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Min 10/18/1994 694 Wichita Falls,Texas Memorial Auditorium Building October 18 , 1994 Items 1 & 2 The City Council of the City of Wichita Falls, Texas, met in regular session on the above date in the Council Room of the Memorial Auditorium Building at 8: 30 o'clock a.m. , with the following members present: Michael Lam - Mayor Leon Mallonee - Councilors Terrance E. Loughry - Angus Thompson - Bill Daniel - J. W. Martin - Harold Hawkins - Jim Berzina - City Manager Greg Humbach - City Attorney Lydia Torres - City Clerk Mayor Lam called the meeting to order. The invocation was given by Rev. Scott Wallace, Highland Heights Christian Church. Mayor Lam proclaimed October 16 through 23 , 1994 as "National Business Women' s Week" and commended the local organization Metropolitan BPW for their efforts in our community. Mayor Lam proclaimed October 16 through 22, 1994 as Red River Council of the Blind, "White Cane Awareness Week" . Item 3 Moved by Councilor Thompson that the minutes of the October 4, 1994 meeting be approved. Motion seconded by Councilor Hawkins and carried by the following vote. Ayes: Mayor Lam, Councilors Mallonee, Loughry, Thompson, Daniel, Martin, and Hawkins. Nays: None Items 4a-5b Moved by Councilor Martin that the Consent Agenda be approved. Motion seconded by Councilor Hawkins and carried by the following vote. Ayes: Mayor Lam, Councilors Mallonee, Loughry, Thompson, Daniel, Martin, and Hawkins. Nays: None 695 Item 4a Minutes of the September 7, 1994 Wichita Falls Traffic Safety Commission were received. Item 5a RESOLUTION NO. 160-94 RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE FINAL PAYMENT TO LONE STAR GAS COMPANY FOR RELOCATION OF GAS MAINS TO FACILITATE NORTH DRAINAGE BASIN SANITARY TRUNK MAIN, PHASE II CONSTRUCTION Item 5b RESOLUTION NO. 161-94 RESOLUTION TO ACCEPT THE KIWANIS PARK PLAYGROUND PROJECT AND AUTHORIZE FINAL PAYMENT TO LANTANA SERVICES, INC. Item 6a A proposed ordinance was presented waiving Ordinance 32-139 of the Code of Ordinances with respect to detention requirements for Lot 1, Unit 85, Wichita Valley Farms, Moved by Councilor Martin that proposed ordinance be passed. Motion seconded by Mayor Lam. Councilor Martin stated that this could be corrected with proper landscaping. Motion failed by the following vote. Ayes: Councilor Loughry Nays: Mayor Lam, Councilors Mallonee, Thompson, Daniel, Martin, and Hawkins Item 7a RESOLUTION NO. 162-94 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE FIXED BASE OPERATOR'S AGREEMENT WITH SOUTHERN AVIATION OF TEXAS, INC. ; FINDING AND DETERMINING THAT THE MEETING AT WHICH THIS RESOLUTION WAS DISCUSSED WAS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AS REQUIRED BY LAW. Moved by Councilor Thompson that Resolution No 162-94 be passed. Motion seconded by Councilor Martin. ` City Attorney informed that they had been in contact with the new intended purchaser of the Fixed Base Operators (FBO) contract to come up with some language that would accurately reflect the operation as it currently exists at the airport. We became aware of the fact there is need to amend the current contract to reflect those actual practices. The changes have been agreed to by both parties and include a reference to the field facilities which are not currently covered under the existing original lease agreement or intended to be covered. It also has some comfort language for the lessee that in case the premises is destroyed by some natural disaster, the City with insurance proceeds would rebuild. They felt they needed this comfort. language because they intend to put a substantial capital investment into the facilities. 696 Item 7a, cont'd. Councilor Martin suggested that in order to protect the City and to protect lessee' s profits that we should require disruption insurance. Councilor Hawkins wanted to have them carry the insurance. Jim Gavin, 3 Barcelona Court with Allred, Thompson, Daughtery, Mason Insurance, stated that they had quoted disruption insurance to Mr. Best and he had no objection to that change. They will also provide a certificate to the City. Moved by Councilor Martin to amend the original motion to include business interruption insurance at the expense of the lessee. Motion seconded by Councilor Hawkins and carried by the following vote. Ayes: Mayor Lam, Councilors Mallonee, Loughry, Thompson, Daniel, Martin, and Hawkins Nays: None Item 7b A proposed resolution was presented approving non- annexation agreement with Howmet Corporation. Moved by Mayor Lam that this proposed resolution be tabled until further action is required. Motion seconded by Councilor Daniel and carried by the following vote. Ayes: Mayor Lam, Councilors Mallonee, Loughry, Thompson, Daniel, Martin, and Hawkins Nays: None Item 7c RESOLUTION NO. 163-94 