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Min 01/20/2015 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES January 20, 2015 Page 1 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES Wichita Falls, Texas Memorial Auditorium Building January 20, 2015 Item 1 - Call to Order The City Council of the City of Wic hita Falls, Texas met in regular session on the above date in the Council Chambers of the Memorial Auditorium Building at 8:30 o’clock a.m., with the following members present. Glenn Barham - Mayor Ben Hoover - Councilors Annetta Dotson - Michael Smith - Tim Ingle - Tom Quintero - Brian Hooker - Darron Leiker - City Manager Kinley Hegglund - City Attorney Tracy Norr - City Clerk - - - - - - - - Mayor Barham called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. - - - - - - - - Item 2a - Invocation Pastor Mark Graham, Overcoming Word Praise Center, gave the invocation. - - - - - - - - Item 2b - Pledge of Allegiance Mayor Barham led in the Pledge of Allegiance. - - - - - - - - Item 3a – Proclamation – Crime Stoppers Awareness Month 8:33:40 AM Mayor Barham proclaimed January 2015 as Crime Stoppers Awareness Month in Wichita Falls and recognized Joseph Robeson who is the Crime Stoppers coordinator. He urged citizens to recognize crime stoppers in raising awareness of and defense against crime. CITY COUNCIL MINUTES January 20, 2015 Page 2 Mr. Robeson said since the program began in 1981, they have seized millions of dollars’ worth of narcotics and stolen property. The goal is to pay out over $1 million in rewards this year. Mayor Barham noted that all the reward money is private money. - - - - - - - - Item 3b – Proclamation – Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day 8:36:51 AM Mayor Barham read a proclamation establishing January 30, 2015 as National Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day in Wichita Falls and encouraged citizens to educate themselves on the earned income tax credit as well as the United Way income tax service. - - - - - - - - Item 3c – Proclamation – Americorps NCCC (N ational Civilian Community Corps) 8:39:38 AM Mayor Barham recognized the volunteers present who come from all over the country to help with tax preparation. He then proclaimed January 30, 2015 as Americorps NCCC day in Wichita Falls. He urged everyone to salute the volunteer team for this work. - - - - - - - - Item 4 - Comments from the Public to Members of the City Council Concerning Items That Are Not on the City Council Agenda. David Brock, 320 Hilltop, gave a handout to Police Chief Borrego and to City Attorney Hegglund. He said there is an on-going problem with a tenant who r efuses to leave the property. He said the police officers don’t understand the law. He said the Texas Property Code is easy to read and easy to understand. He discussed the problem he has on four lots. He said the police officers take the side of the tenant and also harass him as he is taking care of business on the other property. He said he has been physically assaulted by relatives of the tenant. He asked that the police officers follow the law as written in the property code and also that new recr uits be given a comprehensive test. Chief Borrego said the department has spent a lot of time and resources on the problem. It is a civil issue and has gone to civil court. There is not a lot the department can do. - - - - - - - - Item 5 – 6b – Consent Items 8:50:00 AM City Manager Darron Leiker gave a briefing on the item s listed under the Consent Agenda. Moved by Councilor Smith that the Consent Agenda be approved. Motion seconded by Councilor Dotson and carried by the following vote: CITY COUNCIL MINUTES January 20, 2015 Page 3 Ayes: Mayor Barham, Councilors Hoover, Hooker, Dotson, Smith, Ingle, and Quintero. Nays: None Item 5 - Approval of Minutes of the January 6, 2015 Regular Meeting of the Mayor and City Council Item 6a-b – Receive Minutes Minutes of the following boards and commissions were received: (a) Wichita Falls Traffic Safety Commission, November 5, 2014 (b) Lake Wichita Study Committee, December 9, 2014 - - - - - - - - Item 7 – Staff Reports 8:50:45 AM (a) Russell Schreiber, Public Works Director, and Gary Walker, SOAR, reported on the cloud seeding project. Mr. Schreiber said the cloud seeding program began about a year ago. Gary Walker, 504 4th Street, Plains, Texas, said the program was successful. He reviewed the U.S. Drought Monitor, noting this is the 5th consecutive year of the drought. He reviewed the rainfall for the past four years. He said the most likely time for beneficial seeding is around May 20 and during thunder storm activity. He showed the seeding locations for the watershed and said there were 410 flares used on 38 missions. He showed a radar evaluation done, showing the total increase in rainfall equates to 391,250 acre-feet of water over the target area, a 4.2% increase in precipitation. Mr. Walker reviewed the conservative cost benefit analysis and said the benefit is $1.58 for each $1 spent. He recommended the cloud seeding program start in April 1 and continue through August 31 if the council decides to proceed for another year. Discussion was held about the shared costs. Mr. Walker said a discount could be given if the program continues. Mr. Schreiber said information would be prepared for the council workshop for further discussion. Mr. Leiker noted that this year no seeding was done in July, which was an unusually wet month. Mr. Walker said there is flexibility for the terms of the contract. Mr. Walker also reviewed the method for the evaluations done by Dr. Ruis of Texas Tech. He said Dr. Ruis is a PhD in the Wind/Energy section. 