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REGULAR MEETING
FRIENDSWOOD CITY COUNCIL
MAY 5, 1986
MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF THE FRIENDSWOOD CITY COUNCIL THAT
WAS HELD ON MAY 5, 1986 AT CITY HALL AT 7 :00 PM WITH THE . ,,
FOLLOWING PRESENT CONSTITUTING A QUORUM:
MAYOR RALPH L. LOWE
CO�NCILMAN PHYLLIS LEE
COUNCILMAN JAN JORDAN
COUNCILMAN JIM HARFtELL
COUNCILMAN EVELYN NEWMAN
COUNCILMAN JOE PRIHODA
' COUNCILMAN BOB WICKLANDER
' CITY ATTORNEY J�HN OLSON
CITY MANAGER JIM MORGAN
' � CITY SECRETARY DELORIS MCKENZIE
C� INVOCATION WAS GIV EN BY JIM MORGAN.
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(� MR. ROY BAKER, MANAGER ENTEX APPEARED BEFORE COUNCIL TO REQUEST
m COUNCIL RESCIND RATE SUSPENSION AS ADOPTED ON APRIL 14, 1986, AS
Q THE COST TO THE CUSTOMER ACTUALLY DECREASED BY $4.32 .
**MOTION WAS MADE BY COUNCILMAN NEWMAN TO APPRCIVE RESCINDING 1,��
RESOLUTION 86-6 , ENTEX RATE SUSPENSION. �
SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN HARRELL. MOTION APPRC7VED UNANIMOUSLY.
MAYOR LOWE REPORTED THE HALL IS BEING REMODELED FOR BADLY NEEDED
ADDITIONAL OFFICE SPACE WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND THE DIRECTOR OF
ADMINISTRATIV E SERVICES COORDINATING THIS PROJECT.
MAYOR LOWE REPORTED HE IS WORKING WITH TEXAS HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
FOR TRAFFIC LIGHTS ON FM 528 AT WINDING WAY, CYPRESS FOINT AND
SUNMEADOW BOULEVARD AND ALSO A PASSING LANE AT WHISPERING PINES.
MAYOR LOWE REPORTED HE HAD OBTAINED PERMISSSON FROP4 HARRIS COUNTY
FLOOD CONTROL FOR MS. ROXIE ALDEN� FOREST BEND RESIDENT TO PUT UP
A BARBED WIRE FENCE TO KEEP THE MOTORBIKES OFF HER PROPERTY ALONG
CLEAR CREEK. MAYOR LOWE ADVISED THE CITY MANAGER THAT MS. ALDEN
WILL NEED TO GIV E THE CITY A LETTER STATING SHE WILL TAKE THE
FENCE DOWN IF NEEDED UPON TWENTY FOUR HOUR NOTICE.
MAYOR LOWE REPORTED THAT COUNCILMAN PRIHODA, COUNCILMAN
WICKLANDER AND HIMSELF MET LAST MEET TO TRY TO RESOLV E THE FIRE
DEPARTMENT PROBLEM REGARDING THE FIRE STATION IN FOREST BEND.
MR. JOHN JONES STATED HE APPRECIATED THE CITY WORKING WITH ALL
INVOLVED TO SOLV E TAIS PROBLEM AND STATED HE FELT THEY WERE V ERY
CLOSE TO REACHING AN AGREEMENT.
MAYOR LOWE STATED A MEETING WAS HELD WITH GULF COAST WASTE
DISPOSAL REGARDING REMODELING AND OPENING OF THE EXPANDED
BLACRHAWK SEWER PLANT. CITY MANAGER REPORTED THE OPERATING COST
IS GOING DOWN BECAUSE OF THE EXPANSION OF THE FLANT AND DURING
, THIS MEETING MAYOR LOWE CONVINCED GULF COAST WASTE DISPO5AL TO
REFUND ONE MONTH OF THE THREE MONTH OPERATING COST ESCROW ACCOUNT
WHICH SHOULD AMOUNT TO APPROXIMATELY $40,000 TO $44, 000 REFUND.
MAYOR LOWE REPORTED HE RECEIV ED A CALL FROM JOE ALLEN
REPRESENTIV E FROM VIN50N ELKINS WHICH REPRESENTS CDC, THE LARGE
DEVELOPERS OF ACREAGE AROUND BAYBROOK MALL, REGARDING A JOINT -
PLAN FOR SURFACE FOR CDC, MUD 55 AND FRZENDSWOOD AT A REDUCED
PRICE. THE ENGINEER5 HAVE COMPLETED THE SURFACE WATER PLANS AND
WILL SEND A COPY TO FRIENDSWOOD.
