Minutes October 01, 1991376
CITY OF DENTON CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
OCTOBER 1, 1991
The Council convened into the Work Session at 5:15 p.m. in the
Civil Defense Room.
PRESENT: Mayor Castleberry; Mayor Pro Tem Hopkins; Council Members
Alexander, Chew, Smith and Trent.
ABSENT: Council Member Perry
1. The Council convened into the Executive Session to discuss
legal matters (discussed subrogation claim in Boydston v. Chrysler
Corp.), real estate and personnel/board appointments.
2. The Council received a report and held a discussion regarding
an ordinance prohibiting certain contracts with former
councilmembers for one year from the date they leave office.
Debra Drayovitch, city Attorney, stated that the proposed ordinance
had been prepared at the request of the Mayor. It included
exceptions for contracts which came under the state bidding law but
otherwise prohibited a councilmember, from one year from the date
of leaving office, from entering into a contract with the City.
Council Member Alexander stated that the proposed ordinance was
within the prerogative of the City of Denton and that there was
nothing in the state law regulating cities which required such an
ordinance. The process of letting contracts and engaging in
business was an open process. The more he looked at the proposed
ordinance, the more he felt it was a waste of time and something
the Council should pass by.
Council Member Smith stated that with the exceptions involved what
was prohibited.
city Attorney Drayovitch stated that professional services and
consulting services would be prohibited.
Council Member Smith agreed with Council Member Alexander and did
not see any real need for the ordinance with all the exceptions
which were included.
Council Member Trent asked for an example of a contract being
awarded to the lowest bidder through competitive sealed bids.
City Attorney Drayovitch replied the purchase of paper due to the
volume purchased.
Council, Member Trent asked for an example of a contract to purchase
items available from only one source.
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City Attorney Drayovitch replied such items as the communications
equipment.
Council Member Trent stated that he felt it was important to avoid
a perception that while on Council, a Council Member was not making
sure that he would receive a certain bid.
Mayor Castleberry stated that one of the purposes of the proposed
ordinance was to protect the existing Council from any reflection
of any wrong doing or making some kind of an agreement while
council members were in office.
Council Member Alexander stated that the way the proposed ordinance
was worded, it only restricted the activity for people who were
professionals working for fees. It did not, in any way, restrict
the Council from doing business with businessmen who were former
Council Members. It was totally unfair.
Council Member Trent asked who it restricted.
Council Member Alexander replied it restricted people who were
attorneys, real estate agents or people who were engaging in some
kind of consulting activity. All business transactions, including
bidding, would be exempt from the ordinance. There was more likely
to be a problem in a major business transaction than in a
professional service area as of that type of business had to be
done in an open session. The City Council in Denton was not paid
and its members made a significant financial sacrifice in order to
serve. While on the Council, a member had to give up any
opportunities to work with the City and all the proposed ordinance
would do would be to add another year of down time for that
individual. That was the same problem that the Electrical Code
Board and similar boards experienced.
Council Member Chew stated that originally he felt the proposed
ordinance was a good idea but the further he looked into it, he
decided it was not a good idea. The burden would be on a select
few and the majority of individuals would still be able to deal
with the City. He felt that perhaps an ethics situation would be
appropriate but the proposed ordinance was not the solution.
Mayor Pro Tem Hopkins stated she had a built in bias against even
the perception of wrongdoing. The Council could not always rely on
all seven members always being honorable, reasonable individuals.
Some day,there might be an individual who would take advantage of
a situation.
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Council Member Alexander replied that he had a problem with the
fact that the exemptions were for business people and did not apply
to people who were professional people who worked for fees. If the
ordinance needed to be done, then it needed to be done in a
different way.
Council debated the pros and cons of an ethics code and whether an
ethics code would be binding enough to require members to adhere to
the provisions of such a code.
Consensus of the Council was to have staff prepare a report
regarding the issue and how other cities were dealing with that
issue. The report would be discussed at a future work session.
3. The Council received a report and held a discussion regarding
voting district boundary adjustments.
