Synopsis of River Oaks City Council May 28, 2019 -- Inside River Oaks

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Date Posted: 18:34:56 05/30/19 Thu
Author: River Oaks Reporter
Subject: Synopsis of River Oaks City Council May 28, 2019

The meeting started on time. All members present.

First item on the agenda was approval of the consent agenda.

Council approved Resolution 968-2019 allowing a special event permit to hold a charity car show at the football stadium as requested by Castleberry Athletic Booster Club. June 2nd 1-5pm

Council approved bond amount pursuant to section 4.05 city charter. This is a transfer of Marvin's current bond status from city secretary to city manager. basically just paperwork.

Next item of discussion was the role of the mayor in appointing committee members or moving it to the city manager. Councilman Holland made the statement that the mayor may want to keep the role of selecting board members since a statement was made that the mayor would now only be ceremonial (a statement made multiple times by Mr. Holland). Multiple reasons were given for leaving it or changing it to the city manager. Eventually agreed to leave it as is. It was then brought up by Councilman Ashton since we now have a paid city manager that we should eliminate the Finance Committee which brought on quite a different of opinion between Holland and Ashton. Ashton felt this was the city manager's responsibility so he should be the one to do the budget. Holland seemed to feel it was giving up too much power to the city manager and this was the way the city has been doing it in the past. The mayor then spoke up that this is why we went to this new system so it should go to Marvin. Holland finally backed off on his objections, stating we can try it this way for a little while but he still felt someone with finance experience should be involved. the mayor then stated if Marvin needs help he can will ask for it. So council agreed to try this way on a trial basis. No real motion was made.

The next item had no real motion. It was the attorney informing the council the she is still working on the wording and the job descriptions as they transition the city to the city manager from of government. This was more or less the new duties of the city manager and the new duties of the city secretary.

Next item was a discussion on community center rentals. It seems several renters have been running over the rental times and not cleaning up after their rentals. Currently if you run over your time and don't clean up the cost will come out of your deposit. Several of the rentals lately the deposit fee wouldn't cover clean up or time over run. So they're working to possibly increase the deposit fee and make any time over runs be payable immediately. One of the possible fix was to require a credit card in case this issue was to come up again.

Council approved Ordinance 1232-2019. This ordinance is for juvenile curfew ord,. which currently expired in April. Councilman Chisholm requested if we could make this curfew ordinance permanent. the city attorney stated this can only be renewed three years at a time.

Council approved Ordinance 1233-2019 amending the budget for the water fund principal. This is the payment for our loan for our water line replacement. The estimate for the payments changed between the time the application was in and finalized. they had to add an extra 30,000 to this first payment. The rest should stay around 220,000.

Council approved Ordinance 1234-2019. this had to do with permits and the amount of fees charged with them. In the past it's been charged by the expected amount of the project. It's now going to be charged by the square footage of the project. This change was caused by a vote held in the Texas Senate and signed by the governor.

Update on substandard houses: there were only three on the list. Two are already on the road to being repaired and only one is going to be brought back to council.

Last item on the agenda was a question by the mayor to Gordon Smith questioning why the special committee has not been able to get a meeting with the city engineer. For those who don't remember, back I believe in November, the city engineer brought it to the3 council's attention that any savings from the sewer line project could not be used on the water line replacement project to help with the streets. Council seemed to disagree that they were not informed of this. At the time the city engineer told council that they needed to check their notes (which he is correct). The other statement the city engineer made was that this loan was not going to cover the lines coming from the main to the water meter. At that point of the meeting in Nov. the mayor formed a committee to meet with the city engineer to settle this discrepancies. The mayor tasked Gordon with making this meeting happen and being insistent that despite the new form of government he wanted to be there.

Meeting Adjourned.

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Mr Sourgrapes loses his power (NT) -- I would think you would know that BEfore putting it up for a vote, 10:56:46 05/31/19 Fri