Minutes January 29, 2002CITY OF DENTON CITY COUNCIL M1NUTES
January 29, 2002
After determining that a quorum was present, the City Council convened in a Special Called
Session of the City of Denton City Council on Tuesday, January 29, 2002 at 4:30 p.m. in the
Council Work Session Room in City Hall, 215 E. McKinney Street, Denton, Texas.
PRESENT:
Mayor Brock; Mayor Pro Tern Beasley; Council Members Fulton, McNeill,
Phillips, and Redmon.
ABSENT: Council Member Burroughs
1. The Council considered approval of a resolution of the City Council of the City of
Denton, Texas, appointing one member and two alternates to the Interim Executive Committee
of the Denton County Transportation Authority; providing a repealer; and providing an effective
date.
Mayor nominated, McNeill seconded Joe Roy as the member, Jon Fortune as First Alternate and
Stan Nixon as Second Alternate to the Interim Executive Committee of the Denton County
Transportation Authority. On roll vote, Beasley "aye", Fulton "aye", McNeill "aye", Phillips
"aye", Redmon "aye", and Mayor Brock "aye". Motion carried unanimously.
Following the completion of the Special Called Session, the Council convened into a Planning
Session.
1. The Council received a report, held a discussion, and gave staff direction regarding long
range planning issues and their prioritization including without limitation economic
development, transportation, planning and zoning, budgetary and financial issues.
Mike Conduff, City Manager, stated that at the Council planning session, Council had developed
a number of key areas dealing with future issues. One objective of this meeting would be to go
through those major topics and develop sub-topics under the major topics and a schedule for the
rest of the 2002 long range planning sessions.
Council Member Burroughs arrived at the meeting.
Council discussed the following major topics and developed associated sub-topics.
Economic Development · Organizational Structure, City/Chamber ED
Corporation
· Financing 380/Abatement Mechanisms
· Downtown
· Arena for displays and performances
· Ice Rink
· Sports Marketing Commission
· Major Stadium
· Trails
· Recreational Center for North Texas
· Aquatics Center/Water Park
· Industrial Park West
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· Infrastructure Investment
· Trans Texas Stop
· NAFTA Impacts
· Development as the "3rd City"
· Educational Resources/DISD
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Transportation · Downtown and Parking
· Streets-Local and Regional
· Sidewalks and Walkability
· Transit Station (Intermodal)
· Regional Solutions- DART/TRE
· Airport Improvements
· Link-Tours of Cities
· Enhance Link/Financing
· LocalBusiness Accessibility
Neighborhood Development Strategies
· Preservation and Enhancement/Pecan
· Rejuvenation
· Redevelopment
· Additional Recreation Facility
· Infill Policy
· lA cent 4B sales tax
Resources · CIP 40 million +/- 2004
· 50 yr. projections on water, landfill and sewer
· Land Trust Creation
· Leveraging Resources
· Environmental Sensitivity
· ~ cent 4B sales Tax
Cultural Development · Conference Center/Jazz
· Rehearsal Performance Space
· Public Art
· Greenbelt
· Demographic Resources
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Comprehensive Plan Review
· Effective Measures/Growth and Tracking (How are we
doing?)
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Communication and Marketing · Ways to Communicate w/Citizens
· Marketing Outreach
· Staff Outreach "Sell the Staff"
· "Channeling" 26
· Long Range Communication Vision/"Is cable
Obsolete?"
· 3rd City/Metroplex Marketing
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Community Aesthetics · Clean up the trash
· Marketing with Stores
· Recycling Bounty
· "3 A Day" Program
9. Master Plans
· Parks
10. Solid Waste Strategies
· Including recycling
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11. Boards and Commissions · Who do they advise?
· How are they appointed?
· How are they trained?
12. Annexations
· Value/Purpose/What it means for Denton
13. Code Review
14. Community Perceptions · What are they? [Will be looking at citizen survey on
Feb. 19, 2002]
· What is the impact
After discussion on the above various major topics, Council ranked the major topics per their
priorities. Those included: arena, streets, infrastructure, neighborhood preservation, airport
improvements, regional transportation solutions, downtown, conference center, 50 year look at
water, sewer and landfill and educational resources. Council also talked about how to conduct
the long range planning meetings and the consensus was to allocate 15 minute staff presentations
on research and best practices on issues; 45 minute presentations from experts; 30 minute
presentations for partners/stakeholders; 30 minute discussions among themselves; and to involve
citizens at the implementation phase rather than during initial discussion. A tentative schedule of
topics for discussion included the following with a review of the schedule after the June meeting:
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February
April
May
June
Aug.
September
October
November
January 2003
Multi-year financial forecast
Downtown
Airport improvements
Neighborhood preservation
Infrastructure investment
Streets/regional transportation
50 year look at water, sewer, landfill
Arena/conference center
DISD/education
2. New Business
The following item of New Business was suggested by Council for future discussion or agendas:
Council Member Redmon asked for a memo regarding the painting of the City's water towers.
With no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 6:45 p.m.
EUL1NE BROCK, MAYOR
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS
JENNIFER WALTERS
CITY SECRETARY
CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS