Today's City Council Meeting Will Tackle Trash, Frac Sand, Downtown, and the Cemetery

The city council will meet at the McNease Convention Center this morning at 9 a.m. The agenda is loaded with topics from housing to zoning to the city’s trash pickup.

A consideration to approve a resolution of support from the city for the proposed “Maplewood Park” apartment complex, located at W. 33rd and N. Bryant is on the agenda.  A town hall meeting was held a couple of weeks ago were citizens voiced concerns over increased crime, traffic, and noise in the area if the apartment complex should get the green light from TDHCA.  Zimmerman Properties, LLC has applied for the same 9-percent housing tax credit that LDG Development, of the infamous “Outlook on Vallleyview” has also applied for, creating an intra-city competition between the two.  Public concern and comment will be heard for those interested.

The council will also consider closing city offices for a day on April 24 for the Neighborhood Revitalization Blitz clean-up project. City employees, Habitat for Humanity, and community organizers with West Texas Organizing Strategy will work to beautify and clean-up the Ft. Concho neighborhood this year. This will be the seventh year that the city has sponsored the blitz.

Republic Services of Texas, LTD will present their plans to educate locals on the upcoming new curb side services. As part of a new contract with the city, effective Aug. 1, Republic will begin once-a-week trash collection and recyclable curbside cart pickup utilizing 96 gallons carts provided by Republic.

In 2009 and again in 2014, Downtown San Angelo, Inc. requested an increase in funds provided partially by the city since 2005. In mid-2014 the city proposed an alternative funding schedule that would taper off the funding amount over the span of five years, starting with $75,000 this year and ending in 2019 with $15,000. The DSA countered with a proposition that would fund them $75,000 a year until 2019, gathering funding from 50 percent of the hotel occupancy tax and a general fund.

On March 9, the planning commission recommended approval of a request to rezone 175 acres of ranch land located at the northwest corner of Old Ballinger Highway and US 277 to a heavy manufacturing zone to pave the way for Pinnacle Sand, LLC to build a large, state-of-the-art frac sand transloading facility. Rezoning the land that is currently zoned for ranch and estate would accommodate opportunities for “processing and manufacturing that is noxious or dangerous due to the chemicals or processes involved” as the amendment reads. The plan to rezone the land was announced during the debate on the land's annexation. This agenda item is a fulfillment of a promise to Pnnacle.

The council will also consider a contract with Mid-Tex, a construction contractor from Midland, not to exceed $370,477 to construct two columbaria at the entrance to Fairmount Cemetery located on Ave. N. The city council approved the project at a past council meeting on Sept. 3, 2013. The Friends of Fairmount have devoted $50,000 of their funds to the city, $36,470 will be used for landscaping and beautification.

Other issues on the agenda include the approval of the city’s Capital Improvement Plan for 2015-2020, and the possible action related to the Police Department Memorial Sculpture.

For the complete city council agenda, click here.