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Home My WebLink AboutCC Minutes 1982-01-25 Special 245 MINUTES OF A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE FRIENDSWOOD CITY COUNCIL January 25 , 1982 A Special Meeting of the Friendswood City Council was held on Monday, January 25 , 1982 , at 7 : 30 p.m. with the following members present : � Mayor Dale Whittenburg City Manager Jim Morgan Councilmen : Todd Stewart City Secretary Bobbie Henry ' Mary Brown Ed Zeitler Loren Wood Bob Wicklander Paul Schrader With a quorum present , and with none absent , the following business was transacted : `'� PROCLAMATION - Mayor Whittenburg read a proclamation setting � Saturday, January 30 as "Square Dance Day" in honor of two square � dance groups , the Hangar Squares and the Shipmates , who have done �r considerable work toward renovation of the Leavesley Park hangar. � Mayor Whittenburg also announced the death of Ken Whitney , a Water Department employee , Sunday morning. ��y i BOND SALE - Frank Ildebrando o� Underwood-Neuhaus reported that 1� Moody has just assigned Friendswood an "A" bond rating. He then opened bids on the city' s $1 , 500 , 000 street bonds and read them as follows : TOTAL AVERAGE FIRM (GROUP) INTEREST COST INTEREST RATE Underwood Neuhaus $ 1 , 992 , 341. 91 $ 12 . 298444 Merrill Lynch 2 , 003 , 735 . 11 12 . 3687 Roucher-Pierce 1,976 , 742 . 42 12 . 202114 First National Bank of Dallas 2 ,010 ,600 . 00 12 . 4111 Rotan Mos1e 1 , 969 ,689 . 59 12 . 1585 After reviewing the bids , Mr. Ildebrando recommended acceptance of the 1ow bid from Rotan Mosle , backed by a good faith check in the amount of $30 , 000 from First City National Bank of Austin. He also guoted the descending interest scale for these bonds from the successful bidder as : 1984-1988 13% 1989 12% 1990-1991 11% -- He stated that should interest rates go 1992 11. 3o down , the ability is built in to the 1993 11. 7% sale that the bonds can be called at 1994 12o this point and reissued at the lower 1995 12 . 25% rate. 1996 12 . 50% � 1997 (Maturity) 12 . 75% i CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION - Council recessed to an executive session under Sec. 2 (e) Art . 6252-17 VTCS . No action resulted from this meeting. MOTION: (Wood) To award the bonds to Rotan Mosle on their low ��, bid. /� Second: Brown Vote : Unanimous FOR MOTION CARRIED 246 �1�� MOTION: (Stewart) To pass Ordinance #82/1 authorizing the bond sale , on one reading. Second: Wieklander Vote : Unanimous FOR MOTION CARRIED CONTRACTS FOR ENGINEERING WORK ON STREET BOND PROGRAM - Contracts � were presented to award engineering work on streets for the �� project to Coenco , Inc. and for bridges included in the project \ to Don Roberts Associates , both of which have been reviewed by the City Attorney. �`U� MOTION: CZeitler) To award contract for street engineering to Coenco , Inc. as the contraet is written ; and to award bridge engineering to Roberts provided the termination clause in the contract is changed to read the same as the termination clause in the Coenco contract . Second: Schrader Vote : Unanimous FOR MOTION CARRIED SAM VESTER LEVEE - Mr. Morgan reported that no work has begun on removing the levee. After some discussion by Council of what y� action should be taken, the matter was turned over to Mr. Morgan `� to proceed as the deems advisable after conferring with the City Attorney and the City Prosecutor. WARRANTS FOR APPROVAL - By unanimous vote, the following warrants were approved for payment : General Fund #8099 - Baker & Taylor Co . $ 3 , 130 . 20 8104 - Truman Taylor Ins . 31 ,062 . 00 Water � Sewer #3888 - Mainland Construction 5 , 690 . 60 3890 - Truman Taylor Ins . 4 , 955 . 00 Debt Service Fund #1589 - American National Bank 11 , 904. 69 REZONING - RECOMMENDATION FROM P&ZC AND COUNCIL ACTION � `�V Bludworth rezoning on FM 528 from R-1 to Specific Use - School " for Exceptional Citizens . � �O/ O�h MOTION : (Schrader) To accept and concur with recommendation � � 04 from P&ZC to rezone as requested. Second: Stewart Vote : Unanimous FOR MOTION CARRIED ��/�o�+ MOTION: (Wicklander) To direct that an ordinance be prepared for reading accomplishing this rezoning. Second: Stewart Vote : Unanimous FOR MOTION CARRIED Hackney rezoning from R-1 to R-6 �� i MOTION: (Zeitler) To accept and concur with recommendation from P&ZC to rezone per Mr. Hackney' s revised request <� and authorize preparation of the necessary ordinance . Second: Stewart Vote : FOR ( 5 ) Zeitler, Stewart , Whittenburg , Brown , Wood AGAINST (2 ) Wicklander, Schrader FROM THE MAYOR - Mayor Whittenburg said he had sent a telegram i to Governor Clements asking if his Flood Task Force has taken a ' stand on the Corps of Engineers ' flood plan to be presented on �� January 26 . The Governor replied that there will be a recom- mendation forthcoming from them before the meeting. Councilman Schrader stated that a meeting of the Task Force has been called for Tuesday afternoon at 2 : 00 p.m. 24� FINANCE DIRECTOR DAVID QUICK pointed out to Council that the General Ledger print-out for October is now completed , the program 'I is working well, and he hopes to have the reports up to date by the middle of February. Councilman Wicklander suggested that the computer print-out be reviewed by the City Auditors for their ', comments . FUTURE GROWTH COMMITTEE REPORT AND PLANNING COMMISSION COMMENTS Mayor Whittenburg asked Mayor Pro-tem Schrader to take over at � I this point as he must leave the meeting. On taking the chair , the Mayor Pro-tem proposed that the Council first discuss the ' __ seven items addressed in P&ZC' s memo dated December 18 , 1981. 1. P&ZC disagreed with FGC recommendation �o eliminate Zone R-5 _ �t'✓ and instead to decrease density from 18 to 12 . Council ��.�j generally felt there is still some need for cheaper housing , li thus justifying the 18 unirts per acre .. � 2 . General agreement that "parking requirements" for commercial �n' should be determined by the needs of the business rather than �� strictly on floor space. Council felt that P&ZC should have � � some flexibilirty on this at time of approval of each individual � �r plan. � 3 . Council generally felt that subdivision parks , buffer zones i � and green areas should be maintained by owners . Insofar as granting a lower tax rate , there is some question as to whether this can be done under the new tax laws . Mr. Morgan is to , get information on this . I4 . It was unanimously agreed that requirements for elevators � should follow the state requirements . A question arose as i��J '� to what limitation , if any , is put on height of buildings �r' in Friendswood at the present time . _,' S . Council f21t that some architectural guidelines might be i desirable but not to the extent that it would retard growth of the business community. P&ZC could administer this with , possible advise from a committee or a professional planner. �, 6 . Tax on residential and commercial property needs to be equal- ized and probably will be under the new county appraisal board. 7 . P&ZC and Council are both split on the desirability of \�°Y` purchasing SERA Park. `� This concluded comments from the Planning Commission . After some discussion of the Future Growth Committee ' s recommendations regarding zoning and placement of commercial property, the Mayor Pro-tem suggested that further discussion be postponed for a later meeting. ADJOURNMENT - Motion was made and seconded that the meeting adjourn. The meeting was adjourned. i6�.6�e-s�-r�( ' ��.�.' I City Secretary . -- APPROVED: Mayor Pro-tem