Min 04/03/2018
CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
Wichita Falls, Texas
Memorial Auditorium Building
April 3, 2018
Item 1 - Call to Order
The City Council of the City of Wichita Falls, Texas met in regular session on the above
date in the Council Cham
the following members present.
Stephen L. Santellana - Mayor
Jesse Brown - Councilors
DeAndra Chenault -
Mitesh Desai -
Brian Hooker - Absent
Eric West -
Bobby Whiteley -
Darron Leiker - City Manager
Kinley Hegglund - City Attorney
Kia Weathersby - Deputy City Clerk
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Mayor Santellana called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m.
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Item 2 Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance
The invocation was offered by Minister Jacob Hawk, Faith Village Church of Christ.
Mayor Santellana then led the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Item 3a Employee of the Month Penny Whitley, Aviation, Traffic, & Transportation
8:32 a.m.
John Burrus introduced Penny Whitley as the Employee of the Month and spoke about
her time working with the City. Mayor Santellana presented a plaque, a letter of appreciation,
restaurant voucher, and a check to Ms. Whitley and thanked her for her service.
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Item 3b Proclamation Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, Police Department
8:36 a.m.
Mayor Santellana read a proclamation recognizing Public Safety Telecommunicators
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Week as April 8 to 14, 2018 and asking the citizens of Wichita Falls to thank
Telecommunicators.
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Item 3c Proclamation National Service Recognition Day, AmeriCorps & Texas HIPPY
8:39 a.m.
Mayor Santellana read a proclamation recognizing April 3, 2018 as National Service
Recognition Day in Wichita Falls.
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Item 3d Operation Fresh Start Day New Jerusalem Baptist Church, Angus Thompson
8:41 a.m.
Mayor Santellana read a proclamation recognizing April 14, 2018 as Operation Fresh
Start Day in Wichita Falls.
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Item 3e Child Abuse Prevention Month Child Abuse Prevention Committee
8:44 a.m.
Mayor Santellana read a proclamation recognizing April 3, 2018 as Child Abuse
Prevention Month in Wichita Falls.
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Item 4-6c- Consent Items
8:48 a.m.
City Manager Darron Leiker gave a briefing on the items listed under the Consent Agenda.
Moved by Councilor Brown that the consent items be approved.
Motion seconded by Councilor Chenault and carried by the following vote:
Ayes: Mayor Santellana, Councilors Brown, Chenault, Desai, West, and Whiteley
Nays: None
Item 4 - Approval of Minutes of the March 20, 2018 Regular Meeting of the Mayor and
City Council
Item 5a Resolution #40-2018
Resolution No. 40-2018
Resolution authorizing the purchase of a Wachs Valve Maintenance
Trailer through the BuyBoard Purchasing Cooperative from Illinois
Tool Works Inc. in the amount of $58,484.37
Item 6 - Receive Minutes
Minutes of the following boards and commissions were received:
(a) Park Board, January 11, 2018
(b) Planning & Zoning Commission, February 14, 2018
(c) Library Advisory Board, March 20, 2018
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Item 7a Ordinance #15-2018
8:49 a.m.
Ordinance No. 15-2018
Conduct a public hearing and consider and take action on an
ordinance amending the Code of Ordinances, Appendix B: Zoning,
Section 3000 - Zoning District Types and Regulations, specifically
Section 3640. PUD Planned Unit Development District (General)
and Section 3680. Approval Criteria to allow for Planned Unit
Developments (PUD) to be less than five (5) acres; providing a
repealer clause; providing for inclusion
8:50 a.m. Mayor Santellana declared the public hearing open
Dana Schoening spoke about the ordinance and defined what the various sections are
referring to and what the purpose of a Planned Unit Development District is. A tiny home
developer wants to come in and build a tiny home housing development for veterans, which
would require a change from the current 5 acre tract requirement. Reducing the acreage tract
requirement would allow more projects to come in in the future. The Planning & Zoning
Commission fell on the 3 acre requirement as a good place for the City to be.
Councilor West asked what the reasoning behind limiting acreage is. Dana explained
that reducing the acreage requirement allows for areas that could not otherwise be developed to
be used and allows more flexibility. Councilor West also asked why there is an acreage
requirement at all. Dana explained that the decision was based on other cities and what would
work best for the City. The recommendation was 3 but it could be changed. Darron Leiker
suggested that a reason for having an acreage requirement can prevent the developments from
coming into neighborhoods that might not want the Planned Unit Developments coming in.
Dana also discussed that the specific project that triggered this discussion needs 3.25 acres for
each unit.
8:58 a.m. Mayor Santellana declared the public hearing closed.
Motion to amend Ordinance to allow for PUD to be 3 acres and above by Councilor
Brown
Motion seconded by Councilor Chenault and carried by the following vote:
Ayes: Mayor Santellana, Councilors Brown, Chenault, Desai, West, and Whiteley
Nays: None
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Item 7b Ordinance #16-2018
8:59 a.m.
Ordinance #16-2018
Conduct a public hearing and consider and take action on an ordinance rezoning
approximately 3.72 acres of land located at Lot 2-D and Lot 2-C, Block 12,
Bellevue Addition (corner of Denver & Van Buren St - former Alamo Elementary)
from Single Family-2 (SF-2) to General Commercial (GC) and amending the Land
Use Plan to change the area from Institutional to Commercial
8:59 a.m. Mayor Santellana declared the public hearing open.