Lloyd Harrell, City Manager, stated that this issue was being
divided into two subjects. One was the district boundary
adjustments which did not involve any kind of charter change and
one was charter adjustments. Staff was taking the current
configuration of the Council seats, as provided by the current
Charter, and was using the current census figures to update the
population within those four boundaries to make sure the City was
following the guidelines as issued by the Federal Government.
Harry Persuad, Senior Planner, stated that staff was requesting
Council approve the criteria and schedule for adjusting voting
district boundaries. The criteria for adjusting district
boundaries included (1) the proposed districts would contain
approximately equal population, (2) the proposed district would
have the voting strength of minority groups, (3) the proposed
district boundaries would be drawn as far as possible following the
county precinct boundaries, and (4) the proposed districts would be
as compact as practical to facilitate campaigning and voting.
Persuad presented a proposed schedule of activities which included
consulting with leaders of the minority community with regards to
their specific concerns and inputs in the process of adjusting
district boundaries, developing alternative boundaries based on the
criteria approved by Council, holding a public hearing to consider
alternative district plans and receive comments from residents and
preparing final submittal to be sent to the Justice Department.
Final submission date was proposed to be December 30, 1991 in order
to facilitate the 1992 election.
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Council expressed a concern regarding the final date for submission
as the filing for Council began in middle February. If the Justice
Department had a concern regarding the boundaries, it could
possibly affect whether a candidate lived in the appropriate area
as provided by the City Charter.
After discussion, consensus of the Council was to have staff adjust
the dates of the schedule in order to allow for more time for the
Justice Department submission. That revised schedule would be
looked at during the regular session item as listed on the agenda.
4. The Council received a report and held a discussion regarding
the video taping of City Council meetings.
Bill Angelo, Director of Community Services, showed the Council a
video tape of a mock Council meeting. The video demonstrated
various conditions of lighting for the Council Chambers. Angelo
stated that the capital expenses for the cameras would be from
grant money from Sammons and the reoccurring expenses would come
from different sources.
Council Member Trent stated that he would like to see the Council
meetings taped for the citizens of Denton.
Council debated whether to broadcast the Council meetings and if
so, when to begin.
Consensus of the Council was to delay starting to process until
after the Citizen Survey had been completed as there was a question
relative to the broadcasting of the Council meetings. That survey
would provide good feedback as to whether there would be any
citizen interest in such a venture. It was also suggested that
staff contact Sammons to see if they would be willing to loan the
City the equipment on a trial basis to determine if there would be
any audience for such a broadcast.
5. Council received a report and held a discussion regarding the
questionnaire for the Citizen Survey.
Jesus Nava, Assistant to the City Manager, stated that the last
survey, which had been a telephone survey, had been done in 1986.
The 1991 survey, a mail-out survey, would ask questions included in
the 1986 survey which would allow the City to make comparisons and
note changes .in perceptions and attitudes. Dr. Gopala Ganesh of
the University of North Texas Marketing Department had offered to
do the survey. The costs associated with the survey would be
limited to stationary, postage and duplication. The questionnaires
would be printed and duplicated on UNT stationary by the
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University. The City would reimburse UNT for the cost of the
materials and service. Dr. Ganseh and his staff had volunteered
their labor for research and analysis. The questionnaire would be
sent to a random sample of 2000 residential utility customers taken
from a population of 21,700 residential accounts. Commercial
customers were not included because of potential duplication of
respondents in the sample. It was hoped that the survey would be
mailed out at the end of October, the data would be analyzed during
the month of November and a final report would be presented either
in late December or early January. The 1991-92 adopted budget
contained $5,000 to undertake the survey, however the arrangement
with Dr. Ganseh would save a portion of that amount.
Consensus of the Council was to proceed with the survey.
6. The Council was to have received a report and hold a
discussion regarding the City of Corinth's request to amend their
water contract with Denton.
.This item was considered during the Regular Session.
The Council then convened into the Regular Session at 7:00 p.m. in
the Council Chambers.
PRESENT: Mayor Castleberry; Mayor Pro Tem Hopkins; Council Members
Alexander, Chew, Smith and Trent.
