19-R-69 - Approval of the FY2020 Bexar Metro 911 BudgetRESOLUTION NO. 19 -R -69
A RESOLUTION BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SCHERTZ, TEXAS AUTHORIZING THE APPROVAL OF THE BEXAR
METRO 911 BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020, AND OTHER
MATTERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH
WHEREAS, Bexar Metro 911 provides 911 telephone access for Bexar, Comal and
Guadalupe Counties by developing and maintaining a reliable emergency communication
telephone network; and
WHEREAS, since its inception in 1987, the Bexar Metro 911 authority has operated with
the same fees for wired phone lines without any increase in those fees for thirty years; and
WHEREAS, with the increase in wireless phone lines and a reducing number of wired
phone lines, the Bexar Metro 911 Board of Directors is recommending an increase in wired
telephone service fees; and
WHEREAS, the City staff of the City of Schertz (the "City ") has recommended that the
City send its approval to the Bexar Metro 911 Board of Directors of its Fiscal Year 2020 budget;
and
WHEREAS, the City Council has determined that it is in the best interest of the City to
support the growth and expansion of the 911 telephone access systems as planned for in the 2020
budget attached hereto as Exhibit A, for the public safety of Schertz citizens.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SCHERTZ, TEXAS
THAT:
Section 1. The City Council hereby authorizes the approval of the Bexar Metro 911
budget as presented in Exhibit A.
Section 2. The recitals contained in the preamble hereof are hereby found to be true,
and such recitals are hereby made a part of this Resolution for all purposes and are adopted as a
part of the judgment and findings of the City Council.
Section 3. All resolutions, or parts thereof, which are in conflict or inconsistent with
any provision of this Resolution are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict, and the
provisions of this Resolution shall be and remain controlling as to the matters resolved herein.
Section 4. This Resolution shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the
laws of the State of Texas and the United States of America.
Section 5. If any provision of this Resolution or the application thereof to any person
or circumstance shall be held to be invalid, the remainder of this Resolution and the application
of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall nevertheless be valid, and the City
Council hereby declares that this Resolution would have been enacted without such invalid
provision.
Section 6. It is officially found, determined, and declared that the meeting at which
this Resolution is adopted was open to the public and public notice of the time, place, and subject
matter of the public business to be considered at such meeting, including this Resolution, was
given, all as required by Chapter 551, Texas Government Code, as amended.
Section 7. This Resolution shall be in force and effect from and after its final
passage, and it is so resolved.
PASSED AND ADOPTED, this 11th day of June, 2019.
ATTEST:
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City Secretary, Brenda Dennis
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CITY OF S RTZ, TEXAS
M i cl` ael R. Carpenter, Mayor
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