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10-13-1987 (City Council) Minutes 330 CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES OCTOBER 13, 1987 7 :00 P. M. The Wylie City Council met in regular session on Tuesday, October 13 , 1987 at 7 :00 P.M. in the Community Room. A quorum was present and notice of the meeting had been posted in the time and manner required by law. Those present were Mayor Chuck Trimble, Mayor Pro Tem Sandra Donovan, Council Members Chris DiTota , Calvin Westerhof , Marvin Blakey, John Akin, and Kent Crane, City Manager John Pitstick, City Secretary Carolyn Jones , Finance Director James Johnson, Code Enforcement Officer Roy Faires, Public Works Superintendent Don White and Chief of Police Royce Abbott. Mayor Trimble called the meeting to order and Mayor Pro Tem Donovan gave the invocation. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: The minutes for September 1st, 17th, 19th, 21st, 22nd, and 25th meetings were submitted for approval . Motion was made by Councilman Westerhof to approve the minutes as submitted . -- Mayor Pro Tem Donovan pointed out that the ordinance passed for the school zones had the wrong times in it. City Secretary Carolyn Jones said Mr . Watkins, Assist . Superintendent for Wylie I .S.D. called today and told me he had given me the wrong times . The new times will be sent to the city attorney for another ordinance which will be back to Council on the next agenda. Mayor Pro Tem Donovan seconded the motion made by Councilman Westerhof to approve the minutes as submitted. The vote was as follows : Mayor Trimble - in favor, Mayor Pro Tem Donovan - in favor , Councilman Akin - in favor , Councilman Westerhof - in favor, Councilman DiTota - in favor, Councilman Crane - in favor, and Councilman Blakey - in favor . This motion carried with all in favor. CONSENT AGENDA: The consent agenda consist of the approval of new schedule for different board meetings of the City, approval of the final draw for Speed Fab-Crete Draw #12 in the amount of $142 ,230 .39 and approval of change order #3 from Speed Fab-Crete for the new Municipal Complex reflecting a credit to the City in the amount of $10 ,054 .00 . Mayor Trimble stated that the above items are to be considered as one item. The Council may move, by motion and second, to approve or reject all items contained within. Any Council member may request that an item or items be 331 pulled from the Consent Agenda and be considered separately. If such a request is made, those items will occur in numerical order immediately following the vote on the Consent Agenda. Motion was made by Councilman Westerhof to approve the consent agenda. Seconded by Councilman Crane. The vote was as follows : Mayor Trimble - in favor, Mayor Pro Tem Donovan - in favor , Councilman Akin - in favor, Councilman Westerhof - in favor, Councilman DiTota - in favor , Councilman Crane - in favor , and Councilman Blakey - in favor. This motion carried with al in favor. APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION TO CALL FOR A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER IMPLEMENTATION OF 911 SERVICES AND THE NECESSARY FEES: Motion was made by Mayor Pro Tem Donovan to approve the resolution to call for a public hearing on November 10, 1987 to consider implementation of 911 services and the necessary fees. Seconded by Councilman Crane. The vote was as follows : Mayor Trimble - in favor , Mayor Pro Tem Donovan - in favor, Councilman Akin - in favor, Councilman Westerhof - in favor , Councilman DiTota - in favor, Councilman Crane - in favor, and Councilman Blakey - in favor. This motion carried with all in favor . APPROVAL OF ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING PERMITTED TIME FOR PLACING REFUSE IN RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR PICKUP: Motion was made by Councilman DiTota to approve the ordinance establishing permitted time for placing refuse in right-of-way for pickup. Seconded by Councilman Blakey. The vote was as follows : Mayor Trimble - in favor , Mayor Pro Tem Donovan - in favor, Councilman Akin - in favor, Councilman Westerhof - in favor, Councilman DiTota - in favor , Councilman Crane - in favor, and Councilman Blakey - in favor. This motion carried with all in favor . APPROVAL OF ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE INSTALLATION OF BULK REFUSE RECEPTACLES: Motion was made by Councilman Westerhof to approve the ordinance establishing minimum standards for the installation of bulk refuse receptacles. Seconded by Councilman DiTota. Councilman Crane said last meeting it was discussed about the distance off road and I was under the impression the pad would be long enough to get the truck on the pad. Mr. Roy Faires, Code Enforcement Officer, said the pad is designed to take the front wheels only. Mr. Faires also stated that in the last meeting it was discussed about getting the front wheels off the asphalt streets. The trucks are tearing up the asphalt . There was a figure on the minimum distance and after the discussion it was decided to get the truck off the street and right-of-way and the front wheels on the pad. Councilman Crane wanted to know if the staff had on the 332 books a figure for new construction. Mr. Faires said there is nothing to constitute the size of pad or lead to pad. Mayor Trimble called for a vote on the motion to approve the ordinance. The vote was as follows : Mayor Trimble - in favor, Mayor Pro Tem Donovan - in