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| Opening Prayer and Pledges of Allegiance to the Flags of the United States and State of Texas. (Mayor Pro-Tem Heyward) |
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Employee Recognition
- Introduction of Mr. Charles Kelm, new Assistant City Manager.
City Manager Dr. Browne introduced our new Assistant City Manager, Charles Kelm, and gave an impressive overview of his accomplishments.
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Presentations
- Presentation by the EMS Department regarding Cardiac Arrest Survivors.
EMS Director Jason Mabbit, Dr. Butter and many other EMS employees from several surrounding cities gathered to honor the following for their brave and heroic acts:
- FTO Chris Foerster, Paramedic David Gonzales, Paramedic Allen Schultz, Lt. Zach Rolfing, FF Zac Jewett and Jon Von Hoven for their life saving skills performed on a 83-year old male in cardiac arrest.
- Paramedic Wes Dailey, Paramedic Amanda Hausman, FF Eriverto Velazquez, FF Joseph Valdez, FF Brandon Sheel and FF Michael Logue for their life saving skills performed on a 3 year old female experiencing Respiratory Arrest.
- FTO Chris Foerster, Paramedic Amanda Hausman, Captain Rob Johnson, FF Mark Gonzales, FF Alex Akeroyd and FF Tim Mabry for their life saving skills performed on a 65 year old female in cardiac arrest.
- FTO Bryan Salge, Paramedic Raul DeLeon, Paramedic Adam Rohach, Lt. Craig Starr, FF Dana Kellum and FF Alex Armstrong for their life saving skills performed on a 34 year old male drowning victim.
- Paramedic Mike Rice and MIH Paramedic Denise Connors for their life saving skills performed on a male (age unknown) who was experiencing A-fib.
- Proclamation recognizing National EMS Week.
All EMS personnel were asked to stay at the front of the Chambers while Mayor Carpenter read the EMS Week proclamation and made comments on the EMS Banquet he attended and the vital importance of our EMS personnel.
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City Events and Announcements
- Announcements of upcoming City Events (B. James/S. Gonzalez)
Friday, May 31
SSLGC Plant Tour set for Council to attend. Please contact Brenda Dennis to RSVP.
Tuesday, June 4
City Council Meeting 6:00 pm
Council Chambers
Monday, June 10
Library Late Opening at Noon
Library staff will be in a telephone system training the morning of June 10th. The library will open at noon.
- Announcements and recognitions by the City Manager (M. Browne)
None at this time.
- Announcements and recognitions by the Mayor (M. Carpenter)
None at this time.
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Hearing of Residents
This time is set aside for any person who wishes to address the City Council. Each person should fill out the speaker’s register prior to the meeting. Presentations should be limited to no more than 3 minutes.
All remarks shall be addressed to the Council as a body, and not to any individual member thereof. Any person making personal, impertinent, or slanderous remarks while addressing the Council may be requested to leave the meeting.
Discussion by the Council of any item not on the agenda shall be limited to statements of specific factual information given in response to any inquiry, a recitation of existing policy in response to an inquiry, and/or a proposal to place the item on a future agenda. The presiding officer, during the Hearing of Residents portion of the agenda, will call on those persons who have signed up to speak in the order they have registered.
Mayor Carpenter stated because of the large amount of people attending this meeting he would allow those that did not sign up on the hearing of residents sign in sheet to speak if there were no objections from Council.
The following residents spoke about the future of the Golf Course at Northcliffe and their desire to save it:
- Michele Oden - 5801 Black Diamond
- Virginia Koyier - 3322 Wimbledon Dr.
- Ken Yeamans - 3509 Charleston
- Donald Snyder - 3501 Wimbledon Dr.
- Dean Dawson - 3325 Columbia Dr.
- Norman Shaheen - 3820 Pheasant
- Rey Martin - 5701 Whistling Straits
- Jan Baldwin - 3401 Columbia
- Roy Jones - 3422 Wimbledon
- Richard Leon - 3761 Pebble Beach (also provided pictures for Council)
- Stan Zaidell - 3418 Wimbledon
- Rick Clifton - 3329 Columbia
- Jonathan McBride - 5108 Eagle Valley St.