ABSENT: Council Member Perry
1. Pledge of Allegiance
The Mayor presented the following proclamations:
National Fire Prevention Week and Month
Public Power Week
Kids Month - Take Time For Kids
National Dental Hygiene Month
2. The Council considered approval of the minutes of the Regular
Session of August 13, 1991, the Special Call Sessions of August 20
and August 27, 1991, and the Regular Sessions of September 3 and
17, 1991.
Mayor Pro Tem Hopkins stated that there was an error on page 9 of
the minutes of September 17, 1991. The section where Trent
withdrew his motion, should read that Hopkins withdrew her second.
She asked for that correction.
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Hopkins motioned, Alexander seconded to approve the minutes as
corrected. Motion carried unanimously.
3. Citizen Reports
A. The Council was to receive a citizen report from Mary
Roberts regarding the SPAN Handi-Hop program.
Ms. Roberts withdrew her request to speak before the Council.
B. The Council was to receive a citizen report from a
representative of the Chamber of Commerce Government Relations
Committee regarding a tree cut down at 329 East Hickory.
No representative from the Government Relations Committee was
present at the Council meeting to speak on the item.
C. The Council received a citizen report from Leta Koch
regarding ambulance care and Medicare assignments.
Ms. Koch stated that in July her mother needed to be transported
from Denton to Dallas in an ambulance. The ambulance service used
for the transportation did not accept Medicare as an assignment.
Senior citizens on Medicare could not afford the cost of an
ambulance and not be able to have Medicare assignments. There was
no other ambulance service with the necessary equipment which could
have transported her mother. She felt that there were citizens in
Denton who could not afford the cost of an ambulance and who needed
to have Medicare assignments for that type of service. She
requested the City do a survey or whatever it took to find out if
it would not be more feasible to take Medicare assignments as
opposed to not paying the bill. If that were not possible, perhaps
another ambulance service could provide those trips and take
Medicare as an assignment.
Mayor Pro Tem Hopkins suggested staff investigate the problem and
report back to Council. A response would be sent to Ms. Koch.
Consensus of Council was to proceed with Mayor Pro Tem Hopkins'
suggestion.
4. Consent Agenda
Mayor Castleberry read the agenda item through the bids and
purchase orders.
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council Member Trent asked if it were a normal procedure to put so
many monitoring devices in an area where these were going to be
located. Were all of the devices going to be used or were some of
them being bought as spares.
Bob Nelson, Executive Director for Utilities, stated that all of
the devices would be installed and would be operated at the same
time. This was an item which had been put off for a number of
years. There were problems with inflow and infiltration into the
wastewater pipeline systems. That came in through either open
manhole covers, from open clean-outs, cracks in the clay pipe. To
find out where that was happening required a series of monitors at
distinct locations along a trunk collecting system. During a
rainfall event, that flow could be measured and then a
determination could be made where the inflow and infiltration was
greatest. It was a comprehensive drainage system plan.
Council Member Trent asked if these had not been used before -
where there none on hand which could be used.
Nelson replied that the City currently had one flow tote in the
system. One of the old ways of monitoring the system was to send
a crew out after a hard rain and open the manhole covers and
measured how deep it was.
Council Member Trent asked if the system were becoming too
sophisticated.
Nelson replied that the current method was not satisfactory in
order to identify where to go in to correct the problem. There was
a risk of making a major error on where to replace a line or where
a line had a problem. The cost of the meters did not compare to
the cost of opening a line in an incorrect location.
Smith motioned, Chew seconded to approve the Consent Agenda.
Motion carried unanimously.
A. Bids and Purchase Orders:
1. Bid ~1270 - sanitary Sewer Flow Meter
2. Bid #1282 - Padmount Switchgear
3. 'Bid #1284 - Janitorial Service for Recreation Center
4. P.O. $13560 - Magneteck
5. Bid #1068 - P.O. ~97167-97168 - Eby Construction
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The Mayor read the remaining portion of the Consent Agenda.
Alexander motioned, Chew seconded to approve the remaining portion
of the Consent Agenda. Motion carried unanimously.
