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Minutes September 14, 2004CITY OF DENTON CITY COUNCIL MINUTES September 14, 2004 After determining that a quorum was present, the City Council convened in a Planning Work Session on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 at 4:00 p.m. in the City Council Work Session Room. PRESENT: Mayor Brock; Mayor Pro Tern McNeill; Council Members Kamp, Montgomery, Mulroy, Redmon and Thomson. ABSENT: Council Member Redmon 1. The Council received a report, held a discussion, and gave staff direction regarding the 2004-2005 Budget and the 2004-2009 Capital Improvement Program. Council discussion on the budget included: · Whether employee salary increases would be across the board or merit increases - all increases would be staggered merit increases except for Civil Service-Civil Service would receive a 3.11% increase beginning January 1, 2005. · Additional information requested regarding the restoration of Library and recreation center hours - amount in final proposal did not match original requested amount - restored amount was for employees only to man the restored hours - no equipment or materials included. · Follow-up details of the hard materials eliminated from the budget. Council Member Redmon arrived at the meeting. · Whether the 5-cent tax increase would cover all the proposed needs. · If a void still existed, what area would it include street infrastructure/vehicle maintenance/salaries. · The reductions in social services would remain with the excess to be used to fund a police officer. · Social service agencies should look to other resources for funding - challenge other communities to provide funding for the social service agencies. Denton shouldn't do it all - determine the county role in funding for social services throughout the county. 2. The Council received outcome statements and held a discussion regarding Environment. City Manager Conduff indicated that there were no new outcome statements. 3. The Council received a report, held a discussion and gave staff direction regarding Pavement Management Recommendations. Paul Foxworthy, ERS Consultant, reviewed an engineering analysis of automated roadway evaluations. The evaluation used semi-automated video distress and ground penetrating radar that simultaneously recorded the surface condition, rutting and roughness of the pavement surface. The results of the survey indicated several areas that needed to be addressed to begin to improve the overall street condition in the community. The two most obvious needs were implementation of quality control procedures to ensure streets were built to standard and increased overall funding. A multi-year pavement repair plan needed to be developed. He reviewed family class performance models for various types of street patterns. City of Denton City Council Minutes September 14, 2004 Page 2 Jim Coulter, Director of Water/Wastewater, stated that Denton's streets had a $332 million asset value for the 1300 lane miles. If the streets were not properly maintained, it would cost $13.25 million per year for reconstruction. He reviewed the street design criteria for surrounding municipalities. Long-term maintenance issues included preventative maintenance, quality control with inspections, geotechnical verification and funding levels. He presented slides of problem streets within Denton. Continued maintenance, quality control and funding were the issues to consider. Long term funding strategies included general obligation bonds, funding from the Denton County Transportation Authority and a possible street maintenance fee that would only be used for reconstruction. Street Impact fees applied to street construction in new developments. It was recommended to continue investigation of funding alternatives such as a street maintenance fee; street impact fees; and resource allocation. Council discussion included: · How to "sell" the issue to the citizens. · The tax would be a regressive tax. · Way to get dollars from another area rather than taxes. · The current ad valorem tax rate did not allow the capture of dollars needed to pay for maintenance. · Need to have mass transit in Denton to help with street maintenance. · Need to define model on how to fund. · Need to develop a plan on how to solve the problem. Consensus of the Council was to continue investigation of funding alternatives to solve the problem. 4. Suggestions for Agenda Committee on future agenda items and/or placement of items for upcoming agendas. No suggestions were made at this meeting. With no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 7:00 p.m. JENNIFER WALTERS CITY SECRETARY CITY OF DENTON, TEXAS EUL1NEBROCK MAYOR CITY OFDENTON, TEXAS