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MAYOR LOWE R�PORTED THE FLAG IN STFVENSON PARK WAS V ANDALIZED AND
11SKED COUNCIL IF `1'HEY WOULD CONSIUPiR �1 REWIIRD FUR THE
APPREHENSION OF THE V ANUALS 11ND SUGGESTED AN �1MOUNT OF $5UO . OU B£
CONSIDERED AT THE NEXT MEETING.
, MAYOR LOWE REPORTED HE SPOKE TO JUDGE HOLBROOK AND COLONEL CLARK
. ' WITH THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND IT APPEARS THE CLEAR CREEK
' PROJECT IS IN MORE DANGER OF BEING TERMINATED THAN ITS EVER BEEN
IN ITS HISTORY. THE CORPS TALKED TO HARRIS COUNTY AND IT
APPEARS THAT HARRIS COUNTY ,AND GALVESTON COUNTY HAV E EXTREME • ,•
DIFFICULTY IN AGREEING ON THE SHARING OF THE COST TO DO TAIS
PROJECT. THE COST IS ESTIMATED BY THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS TO BE
$34 MILLION FOR LOCAL SHARING AND HARRIS COUNTY WANTS GALVESTON
COUNTY TO PAY 1/2 OF THIS COST. MAYOR LOWE SUGGESTED A FIV E
MEMBER COMMITTEE SHOULD BE APPOINTED MADE UP OF HIMSELF, HAROLD
WALLACE, MARTA GREYTOK, GERRY PATE, AND JUDGE LINDSEY TO APPOINT
ONE MEMBER TO WORK OUT THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE. TWO COUNTIES.
COUNCIL HAD NO OBJECTIONS TO THIS PLAN AND MAYOR LOWE WTLL BE ON
HARRIS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT AGENDA TOMORROW 1 : 30 PM TO
PRESENT THIS PLAN.
COUNCILMAN WICKLANDER PRESENTED A MAP HE HAD DRAWN WITH
� RECC?MMENDATIONS ON THE CURB AND GUTTER ISSUE BEING DISCU5SED BY
THE CITY, COUNTY AND THE STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT. COUNCILMAN
WICKLANDER STATED HE WOULD BE r1EETING WITH COMMISSIONER CROWDER
TO GO OV ER THESE RECQMMENDATIONS AND WOULD REPQRT BACK TO
COUNCIL.
MAYOR L�WE PRESENTED A PROCLAMATION TO MS. JANE WELLS AS THE 1986
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT.
MAYOR LOWE CALLED A FIV E MINUTES RECESS.
MAYOR LOWE CALLED A JOINT DOCKETED PUBLIC HEARING OF TH�
FRIENDSWOOD CITY COUNCIL TO ORDER AND CHAIRMAN DENNIS HOLT CALLED
THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMIS5ION TO ORDER TO OBTAIN PUBLIC
INPUT REGARDING THE PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE ZONING ORDINANCE FOR �
CLARIFICATI�N OF PORTABLE SIGN USAGE, LANDSCAPING REQUIREMENTS-
INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT AND REDEFINING GRAND OPENINGS.
A LENGTHY DISCU5SION WAS HELD REGARDING INCREASING THE TIME
LIMITATION FOR PORTABLE SIGN USAGE WITH MEMBERS OF COMMUNITY
APPEARANCE BOARD AND CITIZENS SPEAKING IN OPPOSITION OF THIS
PROPOSAL. MR. HOWARD YEAGER REPRESENTING THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
AND LOCAL BUSINESSES SPOKE IN SUPPORT OF CHANGING THE PORTABLE
SIGN USAGE. VARIOUS BUSINESS OWNERS ALSO SPOKE IN FAVOR OF
CHANGING THE TIME LIMITATIONS.
THERE WERE NO OBJECTIONS TO CHANGING THE LANDSCAPING REQUIREMENTS
IN THE INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT OR IN REDEFINING GRAND OPENINGS.
HEARING NO FURTHER PUBLIC INPUT THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS CLOSED.
**MOTION WAS MADE BY COUNCILMAN HARRELL TO APPR(7VE PAYMENT FOR
t���j� PURCHASE OF FIRE TRUCK AND EQUIPMENT FROM PIERCE INC. IN THE
��� AMOUNT OF $149, 992. 00.
SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN WICKLANDER. MOTION APPRC7VED UNANIMOUSLY.
FIRE CHTEF KEN BEECH THANKED COUI�CIL FOR PURCHASE OF THIS FIRE
TRUCK AND STATED THE TRUCR SHOULD BE ON LINE IN APPROXIMATELY ONE
MONTH.
COUNCILMAN WICKLANDER LEFT THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AT THIS TIME.
