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Home My WebLink AboutCC Minutes 1989-08-28 Special 117 SPECIAL MEETING FRIENDSWOOD CITY COUNCIL AUGUST 28 , 1989 MINUTES OF A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE FRIENDSWOOD CITY COUNCIL THAT WAS HELD aN AUGUST 28 , 1989 AT CITY HALL AT 7 : 00 PP4 WITH THE FOLLOWING PRESENT CONSTITUTING A QUORUM: • MAYOR MAYOR PRO-TEM COUNCILMEr4BER COUNCILMEMBER COUNCILMEMBER COUNCILMEMBER COiJNCILMEMBER CITY MANAGER CITY SECRETARY PAUL SCHRADER RON RITTER BOB WICKLAPIDER EVELYN NE,LJMAN ED STUART JAN JORDAP] ( ARR . 8 : 10) FRANK FRANK�VICH ANNETTE BRAND DELORIS ARCHER INVOCATION WAS GIVEN BY REVEREND RALPH HOBRATSCHK . MAYOR SCHRADER ANNOUNCED SCHOOL IS BACK IN SESSION AND URGED DRIVERS TO BE CAREFUL . MAYOR SCHRADER RECOM�9ENDED THE LAST DAY FOR HURRICANE CHANTAL DEBRIS TO BE PICKED UP BY SEPTEMBER 8TH AND URGED CITIZENS TO CALL FOR PICKUP . MAYOR SCHRADER ANNOUNCED THURSDAY THERE WILL BE AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPNlENT tiEETING WILL BE HELD WITH ARCHITECT RICHARD AINSLEE AS GUEST SPEAKER . MAYOR �CHRADER REPORTED THAT COUNCILMEMBER RITTER AND HIMSELF WORKED FIVE HOURS ON THE SIGN ORDINANCE AND WILL BE PRESENTED FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION LATER ON IN THE MEETING . COUNCILMEMBER STUART REPORTED THE CLEAR CREEK WAT'ER SHED STFERING COMMITTEE MET LAST WEDNESDAY AND DANNENBAUM ENGINEERING IS DOING THE FIRST PHASE TO ENGINEERING TO BE COMPLETED FEBAUARY , 1990 . COUNCILMEMBER STUART REPORTED THE CLEAR CREEK WATER SHED STEERING COMMITTEE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE WILL r9EET SEPTEMBER 13TH AND THE tIEXT GENERAL 1�1EETING WILL BE NOVEMBER 15TH . COUPICIL�4EP4BER STUART REPORTED THERE WAS AS REPORT GIVEN ON THE SECOND OUTLET TO THE BAY WHICH WOULD BE COMPLETED SOIiETIP4E IN 1991 AND IN 1992 taoRx ON THE CHANNEL WILL BEGIN DEPENDING ON APPROPRIATIONS . COUNCILMEMBER FRANKOVICH REPORTED HE ATTENDED THE MEETING TO VIE�a A SLIDE PRESENTATION ON A FLYOVER OF THE FLOODING FROt•9 IiURRICANE CHANTAL . MS . CINDY JAPP APPEARED BEFORE COUNCIL TO REQUEST COUNCIL NOT DROP RaYAL COURT IN IMPERIAL ESTATES SUBDIVISION FROM THE PROPOSED BUDGET . MR . JOE PERRONI , REPRESENTING FAST CATS , APPEARED BEFORE COUNCIL AND URGED COUNCIL NOT TO RAISE USER FEES AND ASKED COIIfJCIL TO TAKE A HARD LOOK AT THE Y .M. C . A . SWIM LESSONS PROGRAM VERSUS CITY �• OF FRIENDSWOOD PROVIDING SWIM LESSONS IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET . MR . DAVID HEARN , MR . �lAC TAYLOR AND �7R . PAUL FRONCZEK APFGARED BEFORE COUNCIL TO PROVIbE BACKGROUND ON THE SWIMMING POOL AND TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF CITY PROVIDING SWIM LESSONS . MS. PAM BARTON APPEARED BEFORE COUNCIL AND PRESENTED THE HISTORY OF THE COUNSELING SERVICE PROGRAM. CITY MANAGER REPORTED ON DITCH CLEANING ON BRIARMEADOW , SPRAYING . �, FOR MOSQUITOES , UPDATE ON SURFACE WATER PROJECT , STREET PROJECTS ON � ELDORADO & ELDORADO CIRCLE AND LUNDY LANE , FIBERGLASS SEWER LINES AT WHISPERING PINES/BRIDGE ON FM 518 , CITY HALL APiNEX RENOVATION , DOG POUND CONSTRUCTION , CAPITAL IMPROVEr�ENTS PLAN SB 336 AND CHANGE ORDERS FOR SANITARY SEWER LINE � ( 2) $3 , 068 . 