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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMIN 11.11.1997 CC-W&RThe City Council of the City of Georgetown, Texas, met in Regular Session on the above date with Mayor Leo Wood presiding. Charles "Hors" Burson, Ferd Tann, Lee Shelley Davis Bain, Susan Hoyt, Charlie Barton, Lorenzo "Shorty" Valdez Bob Hart/City of Georgetown, Marianne Banks/City of Georgetown, Jim Briggs/City of Georgetown, Ed Barry/City of Georgetown, Verna Browning/City of Georgetown, Eddie Clanton/City of Georgetown, Teresa Hersh/City of Georgetown, Larry Hesser/City of Georgetown, Susan Morgan/City of Georgetown, Randy Morrow/City of Georgetown, Sandra Lee/City of Georgetown, Murray Blackman/City of Georgetown, Adriana G Sigala/City of Georgetown, Hildy Kingma/City of Georgetown, Wendy Walsh/City of Georgetown, Terry Jones/City of Georgetown, Micki Rundell/City of Georgetown, Thomas Bolt/City of Georgetown Policy Development/Review Workshop A Review of Personnel Policy #023 Employment of Relatives Hart explained that the nepotism proposal was brought to the Council from the Management Team as a professional recommendation. Police Chief Hesser and Fire Chief Clanton shared experiences from the cities of their previous employment. Teresa Hersh spoke of being able to improve service delivery through implementation of the proposed policies. Hart noted that the unemployment rate in Georgetown is only 2%, and that there are several other entities and companies in Georgetown with more employees than the City. Discussion was held regarding the staffing of volunteer versus auxiliary firefighters. Community Owned Utilities Director Jim Briggs was asked to respond regarding problems experienced in the utility department due to related employees. B Answer questions on Statutory Consent Agenda Items listed specifically below under the Regular Session that will begin no sooner than 7:00 p.m. (For questions only, no action to be taken until Regular Session) Item P was pulled for discussion at the Regular Agenda, to be heard after Item X. Item U was Council Minutes/November 11, 1997 Page 1 of 5 Pages pulled and deferred to a later meeting due to the need for a super majority vote. REGULAR SESSION - called to order at 6:50 p.m. for the purpose of entering Executive Session. Executive Session C Sec.551.071 consultation with attorney D Sec.551.072 deliberation on real property E Sec.551.075 conference with employee Regular Session Called to order at 7:20 p.m. F Action on Executive Session Items There was no action on Executive Session items. G Mayor, Council, City Manager, and staff comments and reports Hart reminded Council about the workshop on Urban Design to be held on November 18, announced a request from the Planning and Zoning Commission to hold a joint breakfast meeting with the Council on Wednesday, December 3, at 7:00 a.m., and a groundbreaking for Texas Electric Cooperatives on December 3, at 4:30 p.m. Wood recognized eight Boy Scouts in the audience. H Citizens wishing to address the Council There were no citizens who wished to address the Council at this time. -.. Consideration of approving the minutes for the Regular Meeting of Tuesday, October 28, 1997 -- Sandra Lee Hart corrected the minutes regarding Item CC having to do with the employment of relatives, saying that the proposed Policy #023 had been adopted with the ability to weaken the ordinance on second reading. J Consideration of approval of the purchase of a backhoe in the amount of $56,686.14 and a loader in the amount of $110,664.90 from the Houston Galveston Area Council -- Terry Jones & Susan Morgan K Consideration of authorizing the purchase of a postage machine from Pitney Bowes in the amount of $26,931.96 -- Terry Jones and Susan Morgan L Consideration of authorizing the extension of the current contract with AvFuel Corporation to provide avgas and jet fuel in the estimated amount of $250,000.00 -- Terry Jones and Murray Blackman M Consideration of approval of a second addendum to the airport lease agreement with Beth Ann Jenkins (d.b.a. Pilot's Choice Aviation, Inc.) -- Travis McLain and Murray Blackman Council Minutes/November 11, 1997 Page 2 of 5 Pages N Consideration of approval of a resolution casting City of Georgetown votes for the election of the Williamson County Appraisal District Board of Directors -- Bob Hart O Consideration of authorizing the Mayor to execute an agreement to contribute funds in the amount of $85,000.00 for the extension of RM2243 to FM1460 -- Bob Hart P Consideration of approval of a Final Plat of a Resubdivision of San Gabriel Heights, Section Three, Block H, Lots 8-11, and Section Five, Block B, Lots 21-23, and Section Six, Lot 1, to be known as a Resubdivision of San Gabriel Heights, Section Six; located on Innwood Drive and San Gabriel Overlook; and variances to the Subdivision Regulations -- Hildy Kingma and Ed Barry (Pulled for Regular Agenda) O Consideration of a Public Review Final Plat of 90.76 acres in the William Roberts Survey, to be known as The Reserve at Berry Creek, Sections 1 A-1 F, located north of the intersection of Logan Ranch Road and Luna Trail, with variances to the Subdivision Regulations -- Hildy Kingma and Ed Barry R Consideration of a Detailed Development Plan of Park Central One, Section II, Block A, Lot 5. to be known as Pioneer Steel International, located on Park Central and Commerce Boulevards, with variances to the Subdivision Regulation -- Wendy Walsh and Ed Barry Motion by Tonn, second by Bain to approve the Consent Agenda with the exception of Item P. Approved 6-0. (Davis absent) Legislative Regular Agenda Z Second Reading of an ordinance adding Chapter 3.01 to Title 3, Personnel, of the City of Georgetown Code of Ordinances -- Adriana Sigala, Teresa Hersh, and Bob Hart Hart explained that anything that the Council