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Home My WebLink About03/17/2015 City CouncilMarch 17, 2015 MINUTES OF COUNCIL REGULAR SESSION HELD ON MARCH 17, 2015 The Regular Session of the City Council of the City of The Colony, Texas, was called to order at 6:32 p.m. on the I7 h day of March, 2015, at City Hall, 6800 Main Street, The Colony, Texas, with the following roll call: Joe N-IcCourry Kirk Mikulec Richard Boyer Brian R. Wade David Terre Perry Schrag Joel ',\/[arks Mayor Councilmember Mayor Pro -Tem Councilmember Councilmember Councilmember Councilmember Present Present Present Present (6:33 p.m.) Present Present Present (7:09 p.m.) And with five council members present a quorum was established and the following items ivere addressed: 1.0 ROUTINE ANNOUNCEMENTS, RECOGNITIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS: Call to Order Invocation — David Terre Pledge of Allegiance to the United States Flag Salute to the Texas Flag I Items of Community Interest - Parks and Recreation update on upcorning events and activities. 2.,0 WORK SESSION- The Work Session is for the purpose of exchanging information regarding public business or policy. No action is taken on Work Session items. Citizen input will not be heard during this portion of the agenda. 1.1 Council to discuss creating committees for the purpose of determining the city's needs for an additional recreation center and to determine the 64's needs for additional other city facilities, and if desired, may make appointments to such committees. Mayor McCourry appointed council members Wade and Mikulec to a committee to study recreation center needs. Mayor McCourry and Councilmember Boyer will be on the facilities committee. The council members not appointed to these committees Nvill appoint citizen representative es to serve on the committees on their behalf. The names of these individuals will be submitted at the next council ineelling. I ilcse itenI6 ale "'ricfl" pubh� serv4ce announcernems. Expressioris ofthanks, congratUiUli(111S or condolences, inf'oniiatiun iogaiding lYf i i.iy scfictUes' honoiar,, reLOLIfTi011 Of Cit' officials, ernploNees or othei citizens; roitdnders about upcoming eVents sponso¢'-d bGie CiE1 or other entiii, flia[ ere cheduled to be attended 6 , a cin o I, ficijl or citr empiw e,.,. No aLt[Ori Nhi I I be tdkm and no ditection �a ii I i%tt i en regarding these March 17, 2015 2.2 Council to provide direction to staff regarding future agenda items. - None 3.0 CITIZEN INP-LTT- This portion of'rhe meeting is to allow up to five (5) minutes per speaker %Nith a maximum of thirty (30) minutes for items not posted on the current a,,,enda. The council may not discuss these items, but nia,,, respond with factual data or policy information, or place the item on a future agenda. Those N�ishing to speak shall submit a Request Form to the City Scuretarv. Johnathan Frye spoke against any, ban of e -cigarettes. Jill Feys spoke in favor of banning e -cigarettes. Mayor McCourry advised if there is legislation being considered the state representatives can be contacted. Councilmember Boyer added that six (6) bills regarding e -cigarettes have been filed. Rich Lox from a local boxing club for youths requested that the city implement regulations that would require filtration systems in businesses that allow smoking. 4.0 CONSENT AGENDA- The Consent Agenda contains items which are routine in nature and will be acted upon in one motion. ]terns may be removed from this agenda for separate discussion by a Council member. 4.1 Consider approving minutes of council meetings held February 27, 28 and 'March 3, 2015 (City Secretary) 4.2 Consider approving a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement with Farr Systems in the amount of 539,150 for Information Technologies Request for Proposal administration (General Admin, Shallenburger) 4.4 Consider approving a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a contract amendment with McMahon Construction for Plano Parkway Phase 2 in the amount of S15,892.66 (Engineering, Scruggs) 4.5 Consider approving a resolution awarding a bid to Knight Erosion Control, Inc. for construction of erosion mitigation on Office Creek in the Ridgepointe subdivision, and authorize the city manager to execute a contract in the amount of 573,233 (Engineering, Scruggs) Alotion to approve above consent agenda items- Sehrag, second by TVade; motion passed with all ayes. Councilmember Terre requested separate discussion on item 4.1. 4.3 Consider accepting staff recommendation to reject sludge hauling bids and authorize re -bidding the service (Administration, Miller) Councilmember Terre questioned how long before a new contract can be in place, City Manager Troy PoNvell stated that there will be time to re -bid but in the event new bids are not acceptable then the city has backup options. Illotion to approve- Terre; second ki. Wade; motion passed with all ayes. � 5.0 I REGULAR AGENDA ITE` IS 5.1 Continue the public hearing from Februarys 17, 2015, discuss and consider an ordinance approving a zoning use change for a 16.93 acre portion of Tract D in Planned De-velopment No. 16, in the area generally located on the south side of Memorial Drive and west of South Colony Boulevard (Development Services, Joylce,p 2 March 17, 2015 Dallas Cothrum, representingt- the property owner. reviewed the proposed site plan, rental rates, income levels, etc. in an effort to convince the council this rezoning should be allowed. He emphasized the developer's history and quality projects. He added that the project being proposed is a different multi -family OJ product than we have in The Colony, At 7:20 p.m. the public hearing NNas continued. Dennis Howard spoke in favor of the rezoning. specifically regarding this project being a high-end development. Mayor McCourry read a citizen comment card from Daae Higgenbothum who was against the project. He was not present but asked for his viepoint to be recorded. The public hearing was closed at 7:25 p.m. After a brief discussion Councilmember Boyer said that the city's rezoning was recentiv reviewed and it was decided to leave this property zoning as is. Ilotion to deny the zoning request- Schrag; second by .1likulee; motion passed with all qyes exceptfor Uade who toted no. 5.2 Discuss and consider approving a resolution opposing Senate Bills 434 and 558 and any other legislation which would erode the authority., of governmental bodies to effectively engage in economic devclopment negotiations -with business prospects (City Attorney, Council) City Attorney Jeff Moore gave the council a brief accounting of these two bills. He added that if the fiscal note language implies the bills would have a negative impact on the state the bills are likely to die, Troy Powell stated he and some council members are traveling to Austin this week to lobby against bills such as these. A16tion to,approi,-e- ff"ade; second by Schrag; motion passed with all ayes. 53 Discuss and consider approving a resolution opposing Senate Bill 182 and House Bill 365 and any other legislation concerning the calculation of the ad valorem rollback tax rate (City Attorney, Council) Jeff 'Nfoore explained the effect these two bills will have financially on cities. A discussion folloNved as to who among the legislators should receive a copy of the resolution. 1.10tion to approve- Schrag; second by ff,"ade; motion passed with all ayes. 5.4 Receive presentation from the city attorney and discuss allowable expenditures of the Community Development Corporation and the Economic Development Corporation (City Attorney, Council) City Attorney Nloore explained the allowable expenditures for the C'DC' and EDC - and provided a handout of materials to the council members. ;6.0 EXECUTIVE SESSION No executive session agenda items. I March 17, 2015 And with no further business to discuss the meeting rias adjourned at & 10 p.m. Joe McCo-rry, Mayor rCritv of The Colony" Christie 'v ikon. TRXIC City Secretar`ry 4