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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes_GTEC_03.16.2005Minutes of the Meeting of Georgetown Transportation Enhancement Corporation and the Governing Body of the City of Georgetown, Texas Wednesday, March 16, 2005 The Georgetown Transportation Enhancement Corporation of the City of Georgetown, Texas, met on Wednesday, March 16, 2005. Board Members Present: Henry Carr, John Kirby, Joe Savage, Gabe Sansing, Farley Snell, Henry Boecker Board Members Absent: Ricki Salazar Staff Present: Jim Briggs, Jana Kern, Micki Rundell, Laurie Brewer, Tom Benz, Ed Polasek, Michael Hallmark Others Present: Mark Thomas - Eco/Devo, Becky Seller - Williamson County Sun 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 @ 2:02 p.m. A. Consideration and possible action to appoint Board Officers consistent with Section 3.02 of the GTEC Bylaws. Paul Brandenburg Discussion: In the absence of Brandenburg, Briggs presented this item. Each year, in March after the Boards are all set, each board has to formally adopt their Board of Officers. At this time you need to elect your President, Vice President and Secretary. Action: Motion by Snell, seconded by Kirby to reappoint current officers. Discussion: Sansing would like to appoint officers individually. Fails: 3-3 Motion fails due to tie. Action: Motion by Sansing, seconded by Boecker to have Henry Carr remain as President of the GTEC Board. Approved: 4-1 (Kirby opposed, Salazar absent, Carr abstains) Mr. Carr , as President of the GTEC Board I will turn the rest of the nominations over to you. Nominations are now open for Vice President: Sansing nominated Joe Savage as Vice President/ Mr. Savage accepted. Are there any other nominations for Vice President? Seeing none, nominations are closed. Approved: 5-0 (Salazar absent, Savage abstains) Nominations are now open for Secretary: Sansing nominated Farley Snell as Secretary/Mr. Snell accepted. Are there any other nominations for Secretary? Seeing none, nominations are closed. Approved: 5-0 (Salazar absent, Snell abstains) B. Consideration and approval of the minutes from the regular meeting held February 16, 2005. Paul Brandenburg Discussion: None Action: Motion by Snell seconded by Sansing to approve the minutes as written. Approved: 5-0 (Kirby abstaining, Salazar absent) C. Discussion and possible action regarding the Project Progress Report and timelines(including but not limited to items listed). Joel Weaver/Michael Hallmark Discussion: Benz presented items. Tasus Way: Waiting on guard rail - should be here this week. Southeast Arterial 1: We are in the Right of Way property acquisition phase. We are waiting to hear about federal funding. If we got the funding some of the requirements may change so we did not want to move ahead until we heard about the funding. State Highway 29: Construction has started. Working on utilities. Southwest By-Pass: As stated in last months meeting - We submitted to Congressman Carter's office two projects that we thought would be eligible for federal funding. We submitted Southwest By-Pass and Southeast Arterial 1, these are projects that are in this years TIP. The n last week we received notice from Congressman Carter's office that the committee has passed on to Congress, for approval and re-authorization of T-21 Bill, along with it $4,000,000.00 for the Southwest By-Pass and $2,000,000.00 for SH 195 around Florence - this is a county project. Southeast Arterial 1 did not receive any kind of funding. Southwest By-Pass is in the Bill for $4,000,000.00, if/when this goes through then later on this year funding will be available and Carter's office will be work ing with us to make those funds available in this calendar year. Once the Transportation Committee has made their recommendation, it should pass through Congress. Action: None D. Presentation, considerations and possible action on a proposal to widen Snead Drive to meet the needs of current and future businesses. Mark Thomas Discussion: Thomas presented item. The first sheet that I have passed out is a typical Site Selection Process. When perspective clients come to town they score their site selection sheets. These Site searches are very time sensitive, so we need to have very thing in place, before the search begins. If some of the items on their list is not in place we w ill very quickly be removed from their perspective site. With this said, I am here today to present to you the proposal of widening Snead Dr. to four lanes. Currently Snead Dr. is a two lane road in the center of Georgetown South Commercial Park, that dead ends into a 36.45 acre site. We have recently had some interested in this site but was stated it would not work due to the two lane road. Clients would not be able to turn their trucks, off of the two lane road, into the site. If Snead Dr. was widened to four lanes now, it would give us a more fully developed 36.45 acre piece of property. We been talking to some suppliers that are not only interested in this site but as large as a 100 acre site. So any prep work that can be done to these site will help us land these suppliers. Q by Boecker: Is Snead Dr. publicly owned? A by Thomas: It is a public road. Q by Carr: Who paid for Snead Dr. as it exists today? A by Briggs: The City of Georgetown paid for it originally two lanes of a four lane roadway. This was paid for part of a commerce grant. Polasek mentioned that we do have Snead Dr. extending north to Bus. 35/S. Austin Ave. or up to Industrial Park in our thoroughfare plan. My question to you is do want us to rank that extension, remove that extension, or include that extension in your project eligibility. Action: Motion by Snell, seconded by Boecker to advise staff to assign a project number to Snead Dr. ending at the property line. With the understanding that if the 36.45 acre lot gets divided then this will have to be re-addressed. Approved: 6-0 (Salazar absent) E. Presentation of Georgetown Transportation Enhancement Corporation monthly financial report for February 2005. Micki Rundell Discussion: Rundell presented the monthly financial report. Sales tax revenue continues to be very strong. We will be going forward with our bond issue in the next sixty days. Included in that bond issue is a little over $4,000,000 for GTEC projects. These projects include South east Arterial 1, part two of Wolf Ranch - IH 35 Frontage Road, and the overpass at Lakeway Dr. Q by Kirby: How much money do we have in leverage with out getting into problems? A by Rundell: We will be sharing with you next month a graph that will show. This graph is a time coverage graph. It will show you the commitment, revenue projection, what we have to spend. Action: None F. Initiate Project Eligibility Determination for 2005/06 Transportation Improvement Plan Process. Ed Polasek/Tom Benz Discussion: Notebooks were given to each of the Board members. Polasek explained each sections of the notebook. Full discussion is on tape. Board members were asked to fill out a scoring sheet on each of the projects. Scoring sheets are due back to me by Friday, April 1, 2005. Staff will review the turned in sheets and report back to you at the April 20, 2005, Board Meeting. Motion by Snell, seconded by Savage to adjourn meeting. Approved: 6-0 (Salazar absent) Meeting adjourned at 3:53 p.m. Adjournment The meeting was adjourned at 03:53 PM. Approved : Attest: _______________________ ________________________ Henry Carr - President Farley Snell - Secretary