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HomeMy WebLinkAbout94 0614 min MINUTES -CITY COUNCIL MEETING City of Plainview June 14, 1994 The Plainview City Council held a meeting at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 14, 1994, in the Council Chambers of the Plainview City Hall at 901 Broadway, with Mayor Lloyd C. Woods presiding. The Council met in Pre-Session at 7:00 p.m. Councilmembers present were: Alton Jackson Sr. - Precinct 1, Mary Virginia Kirchhoff - Precinct 2, Ray Rosas - Precinct 3, Barbara Dorman - Precinct 5, Dwain Dodson - Precinct 6, and Irene Favila - Precinct 7. Mike Hutcherson - Precinct 4 was absent. Staff members present were: James P. Jeffers - City Manager, Barbara Sullivan - Municipal Court Judge, Roy L. Osborne - Director of Public Safety, Wally Hatch - City Attorney, Norman Huggins - Director of Finance, John Castro - Health Department Director, Terry Powers - Director of Human Resources, and Karen McBeth City News media present: Richard Orr - Plainview Daily Herald, Randy Ballinger - KKYN, and Wayland Baptist University. OPEN MEETING 1. Invocation - Mary Virginia Kirchhoff 2. Recognitions - Councilmember Dwain Dodson recognized Norman Huggins, Director of Finance, for having worked 23 years for the City of Plainview. He presented him with a 20 year pin. 3. Consent Calendar - Councilmember Barbara Dorman made a motion to approve the consent calendar as presented; Rey Rosas seconded the motion; the motion passed unanimously among the six councilmembers present. a) b) c) Minutes were approved. Departmental Reports were accepted. Expenditures were approved. d) Boards, Committees and Commissions - Consider appointment to the Board of Adjustment. No appointments were made. e) Housing - Rehab Consider funding for Senior Citizen Residential Repair/Modification, Texas Department on Aging. City of Plainview was I ot~5 authorized to pay up to $2,700 matching funds to SPAG for the grant. 4. Surplus Property - Declaring the following properties as surplus: 304 West 6th Street 600 East 6th Street City Attorney Wally Hatch reviewed the legal technicalities required in declaring property surplus. The property must be appraised by an independent property appraiser and cannot be sold for less than the appraised value. The cost of the appraisal may be added to the selling price. Councilmember Mary Virginia Kirchhoff requested that the two properties be considered separately. 304 West 6th Street - Dwain Dodson made the motion to declare the property at 304 West 6th Street surplus, hire Sid Cooper to appraise the property and to aggressively market the property for sale; Irene seconded the motion; Councilmembers Jackson, Rosas, Dodson and Favila voted in favor the motion; Dorman and Kirchhoff voted against the motion. The motion carded. Following the vote Barbara Dorman stated this should not have been voted on unless everyone was present. She stated the building is rented and this action might prompt the tenant to move. Dwain Dodson stated he had a poll conducted and 61% of the persons polled wanting to sell the property. He said the city can recover the money it has invested and spend it on other things. Mary Virginia Kirchhoff stated this had been voted on many times and feels the council has not property addressed the overcrowding problem at city hall. Mayor Woods said that prior to his election, all those he visited with felt the building should be sold. Alton Jackson Sr. stated he wanted the property available for sale should a buyer come along, but he certainly did not want the city to lose money on the property. Irene Favila stated that people did not want the higher taxes if the property was used as a new city hail. Rey Rosas stated that all of the people did not want a new city hall. 600 East 6th Street - DWain Dodson made the motion that the property at 600 East 6th be declared surplus; that Sid Cooper appraise it and it be sold; Barbara Dorman seconded the motion; the motion carried unanimously among the six councilmembers present. 5. Zone Case No. 619 - Request of Walter and Barbara Todd to rezone Tract B, Block 86 of the College Hill Addition (2905 Olton Road) owned by Ibero Realty, Inc., from a Commercial - 2 Zoning District to a Commercial - 3 Zoning District with a Specific Use permit for a restaurant with outdoor recreation and amusement. Wally Hatch, City Attorney, displayed maps showing the property in question. He stated that the Planning and Zoning Commission had voted 7 to 0 in favor of granting the proposed change in zoning to allow a restaurant and granting a specific use permit to allow the amusements that are planned with the following restrictions: (1) The main entrance of the business be off Olton Road. (2) The outdoor area be adjacent to the R-1 zone be enclosed with a 2 of 5 fence approved by the City Building Inspector. (3) The fence is to be insulated with shrubbery. (4) No outdoor paging system. (5) All outdoor lighting be directed toward the center of the proPerty and away from the residences to the WeSt. A. Public Hearing - Dwain Dodson moved to call a public hearing; Irene Favila seconded the motion; the motion carried unanimously. Mayor Woods declared a public hearing open and requested those speaking for the changes to come forward. Barbara Todd, 2511 West 11th, spoke in favor of granting the change. She stated she and her husband were the ones requesting the change and they planned to have all of the deliveries made to the restaurant on the east side of the property; they would be open from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and that all lighting would be away from the residential areas