9:35:21 AM (b) Russell Schreiber, Public Works Director, said the lakes were at 97.2 percent capacity in October 2010 and the state water study said Wichita Falls should not need water until 2060. However, the drought of record began in 2011. A new water study was needed. Simone Kiel of Freese and Nichols presented information regarding the long term water study. She said the long-range plan is looking forward about 50 or more years and answers how much water we have, how much we need, and how we will meet our future needs. She reviewed the impact of the 2011 drought, the existing water supply evaluation, the reservoir yield evaluation, and the projected available water through an estimated 2016 end of drought. She reviewed water demand projections based on the amounts needed for wholesale customers, population growth, and CITY COUNCIL MINUTES January 20, 2015 Page 4 safety factors, noting a projected shortage of 13.8 mgd to 19.1 mgd. Twenty-two strategies for future water needs were evaluation based on water quantity, quality, reliability, costs, regulatory requirements, impacts, time to implement, development obstacles, supply independence and competition for water. Ms. Kiel reviewed the strategies of indirect reuse, local groundwater, Wichita River water, conjunctive use, Lake Ringgold, Lake Bridgeport, Lake Texoma, Wilbarger County gr oundwater supply, and Donley and Gray County groundwater . The supply, time to implement, capital costs, unit costs, and issues were reviewed for each strategy. She said conservation and indirect reuse are the best short term options. Kerry Maroney said Oklahoma groundwater was considered. He said there are water quality and legal issues, and long-term contracting options are questionable. Ms. Kiel reviewed different scenarios using combinations of the strategies. The recommendation was to continue developing the indirect reuse, initiate permitting for Wichita River and Ringgold projects, and continue negotiations on local groundwater. She also recommended continue to explore immediate drought response by extended use of direct potable reuse and a brackish groundwater study. Other recommendations include continuing to monitor available supplies for short-term strategies, reviewing current wholesale contracts, considering a comprehensive joint operations plan for Lake Kemp with WCWID #2, and making app ropriate adjustments to this water supply plan as more information becomes available. Councilor Smith asked about ideas for further water conservation. Ms. Kiel said drought management is being done, and when the drought ends some of the drought practic es will continue through lifestyle changes. She said there are some other options for water conservation that could be considered. Mayor Barham thanked Ms. Kiel for the report. Darron Leiker said no firm recommendations are being presented by staff beca use of the amount of information in the report. There will be discussion on the strategies at the planning workshop. - - - - - - - - Item 7b – Items of Concern to Members of the City Council 10:38:14 AM Members of the City Council presented the following matters: Councilor Dotson asked if mobile trucks could be used for selling desserts. Lou Kreidler said a mobile food truck for selling desserts is allowed as long as the mobile food truck is permitted and the food comes from an approved source. Councilor Ingle thanked Ms. Kiel and Mr. Maroney for the report. He said he has a neighbor who fished at the bridge on 281 and Lake Arrowhead and reported there is a dirt buildup at the bridge. Mr. Schreiber said it is silt and there is no need to dredge at this time. Councilor Hoover added his thanks for the water plan presentation. He said continuation of the direct potable reuse project also needs to be considered. - - - - - - - - CITY COUNCIL MINUTES January 20, 2015 Page 5 Item 8 – Executive Session City Council went into Executive Session at 10:44:14 AM in accordance with Texas Government Code §551.072. City Council reconvened at 11:25:18 AM. Mayor Barham announced that no polls or votes were taken during Executive Session. - - - - - - - - Item 9 - Adjourn City Council adjourned at 11:25:28 AM. PASSED AND APPROVED this 3rd day of February, 2015. __________________________________ Glenn Barham , Mayor ATTEST: ____________________________________ Tracy B. Norr, MMC, City Clerk