B. Tax Refunds
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Consider approval of a tax refund to Payless
Cashways, Inc. for $5,358.55.
Consider approval of a tax refund to Payless
Cashways, Inc. for $4,079.89.
5. Ordinances
A. The Council considered adoption of an ordinance accepting
a competitive sealed proposal and awarding a contract for the
purchase of materials, equipment, supplies or services. (4.A.1. -
Bid #1270, 4.A.2. - Bid $1282, 4.A.3. - Bid #1284)
The following ordinance was considered:
91-150
AN ORDINANCE ACCEPTING A COMPETITIVE SEALED PROPOSAL AND
AWARDING A CONTRACT FOR THE PURCHASE OF MATERIALS,
EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES OR SERVICES; PROVIDING FOR THE
EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS THEREFORE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
Chew motioned, Hopkins seconded to adopt the ordinance. On roll
vote, Trent "aye", Alexander "aye", Hopkins "aye", Smith "aye,,
Chew "aye", and Mayor Castleberry "aye". Motion carried
unanimously.
B. The Council considered adoption of an ordinance
authorizing the execution of a change order to a contract between
the City of Denton and Magnetek; and providing for an increase in
the contract price. (4.A.4. - P.O. #13560)
The following ordinance was considered:
91-151
AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF A CHANGE ORDER
TO A CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY OF DENTON AND MAGNETEK
ELECTRIC INC. FOR A REDUCTION IN THE CONTRACT PRICE; AND
PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
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Hopkins motioned, Chew seconded to adopt the ordinance. On roll
vote, Trent "aye", Alexander "aye", Hopkins "aye", Smith "aye",
Chew "aye", and Mayor Castleberry "aye". Motion carried
unanimously.
C. The Council considered adoption of an ordinance
authorizing the execution of Change Order No. 6 to a contract
between the City of Denton and Martin K. Eby Construction Co.,
Inc., providing for a decrease in the.contract price. (The Public
Utilities Board recommends approval.) (4.A.5. - Bid #1068-P.O.
#97167-97168)
The following ordinance was considered:
91-152
AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF CHANGE ORDER
NO. 6 TO A CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY OF DENTON ANDMARTIN
K. EBY CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.; PROVIDING FOR A DECREASE
IN THE CONTRACT PRICE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE,
Chew motioned, Smith seconded to adopt the ordinance. On roll
vote, Trent "aye", Alexander "aye", Hopkins "aye", Smith "aye",
Chew "aye", and Mayor Castleberry "aye". Motion carried
unanimously.
6. Resolutions
A. The Council considered approval of a resolution
authorizing the Mayor to execute a mutual use agreement between the
City and the County for backup on 800 mhz trunked communications
system.
Bob Nelson, Executive Director for Utilities, stated that the City
and the County both operated an 800 mhz communications system for
their patrol cars. This resolution would allow one of the entities
to reprogram the other member system and still maintain
communications with the original fleet.
The following resolution was considered:
R91-059
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE A MUTUAL
USE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF DENTON AND THE COUNTY
OF DENTON FOR BACKUP ON 800 MHZ TRUNKED COMMUNICATIONS
SYSTEM; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
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Alexander motioned, Smith seconded to approve the resolution. On
roll vote, Trent "aye", Alexander "aye", Hopkins "aye", Smith
"aye", Chew "aye", and Mayor Castleberry "aye". Motion carried
unanimously.
B. The Council considered approval of a resolution
appointing members to the North Texas Higher Education Authority.
City Manager Harrell stated that this was the point in time where
appointments were required to the North Texas Higher Education
Authority. The three incumbents who were currently serving and who
were the appointments of the City were willing to continue to serve
pending action on the part of the Council.
Hopkins motioned, Smith seconded to approve the resolution.
Council Member Trent stated that he did not know one of the
individuals and was not sure he could comfortably vote for the
resolution.
Council discussed the qualifications of the proposed members.
