2004-07-19 CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING MEETING MINUTES - ABANDONMENTMINUTES OF A PUBLIC HEARING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PEARLAND, TEXAS, HELD ON JULY 19, 2004, AT 6:30 P.M., IN THE COUNCIL
CHAMBERS, CITY HALL, 3519 LIBERTY DRIVE, PEARLAND, TEXAS.
The meeting was called to order with the following present:
Mayor
Mayor Pro-Tem
Councilmember
Councilmember
Councilmember
City Manager
City Attorney
City Secretary
Tom Reid
Charles Viktorin
Woody Owens
Larry Marcott
Kevin Cole
Bill Eisen
Darrin Coker
Young Lorfing
Absent: Councilmember Richard Tetens.
Others in attendance: Deputy City Manager Alan Mueller.
PURPOSE OF HEARING - ABANDONMENT OF UNUSED DEDICATED SANITARY
CONTROL EASEMENTS THAT PREVIOUSLY SERVED THE WEST LEA WATER
COMPANY. Mr. Darrin Coker, City Attomey.
STAFF REVIEW OF THE PROPOSED ABANDONMENT
City Attorney Darrin Coker stated diagrams have been provided to Council regarding
two sanitary control easements, which were acquired by the City when the City acquired
the West Lea Water Company. Those wells have been capped and the sanitary control
easements no longer serve any purpose for the surrounding properties encumbered by
the easements.
CITIZEN COMMENTS
None
COUNCIL/STAFF DISCUSSION
Councilmember Marcott asked if the City purchased the easements.
City Attorney' Darrin Coker stated the City paid for the assets of the company and also
the right to go into this area and place water lines and sewer lines. The easements that
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exist do not give the City any rights. Since the City is not giving away any rights, the City
should not seek any compensation for the abandonment.
A brief discussion ensued among Council and Staff regarding the City's responsibility to
maintain the easements.
Councilmember Marcott asked for information on how the wells were capped.
City Attorney Darrin Coker stated he did not have information on how the wells were
capped. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality regulates this requirement.
Councilmember Viktorin asked if the abandonment would be taken away from the City's
assets for accounting purposes.
City Manager Bill Eisen stated the easement abandonment should be struck from the
City's assets. Practically, the easements give the City no rights; the value ef the
easements is zero.
A brief discussion ensued among Council and Staff regarding the well sites and
sanitary control easements.
ADJOURNMENT
Meeting was adjourned at 9:53 p.m.
Minutes approved as submitted and/or corrected this the
A.D., 2004.
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