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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
JULY 20, 1981
The Schertz City Council convened in Special Session, Monday, July 20,
1981 at 7:00 P.M. in the Conference Room of the Municipal Complex, 1400
Live Oak Road with the following members present: Mayor Pro Tern Jeff
Duffield, presiding; Richard L. Howe; Barbara Taylor; Earl W. Sawyer and
Jacqueline Lawler. Absent: Mayor Jack M. Stomackin, Sr. Staff: City
Manager Jimmy G. Gilmore and City Secretary June G. Krause.
#1 BUDGET WORKSHOP: Mr. Gilmore advised the Budget Public Hearing
has been set for August 4th with the first
reading of the ordinance that same date and the second or final reading
being on the 18th of August.
Mr. Gilmore said he had checked with TML and out of 75 cities of comparable
size, 48 cities. starting pay for patrolmen are higher that Schertz, with
the majority of the 48 in the Schertz population bracket. He asked Council
to consider increasing the patrolman salaries by $50.00 per month in addition
to the built in across the board or cost of living increase. This was not
to include the Sergeant or Chief. As for benefits of comparable cities, we
have one of the poorest retirement systems around. He also asked Council to
consider including the $4600 for the SAFES defibulater in the budget. This
will have to be totally. included in our budget but will only cost l/5 of
that amount with the other cities paying their share. He then explained
how adjustments to the budget could be made in order to include these items.
Mr. Sawyer suggested that perhaps the money in the budget for street sweeper
repairs (now that we have a new sweeper) could be used for the two walky
talkies, previously discussed as being necessary.
Items discussed was the request from RSVP, with Council concurring that we
are not in a position to help fund this Seguin group. Also Mr. Gilmore asked
for permission to go out for bids on 1981 vehicles right now, which was
granted.
#2 GENERAL WORKSHOP: A. Mr. Gilmore mentioned that Mr. Riedel IS
rezoning request had been left off the
agenda for Tuesday night and an addendum had been added to include that item.
He said that he felt the P&Z's reasons for not granting the request were "
faulty as applys to our zoning ordinance.
B. Mr. Gilmore then discussed annexations and ETJs with Council. He is
working with both Garden Ridge and Cibolo to straighten out our ETJ lines
before continuing with any annexation procedures. Council concensus was
for Mr. Gilmore to procede with his negotiations.
C. The City Manager also called attention to the recent item in the papers
whereby Northcliffe is asking the County for 24 hour police protection to
include both personnel and vehicles. He suggested that maybe Schertz
should consider annexing part of Northcliffe - let GUADCO MUD stay - with
us collecting ad valorem taxes, which should give us enough revenues to
pay for extra men and cars for the police protection they want. He would
like to make the overtures in this direction before they are locked into
a long term agreement with the County. Council concensus was for him to
pursue this with the Garden Ridge and Cibolo ETJ lines having first
priority.
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D. Council briefly discussed the Tuesday night agenda item pertaining to
BB guns etc. and concensus was to table this item for six months.
E. Mr. Sawyer discussed the 4th of July Jubilee - the very young drinking
beer, the difference in the cre~ from what was originally planned and the
fact that only $600 is budgeted and it is now costing between $2,000 and
$3,000 each year. Either the correct amount should be budgeted or the Council
should consider going back to the old fashioned type of celebration where
the entire family gets involved from small children to senior citizens and
perhaps changing from the 4th of July to another time of year and calling
it Schertz Day or something similar. In other words have an old fashioned
Field Day.
#3 ADJOURNMENT: There being no further discussion, Mr. Howe moved,
Mr. Sawyer seconded and it was unanimously carried
that the meeting be adjourned at 9:5l p.m.
ATTEST:
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~ecretary, City of Schertz
REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL
JULY 21, 1981
The Schertz City Council convened in Regular Session, Tuesday, July 21, 1981
at 7:00 P.M. in the Council Chambers, 1400 Live Oak Road, with the following
members present: Mayor Jack M. Stomackin, presiding; Richard L. Howe; Jeff
Duffield, Barbara Taylor, Earl W. Sawyer and Jacqueline Lawler. Staff were
City Manager Jimmy G. Gilmore and City Secretary June G. Krause.
#1 PUBLIC HEARING: The Mayor opened the public zoning hearing and
welcomed those present remarking it as a very good
representation and asking them to come more often. He then turned the Joint
Public Zon~ng Hearing over to Mr. Linebarger, Chairman of the Planning and
Zoning Commission.
Mr. Linebarger said the purpose of the public hearing was to receive citizen
input regarding the rezoning request by Leslie, David and Stephan Baker, to
change from Pre-development to General Business District, 54.25 acres out of
the Malpaz Survey, located along FM1518, being in the general location across
from the Schertz City Park as abutts FM l518.
First Mr. Baker spoke, stating that he anticipates in the future using this
property for something such as convenience store or apartments on the upper
portion. Perhaps sometime in the future the lower portion which is in the
flood plain could be donated to the City for more parkland. He is asking
for the rezoning in order to re~el~ the property not to build himself.