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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEconomic Development Task Force-Minutes-9/17/2003 City of PUBLIC NOTICE COLLEYVILLE CITY COUNCIL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TASK FORCE JOINT WORKSESSION AGENDA SEPTEMBER 17, 2003 7:00 P.M. COLLEYVILLE CENTER 5301 RIVERWALK I. Call to Order Mayor Joe Hocutt II. Appoint a Chairman and Vice-Chairman III. Review, discuss and possibly modify task force objectives IV. Establish meeting dates, times and location V. Establish subcommittees and work assignments VI. Identify agenda items for the next meeting VII. Adjourn I certify that the above notice was posted on the Bulletin Board at City Hall Friday, September 12, 2003, at 5:00 p.m. .!~ Cynthia Singleton, TRM City Secretary P.O. BOX 185 COLLEYVILLE, TEXAS 76034 (817) 577-7575 MINUTES OF THE JOINT CITY COUNCIL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TASK FORCE WORKSESSION SEPTEMBER 17, 2003 The meeting of the Colleyville City Council was called to order by Mayor Joe Hocutt on September 17, 2003, at 7:04 p.m. ROLL CALL: Councilpersons Rich Hendler, Jon Ayers and Mayor Pro Tem Ginny Tigue were present. Mayor Joe Hocutt, City Manager Bill Lindley, and Deputy City Manager Dianne McWethy were also present. Councilman Elaine Dolan and Mark Skinner were absent. Economic Development Task Force members present were: Teresa Rutherford, Bob Hill, Mark McLeod, Ray Spoth, Tom Lisle, Steve Ewing and Victor Dupuy. Mark Howe and John Grace were absent. Adjunct members present included: Jim Moore, Mark Jones, Ed Havran, Mark Johnson, Stephen Mong, Robert Bruton, Marc Spencer, Tommy Taylor, Nelson Thibodeaux, Michael Dunham, Jim Graham, Randy Hall, Clifford Holiday, Jerome Davis, Mayda Wells, Mike Taylor, Tony Licata, Lisa Kenney, Tom Gardner, Ed Moore, Norman Gibson, Jody Short, Don Krell, John Terhoeve, John Gober, Tom Hart, Luann Edwards, Pete Challinor Rena Arnold, Scott Clarke, Bill Dennis, David Dudziak, Charles Fleming, Jennifer Gray, John Lynch, Earl Morse, Amy Pittman, Ret Stansberger, and Earl Swift were absent. Mayor Hocutt introduced members of the City Council and Economic Development Task Force members were introduced. Staff liaison City Manager Bill Lindley was introduced to the Task Force. Mayor Hocutt reviewed the resolution adopted by the City Council and requested that meetings of the Task Force be posted as a combined meeting of the City Council. The Mayor also requested that Citizen Comments be added to the agenda format. II. Appoint a Chairman and Vice-Chairman Mayor Hocutt reviewed the process for appointment of a Chairman and Vice Chairman. Mayor Hocutt requested nominations for Chairman. Victor Dupuy nominated Mark Howe as Chairman. This nomination was approved by acclamation. JOINT CITY COUNCIL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TASK FORCE MINUTES SEPTEMBER 17, 2003 Mayor Hocutt requested nominations for Vice Chairman. Victor Dupuy passed. Steve Hill nominated Tom Lisle as Vice Chairman, Tom Lisle nominated Steve Ewing and Ray Spoth nominated Victor Dupuy as Vice Chairman. All other members of the Board passed on nominations. Victor Dupuy was unanimously appointed as Vice Chairman. Vice Chairman Dupuy questioned the process for preparation of minutes of the meetings. Mayor Hocutt stated that the City staff would prepare action minutes for the meetings. Following discussion, Ray Spoth volunteered to take detailed notes for the meetings. City Manager Bill Lindley reviewed information provided in the notebooks distributed at the meeting. III. Review, discuss and possibly modify task force objectives Mayor Hocutt reviewed the Task Force objectives as identified by the City Council. Additional areas identified by Mayor Hocutt were identification of raw land, and target areas including Precinct Line road, North SH26, southern Colleyville Boulevard corridor and SH121 corridor. Councilmember Ayers requested that the Task Force consider economic development for the entire City. Councilman Hendler stated that due to the timeline, the Task Force would need to utilize Adjunct members. There were also discussions related to extending the timeline, if necessary. Mayor Hocutt recommended a joint meeting with the Planning and Zoning Commission to review the Master Plan. Following general questions, City Manager Bill Lindley stated that staff would be available to schedule, for a future meeting, an update on overall commercial development, Planning and Zoning cases and the Master Plan Update process. City Manager Bill Lindley offered to arrange a presentation on planned improvements for SH26 following questions by committee members. Mark Jones suggested that staff provide copies of citizen input from the various Master Plan Update neighborhood meetings. Ray Spoth requested clarification concerning City staff point of contact. City Manager Bill Lindley will serve as staff liaison. Theresa Rutherford requested a copy of the mission statement for the Economic Development program. Councilman Ayers advised that a copy was available on the City website. Victor Dupuy suggested that the Committee could consider several subcommittees including, but not limited to: development of SH26, SH121, Precinct Line Road, development of a website for promotion, marketing, regional partnerships and media relations. Mark McLeod suggested that members email other ideas of subcommittee topics. Following the suggestion by Pete Challinor, Victor Dupuy advised that he would 2 JOINT CITY COUNCIL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TASK FORCE MINUTES SEPTEMBER 17,2003 prepare and email a "straw man" list of subcommittee ideas to City Manager Bill Lindley to forward to members. Following discussions, City Manager Bill Lindley will prepare a database of the Task Force, including names and e-mail addresses, and forward to the members. Each of the Adjunct members will send suggestions for subcommittees to Vice Chairman Dupuy. IV. Establish meeting dates, times and location City Manager Bill Lindley reviewed dates available at the Colleyville Center. Following discussion, Victor Dupuy made a motion to meet every Wednesday evening at 6:30 p.m. Tom Lisle seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously. All meetings will be held at the Colleyville Center, except October 8. This meeting will be held at the Colleyville City Hall, Council Chambers. Each meeting will be planned for a 2-hour period. The consensus of City Council members present and Committee members was to not provide for a posting of subcommittee meetings. The opinion was this procedure would encumber the ability of subcommittees to meet on alternate dates and be able to meet the target completion date. There was general discussion concerning the room set-up for future meetings. The consensus of the Committee is to not use head tables but to have only chairs available. Following general discussion members agreed that the weekly committee meeting would recess into subcommittee meetings for individual work initiatives. The respective members would schedule alternate subcommittee meetings individually. There being no further business Vice Chair Dupry adjourned the meeting at 9:00 p.m. APPROVED THIS .3 AYES, IC3 7'7.11 DAY OF ~ 2003, BY A VOTE OF NAYS AND 0 ABSTENTIONS. Minutes taken and prepared by: x;J~ 7J7w/~ Dianne McWethy Deputy City Manager 3