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Home My WebLink About96 0109 minMINUTES CITY COUNCIL MEETING City. of Plainview ~..,~ i January 9, 199,6 The Plainview City Council met at 7:30. p.m., Tuesday, January 9,.1996, in the Council Chambers of the Plainview City Hall. at 901 Broadway. The Council. met in pre-session at 7:00 p.m. and Mayor Lloyd Woods. presided. Councilmembers present were: Alton Jackson-Precinct 1, Mary Virginia Kirchhoff-Precnct_2, Rey Rosas-Precinct 3, Mike Hutcherson-Precinct 4, Barbara Dorman-Precinct. 5, .Dwain Dodson-Precinct 6, Irene Favila-Precinct 7. Staff members present were: James P. Jeffers-City Manager, Wally Hatch-City Attorney, .John Castro-Director Health Department,. Ches Carthel-Director of Public. Works, Roy L. Osborne-Police ..Chief,. Cindy Gasaway-Main. Street Coordinator and Mary Alice Bublis-Deputy City Secretary. News media present: Richard Orr-Plainview Daily Herald, Steve Barrett- Lubbock Avalanche Journal and Wayland Baptist University-TV. OPEN MEETING 1. Invocation-Barbara Dorman ~~j 1 ~ ~~,~ Z. Recognitions/Oath of Office-Mayor Woods introduced Dee Blevins and. four students from Lakeside School. The students were chosen to participate in aleadership program and were present at the council meeting to observe a governmental meeting. Mayor Woods. also introduced Danny Davis from the Turn Around Plainview marchers.. Mr. Davis spoke of his past personal battle with drug abuse and explained why he felt the marches were beneficial to the community. 3. Consent Calendar-Upon a motion made by Dwain Dodson to approve the Consent Calendar, and seconded by Irene Favila, the Council voted unanimously. in .favor of the motion. a) Minutes were approved. b) .Departmental Reports were accepted. c) Expenditures were approved. d) The following appointments were made to the following. boards and ommittees: Planning and Zoning-Frankie Carter, .Robert Carter, Lynn Davis, and Travis Hart; Gary' Stone. and Mark Warren are no longer on the commission. Board of AdYustmcnt-Mary Ann Guerrero, Ray Jameson, Whit Hunt. :Human Relations Commission-K.C. Willis, Jr., Frances Adamson, .Billie Standefer. '~~j Board of Minimum Housing Standards-E.E. McDonough. ~ I a~. _, Building and Fire Code .Board of Appeals-Gary Garrison, Bernard A. Vering, .Roger Dowdy, Terry Carter; Susan McMillon and Dewey Henry Sr. are no longer on the board.. Housing Authority Board of Directors-David Wilder, Irene Morales, Leticia Pena (Tenant representative); Ken Douglas and Grady Elder are no longer on the board). Plumbin Board-Lynn ,Davis Library Board-Ella Mae Jones, Barbara Green; Rey Rosas was appointed as Council Liaison replacing Irene Favila; Treva James and Pat Kelly are no longer on the board. The motion to make the appointments was made by Rey Rosas and seconded by Irene Favila, the vote was unanimous in favor of the appointments. REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS 4. Charter-Wally Hatch presented the Charter submission to the Council. He asked for more minority contacts to be, added to the submission and explained he would mail the charter on Friday, January 12, 1996. This would give the councilmembers more time to submit any names for the minority contact list. Mr. Hatch also explained due to the weather and the shutdown there would possibly be other submissions ahead of ours and the Justice Department would start working on those first. The Justice Department has sixty days to review the submission 'and at that point and .time may ask for further information from the City and/or they may ask for more time to review. the submission. Rey Rosas suggested .the submission be sent. by overnight mail on Friday and the other councilmembers agreed. Mr. Hatch reported there would be four copies of the submission printed .and bound, one for the City Manager's office, one for the City Secretary's office for public access, one for the City Attorney's office, and one for the Justice Department. 5. Hale County Appraisal District-Jim Jeffers read a letter from James Belk, Chairman of the Appraisal District Board, dated December 28. The letter stated the Building committee did not have a plan to present to the Council or the Appraisal Board of Directors at this time. Mr. Belk explained they were in the process of gathering materials and information to be considered. When the. committee is ready to make a recommendation they will notify the entities involved. If the Board of Directors proposes a property transaction or other action it will require approval of 3/4 of the taxing units. Dwain Dodson reiterated he and Mary .Virginia Kirchhoff as representatives of the City to the Appraisal District were instructed to vote no on the District purchasing a building at this time. 6. Concealed Weapons-Ordinance 96-3077 was read for the first time. This is an ordinance making. provisions prohibiting carrying a firearm in a city buildings and parks. Irene Favila asked if this would include knives and Mr. Hatch explained the Penal Code addressed the issue of carrying concealed knives and this ordinance pertained primarily to concealed handguns. Motion to accept the first reading of the ordinance was made by Barbara Dorman and. a second by Rey Rosas; it was unanimously accepted by roll call vote of the .Council. 7. Closed Session-Deliberate-the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline or dismissal of a public officer or employee, as authorized by [Gov. ~' 551.071, Section 2(e) (Vernon Ann.)]. Review evaluation of the. Director of I~ealth ~ ~'' Department, John Castro. The .Council went into a closed meeting at 5:20 p.m. 14. Adjournment- Mayor Woods adjourned the meeting at 9:25 p.m. .Passed and approved on January 23, 1996.. C.,....~.•~ ~ - Lloyd C. Woods, Mayor I ATTEST: Karma en McBeth, City Secretary ~ '~ -~ i I- - III I !, K_~.