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CITY OF PLAINVIEW
WORK SESSION MINUTES
August 19, 1993
The City Council of the City of Plainview, Texas, met in a Work Session on Thursday, August 19, 1993, in
the Plainview Country Club, at 11:30 a.m., with Mayor E.V. Ridlehuber presiding. Councilmembers present
were Alton Jackson - Precinct 1, Mary Virginia Kirchhoff - Precinct 2, Don Dickson - Precinct 3, Barbara
Dorman - Precinct 5, Dwain Dodson - Precinct 6 and Irene Favila - Precinct 7.
Staff members present were Jim Jeffers - City Manager, Wally Hatch - City Attorney, Bill Hogge - Director
of Public Works, Terry Powers- Director of Human Resources, Barbara Sullivan - Municipal Court Judge,
Bruce Watson - Fire Chief, and Ginger Light- Deputy City Secretary.
No media representatives or guests were present.
Mayor Ridlehuber called the meeting to order at 11:37 a.m.
The Council reviewed the agenda for the meeting on August 24, 1993. The Council then turned to the
agenda for the day:
City Manager Reports -
Country Club, Mr. Jeffers reported that he had met with David Wilder, Terry Teague, and Jim Mock recently,
and they informed him that the construction project will proceed forward. The Country Club has agreed to
install a sprinkler system in the new facility.
TML Resolutions. City Manager Jim Jeffers reminded Councilmembers that the deadline to express support
for resolutions proposed by the Texas Municipal League is September 20, 1993.
Fire/County Contract. The City Manager informed the Council that he would be sending ~. letter to County
officials requesting information about the County's policy concerning rural fire protection in light of recent
financial constraints. A copy would be provided for councilmembers at that time.
SW West 4th Street/Right-of-Way from Dulaney. Mr. Hatch reviewed the latest version of the agreement
to be submitted to Mr. Dulaney. The first section addresses the benefits to Dulaney, while the second section
deals with the expenses to be incurred by Mr. Dulaney. Mr. Hatch al'so pointed out that the burden of
obtaining affidavits from adjacent property owners has been placed on Mr. Dulaney. In exchange, the City
Attorney's office will prepare the necessary quit claim deeds. Additionally, the agreement provides that Mr.
Dulaney will not oppose the City pursuing condemnation if necessary, and agrees to accept fair market value
for the property, should the issue come up. Finally, Mr. Jeffers reminded the Council that the Mayor had
previously been authorized to execute the agreement.
Hale County Appraisal District/Election Methods. Mr. Jeffers reported that Dwain Dodson and Mary
Virginia Kirchhoff serve as City representatives to the Board. Currently, the dollar amounts collected for each
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entity do not determine the make up of the Board. However, there has been some talk of allowing the
percentage of funding determine the number of members. The Board was scheduled to meet August 19th.
City representatives will vote to stay with the current system of electing representatives.
SPS/Rate Intervention. Mr. Jeffers informed the City Council that his office had received a memo from
Merrill Nunn at the Amarillo City Attorney's Office recently apologizing for not informing the City of Plainview
that their office had intervened on the City's behalf regarding rate hearings before the Public Utilities
Commission. Mr. Jeffers told Tiffin Wortham that he personally could not support withdrawing from the
intervention. Mr. Jeffers did, however, tell Mr. Wortham that he might request the Council to withdraw from
the intervention. In closing, the City would be notifying Merrill Nunn that the City desires to be placed back
on the mailing list for rate intervention information. No councilmembers expressed a desire to withdraw from
the intervention.
Parks/Recreation Program. The City Manager called the Council' to his memo of 8-18-93 which addresses
the issue of summer recreation programs. He stated that currently, the City cannot afford to develop a
program without raising additional revenues. Mr. Jeffers felt that there is a possibility that the PISD, YMCA,
Hale County and the City could develop programs which could be run by the YMCA. This would include a
satellite program at Ash School to service the east side of town. It was recommended that a committee be
set up with representatives of each entity, at the next Council meeting, to see if a summer recreation program
could be developed.
Mayor Ridlehuber declared the meeting adjourned at 12:55 p.m.
E.V. Ridlehuber, Mayor
ATTEST:
Karen McBeth, Qty Secretary
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