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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMIN AUG 25 1987 REGULAR SESSION CITY COUNCIL - CITY OF BEAUMONT HELD AUGUST 25, 1987 - 1 :15 P.M. BE IT REMEMBERED that the City Council of the City of Beaumont, Texas, met in regular session this the 25th day of August, 1987, with the following present: HONORABLE: Maurice Meyers Mayor Bob Lee, Jr. Councilman At Large Andrew P. Cokinos Councilman At Large Lulu L. Smith Councilman, Ward I Mike Brumley Councilman, Ward II Audwin Samuel Councilman, Ward III David W. Moore Councilman, Ward IV Albert E. Haines City Manager Tyrone Cooper Assistant City Attorney Rosemarie Chiappetta City Clerk . -000- The invocation was given by the Reverend Durwood Bristow, pastor of Forest Park United Methodist Church. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Councilman Brumley. -00o- MAYOR MEYERS: I would, at this time, like to recognize the Chairman of our, Beaumont's Sesquicentennial Commission, Mr. Al Pollans, who's here with, I think, many of the members of the Commission, and turn the mike to you, Al. LIM. AL POLLANS: Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to thank the Mayor and Council for the opportunity to appsar before you today. I'd like to point out that Tu and the lady sitting next to her have joined the Celebration Belles, and I would urge everyone to follow their example and joint the Belles or the Chapters of the Brush, and we would apprectiate that very much. Thank you, Tu, and the lady sitting next to you, we appreciate that very much. At this point I would like to recognize Patrick Plummer, who's the Chairman of our Special Projects ComP. i.ttee and Betsy Beck the Chairwoman of our Time Capsule Committee. In order to preserve the artifacts and documents from our Sesquicentennial celebration, we decided that we needed a time capsule, and our plan included a, was to include as many items as possible from the celebration in the time capsule, and this would be photos; programs, news footage, souvenirs, and similar such items. We also wanted to include current samples of advertising, directories, and locally-made products. Our plans are to bury the time capsule shortly after the close of the celebration, and it will be opened at the time of our bicentennial in 2037, and perhaps Councilman Brumley will be here at that time to open it. At least. . . -308- August 25, 1987 COUNCILMAN BRUMLEY No problem, I'll take care of it! MR. POLLANS: Good! It's in good hands. MAYOR MEYERS: Is that to suggest you don't think the rest of us will be. MR. POLLANS: Mayor, I really didn't want to pick on you because it will be your 105th! MAYOR MEYERS: Rine with me! MR. POLLANS: We wish you well, and I'd like to there right with you. The lady that's in charge of all this is Betsy Beck and Betsy, would you please join ate at the podium at this time. MS. BETSY BECK: Thank you, Al. Mr. Mayor and members of the Council, after Patrick asked me to serve on this committee, my first thought was to call DuPont, which I did, and I spoke to Elmer Embs who's in Public Relations there, and he was fast enough to commit on the phone that DuPont would design and construct the capsule. So, they have, and here today we have the Plant Manager of DuPont Beaumont Works Mr. Frank Riddick, who will present the time capsule. MAYOR MEYERS: Welcome, Frank. MR. FRANK RIDDICK: Thank you, Betsy. Mayor, Council, Citizens of Beaumont, DuPont's please to be a part of the greater Beaumont community. We look with favor upon the opportunity from our over 1,000 employees to participate in this fine celebration and to be a part of it by presenting you with this time capsule. Mr. Mayor, I think we're supposed to have a chance to have our picture taken with this gorgeous looking lady. MAYOR MEYERS: Even at my advanced age I won't. . . (laughter) pass up the opportunity! -309- August 25, 1987 MR. RIDDICK: Im sorry, before I do, may I introduce two of my associates who were responsible for helping us design and procure it. Dee Gipson and Fred Switzer. (applause) (Pictures were taken of the DuPont representatives, Sesquicentennial Celebration members, and Council. Mr. Gipson brought a placque to be placed in the capsule. ) MS. BECK: r Mayor, we'd like to announce, our committe would like to announce that we are going to have an initial stuffing, September 8th, which is a Tuesday, at the Tyrrell Historical Library. It will be held at 5:00 p.m. , and we will have Live at Five there to record our event, and we'd like everyone to come that could. Also, I have brought a letter today to you from our committee that requests your thoughts to the next mayor in 2037 expressing your dreams