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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Watershore And Beach Advisory Committee - 04/06/2017 WATERSHORE AND BEACH ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING Regular Called Meeting, Thursday,April 6, 2017 5:30 p.m. Staff Conference Room, City Hall 1201 Leopard Street, Corpus Christi, TX Members Present Members Absent Staff Present Cameron Perry Mukesh Subedee Jay Ellington Jay Gardner Stacie Talbert-Anaya Cliff Schlabach Russell Armstrong Jyoti Patel Josh Wentworth Carrie Robertson Meyer Terry Palmer Jennifer Pollack Paulette Kluge I. CALL TO ORDER Meeting called to order at 5:30 p.m. II. ROLL CALL The roll was called and a quorum was present. I. ADOPTION OF MINUTES Minutes from the March 2, 2017 meeting were distributed for review and approval. One correction was made to the minutes: Section V., 1, b. should read CVB. Cliff made a motion to accept the minutes as corrected, Jyoti seconded, unanimously approved. Motion passed. IV. HEAR FROM THE PUBLIC—There was 6 people in attendance, 4 of which are members of the North Beach Community Association and they want the City's help on North Beach. They're concerns were about public parking in the beach lots, complaints about public utilization of these areas, and the condition of the parking areas. They're in support of a modified parking plan for North Beach. 1 person, was with a graduate student at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi and wanted to advocate for ADA accommodation and access, in particular at beaches. She mentioned studying the benefits of Mobi-mats and would like more advice on their use. The 6th person is interested in the discussion on the City's agreement regarding the beach width in front of the seawall. V. BUSINESS FOR DISCUSSION/ACTION 1 New Business a. CVB Report Paulette gave a presentation on 3 items that negatively reflected on the City. -Vibrio (flesh eating bacteria)was written about in June 2016 by many news agencies; lots of exposure. -The water ban that happened last September. 3.8 billion People in the world were exposed to the news articles. -The Mayor situation in January. 250 million people got exposed to this. Paulette wanted to investigate what impact these stories had on tourism to the City so the CVB hired 3 firms to investigate. Paulette discussed the results and what the CVB was going to do to promote the City and the beaches in particular. b. ADA parking &access on North Beach Stacie spoke about this: Corpus Christi doesn't own North Beach and that the City has to maintain the parking lots and access to the beach according to the GLO. Modifications to the plan can be made, but will need approval by the GLO. The North Beach Parking Improvement Plan calls for bollarding off the dirt parking lots at Beach Avenue and at Surfside Park, which are low lying and often flooded, and for beach users to park instead in the existing paved parking lots at Surfside Park and Dolphin Park or along the beach access streets. For areas with vegetation between the street parking and the beach, a walkover could be utilized to allow beach access. Traffic engineering would get involved in the solutions. Execution of these solutions will probably happen in October and November. Other issues involved are the City's ordinance on camping and a more uniformed 2 curfew system. Cliff made a motion to support the way the City is going, Paulette seconded, unanimously approved. c. City's agreement with GLO to maintain beach width in front of the seawall Cliff relayed the part of an existing ordinance from 11/10/2008 which states that if the beach width is under 150' then it can be blocked off from vehicle traffic and that the City is to restore and maintain the beach in front of the seawall to 200' or close to it. Cliffs concern and many others is that more of the beach is going to be blocked off because of erosion. He would like the City to take the buildup of sand next to the jetty and move it to the seawall. Stacie told the committee that the deal was that once the sand built-up in the channel the bollard off section of the beach would be re-nourished but there has not been enough sand buildup. The City will look into the agreement between the GLO and the City. 2 Old Business a. Update: ISAC • Camping on the JFK Causeway was discussed and one question was who was responsible for enforcement. Jay says the answer is TXDot. • Presentation on Lake Padre. • Bids were higher than expected on the Park Road 22 Bridge. • Regarding the Packery Channel project; bathrooms and showers passed. Working on the Mobi mats portion with Nueces County. • Billish Park was discussed. • The Beach Maintenance building is being talk about with the County. • ISAC minutes were tabled. b. Update: TIRZ2 Project Jay Ellington reminded the committee that the funding for TIRZ has to be recommended by ISAC and then go to the TIRZ board, then the North Padre Island Development Corp, and then to City Council. ISAC approved an additional $4 million added to the Park Road 22 Bridge project, but that got tabled with the TIRZ board. Now it will have to go back to ISAC and start to start the process again. The restroom portion did go through and it is schedule next for City Council. The bridge project bids came in high ($600,000 over) but there is a 150 day bid guarantee. There may be some funds in some the bond projects that are closing out. The City is working on this. Cameron went to the last TIRZ meeting and let them know that WBAC has twice recommended approval of the monitoring program contract with Conrad Blucher institute regarding monitoring of the Packery Channel area. c. Update: Access Road 3A This has been completed. d. Update: State HOT Fund Financial Policies Stacie had handouts regarding this. She reminded the committee that, as a committee we adopt some fiscal policies for managing the State HOT Funds, 1 being a 6 month operating reserve. WBAC could recommend how to spend the unencumbered funds and sustain a reserve of$1.5 million for shoreline and capital projects. Next this committee would approve how the FY18 State Hot funds would be spent. Cameron made a motion to adopt this proposed fiscal policy, Paulette seconded, motion passed. VI. STAFF LIASON REPORT • Skid-O-Kan —we are getting a new contract in place for portable toilets on the beach; 20 units in all for the summer.We will be enclosing them. • 3 Beach/floating wheelchairs have been purchased and we will be buying 4 more. The plan is to have 1 on McGee, and 1 on North Beach, the others will be on the Gulf beach. We also have a trail wheelchair for OSO Bay and are planning to purchase 1 more. • Spring Break was exceptional. Permit sales exceeded last year by 30,000 permits. • Whitecap circle has been completed and looks great. • The shower design has been completed. • The rule signage for North Beach has been ordered; the lead time is 4 to 5 weeks. Still looking for 4 or 5 more temporary employees for North Beach. C:\Users\Tamerar\Aiopdata\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\ZOFLP32G\040617 Minutes- Final.Doc : 3 • Temporary toilets have been put out at McGee for use until construction project is complete. VII. IDENTIFY ITEMS TO BE PLACED ON NEXT AGENDA 1. Mobi Mats on North Beach 2. Update: ISAC 3. State Hot Funds— FY18 budgets 4. Update: TIRZ2 Project VIII. ADJOURNMENT As there was no further business the meeting adjourned at 7:30 p.m. Martha Lawhon, Management Assistant C:\Users\Tamerar\Aiopdata\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\ZOFLP32G\040617 Minutes- Final.Doc