adjacent to this property. There would be no mechanical rides and no music would be piped outside. She stated she would like to have a speaker to use for paging individual parties and to make announcements. No one else spoke in favor of the request. Mayor Woods asked those speaking against the request to come forward. Mittie Goff, 503 Canyon, spoke against the change. She stated her home faced the property on the west side and she felt that noise from the outdoor amusements and traffic would be a problem. She stated the lighting and outdoor speaker system would be disruptive. No on else spoke against the request. Mayor Woods declared the public hearing closed. B. Council Action - The Council discussed the rezoning. Dwain Dodson stated that rezoning always presents problems and inconvenience when residences are close to commercial areas. However, he said, it is encouraging to see new businesses open. Barbara Dorman made the motion that Zone Case 619 be approved with the following stipulations: (1 .) The main entrance be off Olton Road. (2) The outdoor area be enclosed with a fence. (3) The fence be insulated with shrubbery to contain noise. ('4) The outdoor paging system used for messages only, and (4) All exterior lights be directing toward the center of the property, away from the residences on the west; Rey Rosas seconded the motion; the motion carried unanimously among the six councilmembers present. 6. Water Study - Final report from Tom Gooch of Freese & Nichols, Inc. Mr. Tom Gooch of Freese and Nichols, inc. recapped the results of the ground water supply study done by his firm for the City of Plainview. He reported the ground water under the City of Plainview has dropped approximately 42 feet in the past 24'years, while the drop in rural areas around. Plainview is closer to 67 feet, primarily due to irrigation practices. He reported that by the year 2040 the city mayl be a regional water supplier and will supply water to approximately 50% more people than at present. The Ogallala Aquifer supplies 60% of the water used by Plainview, the remainder coming, from the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority. The present underground water supply will last approximately 40 to 50 years at the present rate of consumption. The Ogallala Aquifer is a limited pool of water. The Canadian River Municipal Water Authority lake is unlimited because it is derived from rainwater. The water study recommends using more CRMWA water blended with well water to conserve present underground resources. The study 3 of 5 .... encourages the city to acquire new fields of underground water and encourages CRMWA to acquire additional well water to blend with CRMWA pipeline water to supply it's member cities. The study states this inc[eased use of CRMWA water will require approximately $2.4 million dollars in improvements to the present water treatment plant and distr~'~~sy,st,~cp,.~.~Should CRMWA:~.l~nable to acquire additional fields of underground water to blend with Lake Meredith water, it is imperative that Plainview acquire approximately ten sections of underground water rights, and discontinue agricultural irrigation with this water source, in order to adequately supply the city's needs and it's expected growth. The cost of using the CRMWA Roberts County water could bring the residential rate of water from 90 cents per thousand gallons to $1.50 per thousand. Mr. Gooch presented the council with a copy of a book telling the story of his firm and it's 200 year history. Mayor Woods thanked Mr. Gooch for his presentation, the water study, and the book. 7. Swimming Pool - Ordinance No. 94-2997 - An Ordinance of the City of Plainview, Texas, amending Chapter 18, Parks and Recreation, of the Plainview Code of Ordinances to provide for creation of Article IV, Swimming Pools, to govern the regulation, design, operation and maintenance of swimming pools, prescribing standards and requirements for design, operation and maintenance of swimming pool equipment and apparatus; Prescribing the duties and responsibilities of the Health Department; Penalties clause; Severability clause; Cumulativeness clause; And conflicts clause. John Castro, Health Department Director, explained that this proposed ordinance gives his department the authority to do what it has been doing for 27 years. There are no new permits, no new fees, it merely gives them the city's authorization to do what the state has required them to do. Mary Virginia Kirchhoff moved Ordinance No. 94-2997 be approved as presented; Rey Rosas seconded the motion; the motion carried unanimously among the six councilmembers present. 8. Executive Session - Discussion of pending or contemplated litigation. (Discussion of procedures for nonpayment of Municipal Court fines.) This meeting is authorized by [TEX. REV. CIV. STAT. and Art. 6252-17, Sec. 2(G), (Vernon Supp. 1994).] Discussion of Personnel [TEX. GOVT. CODE ANN. Sub. Sec. 551.01 et. seq. (Vernon Supp. 1994).] City secretary evaluation. Barbara Dorman moved the council meet in Executive Session; Alton Jackson Sr. seconded the motion; the motion carried unanimously. 9. Personnel - Consider setting salary for city secretary. The council reconvened and Barbara Dorman made the motion to increase the salary for the city secretary by five percent; Dwain Dodson seconded the motion; the motion carried unanimously. 10. Adjournment. Dwain Dodson moved the meeting adjourn; Alton Jackson Sr. seconded the motion; the motion carried unanimously. Mayor Woods declared the' meeting adjourned at 9:35 p.m. 4of5 PASSED AND APPROVED ON June 28, 1994. ATT:EST: Lloyd C. Woods, Mayor Kar'en McBeth, City Secretary 5 of 5