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Min 07/03/2018 City of Wichita Falls City Council Meeting Minutes July 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 Chambers of the Memorial with the following members present. Stephen L. Santellana - Mayor Jesse Brown - Councilors DeAndra Chenault - Mitesh Desai - Eric West - Bobby Whiteley - Darron Leiker - City Manager Kinley Hegglund - City Attorney Marie Balthrop - City Clerk - - - - - - - - Mayor Santellana called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. - - - - - - - - Item 2a Invocation Gene Holley, Pastor, Life Tabernacle Church, gave the invocation. - - - - - - - - Item 2b Pledge of Allegiance Mayor Santellana led the Pledge of Allegiance. - - - - - - - - Item 3a Employee of the Month Armando Manqual, Sanitation 8:33 a.m. Teresa Rose, Deputy Director Public Works, recognized Armando Mangual, Sanitation Supervisor, Residential Collection, as Employee of the Month for July. Mayor Santellana congratulated Armando and presented a plaque, letter of appreciation, restaurant voucher, and a check to Mr. Mangual and thanked him for his service. - - - - - - - - Item 3b Recognition of WFPD Officers Jaeden Esquibel and Brian Arias for earning medals at the 2018 Texas Police Games in Fort Worth, Texas. 8:38 a.m. Manuel Borrego, Chief of Police, recognized Officer Jayden Esquibel and Officer Brian Arias for their participation in the Texas Police Games in Fort Worth Texas. Officer Esquibel earned tennis. Mayor Santellana expressed his pride in the officers, congratulated them for earning medals, and thanked each of them for representing Wichita Falls. - - - - - - - - Item 4-5 Consent Items 8:42 a.m. City Manager Darron Leiker gave a briefing on the items listed under the Consent Agenda. Moved by Councilor Chenault that the consent items be approved. Motion seconded by Councilor Desai 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 June 19, 2018 Regular Meeting of the Mayor and City Council. Item 5 - Receive Minutes Minutes of the following boards and commissions were received: (a) Board of Adjustment, September 20, 2017 (b) Board of Adjustment, January 17, 2018 (c) Wichita Falls 4B Sales Tax Corporation, March 5, 2018 (d) Planning & Zoning Commission, May 9, 2018 City Council Minutes Page 2 (e) Wichita Falls Economic Development, May 17, 2018 (f) Landmark Commission, May 22, 2018 (g) Wichita Falls 4B Sales Tax Corporation, June 6, 2018 - - - - - - - Item 6a Public Hearing & Resolution 69-2018 8:43 a.m. Mayor Santellana opened the public hearing at 8:43 a.m. Dana Schoening, Director of Community Development, presented the 2018 Fourth Year Annual Action Plan of the Five Year Public Housing Agency (PHA) Action Plan adopted 2015-2016. There were no public comments and Mayor Santellana closed the Public Hearing at 8:45 a.m. Motion by Councilor Brown to approve Resolution 69-2018 approving the 2018 Fourth Year Annual Action Plan of the Adopted 2015-2016 Five Year Public Housing (PHA) Action Plan. Motion seconded by Councilor Chenault and carried by the following vote: Ayes: Mayor Santellana, Councilors Brown, Chenault, Desai, West and Whiteley Nays: None - - - - - - - - Item 6b Resolution 70-2018 8:46 a.m. Resolution authorizing the City Manager to make application to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (NCS-X) Grant through the Texas Department of Public Safety for conversion to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), Grant Number 2012-MU-MU- K003, in the amount up to $325,000.00 Motion by Councilor Chenault to approve Resolution 70-2018. Motion seconded by Councilor Brown and carried by the following vote: Ayes: Mayor Santellana, Councilors Brown, Chenault, Desai, West and Whiteley Nays: None - - - - - - - - City Council Minutes Page 3 Item 6c Resolution 71-2018 8:47 a.m. Resolution authorizing the execution of a Memorandum of Agreement between the City Association for the Provision of Medical Services to the Wichita Falls-Wichita County Public Health District Motion by Councilor West to approve Resolution 71-2018. Motion seconded by Councilor Brown and carried by the following vote: Ayes: Mayor Santellana, Councilors Brown, Chenault, Desai, West and Whiteley Nays: None - - - - - - Item 6d Resolution 72-2018 8:56 a.m. Resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into a contract with Ameresco Incorporated in the amount of $2,880,784 to perform services related to the installation