and futures for the City of Beaumont. MAYOR MEYERS: Thank you. I will accept that, and I'll involve our Council, and we may draw straws and see who we put in there. (Laughter) We will certainly send a message to the mayor who opens that 50 years from now. And, on behalf of Council, Frank, we would like to express our appreciation to you and DuPont and your guys that are here with you who took the time to bring this forward to us, and we'd be delighted to accept that. And, we thank you all for your efforts. MS. BECK Thank you for letting us keep it in your lobby. MAYOR MEYERS: Okay. And, that Is true, the time capsule will be move3 to our lobby upon com pl=lion today and probably left right in the center. MR. BUD LEONARD: Mayor, with your permission, we'll either move it now or it can be moved at the end of your meeting. Whatever is your pleasure. We have folks who can move it now; we'd have to have somebody move it if we wait until after the meeting. MAYOR MEYERS: Move it'. MR. LEONARD: . . .We do invite all citizens to participate in the time capsule. There'll be an opportunity for them to do all that. -310- August 25, 1987 MAYOR MEYERS Bud, thank you very much. We appreciate all of your work, and I sense that the spirit for this celebration as it moves toward the October week is building. (The time capsule was moved to the lobby of City Hall. ) I would like to at this time to ask Johnny Walker and Shari Commander if they would come forward, and they're gonna talk a little bit of Sesquicentennial with you. That dapper gentleman in the back is Mr. Johnny Walker. He makes some great whiskey! (Mr. Walker, Ms. Commander and children were attired in dress representative of the period of time 150 years ago. ) MR. JOHNNY WALKER: I got "new consumer division. " MS. SHARI COMMANDER: Good afternoon, we've brought some of our children with us. This is Kylan Linney, Lucretia Jordan, and this is Ashley Reed. We're here to invite you to the cast call which is going to be Thursday night for the Historical Pageant that's going to be in October. We're going to have the cast call at Gulf States Utilities Service Center off of 11th at 7-00 p.m. We're asking for a thousand people, that's women, men, children, grandmas, everybody. Okay. Everybody that comes gets a part, and John Walker was the head of the committee for the Historical, and I'll let him finish. MR. WALKER: Thank you, Shari. I really enjoy being here. I don't have enough grandchildren; I wonder. if I could adopt these three. Aren't they cute? MAYOR MEYERS: You bet! We want to meet them. MR. WALKER: Boy, this dude here, I'm for him. Thank you very much for the support, and I want to say again, welcome to our birthday party! It's for everybody, and the way to give a birthday party is to be right in the middle of it, and please come out Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. and bid for your part, and like they say, we want a thousand people there. MAYOR MEYERS: You need any help from the media in getting this message out? MR. WALKER: Oh, we certainly do! Yeah. -311- August 25, 1987 MAYOR MEYERS: I was just noticing if they taking notes. MR. WALKER: You think I should repeat it again. MAYOR MEYERS: You might do that one more time, John. MR. WALKER: We're very fortunate to have Shari for the casting director. She's bringing a lot of oomph to the job, and I know that she'll get her thousand plus people. Thank you very much. MAYOR MEYERS: May we meet the young people, I'd like to do that. I know the Council would. MS. COMMANDER: This is Ashley Reed and she is four and she is from Beaumont. This is Lucretia Jordan. She's from Sulphur, Louisiana. And, this is Kylan Linney. MAYOR MEYERS: We're pleased that you came. You all look great. Thank you.. . -000- (Yne 2roclamation was issued to proclaim the week of August. 23-29; 1987 as "Women's Suffrage Week" in Beaumont. -000- No one wished to address Counci during the Public Comment portion of the meeting on Agenda Items A through D-3. -000- The following Consent Agenda items were considered: Approval of the Minutes of the regular City Council session held August 18, 1987; and Resolution 87-174 apppointing Alice Ramsey to the Clean Community Commission for a term expiring September 30, 1989, and appointing James McNicholas, Jack Farley, and Leon Hicks, for terms expiring July 31, 1988 Doris Price-Healy and Mary Robson for terms expiring July 31, 1989, and Selman Clark for a term expiring July 31, 1990, to the Health Advisory Committee. -312- August 25, 1987 These Consent Agenda items were approved on a motion :Wade by Councilman Cokinos and seconded by Councilman Samuel. Question: Ayes: All Nayes: None -000- Resolution 87-175 authorizing