Dana Schoening spoke about the property tracts that are part of this rezoning request.
The property owner wants to develop it into a multi-family development. Residents of the area
were notified of the potential rezoning. 3 responded in favor, none responded in opposition, and
2 were undecided. Planning & Zoning Commission recommended approval. Staff
recommendation is also for approval.
Richard Graham, 3400 Onaway Trl, is the property owner and spoke about the reason
behind the rezoning request. Part of the property is commercial and it has not been decided
what to do with that yet.
Councilor Whiteley thanked Mr. Graham for his involvement in Wichita Falls and for his personal
investment in the City.
Mr. Graham also thanked Darron Leiker and Jim Dockery for their assistance with the
School District.
9:07 a.m. Mayor Santellana declared the public hearing closed.
Motion to take action by Councilor Brown.
Motion seconded by Councilor Chenault and carried by the following vote:
Ayes: Mayor Santellana, Councilors Brown, Chenault, Desai, West, and Whiteley
Nays: None
9:08 a.m. Darron Leiker stated staff would like to pull items 7c Ordinance #17-2018 and 7d
Ordinance 18-2018 to return those items to the Planning & Zoning Commission for further
consideration and bring back to the Council at a later date, either the next meeting or in May.
Mayor Santellana said the following two Ordinances will be pulled from this agenda.
Item 7c Ordinance #17-2018
Ordinance #17-2018
Ordinance amending Chapter 46 of the Code of Ordinances by the addition of
Article VIII, Temporary Storage Units; setting an effective date
Item 7d Ordinance #18-2018
Ordinance #18-2018
Ordinance amending and replacing Ordinance No. 51-2017, the fee schedule
applied to City operations; providing for severability and that such ordinance
shall not be codified
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Item 8a Resolution #41-2018
9:09 a.m.
Resolution #41-2018
Resolution authorizing award of bid for the purchase of one (1) ¾ ton, 4-wheel
drive diesel pickup from the low bidder, Wichita Falls Ford-Lincoln, Inc., in the
amount of $32,997.70
Moved by Councilor Chenault that Resolution No. 41-2018 be passed.
Motion seconded by Councilor Desai.
Pat Halverson spoke about the bids received and stated that staff is recommending the
awarding of the bid to Wichita Falls Ford-Lincoln, Inc. and added that there is sufficient savings
in the account to cover this purchase, even though it is over the stated budget.
Carried by the following vote:
Ayes: Mayor Santellana, Councilors Brown, Chenault, Desai, West, and Whiteley
Nays: None
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Item 9 Items of Concern to Members of the City Council
9:11 a.m.
Councilor Whiteley thanked John Burrus for his eloquent speech for Employee of the
Month.
Councilor Chenault thanked everyone for coming out and thanked Mayor Santellana for
coming to the banquet Saturday where she was honored for her work in the community.
Mayor Santellana stated he was glad he was able to go to the banquet honoring
Councilor Chenault to see her being recognized for her work.
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Item 10 Comments from the Public to Members of the City Council Concerning Items
That Are Not on the City Council Agenda.
9:13 a.m.
Jim McElvain, 3050 Peterson Rd, Iowa Park, TX owns property near Kickapoo Airport
and learned to fly there. He feels that Kickapoo is more efficient than the Municipal Airport and
that the majority of business people flying in and out come through Kickapoo. He believes that
there are some improvements that need to be made at Kickapoo, and if the City cannot do it, it
should go to a private company. However, he feels that the City should keep it and make it what
it should be. The City has the infrastructure to make Kickapoo be Wichita Falls instead of it
becoming an entity if it is privatized. He feels that it would be a major selling point for economic
development.
Glenn Beavers, 2321 Brook Hollow Dr, Wichita Falls, TX Mr. Beavers has been based
in Wichita Falls and Kickapoo for 40 years. He believes that Kickapoo used to be a much better
airport than it is now, but is not sure if privatization is the solution. He feels that maximizing
profits should not be the main goal, but that offering the best quality should.
LaNena Wilson, 4720 Neta Ln, Wichita Falls, TX provided a packet of information to
Council members. She is concerned about turning Kickapoo over to a private corporation. She
and others went to Altus/Quartz Mountain Regional Airport to see what they do differently in
order to gather ideas for what the City should implement at Kickapoo.
Amanda Alpers, 1105 Holliday St, Wichita Falls, TX spoke during the HIPPY
proclamation and was no longer present
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Items 11a-11b Executive Sessions
City Council went into Executive Session at 9:27 a.m. in accordance with Texas
Government Codes §551.087 and §551.074.
City Council reconvened at 10:49 a.m.
Councilor Brown announced the beginning of the closed meeting at 9:33 a.m. in
accordance with Texas Government Codes §551.087 and §551.074.
The Executive Session closed at 10:47 a.m.
Councilor Brown announced that no polls or votes were taken during Executive Session.
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Item 12 Adjourn
Councilor Brown adjourned the meeting at 10:50 a.m.
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PASSED AND APPROVED this 17 day of April, 2018.
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Stephen L. Santellana, Mayor
ATTEST:
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Deputy City Clerk