
on at th~s time.
C. He said we are still having developers come in making initial inquiries,
checking out ordinances, etc.. Things are really looking up in this area.
#9 ITEMS BY COUNCIL: Mr. Sharpe said that it might be a good idea
to ask the IDC to go on the trip that Mr. Hines
of GVEC proposed.
Mr. Baldwin asked about the progress of the Housing Finance Corporation.
Mr. Gilmore said that Mr. Harris is writing it now and will send it to the
Houston office. · He is being nudged by Mr. Anderlitch to get it done.
Mr. Baldwin also asked when Mr. Walter Ehlers would be meeting with Council.
Mr. Gilmore said he had written asking him to be at the workshop of February 23.
Mr. Aguilar said that the grantsmanship seminar they attended was profitable.
It seems there's money out there, we just have to apply for it.
#10 ITEMS BY MAYOR: Mr. Sawyer showed Council the advertising(~dis~
posable ashtray just received. We have had 0
complaints about not having any ashtrays in the Community Center but as \
soon as we put them out they disappear. This disposable one will fill
that void and advertise the city at the same time. They are very inexpen-
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#11 ADJOURNMENT: On a motion by Mrs. Lawler, seconded by
Mr. Baldwin and unanimously carried, Mayor
Sawyer declared the meeting adjourned at 7:37 P.M.
ATTEST:
SPECIAL WORKSHOP MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FEBRUARY 23, 1983
The Schertz City Council convened in Special Workshop Session, Wednesday,
February 23, 1983, 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. S~wyer, presiding; Charles B. Sharpe; Hal Baldwin; Adolph Aguilar and
Jacqueline Lawler. Staff present were City Manager Jimmy G. Gilmore and
City Secretary June G. Krause.
Mayor Sawyer welcomed everyone to the meeting and stated that, as there
was no place on the agenda for citizens to be heard, he would like to let
Mr. W. R. Keller, president of the Human Society address the Council.
Mr. Keller presented a proposal, which the Mayor read, for a 12 x 24 foot
building to be built at the Schertz Animal Shelter. This would contain
an office, examining room and restrooms. r~r. Jack Kerrick had submitted a
proposal for the construction of the building in the amount of $3850.00.
The directors of the Humane Society have voted to contribute $1,000.00 to this
building cost, leaVing a balance of $2850.00.
After discussion, Council concensus was for the City Manager to come up with
the money from the budget and add this item to the next agenda.
Mayor Sawyer then asked Mr. Bob Booth and Mr. Tom Weaver, spokesmen for
the Industrial Development Committee to address the Council.
Mr. Weaver said that in working with city staff concerning industrial
development along I35 and FM3009, they have a series of recommendations to the
Council for consideration. Those being (1) Adopt a comprehensive extension
policy on water and sewer. (2) Begin immediately to arrange for issue of
certificates of obligation to fund water and sewer system improvements to
serve this area. (3) Immediately commission the City Engineer to identify
specific improvements needed and complete engineering design of sewer and
water system improvements to be made in this area. And (4) Offer landowners