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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Minutes 1996-05-06 Regular ��y STATE OF TEXAS ) ( ''� CTTY OF' FRTENDSWOOD ){ ' COUNTY OF GALVESTON/HARRIS ) ( MAY: 6, 1996 )� MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF THE FRIE?NDSWOOD CITY COUNCIL THAT WAS HELD ON �MONDAY, MAY 6, 1996 AT 7:00 P.M. AT FRIENDSWOOD CITY HALL, 910 S. FRIENDSWOOD DR:CVE, FRIENDSWOOD, TEXAS, WITH THE FOLLOWING PRESENT CONSTITUTING A QUORUM: MAXOR EVELYN B. NEWMAN MAYOR PRO TEM JANIS LOWE ' COUNCILMEMB�R KITTEN HAJECATE ' COUNCILMEMB�R MEL MEASELES COUNCILMEMBE� TOM MANISON COUNCILMEMBER MEL AUSTIN COUNCILMEMBER ALINE DICKEY CTTY MANAGER R0� COX CITY SECRETARY DELORIS MCKENZIE MAYOR NEWMAN CAL:LED THE MEETING TO ORDER. TFiE INVOCATION WAS LED BY REVERENll MIKE MCALLISTER, REPRESENTING FRIENDSWOOD CHURCH OF �HRIST. THE PLEDGE OF A}�LEGZANCE OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE PLEDGE OE' ALLEGIANCE TO THE S2ATE OF 'TEXAS WERE LED BY MAYOR NFWMP.N. MAYOR NEWMAN PROCLAIMED MAY, 1996, AS "TEXAS BICYCLE MONTH" AND PRESENTEI7 THE PROCLAMATION TO COUNCILMEMBER MEL MEA.SELLS. MAYOR NEWMAN AND COUNCILMEMBERS CONGRATULATED NEWLY ELECTED COIINCILMEMBER JERRY ERICSSON AND RE-ELECTED COUNCILMEMBER ALINE DICKEY AND THANKED EVERYC�NE THAT VO'PED. ,�--. , MAYOR NEWMAN, C:OUNCILMEMBERS, CITY MANAGER RON COX, AND CITY SECRETARY � DEL0�2IS MCKENZIE THANKED OUTGOING COUNCILMEMBER MEL MEASELES FOR HIS EFFORTS ON THE BICYCLE LAI�ES AND BICYCLE SAFETY ISSUES, FOR STRENG�HENING OUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, FOR DEVELOPING THE INTERNET COMMITTEE, AND HIS CALMING SP,IRIT, ��ND FOR HIS FIVE YEARS OF SERVI.CE T� HIS CITY. COUNCILMEMBER MF!:ASELES RECAPPED HIS FIVE YEARS ON COUNCTL WORKING WITH COUNCIL FOR THE NEW CITY HALL, THE NEW LIBRAE2Y, DEVELOPING BICYCLE. PATHS, THE INTERNET PROGRAM, STEVEN50N PARK RENOVATIONS, AND THANKED EVERYONE FQR ', GIVING HIM THE O]PPORTUNITY TO SERVE. **COUNCILMEMBER LOWE MO�IED TO APPROVE RE50LUTION N0. R96-16, A RESOLUTION CANVASSING THE RETURNS AND DECLARING THE RESULTS OF THE GEIrT�RAL ELE'CTION THAT WA5 HELD ON MAY' 4, 1996, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING TWO (2) COUNCILMEMBERS F'OR THE CITY OF FRIENDSWOOD, WITH A TOTAL OF 2,075 VOTES CAS�, WITH GREG HUGHES RECETVING 723 VOTES AND JER17Y ERICSSON RECEIVING �,,.._.,, 1 890 1,309 VOTES P0� COUNCIL POSITION 2, AND KEVIN L. CANDEE RECEIVING 929 VOTES AND AI,INE DICKEY RECEIVING 1,111 VOTES FOR POSITION 5, WITH JERRY ERICSSON BEING ELEGTED TO POSITION 2, AND ALINE DICKEY BEING ELECTED TO POSITION 5. SECONDED BY COUNCILMEMBER MEASELES. THE MOTION PASSED UNANTMQUSLY. MAYOR NEWMAN PRESENTED OUTGOTNG COUNCILMEMBER MEI� MEA£i�I�E5 WITH A PLAQUE OF APPRECIATION, A CITY OF FRIENDWOOD FLAG, AND HI� COUNCIL NAME PLA'�E AND THANRED HZM FOR REPRESENTING THE CITY SO WELL FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS AND THE HQNOT2 HE BROUGHT TO THE CITY. i ; GALUESTON COUNTY JUDGE JAMES YARBROUGH ADMINTSTERED THE OATH OF OFFICE TO � I'� COUNCILMEMBER JERRY ERICSSON, POSITION 2, AND COUNCII.,M�MBER AI,INE �•_.....- DICKEY, FOS�TION 5. JUDGE YARBROUGH THANKED COUNCILMEMBER MEASELES FOR HIS XE�1RS OF DED�ICATED SERVICE. JUDGE YARBROUGH ANNOUNCED THAT COUNCILMEMS�R J'ANIS LOWE HAS BEEN APPOINTED BY GOVERNOR BU'SH TO A FOUR YEAR TERM ON THE PILOT COMMISSION FOR GALVESTON COtINTY PORTS. RE-ELECTED COUNCILMEMBE]2 DICKEX THANKED EVEI2YOI�E THAT VOTED, HER SUPPORTERS AND HER FAMILY, JENNIFER AND JACOB. NEWLY-ELECTED COUNCILMEMB�R ERTCSSON THANKED THE VOTFsRS AND HIS SUFPORTERS AND STATED HE LOOKEA F012WARD TO SERVING THE CITY. A MOTION WAS MAD� TO ADJOURN AT 8:15 P.M. WITH A RECEPTION IMMEDTATELY FOLZOWING. ,�•o., , ?l�l1�b✓ MAYOR LYN B NEWMAN ATTEST: _,..... � � DEL'ORIS MCKENZTE, TRM , CITy SECRETARY , ... . �_.