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MINUTES OF A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE FRIENDSWOOD CITY COUNCIL
January 11 , 1982
A Special Meeting of the Friendswood City Council was held at
the City Hall at 7 : 30 p. m. on Monday, January 11 , 1982 , with the
following members present :
Mayor Dale Whittenburg City Attorney John Olson
Councilmen : Mary Brown City Manager Jim Morgan
Bob Wicklander City Secretary Bobbie Henry
Ed Zeitler
Loren Wood
Paul Schrader
Todd Stewart
With a quorum present , and with none absent , the following business
was transacted:
y—� ANNOUNCEMENT - Councilman Schrader cited a letter which has been
,� received from Harris County Commissioner Bass ' office saying that
� additional identification will be placed at the point where Beamer lry>
� Road intersects F.M. 2351 (�he point where a city employee , Moonyeen /;�
� Wright , lost her life a few months ago) . No commitment was made to `>
a traffic light as was requested by Councilman Schrader by letter.
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RECREATION CENTER - Lee Ann Crawford, speaking for the young people ,
discussed the need for a center. Mayor Whittenburg relayed items
discussed at a meeting Friday between Gavin McConnell , President
� Floyd Williams of the Jaycees , and the Mayor regarding walling off <��
, a strip of the hangar for a center. The Mayor estimated that the `
i greatest expense would be installing separate air conditioning for �
this portion of the hangar so that it would work independently of
� the unit for the larger hangar.
�i After fu11y discussing the subject , the Mayor told the group of
, young people to enlist sone adult sponsors to work with the City,
and come back for further discussion.
EXTENSION OF SEWER LINE ON FALLING LEAF - Mayor Whittenburg said
that a citizen who wishes to build some distance beyond the City ' s
sewer line has offered $5 , 000 toward laying a line to her house
in lieu o£ putting in a septic system. Laws and city policies ��+�
dealing wirth the subject were discussed, and the City Manager was ��
asked to compile all of this information for next council meeting
for consideration of the situation.
FUTURE GROWTH COMMITTEE REPORT - Members of the Committee and the
Planning Commission were present to go through this report with
' Council. After a few comments from Council members , Leon Brown ,
Chairman, P&ZC, proposed that Couneil go through the report alone
before attempting to discuss it with the other two groups .
MOTION: ( Stewart) To workshop the report with Council only , ���
and construct questions to be presented to P&Z and the �,
Future Growth Committee the 4th Monday in Sanuary.
Second: Zeitler
i Vote : FOR C2 ) Stewart , Zeitler
' AGAINST (5 ) Wicklander, Wood, Brown , Schrader, Whittenburg
MOTION FAILED
, MOTION: CSchrader) To proceed with discussion tonight . 3/�
' Second: Stewart
Vote : Unanimous FOR MOTION CARRIED
MOTION: CStewart) To table until the rest of the agenda has
, been handled. ///
Second: Zeitler X'�
Vote : Unanimous FOR MOTION CARRIED
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ANNUAL CALENDAR - Last year' s calendar was presented for Council
in-put , but they asked that it be up-dated to 1982 prior to their
reviewing it. However, some items were added by Council to last
year' s events to be included.
REVIEW AND REVISIONS TO OPEN ITEMS LIST - Several items were
discussed as to status and for delegating action to be taken
in some cases .
CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION - No official aetion taken as a result
of this session.
A job review with the City Secretary and the City Manager were
not ended till around 12 : 30 , therefore , due to the lateness of
the hour, Council did not resume their discussion of the future
Growth Committee Report .
ADJOURNMENT - Motion made and seconded that the meeting adjourn.
The meeting was adjourned.
Citye��ry --
APPROVED:
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Mayor
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