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Home My WebLink AboutCC Minutes 2006-07-17 Special, Work Session 7/17/06 2520 STATE OF TEXAS )( CITY OF FRIENDSWOOD )( COUNTIES OF GALVESTON/HARRIS )( JULY 17, 2006 )( MINUTES OF A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE FRIENDSWOOD CITY COUNCIL THAT WAS HELD ON MONDAY, JULY 17, 2006, AT 4:00 PM AT THE FRIENDSWOOD CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 910 S. FRIENDSWOOD DRIVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TEXAS, WITH THE FOLLOWING PRESENT CONSTITUTING A QUORUM: MAYOR DAVID SMITH MAYOR PRO-TEM CHRIS PEDEN COUNCILMEMBER LAURA EWING COUNCILMEMBER JOHN LECOUR COUNCILMEMBER JIM HILL COUNCILMEMBER JAY HORECKY COUNCILMEMBER MEL MEASELES CITY ATTORNEY JOHN OLSON ACTING CITY MANAGER ROGER ROECKER CITY SECRETARY DELORIS MCKENZIE Mayor Smith called the meeting to order. 4:00 PM —WORK SESSION Discussion was held regarding the criteria, guidelines, and procedure for licensing of buyout properties. Acting City Manager Roger Roecker gave an overview regarding the history of this process and turned it over to Dan Johnson, Director of Community Development. Mr. Johnson presented a PowerPoint presentation that provided a historical guide from 2001, identified 136 lots that were purchased by the City, the development of the Open-Space Property Committee, the priorities that were identified, identification of potential users, Galveston County Consolidated Drainage District, Friendswood parks, Homeowners Associations and Homeowners. Reviewed criteria of properties maintained by homeowners and preference for determining lease assignment, discussed property on Laurelfield, discussed putting notices on lots that are available for leasing, place list on the web site and on the Public Education/Government Access (PEG) Channel, first come, first served, may move this process along, License Agreement has details for use of property, changes proposed, suggest adopt by Resolution. Mr. Ken Brown, 902 Quaker Bend, owns adjacent property to property on Laurelfield and is the Licensee for the property, very straightforward for Licensing process and actually wanted to purchase but was told could not purchase but could license. Discussion was held with Chris Hartung, consultant from the Waters Consulting Group regarding the City Manager selection process. Discussed the proposed brochure and comments that were submitted by Councilmembers Ewing and Horecky, some grammatical, questioned if City Manager had to have consensus to hire or fire Directors with Mr. Hartung explaining wording from the Charter, does not believe brochure needs to be lengthy or detailed, Mr. Hartung stated the brochure is to entice someone that may not be actively looking for a job, providing community background is very important as this is not just a career change but a life change, the brochure is a sales brochure for the City of Friendswood, some of the wording was questioned, some of the wording regarding financial stability is factual and good information, some of the conclusions should be left to the Council or to the voters, Council decided to go line by line and reviewed the proposed brochure and suggested changes, asked where advertisement, a number of professional organization newsletters, governmentjobs.com, normally not in newspapers, will consultant screen applications, list of all applicants and resumes will be provided, the first resume review date will be approximately August 31, ads usually out for 30 days, the changed brochure will be sent back to council for review prior to publications. 7/17/06 2521 CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION Council did not convene into Executive Session, as authorized by Chapter 551, Texas Government Code, Section 551.071, consultation with attorney regarding pending or contemplated litigation, or matters in which the duty of the attorney under the Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct require it and Section 551.074, regarding the appointment of inembers to the Charter Review Commission and the Community and Economic Development Committee. **Councilmember Ewing moved to have deliberation regarding appointments to the Charter Review Committee and Community and Economic Development Committee (CEDC) in open forum. Seconded by Councilmember Measeles. The motion was approved unanimously. 