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MINUTES OF A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE FRIENDSWOOD CITY .COUNCIL
August 22 , 1983
A Special Meeting of the Friendswood City Council was held at
the City Hall on Monday , August 22 , 1983 , at 7 : 00 P.M. with the
following members present :
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! , Mayor Ralph Lowe City Manager Jim Morgan
, Councilmen: Bob Wicklander City Secretary Bobbie Henry
Evelyn Newman
Paul Schrader
Bruce Branham
Leon Brown (Arrived late - Left early)
With a quorum present , and with Councilman Jan Jordan absent , the
following business was transacted: .
� REVIEW OF HURRICANE ALICIA ,
�� Mayor Lowe and the Council reviewed activities during the storm,
(�.LS assessed dam�ge in the City, voiced appreciation to the many people
who volunteered their time and effort toward handling the problems
Q at hand throughout the storm' s duration and af�er where needed,
and explained the plans and procedures already being carried out to
clear away the residue of the storm.
The Mayor has asked the Governor to use his inflenee to have
Friendswood declared a "disaster area. "
(Councilman Brown joined the meeting)
BIDS ON STREET WORK - Bids were opened and read for materials and
labor to overlay the following streets :
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I� i Spreading Oaks ; FM 518 to Woodlawn
_._ Winding Way : FM 518 to Briarmeadow
Briarmeadow: Winding Way to Sunset
Merriewood: Briarmeadow to Castlewood
The bids were : Ike Hall $66 , 255 . 15
Apac Texas Inc. 54 , 018 . 20
MOTION: (Wicklander) To refer the bids to the City Manager
for review and recommendation to Council. f�
Second: Schrader �d�
� Vote : Unanimous FOR ��
• MO'PION CARRIED
RESOLUTION R21-83 - Declaring a 2 . 3�2 acre tract of land on FM 528
as a "blighted area" for development under the
rules of the Texas Industrial Commission.
MOTION: CBrown) To adopt Resolution R21-83 as read.
SECOND: Schrader /
Vote : Unanimous FOR MOTION CARRIED �4�
RESOLUTION R2?.-83 - Declaring a 4 . 2 acre tract of land on East
Castlewood as a "blighted area" for development
� • under the rules of the Texas Industrial Comm.
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_ MOTION: (Newman) To adopt Resolution R22-83 as read.
Second: Wicklander /�
Vote : Unanimous POR MOTION CARRIED "���'J
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RATE INCREASE FOP. TEXAS-NEW MEXICO POWER C0. - A Public Hearing
was reconvened and citizens were inv�tel to address the issue .
With no one wi.shing to speak, the hearing was recessed till
further notice.
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ANNEXATION OF WEDGEWOOD (CWID)
137/0� MOTION: CBrown) To adopt Resolution R24-83 calling public
< <�J hearings on annexation for September 12 and 15 .
Second: Wicklander
Vote : Unanimous FOR MOTION CARRIED
Mayor Lowe said he has arranged to meet with the League City
Council on Wednesday , August 31st to discuss overlapping ETJ
relative to Friendswood' s an�ticipated annexation of land '
south of FM 528 . He asked Councilmen Wicklander and Branham
to accompany him to that meeting.
DECISION ON PAVING MAGNOLIA '
l�(�`$3 MOTION: (Schrader) That Council agree not to pave Magnolia
at this time .
Second: Wicklander
Vote : FOR ( 5) Schrader, Wicklander, Brown, Branham, Lowe
AGAINST : Newman , MOTION CARRIED
Councilman Wicklander is to ask the Postmaster to move the
outside mail drop box to a more convenient location for
patrons without their driving down Magnolia.
TEMPORARY REPAIRS TO SHADOWBEND - Mr. Morgan es.timates...that it
will take 5 ,000 to do the same type of repairs to this stneet
as were made two yeare ago, but he does not advise making this
expenditure.
Councilmen Brown and Newman of the Evaluation Committee , Mayor
Lowe , the Public Works Director, City Engineer, and City Manager
agreed to meet on Wednesday evening and make a tour of Shadowbend -
to consider what should be done to improve the street. ! �
CAt 9 : 40 Councilman Brown left the meeting) -
SAN JOAQUIN USE OF TOWER ESTATES SEWER FACILITIES - After reviewing
the alternatives , Malcolm Collins , City Engineer, recommended that
the San Joaquin Subdivision be allowed to route their sewage in to
the Tower Estates Sewer Plant . Mr. Morgan concurred with this
� � /�� recommendation.
` MOTION: (Newman) On recommendation of the City Engineer and
City Manager, that ,Council approve San Joaquin' s use' of
the sewer facilities in Tower Estates .
Second: Wicklander
Vote : Unanimous FOR MOTION CARRIED
WATER TOWER PROJECT - A plan has been discussed for moving the
75 , 000 gallon overhead storage tank from City iiall to Wedgewood,
and to purchase an install a 200 , 000 gallon ground storage tank
and a 1 ,000 , 000 gallon elevated storage tank. Representatives
of Service Enterprise Corporation will be visiting the City on
Wednesday to discuss used tanks which they have for sale .
The City Engineer advised that being without elevated storage
while the small tank is being moved presents no particular
problem if auxiliary power is available to keep pumps going during;.
this time in case of a power failure. �
EM'PLOYEES COMPENSATION FOR STORM WORK TIME - In .response to a
question irom Mr. Morgan , Council indicated that they approved
paying overtime instead of giving cornp time to those employees
who warked on the days when City Hall was teclinically closed
due to Hurriczne Alicia.
ADJOURNP4ENT - Motion was made and seconded that the meeting
ad�ourn. The meeting was adjourned.
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