favor, Councilman Akin - in favor, Councilman Westerhof - in favor, Councilman DiTota - in favor, Councilman Crane - in favor, and Councilman Blakey - in favor. This motion carried with all in favor . APPROVAL OF ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR KEEPING AND/OR MAINTAINING ANIMALS WITHIN THE CITY OF WYLIE: Motion was made by Councilman Westerhof to approve the ordinance establishing minimum requirements for keeping and/or maintaining animals within the City of Wylie. Seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Donovan. The vote was as follows: Mayor Trimble - in favor, Mayor Pro Tem Donovan - in favor, Councilman Akin - in favor, Councilman Westerhof - in favor , Councilman DiTota - in favor, Councilman Crane - in favor, and Councilman Blakey - in favor . This motion carried with all in favor. PRESENTATION FROM REPRESENTATIVE OF SPS MANN REQUESTING HIS PENALTY AND INTEREST FOR 1986 TAXES BE WAIVED: The representative for SPS Mann was not present at the meeting. PRESENTATION BY MRS. ANNETTE NAISH REQUESTING AN ELECTION FOR A ROLLBACK ON THE 1987 TAX RATE AND PRESENTING COUNCIL WITH A PETITION FOR THE ROLLBACK : Mrs . Annette Naish of 512 Rustic Place stated she was here to present to Council a petition for the rollback of the 1987/88 Tax rate of $.59 . Carolyn Jones your City Secretary said there are 2 ,628 registered votes within the City Limits of Wylie and we would need 263 signatures of these votes for this rollback. I am presenting a petition to you with 781 signatures of registered voters . Council has 20 days to validate these signatures. If Council does not do this, the State Property Tax Board will validate the signatures and call for the election. City Secretary Carolyn Jones wanted to correct a statement that was made. Mrs. Jones said she marked the list of registered voted as to those who lived within the City, but as of this date has not counted them or given out any figures. Mayor Trimble recessed the open meeting and convened Council into Executive Session under the Authority of Article 6252- 17 V.A.C.S. , Section 2 paragraph "g" personnel matters - regarding 87-88 budget at 8 :14 P .M. . --. Mayor Trimble reconvened the open meeting at 8 :55 P.M. 333 ACTION TO BE TAKEN FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION REGARDING PERSONNEL: Motion was made by Councilman DiTota to direct City Manager to file an amended budget to offset the $200,000 .00 deficit from the previous fiscal year and come back to the City Council and present this amended budget for approval . Seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Donovan. The vote was as follows : Mayor Trimble - in favor, Mayor Pro Tem Donovan - in favor , Councilman Akin - in favor , Councilman Westerhof - in favor, Councilman DiTota - in favor, Councilman Crane - in favor , and Councilman Blakey - in favor . This motion carried with all in favor. APPOINTMENT BY CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES TO BE PLACED ON THE BALLOT FOR THE COLLIN COUNTY CENTRAL APPRAISAL REVIEW BOARD: Mayor Trimble called for nominations or volunteers. Mr. Tim Paschall and Mr . Albert Naish volunteered to be placed on the ballot . Motion was made by Councilman Westerhof to place Mr. Paschall and Mr. Naish on the ballot for the Central Appraisal Review Board. Seconded by Councilman Blakey. The vote was as follows : Mayor Trimble - in favor , Mayor Pro Tem Donovan - in favor , Councilman Akin - in favor, Councilman Westerhof - in favor, Councilman DiTota - in favor, Councilman Crane - in favor , and Councilman Blakey - in favor. This motion carried with all in favor. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION: Mayor Trimble welcomed any of the citizens to come forward at this time. Please state your name and address and limit your comments to two (2) minutes. Mrs. Annette Naish 512 Rustic Place wanted to know what the amended budget means to the tax increase. Mayor Trimble said nothing, it was using the money in different ways than the first budget . COUNCIL DISCUSSION: Councilman Akin apologized to the citizens for the poor job of explaining the budget to you on September 22 , 1987 . This is truly a very dark day to our City. This is the first time in 100 years to have a rollback. Maybe this could have been avoided if we had let everyone know what each item was in the budget . I apologize for this poor job of explaining this budget. Councilman DiTota said he wanted to thank the citizens that are participating in the 88 Collin County Bond issues. It is not to late to get involved in this. I urge the citizens to come and get involved. Councilman DiTota also stated that driving down FM544 , Murphy has started a clean up campaign and he would like for staff to look into doing the same for Wylie, and get the citizens involved. 334 City Manager John Pitstick said if anyone was interested in serving on these committees to please contact Carolyn Jones. The next meeting for the 88 bond issues is Thursday at McKinney. We will meet in the parking lot at City Hall and leave around 6 :30 P.M. for McKinney. Mayor Pro Tem Donovan apologized for missing these last meetings. I have kept in touch and have been involved . I will answer any questions anyone may have. There being no other business, Mayor Trimble called for a motion to adjourn. A motion was made to adjourn with all in favor. --- ---;) C.)\/' . (s ` Chuck Trimble, Mayor s 0 ATTEST : 4`�,,. :c\\`\`O�� AZ)--eilL"--42 Carol one citty Secretary ( ,�..,