<p>Mayor Mary Jo Dylla</p><p>Councilmen Francisco Arevalo Justin Jones Dwayne Padalecki Walter Wyrwich Susann Baker</p><p>City Secretary Barbara Pawelek Minutes of the Regular City Council Meeting</p><p>December 1, 2011</p><p>1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER</p><p>Mayor Mary Jo Dylla called the regular city council meeting to order at 7:29 pm.</p><p>2. ROLL CALL AND ESTABLISH A QUORUM</p><p>Roll call was taken. Members present were Councilman Walter Wyrwich, Councilman Dwayne Padalecki and Councilman Frank Arevalo. Councilman Justin Jones and Councilwoman Susann Baker were absent. A quorum was established. Barbara Pawelek presided as City Secretary.</p><p>3. READING AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES</p><p>Council read over the minutes of the November 3, 2011 city council meeting. </p><p>Councilman Walter Wyrwich moved to accept the minutes as written. Councilman Frank Arevalo seconded the motion. All were in favor; the minutes were approved.</p><p>4. APPROVAL OF FINANCIAL SUMMARY</p><p>There was no Financial Summary since we have not received the bank statements.</p><p>5. REPORT FROM VFD</p><p>The report was tabled until next month due to the ESD meeting being held today as well. The Fire Chief wanted the citizens to know that the Burn Ban is still in effect in Bexar County.</p><p>1 6. REPORT FROM CODE COMPLIANCE</p><p>Kathy Palmer gave a report for code compliance</p><p>Mrs. Palmer received a call from a concerned citizen regarding the property at 16424 Mergele Road wanting to know if there were any changes to the zoning of the property. Mrs. Palmer informed her of the process of a rezoning request and assured her she would be notified.</p><p>Received another call from the potential buyer for the property on Miller Road which was in a flood plain and wanted to know if he could proceed with the special use permit to remove the topsoil from the property. She explained again that the special use permit cannot be requested by anyone other than the property owner or their agent. He was going to contact the seller to determine the next steps. She verified this with Denton Navarro, our city attorney.</p><p>Mrs. Palmer received a call and email from Mary Holub. She and her husband purchased property in St. Hedwig and their insurance company wanted to know if we followed the Bexar County open range designation. Mrs. Palmer confirmed that yes; we follow Bexar County’s open range designation.</p><p>A plumbing company called that was working in the city limits and wanted to know if they needed to register with the city and/or pull additional permits to the building permit. Explained that the building permit covers them and they will need to schedule the inspections with Bureau Veritas.</p><p>Mrs. Palmer received a message from Pinnacle Security today requesting information about the City’s restrictions on door to door sales within the city limits, but has not had time to call them back.</p><p>7. CITIZENS TO BE HEARD</p><p>The first citizen to be heard was Carl Alexander, 13919 Oz Way. He had questions regarding Miller Road if they are planning on doing anymore repair work. He said where the culvert goes under the road, it is collapsing. He said it is real narrow and real dangerous.</p><p>The Mayor said we will be discussing this later in the meeting. Mr. Alexander said they worked on Miller Road a long time and it’s in worse condition now than it was. The Mayor wanted clarification what he meant by that. He explained that there are a lot of waves up and down even at 30 mph it’s like a roller coaster. The Mayor said there are a lot of roads in a lot worse condition. She said she will have Mr. Jones take a look at it.</p><p>Arlon Wyrwich, 14226 Miller Road. He complained about the culvert on Miller Road by Paul Primeaux. He said the road is getting narrower and narrower and the people drive 60 mph down that road. He said someone is going to get killed. Another problem is where the city </p><p>2 cleaned out the drainage pipe on Miller Road and North Lupon at the intersection, where the city cut all the hackberry trees and a lot of them are dying and falling on his fence and in his field and now he has to go clean all that up. He added that Miller Road is not fit.</p><p>Jerry Lovell, 13862 Miller Road. He complained about Miller Road that it is so rough like driving on a wash board. He said where his property is there is a drop off and no warning. Years ago, there used to be posts with reflectors on them but never were replaced and is very dangerous at night. He also said when they worked on Miller Road in front of his place, it got hot and oil kept coming up and they put sand and gravel on it, but oil keeps coming up. The Mayor said we will take a look at it.</p><p>Carl Gravell, 1820 Kajec, did some research on the chip seal process and he said it is not meant for a total resurfacing. He has a friend who has said that he does not use this process because the climate down here will not accept it. He hopes that in the future the city will look at different way of doing the roads.</p><p>Ron Thomas, 1710 Kajec, reiterated that we don’t use that contractor again. He also added that Graytown and FM 1518 by the tank, there is an erosion issue, and someone dumped large rocks in there and if St. Hedwig is responsible for those repairs, then we need to do it correctly. Councilman Padalecki said yes we just put new pipes under there and the bar ditch, the spill way, has always been a problem.</p><p>8. OLD BUSINESS</p><p>A. ROADS</p><p>1. GENERAL ROAD MAINTENANCE</p><p>Councilman Justin Jones was out ill this evening. He did give the Mayor 2 bids on the culverts we talked about.