CM 1976-09-28STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF DALLAS
The City Council of the City of Coppell, Texas met in regular session on
September 28, 1976, at 7:30 P.M., in the meeting room at the First Bank of
Coppell.
The following members were present:
Hulen A. Scott, Mayor
Fred Baker, Mayor Pro Tem
Hazel R. Beal, Councilwoman
Roy C. Brock, Councilman
Stubby Steadman, Councilman
Donald J. Carter, Councilman (arrived at 9:00 P.M.)
Also present were City Administrator Campbell, City Attorney Larry Jackson, City
Engineer Steve Harrison and City Secretary Margaret Johnson.
The invocation was given by Councilman Stubby Steadman.
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Councilwoman Beal made motion, seconded by Councilman Steadman, to waive the
reading of the minutes of the September 14, 1976 meeting. Motion carried 4-0
with the mayor showing his approval.
Mayor Pro Tem Baker made motion that the minutes of the September 14, 1976
meeting be approved with the date at the top of the page changed to September
14, instead of 24. Councilwoman Beal seconded and motion carried 4-0 with the
mayor showing his approval.
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Councilwoman Beal advised that there was no report from the Citizens Advisory
Committee. However, she advised council that she had been appointed to the
Greater Dallas County Community Service Committe which would be working with
the "Truth House" in Carrollton, which is a half-way house for young people in
the Carrollton, Coppell and Farmers Branch area.
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Mr. Fred Harrington was present, along with his attorney, Mr. Beecham, to again
ask council to be disannexed from Coppell. Mr. Harrington's grounds were that
he feels he has not received the services from the City of Coppell to which he
is entitled. Mr. Beecham advised that a petition to be disannexed was being
prepared and Mayor ProTem Baker asked City Attorney Jackson how long, after
receipt of petition, the council would have to consider the petition. City
Attorney Jackson advised him ninety days. Then if no action was taken by council
or negative action was taken by council, Mr. Harrington would have sixty days
to file for disannexation in District Court. After some discussion, Mr. Harr-
ington and Mr. Beecham retired.
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Mr. Bill Reed, of Lone Star Gas Company, was present to ask permission of council
to build a measuring station in front of building line in North Lake Woodlands
Addition. After discussion, Mayor Pro Tem Baker made motion to deny request,
mainly because of the violation of the building line. Motion was seconded by
Councilman Steadman and motion carried 4-0 with the mayor showing his approval.
Mr. Reed was advised that City Administrator Campbell would discuss with him
alternate sites for this measuring station.
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Mr. Steve Harrison and Mr. Lewis Herring, of Rady and Associates, City Engineers,
were present to give a status report on the elevated water tower facilities.
Mr. Harrison advised council that there would be two contracts, one for the elevated
storage and one for the pump station, pipeline and controls and monitoring equip-
ment. He presented council with a new cost estimate breakdown, but with the same
cost of $450,000. Mr. Harrison also advised that the advertisement for bids on the
water storage facility would be in two weeks after completion of the specifications,
with a time frame total of four weeks. Bids on the pump station modifications,
pipeline and controls would be approximately six weeks.
Mr. Harrison advised that a time completion would be left blank in the bid
specifications and that the bidders would be advised that the time fo com-
pletion would weigh heavily in the bid award. Also, liquidating damages would
be assessed if the construction was not completed by the time stated. Council
was asked for their approval of the logo and lighting for the water tower and
the Coppell Cowboy and Coppell City logo were approved by consensus. Council-
man Steadman made motion, seconded by Councilwoman Beal, to authorize the city
engineers, Rady and Associates, to advertise for these bids. Motion carried
5-0 with the mayor showing his approval.
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Other Old Business
A. City Administrator Campbell reported that the MUD had a special meeting on
September 13, and set a tax rate for the MUD at 35~ per 100 dollar valuation. He
also reported that the MUD lines and lift station were complete except for an
improvement on a manhole which needed to be approved by the State Department of
Transportation and Highways, and this approval should be forthcoming soon.
B. Some discussion was had on the question as to whether the MUD can partici-
pate with the local matching funds for the Sewer Grant. No decision has been
O0 made at this time.
C. Councilman Steadman stated he wanted to thank whomever had cut the hedge by
the railroad track crossing on Denton Tap Road. City Administrator Campbell
advised that the work had been done by the County.
D. Mayor Scott advised he had attended a meeting on an Urban Federal Aid to
Highways Grant and that Commissioner Jim Jackson was to have funds available
for his district, which includes Coppell. The items on which the money would
be spent consist of projects presently in the County Bond Program, in the event
a bond election is called and if the funds were used for these projects out of
the Urban Federal Aid to Highways Grant, the projects would be deleted from the
Bond Program. It was the consensus of council to ask Commissioner Jackson to
attend the next council meeting and discuss some of Coppell's projects requested
in the Bond Program with him and ask that Coppell be allocated some of the Federal
Funds for these much needed projects.
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Other New Business
A. Mr. Jim Gilcrest, Coppell Independent School Board member, was present to
talk with council concerning a joint appraisal program for taxes between the City
of Coppell and the school. Mayor Pro Tem Baker was to meet with Mr. Gilcrest and
the respective tax assessors to discuss the joint appraisal program since he had
asked previously that this be undertaken but at that time the school board was
not receptive to this.
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Mayor Pro Tem Baker made motion to approve the bills as presented. Councilman
Carter seconded and motion carried 5-0 with the mayor showing his approval.
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Executive Session (closed to the public)
A. Article 6252-17, Section ~(g) discussion concerning personnel.
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Motion was made by Councilman Brock to adopt the amendment to Ordinance No. 124
with two corrections to the Ordinance presented, "Such one (1) year period of
service shall not be broken by more than thirty (30) days of inactive service as
a Coppell Reserve Police Officer".
"Provided, however, Reserve Police Officers having more than one (1) year
of service as a Coppell Reserve Officer may drive a Police Department vehicle
when accompanied by another Police Reserve Officer and authorized by the Chief
of Police". Motion was seconded by Councilman Carter and motion carried 5-0
with the mayor showing his approval.
Meeting then adjourned.
Hulen A, Scott, Mayor
ATTEST:
Margaret V. Johnson, City Secretary