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MINUTES OF A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE FRIENDSWOOD CITY COUNCIL
June 9 , 1980
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A Special Meeting of the Friendswood City Council was held at
the.. City Hal1 at_7.:.3 0._p..m..._9n_._M9ns�ay_, June__9 ,_._1.g 80 ; ..with the
following members present :
'i Mayor Dale Whittenburg City Manager Jim Morgan
Councilmen: Paul Schrader P,W. Director Melvin Meineke
_ Mary Brown City Secretary Bobbie Henry
Loren Wood
Vickie Black
With a quorum present , and with Councilmen Zeitler and Maaz
absent , the following business was transacted:
PUBLIC HEARING ON REVENUE SHARING FUNDS - Purpose of the hearing
�.-� was to reallocate former revenue sharing funds which had been
� placed in the Street Department 1979 Budget and had not been
� used. This $77 , 300 was set aside as the City' s one-third for
street participation projects if such requests were brought to
� Council.
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,.S The Capital Projects runds budgeted to cover the latest street
bond project being completed by Skrla were depleted and addi-
tional funds are needed to cover over-runs on this project .
Mr. Morgan proposed that these funds be transferred from the
street participation project to complete the bond project .
No citizen nor member of the Council wanted to address the
subject , so the public hearing was closed. A second hearing
I will be held on June 16 to afford citizens an opportunity to
` speak.
— OPENING OF BZDS ON OLD CITY CARS - Only one bid was received,
from Frank Eastap , Taidding 100 . 00 on the 1973 Dodge and $150 . 00
on the 1976 Dodge.
MOTION: (.Black) To refer the bid to the City Manager for �
his recommendation. /�
Second: Wood /�
Vote : Unanimous FOR �'�
MOTION CARRIED
CITY MANAGER' S RECOMMENDATION ON PACKAGE SEWER PLANT - Mr. Morgan
recommended that rather than pay the cost of having the plant
moved to Friendswood, that usable parts be removed and the tank
and blower motors be sold to the highest bidder, and that bids
be requested for July 7 .
MOTION: (.Brown) To accept the City Manager' s recommendation�
and advertise for bids on the sewer plant. �
Second : Black /
Vote : Unanimous FOR MOTION CARRIED �b
ADJOURNMENT - Motian made and seconded thart the meeting adjourn
to a work session jointly with the Clear Creek Drainage District
I Commissioners. Meeting was adjourned.
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City Secretary �
APPROVED ;
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Mayor Dale Whatten rg
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HIGH POINTS FROM UNOFFICIAL WORKSHOP WITH DRAINAGE DISTRICT
June 9 , 1980
ATTENDEES :
City of Friendswood: Mayor Whittenburg and Councilmen
Schrader, Wood, Brown , and Black
Clear Creek Drainage District : Paul Thompson , John Rooney ,
Dale Anna
U. S. Corps of Engineers : Owen Ralston , Chief, Post Authori-
zation Planning ( 800-302-6412 ) and Robert Van Hook,
Manager, Clear Creek Project .
Councilman Schrader introduced the visitors from the Corps .
Mr. Ralston reviewed the history of the Clear Creek Project
from its beginning in the early. 60 ' s . When the "up-dated plan"
was presented about 1973 , the environmentalists overwhelmingly
disapproved of it ; later the "by-pass plan" was unacceptable
to Harris County. The "park-way plan" which proposed to acguire
the property in the flood plane was rejected for one reason or
another, and the final "conceptual plan" which is on the drawing
board at present has not yet been fitted to the required benefit
cost ratio. Study has been made as to which flood frequency
should be given prime consieration, i . e. the 100 year flood
(defined as one which would result in 13 inches of water over
the entire watershed) would afford some relief along the full
length of the watershed; a 25-year channel which would primarily
aid the areas through Pearland and Friendswood, very little help
in the Clear Lake area; and a 10-year channel which would afford
less help in Friendswood and no help in the Clear Lake area.
He discussed the factors which would be considered by the Appro-
priations Committee to be pertinent to the cost-benefit ratio , and �
the ratio point at which the project would be acceptable for I
f.unding. The strongest point that was emphasized was that no
plan will actually be engineered unless and until the general
concept of such plan meets with approval from the majority of
the people involved and the three sponsoring entities .
The joint discuss�on between the Council and the Drainage District
set out the following key points :
l. Declaring a common goal to relieve flooding in Friendswood.
2 . Sharing of equ�pment provided qualified operators by the
borroiaer are available. There seem to be no legal problems
in loaning equipment. Specifically , CCDD agrees to lo.an the
city their Digger provided the city operator is "qualified
by Paul Spoor of CCDD. " CCDD requested use of trucks city
may have access to .
3 . CCDD proceeding with by-passes with help from Galveston County
(.Gradeall $80) . First 3 by-passes in order are : (1) Imperial
E.states , (.2 ) 1776 Park, (3 ) Windsong. CCDD will then proceed
with existing plan , starting by-passes downstream and working
upstream.
4. CCDD antici.pated budget for FX8I is $145 ,000 including
latest acquisitions . �
5 . Map showing CCDD area of jurisdiction needs to be updated I
to include Sunmeadow (.excluding area north of Sunmeadow) ,
and including Galveston County side of Clear Creek as far
as League City limits (Windemere Road) .
PROM NOTES OF: City Secretary and
Councilmen Wood and
Schrader