05-13-2021 Regular MinutesNortheast Partnership
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MINUTES OF MEETING
Thursday, May 13, 2021 —11:30 a.m.
1. Call to Order and Establish a Quorum — A quorum was present.
Chair Mayor Walt Williams, City of New Berlin called the meeting to order at 12:00
p.m. as a quorum was present and thanked everyone for attending.
2. Welcome and Introductions!
Mayor Williams welcomed everyone and had them stand to be recognized and introduce
themselves.
Member's present were:
Mayor Walt Williams, City of New Berlin
Mayor Jeff Hunt, City of Santa Clara
Mayor Tom Daly, City of Selma
Mayor Stosh Boyle, City of Cibolo
Mayor Mary Dennis, City of Live Oak
Mayor Robb Erickson, City of Garden Ridge
Mayor Ralph Gutierrez, City of Schertz
Mayor John Williams, City of Universal City
Mayor Pro -Tem Nick Neville, Universal City
3. Approval of the minutes the Mayors Workshop meeting of April 1, 2021, and the
minutes of the NEP Regular meeting of April 8, 2021.
Mayor Williams recognized Mayor Mary Dennis, City of Lice Oak who moved,
seconded by Mayor Ralph Gutierrez, City of Schertz to approve the minutes of the
Mayors Workshop meeting of April 1, 2021, and the minutes of the NEP Regular
meeting of April 8, 2021. The vote was unanimous. Motion Passed.
4. Approval of the Current Treasurer's Reports for NEP. (Treasurer Mayor Jeff
Hunt)
Mayor Jeff Hunt City of Santa Clara supplied the treasurer's report. Mayor Williams
recognized Mayor Mary Dennis, City of Live Oak, seconded by Mayor Ralph Gutierrez,
City of Schertz to approve the current treasurer's report. The vote was unanimous.
Motion Passed.
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5. Consideration and/or action regarding providing support of the Cibolo BBQ
Cook -off event.
Mayor Boyle provided information regarding their upcoming 5K & BBQ event;
proceeds will go toward scholarships for high school students.
Mayor Tom Daly, City of Selma made a motion to support the Cibolo 5KBBQ
Cookoff in the amount of $500.00, seconded by Mayor Mary Dennis, City of Live
Oak. The vote was unanimous. Motion Passed.
6. Presentation regarding "Tickets on the Go" Police ticket tracking system —
Gloria Desouza.
A presentation was provided by Gloria Desouza and Mansur Plumber with AdComp
Systems regarding the "Tickets on the Go" tracking system. Members of the audience
addressed questions.
7. Information Items.
A. Report from Tri County Chamber of Commerce
Mindy Paxton with the Tri- County Chamber of Commerce provided the following:
We had a wonderful turnout at our golf tournament last month. We presented a check
for $2500 to Boysville from the proceeds at our luncheon this past Tuesday at Blue
Bonnet Palace.
Our May mixer is May 27 at Ernie's in Cibolo and is sponsored by Kurt Van Wagonen
with New York Life.
We are hosting a corn hole tournament with the City of Cibolo May 29 at their Cibolo
Crossing Stampede 5K and barbeque cookoff. We are still looking for runners, teams,
and sponsors.
Our June 8th luncheon is sponsored by ER Anderson and Associates, and we will have
a presentation from the Comal County Sherriff, Mark Reynolds.
We our working on the second edition of The State of Tri- County Series, State of
Technology. Date is TBD but we are looking at early September. For more information,
please contact Mindy Paxton via phone 210 - 658 -8322 or by email
director @txtricountychamber.org
B. Report from The Chamber.
President Maggie Titterington provided the following:
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The Chamber joined with Texas Association of Business and several Texas
Chambers in the area and sent letter to petition for the State of Texas to stop
participating in the supplemental 300.00 wages on top of unemployment. It is
killing the restaurant businesses in our three cities and is preventing from getting
restaurant employees to come in and operate and get these businesses kick started
again. She also wanted to give a shout to Schertz and Cibolo Police Departments
for the Police Memorial Ceremony for the beautiful ceremony. Unfortunately, there
were 125 Officers that were remembered with the rose dedication. The audience
were part of the ceremony, and it was one of the more touching ceremonies to be
part o£ Santikos donated the auditorium. Next Tuesday the Chamber Luncheon will
be at Santikos and there will be TxDOT presentation on updates on construction
projects that are in the area. There will also be a demonstration from our DECA
students from Steele and Clemens High Schools. The Chamber has fundraiser for
DECA students on August 20'b, 2021, to raise fund to help with scholarships. The
DECA students will give a 5- minute presentation on what they do. The Skylight in
Selma- Hot Air Balloon Festival is being planned with the Spazmatics as the
featured entertainment. They have food trucks and food vendors lined up but have
plenty of room for non -food vendors, business such as arts and crafts. For more
information, please go to Skylightballoonfest.com.
C. Report from Randolph Air Power Community Council (RAPCO).
Mayor John Williams from Universal City stated after the 2005 RAP there was an
organization formed in San Antonio called Military Transformation Task Force
Unit and had members from Chamber of Commerce, Tri County Chamber, County
and City of San Antonio. Councilmen Clayton Perry is a City of San Antonio
representative and is going to propose to City of San Antonio City Council to
rename it to Joint Military Value Partnership. What he is proposing on this
membership is that they be part of NEP and for the mayors that are directly affected
by the base, primarily Universal City, Schertz, and Converse. There will be more
information coming out, just wanted to let everyone know that this organization
will have a new name but will still have an active participation. There will be more
information by next month.
D. Report on Bicycle Mobility Advisory Committee.
City Manager Scott Wayman, City of Live Oak stated there was a meeting
yesterday with the BMAC and PMAC met together for scoring projects for the
Transportation Call for Service. A couple of cities have projects on this list, Selma
and Cibolo and a lot from San Antonio. We are looking into crash data from TxDOT
to weight these and talked about connectivity, generators, and environmental
justice.
E. Report from Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO).
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Mayor Pro -Tern Kevin Hadas reminded the cities for the call for projects with MPO
and to let him know prior so that he can assist in the support. They are also going
through the same scoring process, and the same two cities, Selma and Cibolo have
applied, and they are working on scoring criteria for them and all the projects which
is ongoing. He wanted to also thank Mayor Mary Dennis for filling me in when I
have missed a couple of meetings. Also wanted to mention that Mayor Pro Tern
Joel Hicks's from City of Cibolo, his mother passed and to keep him in your
prayers. He also wanted to thank Councilmen Polasek for attending the MPO
meetings as well.
8. Establish a Date and Time of the next NEP Mayor's Workshop June 3,2021 —
City of Windcrest to host.
Next Mayor's Workshop will be June 3, 2021, hosted by the City of Windcrest.
9. Establish a Date and Time of Next Northeast Partnership for Economic
Development Meeting — June 10, 2021.
May Door Prizes — City of Universal City
June Door Prizes — City of Windcrest
Door Prizes were provided by the City of Universal City. June door prizes - City of
Windcrest to provide.
10. Items of Interest by Members.
Mayor Mary Dennis announced that CPS Energy would like to meet and talk about being
better prepared for a winter event by hosting a virtual "Suburban Cities Energy Resilient
Summit" on May 25th, 2021, at 10:30 am to 12:00 pm. They will be sending out save the
dates reminders.
11. Adjournment.
Mayor Williams adjourned the meeting at 12:35 p.m.
Mayor Walt
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