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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes_GTEC_02.16.2005Minutes of the Meeting of Georgetown Transportation Enhancement Corporation and the Governing Body of the City of Georgetown, Texas Wednesday, February 16, 2005 The Georgetown Transportation Enhancement Corporation of the City of Georgetown, Texas, met on Wednesday, February 16, 2005. Board Members Present: Henry Carr, Joe Savage, Farley Snell, Gabe Sansing (left at 2:45 p.m.), Henry Boecker, Ricki Salazar Board Members Absent: John Kirby Staff Present: Paul Brandenburg, Jana Kern, Joel Weaver, Laurie Brewer, Tom Benz, Ed Polasek, Mark Miller OTHERS PRESENT: Bob Mathis - Southwestern University Minutes Regular Meeting Board may, at any time, recess the Regular Session to convene an Executive Session at the request of the President, a Board Member, the Assistant City Manager, City Council Member, or legal counsel for any purpose authorized by the Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551, and are subject to action in the Regular Session that follows Meeting Called to order by Carr @ 2:00 p.m. Item "A" was pulled from the agenda. Went into regular session. EXECUTIVE SESSION: Call to Order In compliance with the Open Meetings Act, Chapter 551, Government Code, Vernon ’s Texas Codes, Annotated, the items listed below will be discussed in closed session and are subject to action in the regular session that follows. A. Section 551.087 Deliberation Regarding Economic Development Negotiations Discussion of commercial or financial information that the City has received from a business prospect that seeks to locate, stay, or expand in or near the City, and to deliberate any offers of financial or other incentives to the business prospect. Mark Thomas Item pulled from agenda B. Consideration and approval of the minutes from the regular meeting held January 19, 2005. Paul Brandenburg Discussion: None Action: Motion by Sansing, seconded by Savage to approve the minutes as written. Approved 6-0 (Kirby Absent) C. Discussion and possible action regarding the Project Progress Report and timelines (including but not limited to items listed). Joel Weaver Transportation Improvement Program Project Description Form Discussion: Weaver presented item. Southeast Arterial 1: More information will be forth coming in Item "E" on this agenda. We have revisited the entire alignment on the project. The initial constraints on this project have changed we are currently looking at realigning CR 110 as it comes in and connects to the inner loop making it continuous. We have given us a safer alignment and more cost effective alignment. Tasus Way: Contractor is doing a great job on this project. We have encountered a minor issue. The traffic guard rail (standard "W" rail) that was spec'ed and approved by TxDot. After revisiting this TxDot has requested that we change to different type of railing. The railing that TxDot is requesting is a much safer type of railing. With this change their will be about a 6 week delay in ordering and receiving the new rail. We will not take the old railing down until we have the new railing in place. State Hwy 29: A pre-construction meeting was held on February 10, 2005, with TxDot & Austin Bridge & Road, the presented their preliminary schedule which has them finishing in December 2005. There is one utility issue - Round Rock Raw Water Line - which has to be removed. Round Rock crews are in the process of doing this. They have run into some weather delays but plan on being finished with in the next 10 - 15 days. Once this is complete Austin Bridge & Road will be able to start. This puts them about 2 week behind but still plan on finishing in December. Benz update the board on the frontage road from SH 29 to Leander: TxDot is doing this for us and we just the 60% design plans today. Transportation Improvement Plan (tip): Polasek/Benz presented this item: The form that is in your packet is the red line cop y - items that have been deleted has been mark through. Items that have been added to the form are underlined. For example: On page C-3 Section 6 Non-OTP Economic Development Project. This is new. The form that was passed out is a sample of what a filled out form would look like. One of these forms would be fill out for each projected. Then be evaluated. With this new format we will be have better understanding of the cost of a project (pg C -4). Campo: Polasek presented update: Draft of the 2030 plan. Campo will be holding a public meeting Tuesday Feb. 22, 2005 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. @ The Chamber of Commerce. All of our roads that were in our thoroughfare are included in Campo's draft plan. Action: None D. Presentation of Georgetown Transportation Enhancement Corporation monthly financial report for January 2005. Micki Rundell Discussion: Brewer presented the item. Revenues are two months in arrears. December numbers were not available until this week so we did not have time to get them on this report. Sales tax for December were very good - around 12% more than the prior years. Action: None E. Update to GTEC Board regarding the Re-authorization of Transportation Bill #21. Tom Benz/Jim Briggs Discussion: Benz presented the item. The City of Georgetown was asked to prepare some transportation project evaluation forms for Congressman Carter's office. We reviewed all the information and two projects were submitted - Southeast Arterial 1 and Southwest Bypass - we are asking $5,000,000.00 for each project. One of the reasons these projects were selected was the City of Georgetown had and opportunity to submit them and get them in the hat for possible selection. Mr. Brandenburg mention the meeting that he and Mr. Briggs had with Congressman Carter at his office. We were able to discuss both projects. Congressman Carter had no problems with either of these projects especially when he saw that we either had matching funds or City participation. Congressman Carter is pleased with our progress. Action: None Motion by Savage, seconded by Salazar to adjourn meeting. Approved 5-0 (Kirby absent, Sansing left @ 2:45 p.m.) Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 02:50 PM. Approved : Attest: _______________________ ________________________ Henry Carr - President Joe Savage - Secretary