execution of a contract for membership in the Houston Area Library Automated Network (HALAN) for FY 1988 effective September 1, 1987 at a cost of $5,080.00 was approved on a motion made by Councilman Cokinos and seconded by Mayor Meyers. Question: Ayes: All Nayes: Alone -000- A motion was made by Councilman Brumley and Seconded by Councilman Lee authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute a lease agreement leasing the Szafir's Building and adjacent parking area, on the northwest corner of the intersection of Main and Forsythe Streets to Lamar University and the State of Texas for operation of an energy museum. Question: Ayes: All Nayes: Alone -000- Resolution 87-176 accepting the 1986 Street Rehabilitation Program project as complete, authorizing final payment in the amount of $13,864.75 and Change Order No. 1 in the amount of $27,937.77 to adjust line items in original contract proposal to include final quantities used increasing the total contract with Baytown Construction Company to $277,295.02 was approved on a motion made by Councilman Lee and seconded by Councilman Brumley. Question: Ayes: All Nayes: None -000- Ordinance 87-67 extending the moratorium on building permits for residential care facilities was considered: ORDINANCE N0, 87-67 ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE EXTENDING THE MORATORIUM UNTIL SEPTEMBER 22, 1987, ON THE ISSUANCE OF ANY BUILDING PERMITS OR CERTIFICATES OF OCCUPANCY AND COMPLIANCE FOR ANY RESIDENTIAL CARE LAND USE INCLUDED IN THE 1972 SIC MANUAL, GOUP 836; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR REPEAL. Mayor Meyers read the following draft of a letter to be sent to all State legislators: The City Council is concerned that State-funded and State-reimbursed facilities are regularly approved for siting in the city of Beaumont without any notice toeither the City or area residents. As our legislator, your oversight of such State-funded projects places you in the proper position to assume responsibility for assuring that the City is notified and appropriate hearings are conducted to insure the City and local affected residents understand the project. -313- August 25, 1987 The purpose of this letter is to ask you, along with our other representatives, to devise a method to assure proper notice and public hearings prior to the decision to locate a State-funded or reimbursed facility in the city of Beaumont. The City Council of the City of Beaumont stands ready to discuss this proposal at any time. Ordinance 87-67 was approved on a motion made by Councilman Moore and seconded by Councilman Samuel. Question: Ayes: All Nayes: None -000- A public hearing was called to consider twenty (20) below-listed structures found to be in violation of the City of Beaumont's Dangerous Structure Ordinance, Article III, Section 14-50: 1057 WILLOW - Robert Lee Jones, owner (16 violations), Staff recommendation to raze win - days; 840 CATALPA - Cornelia Williams, owner (7 violations) Staff recommendation to raze or repair within 30 days; 1065 ISLA - Helen Smith, owner (11 violations), Staff recommendation to raze or repair within 30 days; 1095 ISLA - 0. B. Brent, owner (9 violations), Staff recommendation to raze or repair wit n 3O days; 3230 GRAND - Lieutenant Thomas, owner (9 violations), Staff recommendation to raze or repair within 30 days; 3230 GRAND - D. L. Broadus, owner (9 violations, Staff recommendation to raze or repair within 30 days; 2405 PRIMROSE - Reginald A. Levy Et Fax, owner (17 violations); Staff recommendation to raze within 3 0 days; 2605-07 COAST - Southwest Construction Co. c/o Bill Stewart, owner, Staff recommendation to raze within 30 days; 1728 LIBERTY - Oscar Sims, owner (14 violations), Staff recommendation to raze or repair within 30 days; 2270-72 RUSK - Bruce E. Rohe, owner (9 violations), Staff recommendation to raze or repair within 30 days; 9615 DOTY - Bessie Van Hook, owner, (9 violations), Staff recommendation to raze or renaTr_ wTifiin 30 days; 3310 WESTMORELAND - Orelia August, owner (14 violations), Staff recommendation to raze or repa r w t n 30 days; 2730 GLENWOOD - Roosevelt Zachary, owner (17 violations), Staff recommendation to raze or raper within 30 days; 3049 DOROT;iY - James Paul McCray, owner (10 violations), Staff recommendation to raze or repair within 30 days; 3270 ELINOR - Joseph Vallier, owner (16 violations), Staff recommendation to raze or repair within 30 days; 865 EUCLID (GARAGE) - James E. Crotts, owner (5 violations), Staff recommendation to raze within 30 days; 2385 EMILE - Oscar Sims, owner (14 violations), Staff recommendation to raze within 30 daps; 2396 VICTORIA - Paul Leon Minick, owner (15 violations), Staff recommendation