The following resolution was considered:
R91-060 -
A RESOLUTION APPOINTING MEMBERS TO THE NORTH TEXAS HIGHER
EDUCATION AUTHORITY; AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
On roll vote, Alexander "aye", Hopkins "aye", Smith "aye", Chew
"aye", and Mayor Castleberry "aye". Motion carried unanimously
with Trent abstaining.
C. The Council considered approval of a resolution
nominating candidates for membership to the Board of Directors of
the Denton Central Appraisal District.
City Manager Harrell stated that all of the taxing entities within
Denton County were given the right to submit nominees for someone
to serve on the Denton Central Appraisal District. That deadline
was the 16th of October. Once all of those names were assembled,
then the Council would be asked to cast votes for one or a
combination of candidates. The City had a certain number of votes
which could be split among candidates if the Council desired.
Normally-in the past the City had tried to do close coordination
with the Denton Independent School District regarding this matter
to ensure that at least one member of the Board came from the City
of Denton. The City could not do this independently as it did not
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have enough votes to ensure that any of the members would come from
Denton. The DISD had formally submitted Horace Brock as a nominee
to the Board. Dr. Brock was currently serving on the Board and was
the candidate the School District and the City cooperatively
nominated. It was not mandatory that the City submit a name.
The following resolution was considered:
R91-061
A RESOLUTION NOMINATING CANDIDATES FOR MEMBERSHIP TO THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE DENTON CENTRAL APPRAISAL
DISTRICT; AND DECLARINGAN EFFECTIVE DATE.
Hopkins motioned, Smith seconded to nominate Dr. Horace Brock.
Council Member Trent asked if this were an open nominating forum
and did the City only have one person elected to serve on the Board
to fill one of the five slots.
City Manager Harrell stated that all taxing jurisdictions Within
Denton County had until October 16 to submit names that Would go on
the ballot for consideration by all the taxing jurisdictions for a
later vote. The proposed resolution would allow the Council, on
behalf of the City of Denton, t° place a name on that ballot.
Council Member Trent asked if only one name could be submitted.
City Manager Harrell replied that he thought the City had the right
to only submit only one nominee. Once those names had been
complied, after the 16th of October, the names would be submitted
again to the Council for consideration of distribution of votes.
If the vote were split and if the City did not combine with the
School District and cast a ballot for a single individual, there
were not enough votes for the City of Denton to guarantee that the
City's nominee would get elected to the Board.
Council Member Trent stated that he understood that the City was
trying to maintain a degree of effectiveness byputting strength in
one candidate. He felt that was essential. His concern was that
the individual needed to have a strong sense of what was right and
not let some of the runaway things happen which he saw happening in
the past budgets. He did not approve with a lot of what he saw in
their budgets.. He asked for Dr. Brock's background.
Council replied that he was a retired accountant, a businessman and
wrote several books on oil and gas accounting.
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Council Member Chew stated that Dr. Brock was an excellent choice.
City Attorney Drayovitch stated that the City was able to nominate
more than one individual to the Board.
John McGrane, Executive Director for Finance, stated that each
voting unit could nominate one person for each position. There
were five positions to be filled so the City could nominate one
candidate for each of those five positions.
Council Member Alexander stated that the establishment of the
County-wide education fund might have an effect on the process.
The equations might be different and this might be a year where the
City needed to be especially careful and needed to concentrate its
effort to get a candidate elected. He felt Dr. Brock was highly
qualified to hold the position.
Mayor Castleberry asked if there were any further nominations.
Council Member Trent motioned to nominate George Kay. Motion died
for lack of a second.
On roll vote, Alexander "aye", Hopkins "aye", Smith "aye", Chew
"aye", and Mayor Castleberry "aye". Motion carried unanimously
with Trent abstaining.
D. The Council considered approval of a resolution by the
City Council of the City of Denton, Texas, authorizing an
application for a grant to participate in the National Tree
Planting Program and committing in-kind services to match the
amount of the grant.
Bob Tickner, Superintendent of Parks, stated that the program would
add more trees to the City of Denton. They had been advised in
July by the Texas Forest Service that the Federal Small Business
Administration had this grant program. Staff had submitted a
proposal on the number of trees and the locations where they might
be planted. Due to the number of requests, staff had to scale down
its request. There would be not local money involved. In-kind
services would be provided by staff in the way of planting and
maintaining the trees over the next three years.
