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03/05/1979-CC-Minutes-RegularMinutes: City Council Meeting March 5, 1979 Present: Mayor Cole, Cooper, Bridges, Hampton,: Coker and McDaniel Others Present. City Mgr., City Sec., Donn Nesbitt, Eddie Romines 1. The minutes of February 19, 1979 were approved on a motion by Bridges, second by Cooper and voted unan. 2. Disbursements for $18,825.41 were approved on a motion by Coker. McDaniel second. Voted unan. 3. Sanger Electric Capital Improvements were not received. No action taken. 4. An ordinance retaining the taxes imposed by the Local Sales and Use Tax Act on the Sale and Distribution of Gus and Electricity for residential use in said City was approved on a motion by Coker. Bridges second. Voted unan. 5. Deiaton-Collin County Waste Disposal District - Franzen talked to John L. prior to the meeting and he said it would take a special act by the Legislature to get the City removed from this special district. Stated it would take a motion by Council to get Repre- onyawYia e�lings Johntta �iadtregardinog r ie istricto t. k gnyfrom stated that John L. said he had no strong feelings in either direction regarding the value of this district. Cooper made the motion to get Sanger out of this special district, Bridges second. Voted unan. Joint Landfill Site - City Manager received a letter from Crossroads showing no interest in the joint landfill venture. Coker: What have we done on a landfill site? Franzen: Sent out letters regarding a joint meeting. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 8, 1979 at City Hall. The State Health Department will explain the permitting procedure. Also we have requested resumes from two engineering firms: Hunter Associates and Schoells and Fields. Bridges. Is there any specific sites being looked at? Franzen: No. Geology is the overriding question on that. 7. Mr. Bill Butler was not present for meeting. Item passed. 8. Other such items: (a) Mayor Cole discussed with Council Brazoss letter and his letter of response. Stated that the Brazos officials did not seem willing to discuss anything. (b) Mrs. Trail's water problem discussed again. City Mgr. to take action on it. (c) Mayor Cole wanted to -know when the meter :at Lovell's would be replaced? (d) Coker discussed the sewer problems that H. D. Robinson's -- have been having on 9th Street. Since July, 1974 to Feb. 1979 they have spent $274.00 on repairs. City Mgr. explained that a telephone cable was placed through the City's main through error and that this problem had been alleviated which should give some relief. Coker made the motion to replace the sewer line on 9th. Hampton second. Voted unan. (e) Sidewalk caved in at Peach and 5th in front of Mrs. Pickett's home needs to be repaired. (f) Telephone rate hearing scheduled for March 20th. (g) Mayor instructed Tony to talk to John L. about the truck ordinance. (h) Tony told Council of possible funding to complete the street sign ._program. (i) Tony told Council that Billy Barclay who is now employed with the City St. Jo applied for the Water Supt.'s job. He has had 8 years experience. Has a B liscense in water and sewer, but could not make the move for less than $900.00 per month. It was the general concensus of the Council to pay this to get him. (j) Hampton talked about a drainage problem from Locust to Willow on 3rd Street. He has talked to residents and they are willing to pay for drainage pipes and have City blade the ditches. Hamtpon made the motion the City do this when they could at the customer's cost for the horns. Coker second. Voted unan. ATTEST: T.s�. Minutes: March 19, 1979 Present: Mayor Cole, Cooper, Hampton, McDaniel, Coker, and Bridges Others Present: City Sec., City Att., Gregg Edwards, Donn Nesbitt, Dan Spindle, Lindon Carr,Jesse Coffey, Dave Dennison, and Conrad Callicoate 1. Minutes were approved as printed. 2. Coker made the motion to approve the disbursements in the. amount of $6,094.94. Bridges second. Voted unan. 3. Coker made the motion to approve the Sanger Electric Capital Improvements for January-1979 in the amount of $1,711.53. Cooper second the motion. Voted unan. 4. Dave Dennison with Hunter Associates introduced Conrad Callicoate to Council. Mr. Callicoate has been with the firm for 11 years and will now be in charge of the Sanger account since Bob Shawn is no longer associated with the company. Mr. Callicoate plans to take a look at our zoning ordinance to see if it needs updating or changing and stated they will begin acquiring data and doing test or Step I on our grant application for sewer funds. Stated he would be in Sanger, Thursday, March 22, to measure the flow and infiltration into our system. It will take one to two months to gather data. They would then submit a report in June to the Texas Water Resources. They will need to do a survey on our system. It will be necessary to prove there is excessive infiltration into the system. They will submit the survey plan and enviromental impact in the fall and work could possibly be started this fall. 5. Joint Landfill:- Mayor Cole reported that he had met with Pilot Point and Little Elm, but Aubrey has not yet shown an interest. He feels they would possibly let us know something after the April election. The group haq,-�agreed to use Hunter & Associates as their engineers and they are now looking fora tract of land. Ralph stated there could be an 80o grant on land. F.H.A. has expressed an interest in giving this to the Sanger area. Sanger would be the controlling or operating City. We would contract with the other cities on.a per capita basis. Each City would know what they would have to pay. (Sanger 360, Pilot Point 350, Little Elm 140) A 90 acre site will be needed for the 4 cities and a 50 acre site will be needed for the two cities. It will take nine months to get liscensed.