7:00 PM —SPECIAL MEETING **Mayor Smith moved to recommend the approval of seven nominees for the Charter Review Commission: Larry Seelig, Bobbi Kacz, Leola Hill Hancock, Leslie Reed, Tom Lay, Don Seyfert, and Bill Provenzano. Seconded by Councilmember Mel Measeles. ***Councilmember Peden moved to amend the main motion to remove Leslie Reed, Tom Lay and Larry Seelig from the Mayor's recommendation, and to add Robin Hall, Mike Sharp and Kathy Rogers. Seconded by Councilmember LeCour. ****Councilmember Measeles moved to amend main motion to recommend take everyone's names from the list of applications and draw seven names to serve. Seconded by Councilmember Laura Ewing. The motion failed 6-1 with Mayor Smith, and Councilmembers Ewing, LeCour, Hill, Horecky, and Peden opposed. *****Councilmember Ewing moved to amend the main motion that each Councilmember nominates one person and vote on as a slate. Seconded by Mel. The motion failed 3-4 with Councilmembers LeCour, Hill, Horecky, and Peden opposed. ******Councilmember Horecky moved to amend the amendment to add Larry Seelig in place of Kathy Rogers. Seconded by Councilmember Measeles. Councilman Measeles called the question, Chris objected, Council voted to allow further discussion. The motion was approved 4-3 with Councilmembers LeCour, Hill, and Peden opposed. *******Councilmember Peden's motion to approve the amendment to change the Mayor's list to Robin Hall and Mike Sharp. The motion to amend was approved 5-2 with Mayor Smith and Councilmember Ewing opposed. ********The main motion, as amended, to appoint Robin Hall, Mike Sharp, Larry Seelig, Leola Hill Hancock, Don Seyfert, Bill Provenzano, and Bobbi Kacz to the Charter Review Commission was approved 5-2 with Mayor Smith and Councilmember Ewing opposed. **Mayor Smith moved to recommend the approval of the nominees for the Development Process Committee: Brett Banfield, Adam Hill, Marcus Rives, Jeff Payson, Steve Pate, Terry Collins and Tom Sampson. Seconded by Councilmember Ewing. 7/17/06 2522 ***Councilmember Hill moved to amend the main motion to strike Tom Sampson and replace with Charles Hubbard. Seconded by Councilmember Horecky. The motion failed 2-5 with Mayor Smith, and Councilmembers Ewing, LeCour, Peden, and Measeles opposed. *''**The main motion, as amended, to appoint Brett Banfield, Adam Hill, Marcus Rives, Jeff Payson, Steve Pate, Terry Collins and Tom Sampson to the Development Process Committee was approved 6-1 with Councilmember Hill opposed. **Mayor Smith moved to approve the recommendation to reappoint Deirdre Carey Brown, Kirk Lippert, Dr. Hilmar Zeissig, Dr. Rebecca Hillenburg, and Bill Provenzano for 3-year terms, and to appoint Karin Massicott and Jon Olansen for 3-year terms to the Community and Economic Development Committee. Seconded by Councilmember Measeles. "**Councilmember Peden moved to amend to remove Dr. Rebecca Hillenburg and replace with Jaime Ballard. Seconded by Councilmember LeCour. The motion to amend was approved 4-3 with Mayor Smith and Councilmembers Ewing and Measeles opposed. "***Councilmember Ewing moved to amend to remove Karin Massicott and add Dr. Rebecca Hillenburg. Seconded by Councilmember Measeles. The motion failed 3-4 with Councilmembers LeCour, Hill, Horecky, and Peden opposed. ***"*The main motion, as amended, to reappoint Deirdre Carey Brown, Kirk Lippert, Dr. Hilmar Zeissig, Bill Provenzano, Karin Massicott, Jon Olansen and Jaime Ballard for 3-year terms to the Community and Economic Development Committee was approved 5-2 with Mayor Smith and Councilmember Ewing opposed. **Mayor Smith moved to approve the recommendation to reappoint Ted Thomas for a 3-year term, and to appoint Sherry German, Mike Czarowitz, and Pamela Beeth to the Library Advisory Board. Seconded by Councilmember Peden. The motion was approved unanimously. WORK SESSION Discussion was held regarding the City of Friendswood General Operating Budget for FY2006-07. Acting City Manager Roger Roecker presented information relative to the development of the Budget for FY 2006-07, commended Acting Director of Administrative Services Cindy Edge, Budget Manager Courtney Sladek, and the budget team, budget basis-building budgets from the ground up, -0- base budget, Forces at Work (FAW) and Supplemental Requests, Drivers, Revenues, effective tax rate, maintain water and sewer rates, appraised value roll and oppo�tunity to accept or appeal, drivers are expenditures, base operations and Consumer Price Index, requested additional personnel, 5 FTE and 2-0.5 FTE, budget development merit and history, 2006-07, 0-5% for all, personnel/compensation range of inerit history and 3% for 2006-07, FAW, items included in the FY07 Proposed Budget, fuel increase, mowing contract, electricity, heath insurance rate increase, purchased water, Blackhawk wastewater operations contract, provided list of Supplemental Requests for Council's review, the balanced budget will be presented by August 1, and then items that Council has questions about will be addressed after August 1, at that time supporting data will be provided by Staff, asked that if Council has questions now to forward to the Acting City Manager to allow time to prepare for a budget work session. This meeting was adjourned at 9:06 PM. � Mayor Da id J. . Smith Attest: 1 f RtEM � � �^ � '`°� o�� t � °o 0 Deloris McKenzie, TRM * * City Secretary � 6