, DISCUSSTON WAS HELD WITH PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION CHAIRMAN
' DENNIS HOLT REGARDING EXTENDING SUNSET ACROSS EDGEWOOD INTO A NEW
SUBDNISION CALLED LAURAL FIELD AND SHOULD MARY ANN BE EXTENDED
, TO SUNSET. A LENGTHY DISCUSSION WAS HELD WITH COUNCILMAN PRIHODA
POINTING OUT VARIOUS PROBLEM5 WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT, ONE OF THE
PROBLEMS IS THIS WOULD BE A DEAD END STREET WHICH �COULD POS5IBLY
BE SOLV ED BY PUTTING IN A CUL-DE-SAC AT THE END OF THE STREET.
ANOTHER PROBLEM IS THAT THIS PIECE OF PROPERTY IS LONG AND SKINNY
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WHICH MAKES IT HARD TO DEVEI�OP WITH 90 ' LOTS. THE DEVELOPER
WOULI) LIKE TO F�AVE APPROXIMIITELY 60 LOTS IN TfiIS SUBI)TVISIUN.
PLANNING AND ZONING WILL LUOK AT `I'HI5 PROPOSAL AGAIN ANU WILL
KEEP COUNCIL ADVISED.
COUNCILMAN WICKLANDER RETURNED TO THE CHAMBERS AT THIS TIME. _.
MR. J . D. BURNS APPEARED BEFORE COUNCIL TO DISCUSS PROPOSING AN
ORDINANCE WHICH WOULD PROHIBIT A PROPERTY OWNER FROM RAISING
ELEVATION OF HIS LAND. MR. BURNS STATED HE IS CONCERNED WITH . ,,
FLOODING DUE TO THE NEW CONSTRUCTION IN THE AREA AROUND HIS HOME.
COUNCILMAN WICKLANDER STATED THESE ELEVATIONS WERE IMPLEMENTED TO
MEET THE FEMA REQUIREMENTS IN ORDER TO KEEP OUR FLOOD INSURANCE.
COUNCIL REQUESTED THE CITY MANAGER TO LOOK INTO THIS MATTER AND
REPORT BACK TO COUNCIL.
CITY MANAGER ADVISED COUNCIL OF HIS PRpPOSAL TO LEASE ADDITIONAL
OFFICE SPACE IN THE SAVARD ELECTRICAL COMPANY BUILDING ADJACENT
TO CITY HALL. THIS SPACE WILL ALLOW THE WATER DEPARTMENT TO BE
RE-LOCATED INTO THREE SMALL OFFICES WITH A CENTRAL CASHIER AT
CITY HALL IN THE EXI5TING COURT CLERKS OFFICE AND MOVE THE COURT
' CLERKS OFFICE INTO THE EXISTING WATER DEPARTMENT OF�FICE. THE COST
� WILL BE $375 .00 PER MONTH FOR EIGHT MONTHS NOT T(J BE PAID UNTIL
� JANUARY 1987 . COUNCIL HAD NO OBJECTIONS TO THIS PROPOSAL BY THE
(� CITY MANAGER AND THE DYRECT�R OF ADMINISTRATIV E SERVICES.
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m **MOTION WA5 MADE BY COUNCILMAN NEWMAN TO APPRUVE THIRD AND FINAL
READING OF ORDINANCE T86-6 , AN ORDINANCE UF THE CITY OF 'r✓ " '
Q FRIENDSWOOD AMENDING .ORDINANCE N0. 85-15 PASSED AND APPRCJVED AS
OF NC7VEMBER 19, 1984,� AND KNOWN AS THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE
CITY, BY CHANGING THE ZONING OF CERTAIN PARCELS OF LAND LOCATED
AT 1206 WINDING WAY FROM SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE TO SPECIFIC USE
- CHURCH.
SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN JORDAN. MOTION APPR(7VED UNANIMOUSLY.
COUNCILMAN LEE LEFT THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AT THIS TIME.
� **MOTION WAS MADE BY COUNCILMAN PRIHODA TO TABLE THIRD AND FINAL
READING OF ORDINANCE T86-7 , AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY OF
FRIENDSWOOD, TEXAS, ORDINANCE I�IO. 85-19� PASSED AND APPROVED THE
23RD OF SEPTEMBER, 1985, AND BEING AN ORDINANCE PRC7VIDING
REGULATIONS FOR SUBDIVISION DEVELOPMENT� BY ADDING A NEW SENTENCE
TO SUBPARAGRAPH B OF PARAGRAPH 3 OF SUBSECTION E OF SECTION III :
PROVIDING A MINIMUM BUILDING SETBACK OF TEN (10) FEET FROM ANY
PIPELINE EASEMENT: AND PRC7VIDING A PENALTY OF AN AMOUNT NOT TO
EXCEED $200 (TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS) FOR EACH DAY OF VIOLATION OF
ANY PROVISION THEREOF.
SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN JORDAN. MOTION APPRCN ED UNANIMOUSLY.
COUNCILMAN PRIHODA WILL WORK WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY ON WORDING OF
, THIS AMENDMENT AND WILL REPORT BACK TO COUNCIL AT A LATER DATE.
COUNCILMAN LEE RETURNED TO THE CHAMBERS AT THIS TIME.
**MOTION WAS MADE BY COUNCILMAN PRIHODA TO TABLE THIRD AND FINAL
READING OF ORDINANCE NO. 86-8, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE
FRIENDSWOOD CITY CODE BY STRIKING THEREFROM THE THIRD PARAGRAPH
OF 19-11 THEREOF AND SUBSTITUTING THEREFOR A NEW THIRD PARAGRAPH
OF SECTION 19-11; PR(7VIDING MINIMUM BUILDING SETBACKS OF TEN (10)
, FEET FROM ANY PIPELINE EASEMENT: AND PRaVIDING A PENALTY OF AN
AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200) FOR EACH DAY OF
VIOLATION OF ANY PRaVISION THEREOF.
SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN JORDAN. MOTION APPRC)VED UNANIMOUSLY.
**MOTION WAS MADE BY COUNCILMAN PRIHODA TO TABLE 5ECOND READING
OF ORDINANCE T86-9, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE FRIENDSWOOD CITY
CODE BY STRIKING THEREFROM SECTION 17-29 AND SUBSTITUTING
THEREFOR A NEW SECTION 17-29; PRWIDING IT UNLAWFUL TO PARK A
V EHICLE UPON A PUBLIC STREET BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 2 : 00 AM AND
5 : 00 AM; PRCJVIDING FOR EXEMPTIONS; AND PRW IDING A PENALTY.
SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN LEE. MOTION APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY.
MOTION WAS MADE BY COUNCILMAN HARRELL TO APPRCIVE PAYMENT OF THE
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CAPITAL PROJECTS AS SUBMITTED,
SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN LEE. MOZ'ION APPRC�V�U UNIINIMUU5I�Y.
CITY MANAGER REPORTED ON ELE'VATED STORnGES STILL UN G0, 14-INCH
WATERLINE CONTRACTOR IS MAKING THE CUT TO EXCAV ATE INTO CLEAR
CREEK THIS WEEK AND PUTTING PIPE TOGETHER AND WILL BE PUTTING
THIS TOGETHER THIS WEEK, WATER WELL #5 HAS ALL THE PIPING
COMPLETED, THE PUMPS ARE INSTALLED BUT LACK THE ELECTRICAL, THE
CONTRACT(.?R HAS BEEN ASKED TO GIV E AND ESTIMATE TO CONNECT POLLY
RANCH SUBDIVISION, THE STREET PROGRAM IS ONGOING AND THE COUNTY • .�
CONTRA.CT SHOULD BE COMPLETED AND READY FOR THE NEXT AGENDA.
MAYOR LOWE ADVISED COUNCTL HE HAS BEEN WORKING WITH HOUSTON
REGARDING DISANNEXATION OF PROPERTIES FOR THE NEW CLEAR CRE�K
SCHOOL AND THE CITY WILL HAV E TO DECIDE IF THEY WANT TO ANNEX
THE LAND AND FURNI5H WATER AND SEWER.
MINUTES OF MARCH 10 WERE CORRECTED AND APPROVED AND MINUTES OF
MARCH 21 WERE APPROVED AS PRESENTED.
MAYQR LOWE ADDRESSED THE OPINION'S BEING EXPRESSED BY CITIZENS
REGARDING THE PROPOSED CITY HALL DESIGN AND ASKED COUNCIL THEIR
OPINION. IT WAS THE UNANIMOUS OPINION OF COUNCIL THE EXTERIOR OF
THE CITY HALL WAS NOT WHAT THEY WANTED. IT WA5 AGREED TO MEET
WITH THE ARCHITECT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE REGARDING THIS MATTER.
COUNCIL CONVENED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION ACCORDING TO TEX�1S OPEN
MEETINGS LAW ARTICLE 6252-17 , TEXAS V ERNONS CIVIL STATUTES (g)
PERSONNEL.
COUNCIL RE-CONVENED IN OPEN SESSION WITH NO ACTTON BEING TAKEN.
MOTION WAS MADE AND SECONDED TO ADJOURN AT 11 :30 PM.
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MAYOR LPH L. LOWE I
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DELO IS MCKENZIE
CITY SECRETARY