of light emitting diode (LED) roadway lighting fixtures with a performance guarantee that annual savings will be sufficient to pay the annual cost of the system over a 15-year period. Moved by Councilor Chenault to approve Resolution 72-2018. Motion seconded by Councilor Brown and carried by the following vote: Ayes: Mayor Santellana, Councilors Brown, Chenault, Desai, West and Whiteley Nays: None - - - - - - Item 7 Items of Concern to Members of the City Council 9:05 a.m. Members of the City Council presented the following matters: Councilor Chenault - Thanked everyone for attending the meeting and invited everyone to Fourth in the Falls at the MPEC where there will be fireworks. Councilor Chenault congratulated individuals with Falls Town Boxing for earning bronze and gold medals. City Council Minutes Page 4 Councilor Whiteley Received a letter from a resident in the 1700 block of Lucile in reference to work being completed in the alley and the inability for sanitation to empty the dumpsters. Darron Leiker will follow up on this issue. Councilor Whiteley asked to follow up on alley easement issues discussed last month. Councilor West Expressed his appreciation, respect and love for a true leader that was lost in our community, Dr. Tom Rodgers, Pastor of Grace Church. Councilor West expressed his condolences to the family and church family of Dr. Tom Rodgers. Mayor Santellana Invited everyone to the fireworks at the Fourth in the Falls event at the MPEC. The Downtown Development Steering Committee has discussed possibly moving forward with getting volunteers to help with efforts to clean up downtown and possibly starting with community volunteers that could be utilized in other areas as well. - - - - - - - Item 8 Comments from the Public to Members of the City Council Concerning Items That Are Not on the City Council Agenda. 9:09 a.m. There were no comments from the public. - - - - - - - Item 9 Executive Session City Council went into Executive Session at 9:09 a.m. in accordance with Texas Government Codes §551.074 to deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, dismissal of a public officer or employee, including, but not limited to the appointment of City Councilor District 3. City Council reconvened at 10:21 a.m. Mayor Santellana announced that no votes or polls were taken. - - - - - - - Item 10 Appointment of City Councilor District 3 10:22 a.m. Motion by Councilor Brown to approve appointment of Jeff Browning to City of Wichita Falls City Council, District 3, term Expiring November 2018. Motion seconded by Councilor Whiteley and carried by the following vote: City Council Minutes Page 5 Ayes: Mayor Santellana, Councilors Brown, Desai, West and Whiteley Nays: Chenault Marie Balthrop, City Clerk, administered the Oath of Office to Mr. Jeff Browning. Mayor Santellana recessed the meeting for a brief break. - - - - - - - Item 11 Pre-Budget Workshop for Fiscal Year 2018/2019 10:40 a.m. Mayor Santellana resumed the meeting at 10:40 a.m. Jim Dockery, Deputy City Manager, presented an overview of the 2018-2019 budget. Christi Klyn, Director of Human Resources presented an overview of pay and benefit comparisons with other comparable citie gave a brief presentation that compared raw data on Police Officer base pay and comparisons with other similar cities. Paul Menzies gave a presentation on tying the cities goals, performance measures, and proposed budget to the City of Wichita Falls Strategic Plan. Presentations on possible outsourcing of custodial services, mowing/ edging/blowing of smaller city parks, and right-of-way mowing were discussed. Russell Schreiber, Director of Public Works, presented an overview of Public Works above current requests and the possibility of joining the 8-1-1 call system. Jim Dockery, Deputy City Manager, presented potential 4B Sales Tax Fund Projects. Darron Leiker, City Manager thanked the staff for their work on the budget and encouraged Councilors to review the budget presentations and contact him with any questions. The draft budget will be sent out to council on August 8, 2018 and the next budget meeting will be a Special Meeting on August 14-15, 2018. Item 12 Adjourn Mayor Santellana adjourned the meeting at 3:40 p.m. th PASSED AND APPROVED this 17 day of July, 2018. ________________________________ Stephen L. Santellana, Mayor ATTEST: ____________________________________ Marie Balthrop, TRMC, CMC City Clerk City Council Minutes Page 6