04 A1dD . � ( 3) $666 . 00 . MAYOR SCHRADER REPORTED i�E HAS SPOKEN TO JUDGE HOLBROOK AND THE CQUNTY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FUND FOR RELOCATION OF LIN�S ON FM 2351 AS FM 2351 WAS NOT IN THE BOND ISSUE FOR THE ROADS IN GALVESTON COUNTY . COUNTY AUDITOR HAS DETERMIN�D Ti�AT ANY ANY EXCESS MONEY FROM TI3E BOND ISSUE WILL BE RETURNED TO THE TAX PAYERS . DISCUSSION WAS HELD REGARDING THE 1989/ 1990 PROPOSED OPERATING BUDGET . CITY MANAGER REVIEWED THE PROPOSED CUTS FROI�I DEPARTMENTAL BUDGET REQUESTS . COUNCILMEMBER JORDAN ARRIVED AT THIS TIME . I/_ *�MOTION MADE BY COUNCILt•tEMBER JORDAN TO ADD BACK IN $18 , 647 FOR �--� COURT COMPUTERS �N THE GROUNDS THIS COt�PUTERIZATION WILL RESULT �� IN A SAVINGS . SECONDED BY COUNCILP�EI�1BER FRANKOVICH . MOTIOP] APPROVED . COUNCILMEMBER WICKLANDER AND STUART OPPOSED . �/�,' ��MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMEMBER WICKLANDER TO REDUCE THE ROAD S9 PROGRAM BUDGETED AMOUNT TO $300 , 000 . SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER NEWMAN . MOTION APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY . ,�� MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMEt•lBER RITTER TO CUT ONE STAFF PERSON AND RELATED COSTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $31 , 722 FROM TfIE PROPOSED ��% ENGINEERING BUDGET . SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER WICRLANDER . MOTION APPROVED . MAYOR SCHRADER OPPOSED . .. COUNCILMEMBER WICKLANDER LEFT THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AT TIiIS TIP9E . CITY MANAGER STATED IF CUTS ARE hlADE IN THE ONE STOP SHOPPING PROPOSED PROGRAM TO ENHANCE TfIE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, SEiE REQUESTED TO BE PERSONALLY RELEASED FROM THIS GOAL . l�� ri0TI0N MADE BY COUNCILMEMBER RITTER TO CUT $2�4 , 71 �4 FROM � COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM . SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER STUART . 2 119 COUNCILMEMBER WICKLAP�DGR RP1'UItNrD TO THF COUNCIL CIIAMI3�It� AT 7'}iIS TIME . MOTION FAILED . COUNCIL�aEMIIERS RITTER , WICKLAND�R AND STUART VOTED FOR THE MOTIOPJ . MAYOR SCHRADER , COUNCILF9EMBERS NEWMAN ,.. : JORDAN AND FRANROVICH VOTED AGAINST T}iE MOTION . ��MOTION 69ADE BY COUNCILMEMBER RITTER TO DEL,ETE $2 , 700 FROM �G� COMMUNITY DEVEL�PMENT FOR TI�E VERTICAL CONTROLS PROJECT . �g SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER WICKLANDER . I�i0Ti0N APPROVED UNANIl90USLY . ��MOTION MADE BY COUNCIL�9EMBER RITTER TO CUT OVER TIME P'ROM ��9 PUBLIC WORKS STREET DEPARTMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $6 , 000 . � SECONDED $Y MAYOR SCHRADER . MOTION APPROVED . COUNCILMEFlBER o7 NEWMAN OPPOSED . A FIVE MINUTE RECESS WAS HELD AT THIS TIME . +��MOTION MADE BY COUNCTLr9EMBER RITTER TO REDUCE THE �ITH OF JULY /?