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11/07/1988-CC-Minutes-RegularMINUTES: City Council Meeting November 7, 1988 MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Nel Armstrong, Glenr_ Shaw, Wendall Thomas, Danny McDaniel, Carroll McNeill and Jerry Jenkins OTHERS PRESENT: John Hamilton - City Manager, Rose Garcia - City _._ Secretary, and Ruth McGuffin - Sanger Courier 1. Mayor Nel Armstrong called the meeting to order, gave the invocation, and the pledge to the flag.. 2. Minutes of October 17, 1988 stood approved as printed. 3. Disbursements - Wendall Thomas made the motion that the disbursements be approved. Seconded by Carroll McNeill. Motion carried. 4. Citizen's Input - None 5. Consider and Possible Action to Authorize Staff to Solicit Bids for the City's Property/Liability and Worker's Compensation Insurance. 477 6. Consider and Possible Action in Renaming Int. 35 North and South. City Council asked to check with the State to see if this actually is called Stemmons. Item tabled for -next City Council agenda. 7. Consider and Possible Action to Contract for Audit for '87-'88. Carroll Mcneill made a motion that 1987-1988 Audit be put out for bids. Seconded by Jerry Jenkins. Motion carried. 8. Consider and Possible Action on Lease Agreement for Dorothy Giles. Wendall Thomas made a motion that the City accept the lease Agreement contract regarding Kammie Patten Park. Glenn Shaw seconded. Motion carried. 9. Consider and Possible Action to Adopt By -Laws for the Sullivan Senior Center, Discussion. Mayor Armstrong did inform City Council that when they met with SPAN and with NTCOG they stated that SPAN does have a contract with the City stating that from 9:30 to 1:30 they are in charge of the building and that if any group tries to meet at that time it must be approved by SPAN. Jerry Jenkins, Ruth r�arshall, and J.P. Hampton will draft operating rules for Senior Sullivan Center. Item to be on next City Council agenda. 10. Consider and Possible Action to Adopt Resolution #R13-88 Recognizing National Hospice TZonth. Glenn Shaw made the motion to adopt Resolution #R13-88 Recognizing National Hospice DZonth. Jerry Jenkins seconded. Motion carried. 11. Consider and Possible Action to Adopt Resolution #R14-88 Encouraging Centel to Operate a Full Service Office in Sanger. Glenn Shaw made the motion to adopt #R14-88 to encourage Centel to operate a full service office ir_ Sanger. Seconded by Jerry Jenkins. DZotion carried. 12. Consider and Possible Action on a Lease/Purchase of an FMC Sewer Machine. John Hamilton stated that this was a large expense; however, this was an essential -piece of equipment to keep the sewer system working efficiently. John explained the lease/purchase agreement. Discussion continued. Glenn Shaw made the motion to lease/purchase the FMC demonstrator model from Underground Inc. subject to inspection of the machine and subject to approval by TML Legal Dept. that a City can lease/purchase a machine without a bid process and that the funds for this be budgeted out of service and supplies in Wastewater and Sewer. Carroll McNeill seconded. Motion carried. 13. City Council to Convene into Executive Session According to V.A.T.S. Article 6252-17(g), to discuss (1) personnel. 478 14. Consider and Possible Action to Take from Executive Session. Glenn Shaw made the motion that Larry Yoast be promoted to Superintendent of the Electric Department with a salary of $25,750 following a successful completion of a six (6) month probation and at -that time he will be raised to $26,250 annually. Wendall Thomas seconded. Motion carried. 15. Any Other Such Matters: (a) Mayor Armstrong briefed the City Council on the TMI, conference she attended Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. 16. City Manager's Report: (a) John informed City Council that Mr. Foyd Cole with the Department of Health toured the landfill site Wednesday afternoon. He was pleased but pointed out a few deficiencies with the ground cover. He did advise the City will receive a letter granting an additional 60 days to bring the site to compliance. (b) Tom Stang of Hunters and Associates advised him that the lift station modification would be delayed about four (4) weeks in order to comply with the Health Department regulations regarding power to the site. -John also informed City Council that this project was on a cost plus and not a flat 8o fee. Mr. Stang and Larry Manning are working on final acceptance of Mr. Manning's street repair work. City Council did express that Mr. Manning is not doing a very good job on crack sealing the streets. I (c) Animal control was discussed; however, John did mention that whatever solution they arrived at it would be expensive. Another item mentioned was that the City needs a new animal control ordinance. (d) City Council did authorize staff to put up Christmas decoration for the Chamber of Commerce. (e) John informed City Council that the Texas Engineering Extension Service of Texas A & M had contacted him concerning the possibility of doing an energy audit of Municipal services. Discussion. City Council asked John to pursue this matter further. (f) John advised Council that the electric storage facilities were burglarized; and approximately $2,200.00 in copper wire were stolen. (g) Street Sign Replacement - John stated that on the street sign replacement, he planned to go -all the way north and south and all the way east and west ___ on Chapman. Meeting adjourn/mod. /� City Secretary�`�`�`���e®�F"'�'�'�� f���il, e ;♦ ••> yor