The following resolution was considered:
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R91-062
A RESOLUTION BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DENTON,
TEXAS, AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION FOR A GRANT TO
PARTICIPATE IN THE NATIONAL TREE PLANTING PROGRAM;
COMMITTING IN-KIND SERVICES TO MATCH THE AMOUNT OF THE
GRANT; AND PROVIDING FORAN EFFECTIVE DATE.
Smith motioned, Chew seconded to approve the resolution. On roll
vote, Trent "aye", Alexander "aye", Hopkins "aye", Smith "aye",
Chew "aye", and Mayor Castleberry "aye". Motion carried
unanimously.
7. The Council considered a motion directing staff to adjust
Council district boundaries according to a schedule of activities
and according to certain criteria.
Harry Persuad presented a revised schedule in which staff had
adjusted the proposed dates taking into consideration the filing
dates for City Council candidates. If there were questions from
the Justice Department, the timing would fall back another 60 days.
If that happened, the current boundaries would be used for filing
purposes.
Chew motioned, Smith seconded to approve the revised schedule of
activities and the criteria for the boundaries. On roll vote,
Trent "aye", Alexander "aye", Hopkins "aye", Smith "aye", Chew
"aye", and Mayor Castleberry "aye". Motion carried unanimously.
8. The Council considered an appointment of a voting and
alternate voting delegate to the Annual Congress of Cities
Conference.
After Council discussion regarding who would be attending the
Conference and who would be able to stay for the Conference
business meeting, Trent motioned, Smith seconded to'appoint Mayor
Pro Tem Hopkins as the voting delegate and Council Member Alexander
as the alternate voting delegate. On roll vote, Trent "aye",
Alexander "aye", Hopkins "aye", Smith "aye", Chew "aye", and Mayor
Castleberry "aye". Motion carried unanimously.
9. Miscellaneous matters from the City Manager.
City Manager Harrell presented the following items:
A. Work Session item #6 was considered.
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Bob Nelson, Executive Director for Utilities, stated that the City
entered into a wholesale water contract with the City of Corinth on
May 14, 1985, that extended to June 1, 2006. This contract
required that by February 1st of each year, Corinth had to notify
Denton of the maximum daily demand that Corinth would need for the
subsequent water year. Presently, Corinth's requested demand was
1,250,000 gallons per day with an average daily flow of 550,000
gallons per day. The Mayor of Corinth recently contacted Denton
indicating that Corinth would like to consider drilling two wells
to be utilized for system peaking. By utilizing these wells,
Corinth's maximum demand from Denton would be reduced by
approximately 500,000 gallons per day. The Corinth system
represented approximately 5% of Denton's peak day requirements.
For this Corinth paid 5% of all fixed costs and a return on
investment for this 5% of the asset value of the system. Currently
this represented approximately $300,000 per year. There was a
provision in the contract for a five year backout clause. Corinth
had indicated in writing that they would like to establish the
proposed well system prior to the beginning of the June 1, 1992
.water year. They were requesting that Denton waive the five year
notice of intent requirements and that they be able to lower demand
volumes for the water year beginning June 1, 1992. The Public
Utilities Board reviewed this issue at their meeting of September
18, 1991 and acknowledged that such a reduction was in keeping with
the Board and City Council's policy to encourage Denton's wholesale
water customers to reduce their dependence on Denton. They were
concerned about the effect this amendment would have on the 1992
budget, plus a concern about the full reduction being allowed at
one time. The Board appointed a task force to review the issue.
The task force presented the following recommendations: (1)
Denton and Corinth would honor the present 1.25 gallons per day
demand request until October 1, 1992; (2) the requested demand
would be reduced from 1.25 MGD to 1.0 MGD effective October 1,
1992; (3) the requested demand would be reduced down to .75 MGD
effective October 1, 1993, pending Corinth advising Denton by
September 1, 1993 of any reduction below 1 MGD that was desired;
(4) the final maximum daily water demand request remaining after
these reductions would represent the absolute maximum demand that
Denton would provide, that Corinth would obtain any additional
water from other sources, and that Denton would not, after October
1, 1992, carry any reserves for Corinth's future growth in water
requirements; (5) the amendment for a reduction in demand was
agreed to be based on Corinth's ultimate commitment to shift from
being a Denton treated water customer to an Upper Trinity Regional
Water District treated water customer.