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONSENT TO ASSIGNMENT OF THE FIXED BASE OPERATOR' S LEASE AGREEMENT FROM SOUTHERN AVIATION TO BEST AVIATION SERVICES, INC. ; FINDING AND DETERMINING THAT THE MEETING AT WHICH THIS RESOLUTION WAS DISCUSSED WAS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AS REQUIRED BY LAW. Moved by Councilor Hawkins that Resolution No. 163-94 be passed. Motion seconded by Councilor Martin. Mr. Parker introduced Mr. Joe Best, Mr. Roger Humiston and Mr. Ted Leaver, representatives of Best Aviation Services to give a brief presentation. Mr. Roger Humiston, President of Best Wholesale Company Aviation Fuel Division and President of Best Aviation Services gave a brief overview of their plans. Our company has put together a fueling consortium with corporate aircraft users to provide them with over 120 Fixed Base Operator (FBO) locations nation wide in order to save corporate operators a substantial amount of money on purchases of their fuel. We contract with local FBOs to pump fuel in the aircraft. As a result of this business, we have learned the routes that corporate aircraft fly and Wichita Falls is in a perfect location to service aircraft that are crossing the country. It is easy to get into and out of; you have the needed runway length, and you have better fire 697 Item 7c, cont'd. crash rescue services than at DFW. Therefore, it is easy to sell people to stop in Wichita Falls and get their fuel. In addition, it is our plan to integrate this facility into our national program and use Wichita Falls as a fueling stop. This will hopefully increase the amount of fuel flow fee that the City will collect and increase the business coming into Wichita Falls. We will maintain all present services, and we look forward to possibly putting on a flight school and maybe a charter operation at Sheppard. We look forward to working with the City and the Council. Councilor Hawkins said that he had several concerns such as the possible need to expand the ramp area and additional fuel tanks. Mr. Humiston stated that there was no need for any expansion or additional tanks; everything is more than adequate for a Fixed Base Operation. Motion carried by the following vote. Ayes: Mayor Lam, Councilors Mallonee, Loughry, Thompson, Daniel, Martin, and Hawkins. Nays: None Item 7d RESOLUTION NO. 164-94 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, DECLARING CERTAIN PARCELS OF REAL PROPERTY AS EXCESS AND DIRECTING THE LAND TO BE SOLD BY SEALED BIDS; FINDING AND DETERMINING THAT THE MEETING AT WHICH THIS RESOLUTION WAS DISCUSSED WAS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AS REQUIRED BY LAW Moved by Councilor Thompson that Resolution No. 164-94 be passed. Motion seconded by Councilor Mallonee and carried by the following vote. Ayes: Mayor Lam, Councilors Mallonee, Loughry Thompson, Daniel, Martin, and Hawkins. Nays: None. Item 7e RESOLUTION NO. 165-94 RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE EFFECT OF UNFUNDED MANDATES ON CITY GOVERNMENT. Moved by Councilor Martin that Resolution No. 165-94 be passed. Motion seconded by Councilor Hawkins. Mayor stated that this was the number one issue facing our community, whether it be environmental, public health or safety mandates. Many of them are good but what is wrong is the way they are passed down to our communities without funding and with time tables that we have to endanger our physical health in order to obtain them. Many times without consideration they are blanket mandates to areas that do not need them. More and more they are passing the jobs down to the cities to pay for them. He encouraged citizens to contact the state and national officials to inquire about their stance on federal mandates and to apply pressure to have the federal government fund these mandates. 698 Item 7e, cont'd. Motion carried by the following vote. Ayes: Mayor Lam, Councilors Mallonee, Loughry, Thompson, Daniel, Martin, and Hawkins. Nays: None Item 7f RESOLUTION NO. 166-94 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITY MANAGER TO TRANSFER FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSES OF CONSTRUCTION FACILITIES FOR THE DIVERSION OF IRRIGATION WATER TO LAKE WICHITA. Moved by Councilor Daniel that Resolution No. 166-94 be passed. Motion seconded by Councilor Thompson. Councilor Martin commented that construction should not start until we receive the okay from the contractor and the Corp of Engineers that it is safe to proceed. Mr. Bonnett recommended that they proceed with the purchase of the flowage easements and build the facilities but put a lock on the valve until contractor is finished and gone, in order to avoid any conflict with the contractor' s operation. Motion carried by the following vote. Ayes: Mayor Lam, Councilors Mallonee, Loughry, Thompson, Daniel, Martin, and Hawkins Nays: None Item 7g RESOLUTION