- Mary Burk - 3737 Pebble Beach
- D. J. Thompson - P.O. Box 52 Cibolo, Tx 78108
- Bill Edmonds - 4909 Crestwood
Mr. James Fowler - 1057 Boxer Pass- read a letter of Appreciation for Support to the City of Schertz and Love Where You Live-Schertz Community Clean-up Day on Saturday, April 13, 2019. He also presented City Manager Mark Browne a shirt in appreciation of his leadership, example and hard work demonstrated. He also announced their next event with a tentative date of 10/05/2019.
Mayor Carpenter discussed placing the topic of the Northcliffe golf Course on the next agenda and a sub committee to be established of the Council and a group from the Northcliffe community. He also introduced the topic/possibility of a Public Improvement District (PID) and provided the enabling legislation.
Mayor Carpenter recessed at 7:24 p.m. for a ten-minute break at the request of a councilmember.
Mayor Carpenter reconvened into open session at 7:35 p.m. |
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Consent Agenda Items
The Consent Agenda is considered self-explanatory and will be enacted by the Council with one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless they are removed from the Consent Agenda upon the request of the Mayor or a Councilmember.
The following Consent items were read into record: |
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Minutes – Consideration and/or action regarding the approval of the minutes for the meeting of May 14, 2019. (B. Dennis)
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Resolution No. 19-R-63 — Consideration and/or action approving a Resolution by the City Council of the City of Schertz, Texas authorizing a contract with The Ovid Bell Press for the Schertz Magazine Printing Contract. (M. Browne/S. Gonzalez/L. Klepper)
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Resolution No. 19-R-65 - Consideration and/or action approving a Resolution by the City Council of the City of Schertz, Texas, approving and authorizing a Water Easement Agreement with Schertz R1, LLC, on Lot 3, Block 1, Schertz 3009 Subdivision II, and other matters in connection therewith. (B. James/K. Woodlee)
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Resolution 19-R-64 - Consideration and/or action approving a Resolution by the City Council of the City of Schertz, Texas, authorizing the City Manager to enter into an Interlocal Agreement with the City of Cibolo regarding cost sharing for improvements to Wiederstein Road. (B. James)
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Councilmember Larson requested to have item No. 2 removed from Consent for separate action. |
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Moved by Councilmember Cedric Edwards, seconded by Councilmember Ralph Gutierrez to approve the consent agenda items 1, 3 and 4.
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Mayor Pro-Tem Allison Heyward, Councilmember Mark Davis, Councilmember Ralph Gutierrez, Councilmember Scott Larson, Councilmember Cedric Edwards, Councilmember David Scagliola, Councilmember Tim Brown
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Passed
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Discussion and Action Items
The following item was read into record: |
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Resolution No. 19-R-63 — Consideration and/or action approving a Resolution by the City Council of the City of Schertz, Texas authorizing a contract with The Ovid Bell Press for the Schertz Magazine Printing Contract. (M. Browne/S. Gonzalez/L. Klepper)
Councilmember Larson asked additional questions and made remarks in reference to Resolution No. 19-R-63. |
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Moved by Councilmember Scott Larson, seconded by Councilmember Cedric Edwards to disapprove Resolution No. 19-R-63.
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Councilmember Scott Larson, Councilmember Cedric Edwards
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Mayor Pro-Tem Allison Heyward, Councilmember Mark Davis, Councilmember Ralph Gutierrez, Councilmember David Scagliola, Councilmember Tim Brown
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Moved by Mayor Michael Carpenter, seconded by Councilmember Ralph Gutierrez to approve Item 2 Resolution No. 19-R-63.
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Mayor Pro-Tem Allison Heyward, Councilmember Mark Davis, Councilmember Ralph Gutierrez, Councilmember David Scagliola, Councilmember Tim Brown
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Councilmember Scott Larson, Councilmember Cedric Edwards
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Other:
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Mayor Michael Carpenter (ABSTAIN)
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Passed
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| The following item was read into record: |
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Resolution No. 19-R-66 -Consideration and/or action approving a Resolution by the City Council of the City of Schertz, Texas updating the fee schedule for FY 2018-19, and other matters in connection therewith. (B.James/L. Wood)
Director of Planning & Community Development Lesa Woods gave an overview and Power Point of the proposed new fee schedule and answered questions from Council.
