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ccswks 02-10-1982 i"35 #12 ITEMS BY COUNCIL: Mrs. Taylor said she wanted to thank Council for taking care of Mrs. Jarvis' complaint so promptly. Mr. Duffield asked if the group (School District and Council representatives) that the Mayor agreed to serve on had met as yet. Mr. Stomackin said no. #13 ITEMS BY MAYOR: None ATTEST: #14 ADJOURNMENT: On a motion duly made, seconded and unanimo carried the meeting was adjourned at 7:24 WORKSHOP MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL FEBRUARY lO, 1982 The Schertz City Council convened in Workshop Session, Wednesday, February 10, 1982 at 7:00 P.M. in the Conference Room of the Municipal Complex, 1400 Live Oak Road with the following members present: Mayor Jack M. Stomackin, Sr. presiding; Richard L. Howe; Barbara Taylor; Jeff Duffield; Earl W. Sawyer and Jacqueline Lawler. Staff present were City Manager Jimmy G. Gilmore and City Secretary June G. Krause. #1 LIBRARY BOARD: Donna Grainger, representing the Library Board, addressed the Council giving a little background information on the library as well as bring them up to date on statistical information - 3295 cards have been issued and they have 14,296 books on hand. She explained they have received grant monies from the Dobie, Halsell and Brown Foundations as well as many private donations. They are now ready to start building a new 6,000 sq. ft. library building. They had re- ceived a cost estimate of $l25,000; however, have agreed to go at it piece- meal and hope to get the foundation built with a shell for approximately $48,000. They now have $12,019 of non-public funds and ask Council to advance the additional required to put in the $l8,000 foundation, with much of the material being acquired at cost or below. They also have about $16,450 in County Revenue Sharing and budget money but this can only be expended if they would go out for bids, which they plan to do on the shell of the building itself. Mrs. Grainger also ask the Council to make the library a loan of the $48,000 for the shell and if they would sell the building the library is now in and use that money toward the building fund of the library. Mr. Sawyer explained the reason they want to go with this particular con- tractor for the slab (rather than going out for bids) is that he is agreeable to using donated materials and labor. 136 On being asked, Mr. Gilmore said that he thought the budget could include the extra money needed for the slab. However, the City cannot loan anyone money but perhaps something could be worked out. He said he could not make a commitment on the loan or sale of the present building without doing some checking first. Council did agree to the money needed for the slab and a letter of commitment was to be drawn for the Mayorls and City Managerls signatures. Mr. Sawyer explained to Mrs. Grainger that the Council has agreed not only to the slab money but they would somehow back up the contract on the shell with staff checking the contract for the library and with Mr. Harris (City attorney) concurrence, but the library board was to continue to try for grants and more donations for this project. Mayor Stomackin called a recess at 7:45 P.M. The Meeting was reconvened at 7:57 P.M. #2 BANK DEPOSITORY: Mr. Gilmore said that the City had sent bid proposals to the four area banks, Schertz Bank and Trust, Republicbank of Universal City; Randolph Bank of Commerce and Cibolo State Bank. Cibolo and Randolph did not bid and the Republic Bank backed out at the last moment. However we did receive a much better bid from the Schertz Bank this year than last time. He explained some of the advantages of this bid over the last one. Also that he had check with our auditor (who also checked with the Financial Advisory) who agreed this is a very good bid. Mr. Sawyer moved to accept the proposal of the Schertz Bank and Trust for City Depository. Mrs. Lawler seconded the motion which carried with the following vote: j i ~~ AYES: Councilmembers Howe, Taylor, Duffield, Sawyer and Lawler NAYS: None /. #3 SWIMMING POOL RATES. The City Manager said he was proposing to change the season pass rates only and leave the per day rate of $1.00 per person as is. His proposal is as follows: Individual from $20.00 to $25.00, which would average $.32 per day Two people from $32.00 to $37.00, which would average $.23! per person per day Three people from $42 to $47, which would average $.20 per person per day Four people from $52 to $57, which would average $.181 per person per day Five or more people from $60 to $65, which would average $.154 per one of five people per day. Mrs. Taylor suggested these per day figures should be published when we advertise the sell of season passes. Mr. Stomackin asked the City Manager to check on the recently passed change in the child labor law as it might apply to lifeguards and would to the summer hire people. ! I I i ~ it. 137 #4 GENERAL DISCUSSION: Mr. Gilmore explained about a company wanted to build