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City Council Work Session
City of Plainview
June 23, 1994
The City Council of the City of Plainview met in a Work Session at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, June
23, 1994, at City Hall, 901 Broadway, Plainview, Texas. Mayor Lloyd C. Woods presided.
Councilmembers present were: Alton Jackson Sr.- Precinct 1, Mary Virginia Kirchhoff - Precinct 2,
Rey Rosas - Precinct 3, Mike Hutcherson - Precinct 4, Barbara Dorman - Precinct 5, Dwain Dodson -
Precinct 6, and Irene Favila - Precinct 7.
Staff members present were: James P. Jeffers - City Manager, Muff London - Director for
Community Development, John Berry - Assistant Director of Public Works, Norman Huggins -
Directo~ of Finance, John Castro - Director HealtE~Department, Bruce Watson - Fire Chief, Wally
Hatch ~-~Gi{~A~torney, and ' ~' ~"~
Karen UcBeth :.; C~ty'S~tary.
Guests present were: Linda Jaynes - Hale County Appraisal District, Gary Williams - Hale County
Appraisal District, and Holly Holder- Parkhill, Smith and Cooper, Inc.
THIS IS A WORK SESSION AND NO ACTION CAN BE TAKEN
Mayor Woods called the meeting to order at 11:30 a.m. The City Council reviewed the agenda for
the meeting of Tuesday, June 28, 1994.
Hale County Appraisal District - Linda Jaynes of the Hale County Appraisal District passed out
information on property appraisal, tax assessing and collecting. She stated her office had been
audited for procedure and methodology the the State Comptroller regarding the ratio study of
property selling and appraisal comparison. She stated her office was trying to get the appraisal of
all property as close to 100% of it's value as possible. She stated that if the property is not
appraised to 100% of its value, the funding for our schools is penalized by the State. She said she
will aim for all property to be appraised within 96% of it's sales price. Her office is gathering
information on all residence regarding the effective age and quality of each one. She said there is
a variance of 80 to 120% variance in the appraisals done by her office. She said the State is
requiring her office to make appraisals on the "fee appraisal" basis, which is the same as
independent property appraisers use; i.e. appraisals should be the same as for determining actual
selling prices. The Council asked questions about how her staff determined if a house was "good,"
"good average," etc., and how she acquired information regarding how much comparable houses
were selling for. Mrs. Jaynes said she used the Multiple Listing Service for some prices and Deeds
of Record for others.
Liaison Reports - Councilmember Irene Favila reported that the SAFE summer recreation program
has about 400 children enrolled. She stated there are some minor problems, but all of the children
were really enjoying the summer program. She said there was a waiting list of 285 children. She
said the city needs another swimming pool to adequately handle all of the children. She said there
was a problem with some larger young people "bullying" some of the smaller children, but this has
been helped by giving off duty police officers complimentary family memberships and more intensive
patrolling by police officers on duty. She said there were some problems with the schools; both the
boys and girls bathrooms needed cleaning, but they have been cleaned now; the gymnasiums were
very hot, but air conditioning has now been turned on; and transportation has been a major problem
since the Salvation Army and the Texas Migrant Council did not live up to their promise to provide
transportation for the program. She said Richard Galle, Director of the YMCA is talking to the Texas
Migrant Council about furnishing a bus.
Mayor Woods adjourned the meeting at 1:17 p.m.
ATTEST:
Mayor
Karen McBeth, City Secreta y