Council Member Trent questioned if Denton were shutting the door to
sell excess if the situation arose.
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Nelson replied that unless Council changed the policy, Denton would
not sell any excess.
Council Member Alexander stated that he had a problem with Corinth
relying on ground water rather than on surface water. Was that not
in conflict with longer term conservation goals and objectives.
Nelson stated that that was one of the disadvantages listed.
Although from an economic standpoint, if they operated and
coordinated those wells in the appropriate manner, they would be
run only from June to August. He continued that advantages of
allowing Corinth to reduce their requested volumes were: (1)
500,000 gallons per day of capacity could be returned to Denton;
(2) this followed the general direction received from the Council
and the Public Utilities Board over the 'past several years to
encourage customer cities to seek water supplies elsewhere and
discontinue receiving service from Denton; (3) it better utilized
plant capacity in the region for base load usage and placed a good
portion of Corinth's summer peak load onto a well system; (4) it
placed Corinth in a more competitive position with other members of
the UTRWD who had wells to handle some of their peaking
requirements and who planned to utilize surface water for base load
use; (5) it might help ease the concern Corinth had about the rates
it paid Denton for water. Disadvantages of allowing Corinth to
reduce their requested volumes were: (1) Denton stood to loose the
following amounts of revenue with an earlier reduction - $60,000 in
1993, $120,000 in 1994 through 1996; (2) utilizing wells would
further deplete the limited underground water supplies; (3) by
Corinth installing a well, their requirements from UTRWD would be
reduced which would mean less revenue for UTRWD to fund their
proposed pipeline system.
Mayor Pro Tem Hopkins stated that the amendment would work toward
the goal of not having the cities Denton was currently serving be
so dependent on Denton for their water.
Council Member Smith asked if Corinth was receptive to the concept
of a phased reduction.
Nelson replied that the City Manager and the Mayor seemed receptive
to the suggestion.
Consensus of the Council was to proceed as suggested by the Task
Force.
B. Harrell stated that the Council was invited to attend the
Hickory Creek park dedication sponsored by the Corps of Engineers.
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C. A memo had been received from the Municipal Judge stating
that she would be on vacation during October 9 - October 16.
Originally a legislative overview had been planned for the October
15 Council meeting. Harrell requested that the item be postponed
until the October 22 meeting.
D. Harrell noted that the City of Denton was the only city
which had the almost president of the APPA accept a proclamation
for Public Power Week.
10. There was no official action taken on Executive Session items
discussed during the Work Session.
11. New Business
The following items of new business were suggested by Council
Members for future agendas:
A. Council Member Alexander requested a report regarding the
ambulance situation as indicated by the citizen report received
earlier in the meeting.
B. Council Member Alexander requested a briefing regarding
the status of SPAN.
C. Council Member Trent asked for the travel/seminar policy
to placed on a work session as was indicated during the budget
process.
12. The Council convened into the Work Session to discuss
legal matters (considered action in re: Flow), real estate and
personnel/board appointments.
Mayor Pro Tem Hopkins left the meeting.
The Council then convened into open session and took the following
action:
A. Alexander motioned, Smith seconded to authorize the
Subcommittee and the City Manager to send a letter to Sennett Kirk
relative to the Flow Hospital bankruptcy and authorize the Mayor to
sign papers necessary to submit to the Federal Court. On roll
vote, Trent "nay", Alexander "aye", Smith "aye", Chew "aye", and
Mayor Castleberry "aye". Motion carried with a 4-1 vote.
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With no further business, the meeting was adjourned.
CITY'OF DEHTON, TEXAS
BOB CASTLEBERRY, MAYpR~
CITY OF DENTON, TEX~S
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