NO. 167-94 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A LEASE AGREEMENT WITH TRAVEL COM 800, INC. , FOR LEASE OF PREMISES AT THE WICHITA FALLS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT. Moved by Councilor Thompson that Resolution No. 167-94 be passed. Motion seconded by Councilor Mallonee and carried by the following vote. Ayes: Mayor Lam, Councilors Mallonee, Thompson, Daniel, and Martin Nays: Councilors Loughry and Hawkins Item 7h RESOLUTION NO. 168-94 RESOLUTION APPROVING CONTRACT FOR DESIGN AND INSPECTION OF SANITARY LANDFILL CELL XI Moved by Councilor Thompson that Resolution No. 168-94 be passed. Motion seconded by Councilor Hawkins and carried by the following vote. Ayes: Mayor Lam, Councilors Mallonee, Loughry, Thompson, Daniel, Martin, and Hawkins. Nays: None 699 Item 8a RESOLUTION NO. 169-94 RESOLUTION TO AWARD BID TO POTEET,INC. FOR INSTALLATION OF NEW WATERFALLS PUMP Moved by Councilor Mallonee that Resolution No 169-94 be passed. Motion seconded by Councilor Martin and carried by the following vote. Ayes: Mayor Lam, Councilors Mallonee, Loughry, Thompson, Daniel, Martin, and Hawkins Nays: None Item 8b Moved by Councilor Martin to award the bid for three ( 3 ) truck mounted sewer cleaners to Naylor Supply Company in the amount of $178,256. 00. Motion seconded by Mayor Lam and carried by the following vote. Ayes: Mayor Lam, Councilors Mallonee, Loughry, Thompson, Daniel, Martin, and Hawkins Nays: None Item 8c Moved by Councilor Martin to award bid for the North Site Contract of the Multi-Purpose Events Center Project to Electra Construction Company in the amount of $1,064,408. 00. Motion seconded by Councilor Daniel and carried by the following vote. Ayes: Mayor Lam, Councilors Mallonee, Loughry, Thompson, Daniel, Martin, and Hawkins Nays: None Item 9a Discussion on proposed annexation. City Manager stated that the Planning Staff would give an update on two tracts. After the presentation Staff would like direction from the Council. Mr. Clark explained that over the past year there have been questions on services, in particular water services to areas adjacent to the City. Staff has looked at two locations to provide information on what it might take if Council should wish to consider annexation of these areas. The first area is on the western side of the City and would include Kovarik Rd. west to City limits to FM 369 and north to the river area. This includes approximately 95 residences. Mr. Seese explained that what is proposed is to take the area of the City where FM 369 meets city limit line just north of Seymour Hwy. continuing north to the Wichita River, northeasterly and intersecting city limit line. We have done some land use to see how many residences will be affected by this. The relationship of existing and proposed City services are shown on the overhead. Mr. Bonnet informed about the utilities in that area. The basic problem we have there is that Wichita Valley owns the CCN, Convenience of Certificate Necessity. In order to annex that 700 Item 9a, cont'd. area we need to reach a resolution with Wichita Valley with respect to their service area. We have been visiting with them almost as an aside to the annexation. Ultimately, that area will probably be annexed and it is appropriate to develop a methodology for purchasing the income stream to service that area with municipal water. Wichita Valley has needs out there also, in that they want to have a portable water tap. They are going to have to make a significant expenditure over west of FM 369 if we do not provide them with a portable water tap. We have entered into negotiation and arrived at a methodology. The approximate cost would be just under $100,000 for the City to purchase the service area plus providing them with a water tap. Mr. Bonnett recommended that in a future Council agenda they bring the approval of the methodology, not necessarily the purchase. This would enable us to enter into a contract with Wichita Valley and get the methodology down with no out of pocket cost, but would give them their water tap. Also, a future council could exercise that methodology, which is predetermined, for the purchase of that system. That will purchase, in essence, the service rights to the area and then we would have to look at installing a water main system. In order for us to ultimately serve all those areas that have been developed it would be about a $500,000 expenditure which could be done in a step process. Mr. Bonnett touched on sanitary sewer and informed that there is none. The area will be served ultimately by a 15" sanitary sewer trunk line that is currently terminated at Tanglewood which will need to be extended. This will be a very expensive process. Right now it could be served by septic tanks, but probably fifty years from now it will be sanitary sewer. Refuse is no problem