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MIN CC 09/29/1992CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 29, 1992 BOOK "R" 120 TMINUTES OF THE HUNTSVILLE CITY COUNCIL MEETING HELD ON THE 29TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1992 IN ii _ THE CITY HALL CONFERENCE ROOM, LOCATED AT 1212 AVENUE M IN THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, COUN'T'Y OF WALKER, TEXAS AT 12:15 P.M. The Council met in a called session with the following members present: W. H. Hodges, Mayor Officers: Dan S. Davis William H. Knotts, Jr. Gene Pipes, City Manager Ronald L Lange Gary Bell Scott Bounds, City Attorney ,i ABSENT: William B. Green James L Carter Melba Byers, City Secretary ABSENT: Charles Robinson Ila G. Gaines CITIZENS INPUTANQUIRY None. REGULAR SESSION • CALL TO ORDER Mayor Hodges called the Called Meeting to order. The meeting was changed from the City Hall Council Chambers to the City Hall Conference Room. Invocation by Councilmember Gaines. CONSIDER MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 22, 1992 Councilmember Gaines made a motion to approve the minutes of Sentember 22, 1992, and Councilmember Bell seconded the motion. All were in favor and the motion passed unanimously. NOTE: Councilmembers Robinson and Green were absent. Consider the resignation of the City Secretary, Melba Byers. Mayor Hodges stated that he had passed out a copy of the resignation letter to each Councilmember, and a motion was needed to approve this resignation. Councilmember Lange made '- a motion to approve the resignation with a second by Councilmember Davis. The motion passed unanimously. !I Consider Resolution No. 92 -9 -29.1 appointing an interim City Secretary. Mayor Hodges stated that he would like to appoint ' Donna Welter. Councilmember Bell made a motion to approve this appointment with a second by Councilmember Lange. The.. !' motion passed unanimously. Mayor Hodges stated that this appointment does include additional compensation for the duration of the temporary assignment in the amount of $200.00 per month. CITY MANAGER'S REPORT Schedule of Adiustments. As was discussed earlier, October 13th was to be a special meeting for the Solid Waste Issue. That has been moved to October 27th because of some scheduling problems with TDC and the consultants out of Kansas City. There will be some meetings between now and then in Austin relating to that but that report should be in your hands at least one week before the October 27th meeting. Boards and Commissions Reception. The reception will be held on the 20th here at City Hall, perhaps out on the grounds and using the amphitheater, weather permitting. If not, we will use all of the open space between Council Chambers, the Conference Room and the area in front of the offices. Architects. We also expect the architects to be here on October 20th for a demonstration/presentation of where they .'... are at that time. They will present their final formal report on the Cultural Plan. Call of the January Election. Call of the Officers Election will be held at the October 27th meeting. Redistricting Issue. The redistricting issue that we talked about last year to match Ward and Precinct lines will need to be done on October 27th. City Manager Pipes stated that Council would not meet the Tuesday night of the Presidential Election. So, we will be into November before we meet again. So, we will have two really big work meetings: October 27th and November 10th. MAYOR'S ACTIVITY REPORT Boards and Commissions Presentations. On the night of October 20th, when we have the Boards and Commissions Reception, like last year, I would like for every councilmember to participate in making those presentations. We will get all information to you well in advance. Proposed Cultural Center-Library Facility Report. Councilmember Gaines stated, we have spent very intensive time in the last forty -eight hours going through the process you we before you. We have covered every area that would be involved ' in the construction of the library and cultural theater. We have had input from the community and have talked about what we think is every facet of that building. List evening, Jeff and Gene, P.G.A.L architects, spent time and have generated for us the schematics that you see. Site Scheme "A" is three separate buildings. The character sketch shows the group line and that sort CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 29, 1992 BOOK "R" 121 of thing. What I would like for us to have from you at this point is a consensus that you approve Scheme "A" as the plan which ' we need to give to the architects so they can produce these documents for us. First of all, there will be a site plan which they will come back with. Secondly, they will produce an interior plan. Thirdly, they will produce an outside drawing of what the building will look like. At the same time, they will produce for us a model which is in accordance with what Council had agreed upon in the beginning. This is the next step in going forward with our plan. I want to be sure that everybody has seen the plans and invite you to look again at everything we have posted here. If you have anything to add, please tell the architects so that can be posted also. The architects will be available for you to talk with. We want you to have all of the information that we can possibly give you to know where we are. We feel like this has been a very productive period of time and we appreciate the work of the architects who have done a wonderful job of putting all of this together for us. Mayor Hodges stated that he was in a group that had met earlier and the whole group agreed on Scheme "A ". That is my recommendation. Councilmember Gaines added, the group Mayor Hodges is speaking of was quite a large group of local people who carne representing the Library Board, the Historical Commission, and citizens representing various areas of the City. Councilmember Carter stated since he had been vocal on some of this in the past, as far as I can tell from the schematics and listening to the architects, I am pleased with the approach they are taking to the site. The thing that I was concerned first and foremost about was the top of the hill. They sound as if they absolutely understand the value of it and that is not to be disturbed in the construction activity. I am happy about that. My second concern in on the library. Just briefly in some passing commentary, there are some people who think we still don't have enough library space planned. My question is, if we approve this concept at this point, is there still some flexibility as we go along so we are not locked in absolutely. Mayor Hodges stated that was a question brought up earlier and the architects have identified that future growth at the top of Scheme "A ". Councilmember Gaines stated. In answer to your question, the square footage that we have indicated here is for a ten year growth according to the consultants that we had from the library. This does not include some of the other things that would be common usage. This is just library space. So, we do have some areas that are pulled out in other areas that will also go along with the library. Councilmember Carter stated he would like to we the difference in the cos[ between the [en year growth plan and the twenty year growth plan. I agree with the consensus today but I don't want to feel like we are locked in. Councilmember Gaines stated, we are not locked in at all. Councilmember Lange stated he thought the beauty of the plan was: (1) the availability of expansion on the building, and, (2) the figure you see of 19,000 square feet. I want to emphasize to everybody the idea of having these three building together means finding use in some areas. If you do not have common use, that figure would be much larger than what it is. That is good useable library space. There is a lot of stuff that is not used normally that we won't have to put in that space. City Manager Pipes stated, you have the reception of 4000 square feet additional right there which will well exceed the twenty year growth plan. Councilmember Lange stated he wanted everyone on council to realize that the architects this morning gave us two ideas, Scheme "A" and Scheme "B ". The consensus of this morning's meeting was Scheme "A" because it has the potential of growth much more readily available than Scheme "B ". CITY COUNCILMEMBER ACTION None. MEDIA INQUIRIES None. ADJOURNMENT Mayor Hodges stated. Before we adjourn, the architects have agreed to stay and do a walk through and answer any questions you may have at this time. They will be glad to spend some time with you. So, take advantage of this while they are here. This meeting is adjourned. %� l Melba Byers, City Secretary