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29 MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 15, 1986 PRESENT: Mayor J. E. Younger Mayor Pro-Tem Betty Jane Kissler Council Members * Karl W. Brown Bill Coddington Gerald G. Farr * Fred Guerra William C. Nicola City Manager A. C. Gonzalez City Secretary Janis K. Womack City Attorney Lamar W. Hankins Assistant City Manager Robert T. Herrera Director of Finance Betty Oliver Director of Public Works George Boeker Also Present: Fred Saffer, Wayne Moore, Charles Stone, Mark hendricks, Dan Smith, Henry Krause, Shirley Wickersham, Chip Collins, Ben Ford, Jeff Hill, Marty Sullivan and others. Mayor Younger called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. Mayor Younger introduced for consideration a public hearing and adoption of an Ordinance on emergency, the caption which was read as follows: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, ESTABLISHING INTERIM ELECTRIC TARIFFS, INTERIM RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE OPERATION OF THE ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, AN INTERIM LINE EXTENSION POLICY AND AN ELECTRIC UTILITY BOARD, PROVIDING FOR THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE BOARD, THE APPOINTMENT OF THE BOARD AND SUCCESSOR BOARD MEMBERS AND OTHER MATTERS PER- TAINING TO THE BOARD'S ORGANIZATION AND DUTIES, DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Mayor Younger opened the public hearing and asked if anyone wished to speak in regard to this Ordinance. Burrell Helton of First American Lutheran Church stated the proposed rates would be charging the church three times as much as the residential rate. Mayor Younger stated he thought it was unfair to say the City is increasing the rates when the rates would have increased even if LCRA had kept the system. Mr. Gon- zalez stated he would meet with Mr. Helton to go over his estimated figures. No one else wished to speak, so Mayor Younger closed the public hearing (Messrs. Brown and Guerra were present for the public hearing ~ 7:01 p.m.). Mr. Brown moved for adoption of the Ordinance on emergency and Ms. Kissler seconded the motion. Charles Revelle of Saffer and Company stated his company had been involved with the rate schedules, rules and regulations and line extension policy, which are a part of this Ordinance. He stated the main change in the tariffs will be the rates. Residential rates will be approximately 8.3% over LCRA's residential rates and small general services' rates will be in- creased approximately 16% with the breakpoint at 50 KW. He stated the direction that had been given Saffer and Company was to model LCRA's current retail schedules. He stated they were preparing a study of the rate structure now and that they will present it to the Council prior to adoption of this Ordinance and said they were making fine tuning adjustments now. He stated the rates are a flat rate. He stated another major change will be that the City will charge deposits of $50.00 per meter (or approximately two months' usage), and Mr. Gonzalez added this is a matter that could be reviewed with the Utility Board once it is in place. Mr. Farr moved to table adoption of the * Messrs. Brown and Guerra were present at 7:01 p.m.