and everything else is pretty constant. Several questions were asked regarding state requirements and City standards on use of septic systems and past City policies of allowing an entity to serve the pipe water service to our ETJ. Councilor Daniel stated that the Staff was looking for direction from the Council on whether they wanted to follow through with the annexation process and asked if they would have an ample opportunity to discuss the methodology before actual implementation. City Manager responded that at this point Staff can drop this or continue on depending on Council' s direction. If Council chooses to annex this area, we are able to provide the services under the conditions mentioned; but, if Council is not interested in proceeding any further, you can indicate that to us. Mayor Lam said that he was completely against it and Council had indicated that to the Staff previously. The people who live out there do not want to be in the City limits and that is why they are out there. Mayor did not know why this continued to be brought up because he thought Staff had been directed that Council was not interested in this annexation. City Manager thought this had been put on the shelf for additional study. Councilor Martin stated that it was his understanding it had been put on the shelf pending an evaluation of what we had out there, we would then look at it. He asked if the fire station realignment had been taken into consideration. He was in favor of continuing the methodology. City Manager clarified that there were two things being considered, the methodology to handle the service area and the water utility. The theory of annexation is you annex before it develops therefore, controlling the development. Councilor Thompson was in agreement to proceed with looking at the methodology. Mr. Clark informed that once the formal process is begun annexation would take a ninety day period. 701 Item 9a, cont'd. Councilor Hawkins was concerned that the 15" sewer line could not handle the flow as the area was developed. Mr. Bonnett confirmed that it could, but they would have to enhance or build additional lift stations as the area developed. Councilor Loughry was concerned that if a sewer system was put in out there people would be forced to hook up to it. Councilor Thompson asked if there are ways to encourage development in such a way that it does not create more of a problem than we already have, such as flooding. Mr. Bonnett said that, physically, there are ways to do that. Your current ordinance makes it no worse during a 100 year event after development than it is before development. You may wish later , to reconsider that ordinance and maybe make it better after development. Councilor Mallonee asked what the $100,000 does. Mr. Bonnett responded that, simplified, it purchases the Wichita Valley system. They need to be in a zero income if they proceed with the transaction and you would be purchasing their business. If you chose to annex it you would then have a methodology set up which they would agree to beforehand. Councilor Daniel commented that annexation occurs for two reasons - desire for City services by residents in that area and future development, which is the situation being discussed today. He asked if the prison was going to lead to development in this area or what was forcing this issue. City Manger replied that there is present and contemplated development out there. Regarding the prison we are hearing of more and more interest in that area, but we do not know what is going to happen. It is just that you are getting into a situation that with that much development past this area there begins to be a void in your areas of development. The primary reason for the City to pursue annexation is to get the area before it is developed to a point where you have no choice but to take it in. Councilor Thompson said that the citizens should be informed and they should have some input in this. Mr. Clark clarified that the process is not started until Council votes to formerly start the process. This is just a discussion. Mr. Seese clarified that if Council directed Staff today to proceed with the study they would have to come back with an annexation service plan for the area. Around the first of November a draft resolution to proceed with the annexation would then be presented to Council. That resolution will include public hearing dates. We need to know whether you want us to proceed or to stop. Mayor asked for a show of hands if they want Staff to proceed with a service plan for the annexation of that area with a resolution which sets forth public hearing dates and the necessary ordinance for annexation. The show of hands was as follows: For: Councilors Daniel and Martin Against: Mayor Lam, Councilors Mallonee, Loughry, Thompson, and Hawkins. This was voted down. Mayor directed Staff to present information on the methodology study dealing with the water supply. Mr. Bonnett stated that they would present that at the next Council meeting. 