wished to change on the ordinance on second reading would need to be spoken into the motion to adopt the ordinance. Motion by Tonn, second by Barton to only prohibit relatives from working in Finance, Management Services (to include Legal) and Employee and Organizational Services, by deleting Section B, Subsection 2(b), leaving in place Section 1 and Subsection 2(a) of proposed Option B. Approved 4-2. (Hoyt and Bain opposed) This Ordinance was numbered 97-55. Hart asked that it be reflected in the minutes that the recommendation by management was that no relatives be hired to work at the City. S Second Reading of an ordinance to amend the Century Plan for Lot 9, Block Two, Gabriel Heights Subdivision, also known as 307 Shannon Lane, from Intensity Level Three to Intensity Level Four -- Ed Barry Barry read the caption only on second reading. Motion by Tonn, second by Hoyt to approve Ordinance No. 97-50. Approved 6-0. T Second reading of an ordinance to rezone Block 2, Lot 9 of Gabriel Heights Subdivision from RS -Residential Single Family to RO-Residential Office or any more restrictive districts with a site plan as required by the Zoning Ordinance and with variances to the Subdivision Regulations and with a Special Permit, located at 307 Shannon Lane -- Ed Barry Council Minutes/November 11, 1997 Page 3 of 5 Pages Barry read the caption only on second reading. Motion by Hoyt, second by Bain to approve Ordinance No. 97-51. Approved 6-0. U Second reading of an ordinance to rezone Wood Ranch, Section Five, Block 1, Lot 5, from RS, Residential Single Family to C-1, Local Commercial - Restricted (office use only), or any more restrictive district, located at D.B. Wood Road and Highway 29 West -- Kim Shaw and Ed Barry This item was deferred due to the lack of super majority vote capability required to pass this ordinance. (This ordinance would have been numbered 97-52.) V Second reading of an ordinance to rezone a part of Lot 5, Block 39 in the Original Townsite of the City of Georgetown from RS, Residential Single Family, to RM -3, Office and Service Use, or any more restrictive district, located at 604 Church Street -- Tom Bolt and Ed Barry Bolt read the caption only on second reading. Motion by Tann, second by Barton to approve Ordinance No. 97-53. Approved 6-0. W Second Reading of an ordinance providing for the annexation into the City of approximately 0.325 acres of roadway and associated improvements, operated and maintained by Williamson County, known as a portion of Sequoia Spur, located between the western boundary of the Serenada West Section Two Subdivision and the eastern boundary of the right-of-way line of RM2338 -- Clyde von Rosenberg and Ed Barry von Rosenberg read the caption only on second reading. Motion by Burson, second by Bain to approve Ordinance No. 97-54. Approved 6-0. X First Reading of an ordinance to rezone a portion of San Gabriel Heights, Section Six, from A, Agricultural to RS, Residential Single Family, located on Innwood Drive -- Hildy Kingma and Ed Barry Kingma explained that the property in this item was subdivided to allow a portion of Lot 1 to be sold to seven adjacent lot owners, noting that this item would make this additional land consistent with the adjacent zoning. Dale Rye, 603 West San Gabriel Overlook, asked the Council to approve the rezoning. Jeff Voorhis, 405 Ridgewood Drive, told Council that he agrees that the one lot should be subdivided into two lots. , Rick Haynes, 505 Ridgewood Drive, told Council that he would rather have people living on the lots than have a vacant property where the public accesses the river. Councilmember Charlie Barton expressed that he doesn't think the narrowed street edge of the property warrants two lots. Fred Willoughby, 506 Innwood Drive, spoke in favor of the rezoning. Councilmember Susan Hoyt commented on her current knowledge of the neighborhood and the feelings of the surrounding property owners. Motion by Hoyt, second by Tonn to approve the Final Plat. Approved 6-0. Y First Reading of an ordinance amending the 1996197 Annual Operating Pian Element ( budget) to offset variances in fund budgets for increases in expenditures that are tied to services Council Minutes/November 11, 1997 Page 4 of 5 Pages requests or revenue collection rates, to account for capital expenses and to account for debt service allocation changes -- Micki Rundell and Susan Morgan. Morgan noted that this item is the annual adjustment made to the Budget and read the caption only on first reading after having satisfied the requirements of the Charter. Motion by Bain, second by Valdez to approve the ordinance on first reading. Approved 6-0. Z (handled at the beginning of the Regular Agenda) AA Discussion of a profile to be used in the recruitment of an Assistant City Manager -- Bob Hart Hart reviewed the proposed hiring schedule, saying that he hoped to have the Assistant hired by mid-March, 1998. He said that because this is a very key position for the City, he wanted the Council's input. Council generally agreed that the person would be hired by Hart, and therefore, would need to satisfy Hart's requirements for qualification. Wood noted that he had received letters from Gayle Vokes and Kathie Frye of the Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) Board asking that they be allowed to remain on the CVB Board for the duration of their terms. He asked Council to consider allowing both to continue to serve. Hart reminded Council of the Development Services Open House on the afternoon of November 13, and the premiere showing of the GTE video of Georgetown on that evening. He also noted to Council that an Employee Recognition Luncheon would be held on Friday, December 12. The meeting was adjourned at 8e 12 p.m. Approved: f Attest: '_..4, z` . Mayo Leo Wood City S Council Minutes/November 11, 1997 Page 5 of 5 Pages r � l