� BUDGET TO $20 , 000 . � SECONDED BY COUNCILMGI�IBER ST'UART . MOTION APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY .. **MOTION MADE BY COUNCILDfEMBER RITTER TO CUT COUtJSELING SERVICES �7 BUDGET TO $500 FOR ONE AIR CONDITIONING UNIT . � SECONDED BY COtTNCILMEl9BER NE4IMAN . MOTION APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY . �*MOTION MADE BY COUNCILrfEMBER NE4JMAN TO ACCEPT THE COUNSELING �7� SERVICES BUDGET AS AMENDED . � SECONDED BY COUNCILt�iEP7BER FRANKOVICH . MOTION APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY . COUNGILMEMBER RITTER STATED THAT HE FELT THAT IN THE FUTURE DEPARTMENTAL BUDGET Ar4EP7DMENTS SHOULD BE BROUGHT BACK TO COUNCIL . r�AYOR SCHRADER PRESENTED THE EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN FOR COUNCIL REVIEW AND STATED THIS WILL BE PLACED ON TIiE NEXT AG�NDA . DISCUSSION WAS HELD REGARDING ACCEPTANCE OF OLD 2351 INTO CITY STREET PROGRAM WITH COUPaCIL REQUESTING A MAP BE OBTAINED FOR FURTHER DETERMINATION . '�+�MOTION MADE BY COUNCILrlEMBER RITTER TO APPROVE CONSENT AGENDA FOR PAYMENT OF CAPITAL PROJECTS AND SETTING MEETING DATES DUE TO LABOR DAY WEEKEND . LENGTHY DISCUSSION WAS HELD REGARDING REVISIONS TO SIGP1 ORDINANCE AS PROPOSED BY MAYOR SCHRADER AND COUNCILl1EMBER RITTER . 3 2 � *�MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMEMBER WICKLANDER TO LIMIT TOTAL SIGNAGE i�3 FOR SI#OPPING CENTI:R TO 150 TOTAL SQUARE FFF'7' . SECONDED BY COUNCIL�IEMBER JORUAN . t�fOTI.ON P'tIJLED . MAYUR ��' SCHRADEA , COUNCIL!'lEMBERS WICY.LANDER AND FRANKOVICH FOR TH� MOTION . COUNCILMEMBERS RITTER , NE4�MAN, STUART AND JORDAN OPPOSED . j� *�MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMEliBER NEWP4AN TO APPROVE CONTRACTOR SIGNS , SECTION 20 . � SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER STUART . MOTION APPROVED UNANIP90USLY . � **MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMEMBER RITTER TO APPROVE OFF PREMISE � GARAGE SALE SIGNS . 8� SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER STUART . MOTION FAILED . COUP7CILP4EMBERS RITTER , NEWMAN AND STUART FOR TH� MOTION . MAYOR SCHRADER AND ' COUNCILMEMBERS WICKLANDER , JORDAN AND FRANKOVICfi OPPOSED . �� *�MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMEMBER NEWr4AN TO ALLOW ALL CI�URCH�S BANNER SIGNS ONE TIME A YEAR NOT TO EXCEED ONE WEER . �� SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER JORDAN. MOTION APPROVED . COUNCILMEMBER STUART OPPOSED . �7� �� (� v� **MOTION MADE BY MAYOR SCHRADER TO ELII�iINATF PORTABLE SIGNS WITH A PHASE OUT PROGRAM. SECONDED BY COUNCILMEt1BER JORDAN . MOTION FAILED . MAYOR SCHRADER , COUNCILMEMBERS JORDAN AND FRANY.OVICH FOR TfI� i90TI0N . COUNCILMEMBERS RITTER , NEWMAN , STUART AND WICKLANDER OPPOSED . �*MOTION MADE BY MAYOR SCHRADER TO ALLOW PORTABLE SIGNS NO CLOSER THAN THAN 20 ' FROM THE CURB AND 20 ' FROM INTERSECTION AND RESTRICT MOVEMENT OF LETTERS ON THE SIGNS . SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER FRANKOVICH . MOTION FAILED . l�9AYOR SCHRADER AND COUNCILDfEMBER FRANKOVICH FOR THE MOTION . COUNCILMEMBERS RITTER , WICKLANDER , NEWMAN , STUART AND JORDAN OPPOSED . DISCUSSION WAS HELD BY COUNCIL TO SEND THE AMENDED DRAFT SIGN ORDINANCE TO CITY ATTORNEY TO PUT INTO LANGUAGE FOR ORDINANCE FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION . MAYOR SCHRADER RECESSED COUNCIL MEETING TUESDAY , AUGUST 29 , 1989 , ATTE DEL RIS ARCH , CMC CITY SECRETARY �� AT 11 : 30 PM UNTIL 6 : 30 PM MAYOR PA L W. SCHRADER fl �