702 Item 9a, cont'd. Councilor Daniel asked the reason for proceeding with the methodology study since the annexation had just been voted down. Mr. Bonnett replied that they could be two individual items; one is the portable water and the other is the annexation. Mr. Clark informed that there was a second area to consider which is the area to the northwest of the community that would incorporate the prison construction area. Boundaries are Riley Rd. on the north and FM 369 on the west side. This would be the city limit area to the north of the S.H. 287 and it would incorporate all the area in that segment. This area has not been studied to the degree as the other one. The reason this is being brought before you is because of the development potential, particularly to the immediate north of the S.H. 287. As the prison is completed, commercial entities may well be looking toward that area for service to the employees for that facility. Mayor asked for a show of hands to have staff proceed with generating more information as to the cost to provide services in this area with the assumption that they would proceed with public hearings. The show of hands was as follows: For: Councilors Mallonee, Thompson, Daniel, Martin and Hawkins Against: Mayor Lam and Councilor Loughry Item 9b A progress report on the Sanitary Sewer Evaluation Survey was presented by Mr. Bonnett, Mr. Gross, and Mr. Kerry Maroney of Biggs and Matthews. Mr. Bonnett gave a brief overview. The City holds a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Permit from EPA. Due to chronic overflows from the southwest quadrant, the old Holliday Creek line, in 1988 EPA issued an administrative order and as a result we built the new sanitary trunk line down Holliday Creek and resolved that issue. On July 20, 1993 EPA issued a show cause order and they utilized our mandatory reporting system and found 22 over flows due to surcharging, external from the Holliday Creek system and 40 overflows primarily due to grease blockage. After much negotiation, EPA issued an administrative order requiring certain actions inclusive of the Sanitary Sewer Evaluation Survey (SSES) . I do not think that we can argue that the administrative order was issued without justifications because we are having overflows and bypasses. EPA has, systematically, during the past twenty years started at the treatment plant and gradually worked their way back up the system and they are back at the collection system with the SSES that they are requiring throughout the nation. By way of commercial, which ties into unfunded mandates, the next two areas they will be moving into is MPDES storm flow. They will require us to obtain a permit for the rain water wherein we will be responsible for using the best available technology for reducing pollutants in that rain water. Today' s briefing is to give you a progress report on the SSES. Mr. Gross will give an overview on the administrative order and Mr. Maroney will give specifics. Mr. Gross gave the major components of the administrative order of the time schedules. The following events are required: 1 . SSES completed by 1995. a. Flow monitoring completed by 1994. b. Physical inspection of the collection system completed by December, 1994. 703 Item 9b, cont'd. c. Smoke testing, dying and televising of the sanitary sewer collection system completed by April, 1995. 2 . Computer modeling the system to be concluded by early 1995 3 . Final report issued by Biggs & Matthews, Contractor, by September 1, 1995. 4. Rehabilitation schedule completed by November 1, 1995. 5. Rehabilitation Program a. Engineering design b. Engineering construction c. Commence late 1995 and extend through 1999 Overflows from our collection system must be eliminated by January 1, 2000. The cost of the study is $2 . 1 million of which we have paid 50% since it is 50% complete. A complete cleaning of the system is needed which will begin on January 1, 1995, to be conducted over a four year period at a cost of about $1. 