to raze— or raga r within 30 days; 1081 AVEBYE B - Judy Coynor, owner (16 violations), Staff recommendation to raze within 30_Tays60 SHERMAN - Antoinette Modica, c/o T. Modica, owner (11 violations), Staff recommendation to raze or repair within 30 days. Andre Paul Thomas, 4365 South 4th Street, Apartment 104, son of Lieutenant Thomas, owner of the structure located at 2038 Grand addressed Council to ask for more time to accumulate funds to have the house repaired. Mr. Thomas was instructed by Council to meet with Miss Cockrell immediately to investigate rehabilitation funding and assistance available with the Housing Rehabilitation Division of the Community Development Department and to consider the cost effectiveness factors involved in rebuilding the structure. -314- August 25, 1987 The seven (7) structures listed below have been condemned by City Council and the owners ordered to either raze or repair them within specified time frames. Reinspection of these structures have revealed non-compliance with the Council's order. The Community Development Deparment/Code Enforcement dousing Division is requesting authorization from the City Council to demolish these structures in accordance with the Dangerous Structure Ordinance and charge the property owners with the cost of the demolition: 1179 NORTH, 1193 NORTH, 1701 ASHLEY, 2113 RENAUD, 2121-23-25-27 RENA,UD, 1377 LIBERTY kREARS,_`9M 1377�IBEELT - _ -- There being no one else to address Council, the public hearing was closed. Ordinance 87-68 declaring certain dilapidated structures to be public nuisances and ordering their repair or removal by their owners and authorizing the Community Development Department to cause to be removed certain other structures whose owners have failed to comply with previously issued condemnation orders was considered: ORDINANCE NO. 87-68 ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE FINDING CERTAIN STRUCTURES TO BE PUBLIC NUISANCES AND ORDERING THEIR REPAIR OR DEMOLITION; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING A PENALTY. Section 2 was amended by removing the structures located at 2405 Primrose and 2385 Emile. Section 3 was amended to add the structures located at 2405 Primrose and 2385 Emile. Ordinance No. 87-68 as amended was approved on a motion by Councilman Cokinos and seconded by Councilman Smith. Question: Ayes: All Nayes: None -000- Councilman Brumley stated that the "Concert on the Move" closing concert date had been rescheduled from September 3rd to September 24th at Tyrrell Park. Councilman Cokinos pronounced "Sunday in the Park" as being the "greatest show on earth" and invited everyone to attend on Sunday, August 30th. The Art Studio will host the event and provide 1,000 pounds of clay for the children's activities. Councilman Lee complimented the Beaumont Campfire Council for the terrific job they did in hosting last week's "Sunday in the Park." Councilman Smith expressed happiness to be back home from a recent trip and commented on the upcoming "Concert in the Park," Thursday, August 27th. Councilman Samuel reminded everyone they were invited to Magnolia Park at 7:00 p.m. , Thursday, August 27th, to hear "Phresh" a rhythm and blues band, "Livingstones" a gospel group, and "Elements" a rhythm and blues band. -315- August 25, 1987 Councilman Moore requested a meeting with Tom Warner, Director of Public Works, following Council regarding spraying herbicides. -000- A gentleman (retired City building inspector) addressed Council to express concern of a vacant structure at 2240 Pierce he describes as a public nuiscance. Henry Dannenbaum, 1567 Wall Street, again addressed City Council to speak in behalf of the benefit of halfway houses, complimented the youth of United Methodist Church for being chosen as ushers for the "Stars of Beaumont" production, and expressed his desire that on Sundays grocery stores should hold off until 4:00 p.m. to sell beer. Roy Gorman, 2332 Wilson, addressed Council to ask for a definition of the Street and Highway Plan in reference to arterial roads. Mr. Gorman was instructed to meet with Tom Warner, Director of Public Works. Mr. Gorman also expressed concern regarding prostitution at Neches and Langham and feels that a contibutant to drugs and prostitution is a repossessed building of the Veterans Administration and would like to post no-trespassing signs posted. There being no further business, the meeting was recessed before continuing with the City Council Workshop Session. -000- I, Rosemarie Chiappetta, City Clerk of the City of Beaumont, Texas, certify that the above is a true copy of the regular City Council session held August 25, 1987. Rosemarie Chiappetta City Clerk -316- August 25, 1987