an industry in Cibolo1s ETJ, and asked Council feelings on the City furnishing them water even though it is out of our city limits. The advantages would more than offset the fact that they are outside our city limits and we would derive no sales or property tax from them. The only way they could be a part of the city is for Cibolo to give that land back to Schertz for annexation. He asked Councils permission which was freely given, to negotiate with Cibolo on water, sewer and perhaps a trade off on ETJ land. Council agreed to allow the City Manager to negotiate and pursue all possibilities. Mr. Sawyer asked what kind of waste and what kind of water usage would be involved with this company. Mr. Gilmore said the waste and water usage would not be great and Mr. Boswell said it would not affect our commitment to Northcliffe for water. Mr. Gilmore said he was also negotiating with three developers for a l25,000 sq. ft. building for Southwestern Bell for storage facilities. Mrs. Taylor asked what are they clearing the land near Oak and Nell Deane and the new church for. Mr. Gilmore said he would check on that. 2. Mr. Gilmore said the agreement with Cibolo to sell them water expired January 1, 1982 and he is working with their Mayor on that at this time. Cibolo had asked that the agreement be extended for one year. 3. The people from the Industrial Development in Austin will be meeting with our IDe people on Monday, February 22, 1982 at 7:30 P.M. They will be presenting some new material for promoting industries to cities. 6. Mr. Gilmore announced that the Guadalupe Appraisal District will be meeting on February 18th - but Mr. Howe said he had not been notified if he was accepted as a member as yet. 5. He called attention to a letter from SAFES commending one of our Police Officers. Mention was made of the recent city-wide blackout and some of the problems that were noted at that time. Over all, there were very few problems of importance. Council suggested writing letters of appreciation to all those who volunteered to help during the emergency. Mr. Howe asked the City Manager to check the size of the pipe going in on the sewer line crossing I 35 Highway. Also the routinely check the fire plug on Nacogdoches Road to be sure nobody helps themselves to water. Mrs. Lawler said she had had two citizens ask about water pressure on Maple and Nell Dean. Mr. Gilmore said until the U.C. well is back in operation there would be a little drop in pressure in some areas. Mr. Duffield said that if the Library agreement comes up at Tuesdayls meeting, sinceh~would not be present, he wanted to say that it would be very risky to make a commitment on the building and sale of the present building at this time. Since there is no hurry, it would be best to wait until bids are requested. 138 Council agreed, the main commitment they need for next week will be the commitment to advance funds for the foundation contract. adjourned at 9:09 P.M. #5 ADJOURNMENT: On a motion by Mrs. Lawler, duly seconded and unanimously carried, the meeting was declared ATTEST: REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL FEBRUARY 16, 1982 The Schertz City Council convened in Regular Session, Tuesday, February 16, 1982 at 7:00 P.M. in the Council Chambers, 1400 Live Oak Road with the following members present: Mayor Jack M. Stomackin, Sr., presiding; Richard L. Howe, Barbara Taylor; Earl W. Sawyer and Jacqueline Lawler. Absent: Jeff Duffield. City staff were City Manager Jimmy G. Gilmore and City Secretary June G. Krause. - i ) \ #1 APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Mrs. Lawler moved the minutes of the Work- shop meeting of January 27, 1982; the Regular Meeting of February 2, 1982 and the Workshop Meeting of February 10, 1982 be approved as written. Mrs. Taylor seconded the motion which carried with the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Howe, Taylor, Sawyer and Lawler NAYS: None #2 HEARING OF RESIDENTS: Mr. Mike Lawler, representing SAFES gave an update presentation on the Communication Committee activities for the past year. Through their efforts and the City Manager, Department heads, volunteer groups and citizen input, the City upgraded the system to include a tower and building at the transceiver site; law enforcement repeaters, hand held receiver (City Manager, Civil De- fense and Public Works), a New Braunfels exchange telephone line. He we~t on to say that they would now like to continue with upgrading the system, mainly to upgrade the SAFES portion of communications. As president of SAFES, he said they were asking the City for a committment of $3,000 in fiscal year 1982-83 budget to back a loan they would be making to finance radio repeater and phone patch, recrystal radios and a touch tone line. The would also request that maintenance for these services be placed in SAFES budget in the future. The capital expenditures would be an initial cost of approximately $6,000, which would be a capital improvement of the City. i : , I i ! '---' ~ .