5 million. We have begun preparations to do this in-house. Mr. Gross stressed that this is not a four year program but has to be an on going process in order to avoid being in the same situation in the future, and in order to insure that capacity is not reduced because of deposits in the system. The rehabilitation program is an item that we do not know what has to be done at this point, therefore, we cannot put a figure on it. However, we have stated to the Texas Water Development Board an estimated $15 million in order to get in line for a small interest loan, but this does not commit us to anything. Mr. Maroney gave the following progress report. The SSES was mandated by EPA and its purpose is to eliminate the overflows documented by City. Also, EPA has set out some guidelines and have taken a different stance as how to solve these overflows. We submitted an original plan to EPA prior to our contract which did not follow EPA guidelines, therefore, was rejected. The SSES is a systematic, methodical, exhaustive type of analysis and a detailed study of the entire sewer system. The only measurement of flows coming into the system is at the waste water treatment plant. That is also the only location for a discharge permit which George referred to and any other discharge is an illegal discharge into the system. At this time the City does have the plan in compliance and has some capacity left in the plant. At this time EPA has moved out of the collection system. You have an average daily flow of 12-13 million gallons a day, and on a heavy wet weather flow that will go to 34 million gallons. You are looking at 20 million gallons of water in a 24 hour period. That is what we theoretically would be looking for in this SSES provided you received that type of rain event. SSES is comprised of a physical inventory of the system and systematic flow monitoring, and smoke and dye testing to locate defects, and televising to come up with a method of rehab and to locate defects, and a comprehensive report to be submitted to EPA. It: is not a finished product, this is just an update. The physical inventory reflects 2. 4 million linear feet which equates to 461 miles. 6607 man holes; a complete inventory of the waste water system as far as the collection system. 64% of your system is made up of 6" pipe and 15% is 8" pipe. The large trunk mains were done the last four or five years. There is a lot of work to be done on the system; the rehab is a lot of it. We are 70% complete with the physical inventory, what is left is to update your maps and to take another look at the cleanliness of your system. What we have found is that it is an extremely dirty system; some of those are taking up 25-30% capacity in nothing but silt. Councilor Daniel made the point that if the whole system was redesigned we would not have that percentage of 6" and 8" lines. It is our responsibility to look ahead, plan, and provide something that is economically 704 Item 9b, cont'd. efficient and provide an infrastructure which works with the City. Mr. Maroney commented that the problem was not that as the City grew those areas were ignored but collection areas closest to the plant were done years ago and as the system grew to the west and southwest you continued to add on picking up the largest line you had to extend the system. Mr. Maroney continued, next thing we did was set up 100 flow monitors throughout the City, so as to divide it up into sub or mini basins in order to get a handle on the amount of flows in dry and wet weather. Would like to spend that money in order to eliminate parts of the system. Parts of the system do not need anything done. We captured three rain events beginning in March and extended it to May without cost to the City, in order to obtain the necessary data. Mr. Maroney showed a graphical representation of the flow monitoring, pointing out that 41% of the total footage of the system generated nearly 73% of the total inflow. Next, we had to determine where that 41% was and we determined that by looking at the 100 flow monitors. He referred to a map and showed the major areas of consequences to the system. It is a combination of rehabilitation - shutting off inflow infiltration and expansion of the system, and you cannot do one without the other. It has to be a systematic approach before you can solve it. We took those areas to locate each defect by smoke testing, which is mostly complete. The objective of smoke testing is to locate and show distribution of all those defects whether in line or in manhole. As a result of the smoke testing we are going to come up with in excess of 1500 defects. Out of those 1500 defects 50% are on private property based on present information, the other 25% are in manholes and 25% are in main line segments within the municipal distribution of the collection system. An example of the private property defects would be smoke exiting from the service lines going from the main to the house, clean-outs, roof gutters tied directly into the system, etc. . That is what we have completed to date and what is left is some flow insolation measurements, and we have measured what we think to be wet weather inflows. There is some high ground water and we are investigating through flow isolation in order to determine the infiltration rate. Depending on whether the results are significant we may proceed with that or we may cut that back. We are ready to prioritize those basins. We will be doing some dye testing around the State Hospital and follow up