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Moved by Councilmember Tim Brown, seconded by Councilmember Cedric Edwards to approve Resolution No. 19-R-66.
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Mayor Pro-Tem Allison Heyward, Councilmember Mark Davis, Councilmember Ralph Gutierrez, Councilmember Scott Larson, Councilmember Cedric Edwards, Councilmember David Scagliola, Councilmember Tim Brown
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Passed
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Discussion and update on the Employee Engagement Survey (S. Gonzalez/L. Cox)
Assistant to the City Manager Sarah Gonzalez introduced the workshop and gave a general overview. Human Resources Lindsey Cox presented a Power Point on the status of the Employee Engagement Survey and answered questions from Council.
Mayor Carpenter commented on the hard work that was put into this study and expressed his appreciation for the value it has on the health of our organization/City.
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Closed Session
Mayor Carpenter recessed into closed session at 7:56 p.m. and read the following: |
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City Council will meet in Closed Session under Sections 551.071 and 551.072, to seek the advice of its attorney on a matter in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas clearly conflicts with the Act, and to deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property, to wit: certain water and wastewater rights and associated real property rights and available options. |
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Reconvene into Regular Session
Mayor Carpenter reconvened into regular session at 9:03 p.m.
7A. Take action based on discussions held in closed session under Agenda Item 7A.
No action taken at this time.
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Roll Call Vote Confirmation
Mayor Carpenter recognized Deputy City Secretary Gayle Wilkinson who provided the roll call votes for items 1-5. |
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Requests and Announcements
- Announcements by the City Manager.
None at this time.
- Requests by Mayor and Councilmembers that items be placed on a future City Council agenda.
Councilmember Edwards requested a discussion about Schertz being a Purple Heart City and not having signage to reflect that status. Councilmember Edwards was good with City Manager Dr. Browne getting back with him on that topic.
- Announcements by Mayor and Councilmembers
- City and community events attended and to be attended
- City Council Committee and Liaison Assignments (see assignments below)
- Continuing education events attended and to be attended
- Recognition of actions by City employees
- Recognition of actions by community volunteers
Mayor Pro-Tem Heyward attended the following events:
- Council on the Go at Laura Ingalls Wilder Intermediate School
- Staff Development Meeting
- Santikos VIP Opening
- Subaru Ribbon Cutting
- EMS Award Banquet - Recognized and thanked Chief Scott Lail as the guest speaker
- Schertz EMS take 10
- Thanked Schertz VFW 8315 for allowing her to be the guest speaker on Memorial Day
- Thanked the City for putting on all the special events and expressed her love for Schertz
Councilmember Davis attended the following events:
- Santikos VIP Opening
- EMS Award Banquet - Thanked the staff that held the event
Councilmember Gutierrez attended the following events:
- Chamber Luncheon
- Council on the Go at Laura Ingalls Wilder Intermediate School
- EMS Award Banquet - Thanked the City of Clayborn Fire Department for sharing Scott Lail as a guest speaker
- CPR Training
- Memorial Day Ceremony at the Veterans Plaza
- Senior Center Job Fair
Councilmember Scagliola attended the following events:
- Chamber Luncheon
- Council on the Go at Laura Ingalls Wilder Intermediate School
- Santikos VIP Opening
- EMS Award Banquet - Thanked EMS for their efforts
Councilmember Brown made the following comments:
- Commented "six dittos"
- Praised EMS for their cooperative efforts with the EMS personnel from surrounding cities and commented on how it adds to our regional community.
Mayor Carpenter made the following comment:
- Mayor Carpenter was honored to be invited to give the welcoming remarks at the cemetary at Fort Sam Houston for Memorial Day.
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| Information available in City Council Packets - NO DISCUSSION TO OCCUR |
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2019 Hal Baldwin Scholarship Update (S. Gonzalez)
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Adjournment
As there was no further business, Mayor Carpenter adjourned the meeting at 9:11 p.m. |