</p><p>One was for the storm drain crossing on Old St. Hedwig Road. It was for a 24 inch pipe, including mobilization, concrete end treatments for a bid of $9,720.00.</p><p>The next bid was for the storm drain crossing on Miller Road. It was for a 36 inch pipe, including guard rails for a bid of $18,440.25.</p><p>Councilman Wyrwich wanted to make sure they were concrete pipes. Yes they were. He also added that the pipe needed to be longer than 24 foot. Councilman Padalecki said he felt Councilman Wyrwich should be in charge of the project and if a longer pipe is necessary then we could change it.</p><p>3 With that, Councilman Padalecki moved to pass the bid for the Miller Road Project with an addition of lengthening the pipe if necessary. Councilman Wyrwich seconded the motion. All were in favor; the motion was approved.</p><p>Councilman Padalecki moved to pass the old St. Hedwig Road drainage project. Councilman Wyrwich seconded the motion. All were in favor, the motion was approved.</p><p>Councilman Padalecki commented to the citizens that this was the first time we used this construction company for a road project. There will be opportunities that this same company will bid for future road projects and we will have to challenge council to look at other bids. Keep in mind that there was an engineer on this project and we put a lot of faith in the engineer. It was a first time we used them and hopefully we will learn from that and make better decisions.</p><p>The Mayor added that this construction company did do other roads and no one complained about the other roads. Unfortunately, whatever happened on Miller Road hopefully will not happen again. She said you have to understand that sometimes when we put the project out to bid, we only get one bid because we don’t have large contracts at one time. We will try to improve and we do the best we can with the funds we have for the amount of roads we have.</p><p>B. CITY PARK</p><p>Councilman Padalecki apologized for missing the last meeting, but said he reviewed the minutes and listened to the tapes. He questioned Kathy Palmer about what specifics she wanted to vote on for the city park. He wanted to clarify this issue so he could do his job better and more efficient. Mrs. Palmer said she had a lot of compliments on the park. But with larger items being discussed such as rest rooms, and other things she wanted to know if they will this be discussed more at council meetings so she will know what to let citizens know when they ask since we don’t have a city park committee.</p><p>Councilman Padalecki said that as far as rest rooms, it has been discussed at previous council meetings and have said they will be postponed because we will be putting in the water well. </p><p>Councilman Padalecki said that as the mayor stated in the last meeting, if anyone has concerns about the roads to come to the city council meeting and state their concerns. Mr. Padalecki said if citizens want to learn more about the park, they are always invited to attend the city council meetings, and we need to be more consistent with that message. Mrs. Palmer agreed but since we do not have a city park committee, she wanted to know what our long term plans for the park are? Councilman Padalecki said that both of those questions were city council questions, not a Councilman Padalecki question, and the minutes from the previous meeting did not read as such, that’s why he questioned her.</p><p>4 Councilman Padalecki also asked the council if there was anything in the park they never had a chance to vote on? The council replied no.</p><p>Councilman Padalecki talked to the company drilling the water well, Herbold Bros. We were 24th in line and the well will be drilled next week. Since this is being done, Councilman Padalecki added a bid for electric to be runned to the well. </p><p>Councilman Walter Wyrwich moved to accept the bid from Big State Electric to run electricity to the water well. Councilman Arevalo seconded the motion. All were in favor; the motion was approved.</p><p>All choices were turned in for where to place the playground equipment and it was a tie. Councilman Padalecki stated that his choice was for in the middle because if we put it too close to the cabanas, then if someone was having a bbq, the noise may distract them. Council agreed. The Mayor said that Councilman Arevalo’s crew who took it down, we would like to have them put it up since they know how it should be assembled, and it would be nice if we could get it done by the spring for the children to have. The Mayor said she hopes to have more donations for a good foundation for the playground equipment.</p><p>9. NEW BUSINESS None.</p><p>10. ANNOUNCEMENTS  Happy Belated Thanksgiving and the Mayor wished everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!</p><p>11. AGENDA FOR NEXT REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING January 5, 2012 at 7:30 PM</p><p>1. Call Meeting to Order 1. Roll call & Establish a Quorum 2. Executive Session 3. Reading and Approval of Minutes 4. Approval of Financial Summary 5. Report from VFD 6. Report from Planning & Zoning Commission 7. Report from Code Compliance 8. Citizens to be Heard 9. Old Business a. Roads b. City Park 10. New Business 11. Announcements 12. Determine Agenda for next meeting 13. Adjournment</p><p>5 Councilman Dwayne Padalecki moved to adjourn the city council meeting at 8:00 pm. Councilman Frank Arevalo seconded the motion. All were in favor; meeting adjourned.</p><p>6</p>