with TV inspection to verify all the defects and areas in question and to help us with rehabilitation methods. All of those activities lead up to the system modeling, putting the entire system, meaning 10" and larger lines, on the computer. We will take all the defects, plug them in the various systems and model the system for various rain fall events to be able to set up the amount of rehabilitation and expansion to reasonably eliminate all the overflows. Typically, EPA is looking at a 5 year event which equates to five inches of rain in a 24 hour period or a 10 year event which equates to six inches of rain in a 24 hour period. Once we complete the modeling, we will submit a final report with cost estimates and recommendations for improvements, both rehabilitation and expansion of the system. We are 50% complete with the project. Mr. Maroney did not anticipate the system to be that dirty but with the number of 6" lines and how the system was built you have some flat grades and sedimentation in the lines, and it begins to make sense. There were other areas I thought we might pick up as far as some infiltration which has taken a little longer to analyze. 705 Item 9b, cont'd. If we concentrate on 73% of that inflow of which 41% we have honed in on, EPA will sign off on that. If you can shut off 35%-40% of your total inflow, you have done a very good job. Item 9c Giola Ozuna, 2839 Elmwood, hoped that everyone be considered in what we are doing. Roger Hutchison, 1521 Glendale, commended the Council for passing the resolution on unfunded mandates. He commended the Council for allowing the candidates debate to be held in Council Chambers and wanted to know when it was going to be held. Mrs. Ozuna informed it was October 20 at 7: 00 p.m. and is sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Mr. Bill Henderson, 4420 Prince Edward, representing the Peace Officers Memorial Foundation, requested a $173 . 71 donation to complete a $3 ,000 donation to the Foundation. For each $1500 you receive a bronze statute. In memory of officers who lost their lives in the line of duty locally, two statutes could be displayed, here at the Memorial Auditorium and at the Police Department. Mayor Lam said they would see that he received the $173 . 71 . Item 9d Councilor Thompson stated that he had seen City Staff working on the Downtown Park and he was impressed with the fact that they were working so hard to meet a deadline. He commended them for that. Councilor Hawkins asked Mr. Parker to look into putting the traffic light at Missile Road and Sheppard gate to flash. He asked Major Davis to look into school crossing lights at Crockett School. Councilor Martin asked about the man holes that the Highway Department had covered up on Jacksboro Highway. Mr. Bonnett said that had been discussed and they would be uncovered. Councilor Martin reminded everyone that early voting would begin tomorrow at the County Courthouse, K-Mart and Target Stores, Electra, Burkburnett and Iowa Park. There is no excuse for not voting. Councilor Loughry stated that the MPEC houses which were relocated appear to be abandoned and would like for someone to check into this. He asked that staff check into construction of structure at 4202 Briarcliff in Tanglewood regarding compliance of building and code ordinances. Also, he mentioned his concern in the procedure used by Code Enforcement in sending notices to mortgage companies on the destruction of unsafe structures. Regarding Crockett School and Beverly, he asked if prior notice was given. Mr. Parker replied that extensive notices were provided and warnings were given by officers when this change was first implemented. Item 9e City Manager passed out a staff report on the budget regarding a computer study. City Manager informed that staff was looking at relocating a sewer line under Zundy Jr. High. and sharing the cost with WFISD. City would pick up one-third of the cost. Mrs. Hillery updated on the wrecker service. The new legislation will go into effect January 1 and the City will no 706 Item 9e, cont'd. longer have power to regulate wrecker services. We may be looking at a contract type situation with one wrecker service. City Manager informed that he had notified political headquarters to remove all signs in the City right-of-way and on City property and that City crews will do a sweep on Friday and Saturday to confiscate signs that are not in compliance. There will be a $50 per sign charge if they want the signs back. Council recessed for ten minutes at 11: 45 a.m. Item 9f Council went into executive session at 11: 56 a.m. as authorized by Section 551.074 of the Government Code. The City Council reconvened at 12: 36 p.m. The City Council adjourned at 12: 37 p.m. PASSED AND APPROVED this day of 94 . Michael Lam, Mayor ATTEST: h U� h'au n MU) Lydi Torres Cit Clerk N.n: ��w=