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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Watershore And Beach Advisory Committee - 01/04/2018 WATERSHORE AND BEACH ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING Regular Called Meeting, Thursday, January 4, 2018 5:30 pm Staff Conference Room, City Hall 1201 Leopard Street, Corpus Christi, TX Members Present Members Absent Staff Present Cliff Schlabach Jyoti Patel Jay Ellington Jennifer Pollack Mukesh Subedee Josh Wentworth Terry Palmer Meredith Darden Darren Gurley Carrie Robertson Meyer Martha Lawhon Phillippe Tissot Daniel Mazoch I. CALL TO ORDER Meeting called to order at 5:30 pm. II. ROLL CALL The roll was called and a quorum was present. I. ADOPTION OF MINUTES Minutes from the December 7, 2017 meeting were distributed for review and approval. Terry made a motion to accept the minutes as presented, Carrie seconded, unanimously approved. Motion passed. IV. HEAR FROM THE PUBLIC There was 1 person in attendance from the NBCA (North Beach Community Association) and he wanted to know what happened to the HOT funds that were to be for North Beach. He stated that North Beach makes contributions but are not getting their fair share. Jerry Plemons was in attendance and he is the liaison to WBAC from PRAC (Parks & Recreation Advisory Committee). V. BUSINESS FOR DISCUSSION/POSSIBLE ACTION 1 New Business a. SHOT Fund Update: 2016 Expenditures, Bay Beaches Josh stated that he had not received this request with enough time to be prepared today but he/the City will have this information for the next meeting. 2 Old Business a. How does Staff relay WBAC discussions and motions passed by the committee onto the City Council Cliff brought this up because he wondered what the process was. Jay explained that WBAC is an advisory committee to the Parks and Recreation Department on all matters concern water shores. Items that this committee want to go to City Council may get derailed at any level; the item must go through several before it goes to Council. Just because it doesn't make it to Council, doesn't mean that people are not taking notice. Regarding the fire regulation change, the changes were approved by Parks & Recreation but not by another level. Some of the changes requested were made, Cliff noted. Jay recommended that in the future, keep the item on the agenda until the City give us an answer. Jay is looking into the legal status of WBAC so that he can advise the committee on attending City Council meetings. b. Discuss and vote on new chair and co-chair Cliff relayed that at the last meeting we voted him as temporary chair until this meeting when he hoped everyone would be present. Terry nominate Cliff to be the chair and Carrie seconded. 2 There was some discussion about the co-chair being a newer member and Carrie nominated Terry and Cliff seconded. Both of these were unanimously approve and the motions passed. c. Discuss (and vote if necessary)on ISAC ex-officio representative Cliff told the committee that usually the co-chair of WBAC is the representative, at least in his experience. Cliff said that he would go and Terry would be his stand in when he is unavailable; they will also attend together to start. d. Update: Fire Regulations This was touch on briefly earlier; this committee had recommended changes to the ordinance and the main change (covering up the fire pit), did not get into the ordinance. Carrie made a motion to have the City meet with the Fire Marshall and reconsider WBAC recommendation to require fire pits be covered. Terry seconded, unanimously approve and the motion passed. Carrie also wanted to know what the status of the BBQ issue on North Beach was and Jay will report on this at the next meeting. e. Update: Packery Channel ATON (Aids to Navigation) Cliff's understanding is that there is $65,000 allotted to put lights up at the end of the jetties. Darren is looking into this and says that the City has to get permission from the Coast Guard. He also noted that his staff is developing a report on the damage to the rest of the lights in the channel. Cliff has heard numerous complaints about how dangerous it is to get in the channel. The City is responsible for the lights. The USACE put the channel in without the Coast Guard knowing and then turned the channel over to the City. f. Update: ISAC Cliff was the WBAC representative at this meeting. The meeting didn't cover anything on the WBAC committee agenda but apparently the January meeting go like that. Most of the discussion that happened was on "super streets"; Cliff passed out a handout which was about Park Road 22 and some of the major intersections on the Island getting updated, this is a project for some time in the future. Cliff noted that the next ISAC meeting was to cover the Packery Channel Amenities. g. Update: TRIZ2 Project/Packery Channel Amenities Cliff wanted to know what the fund balance was and Jay reported that it was several million dollars. Cliff is concerned about the amenities being forgotten. He checked out the jetties and didn't realize how bad they were, they need to be repaired but Cliff doesn't want the fund exhausted by those repairs. The TIRZ2 is going to Council for final approval. During the meeting to discuss the TIRZ2, Cliff heard that there are 4 main items left that WBAC is asking for: ADA ramps to the jetties, showers, the pavilion and a new maintenance building. There was a motion to separate the 4 items because that last 2 are high dollar items. The hope is that the ADA ramps and the showers may now be fast tracked. h. Update: North Beach Redevelopment Initiative/TIRZ3 Carrie heard that the TIRZ3 would be expanded to include North Beach. The North Beach Redevelopment Plan concerns WBAC since it include changes to the shoreline. Carrie would like the planners to come to WBAC and explain the plan. Jay will check with the planners and ask when they would be available to meet with this committee. i. Update: PRAC They did not meeting in December. j. Update: Six Pack Projects Darren reported that on the six pack list, number 1 through 7 are completed and that#8, the trailer restrooms are at the beach. 3 of the 4 trailers are out on the beach and the 4th is having a charging issue which is being worked on. The plan is to have 3 out and 1 at the yard ready for action when one would need to be switched for service or put in use during a major holiday. Cliff reported that people really like them. Cliff also suggested that there could be signage install to advertise them. With regards to the showers, we are still waiting for the last bid to come in and we are still waiting for the water line. We will have the shower ready so that when the water lines are in, we will be ready. We are still waiting for the 3d quote for the Mobi Mats but we should C:AUsers\NormaD2\AppData\Local\Temp\Minutes Watershore And Beach Advisory Committee-O1_04_2018_3690894\Minutes Watershore And Beach Advisory Committee-01_04 2018.doc 3 have that next week and be able to order them by the end of January. With regards to the pavilion, Darren is looking at the Buy Board and working with development services to order exactly what is needed. VI. STAFF LIAISON REPORT • Darren reported that there is a meeting with the GLO in 2 weeks to see if Beach Operations can move sand. WBAC committee members are welcome to attend this meeting. • Josh reported that they are finishing up the boardwalk at Beach Avenue. They are waiting for an improvement in the weather to do the transition from the sidewalk to the boardwalk. Carrie noted that when the new Harbor Bridge is completed, Beach Avenue becomes the main street off of it. • Josh reported that the educational signs have been ordered and hopefully be in by the middle of March. • Josh has started working on getting temporary employees setup. • Jay reported that the Waters Edge project is 99% completed and the restrooms at center of the park and Sherrill Park are open. He also reported on some of the streets in this area; they had been doing some testing. The City will be increasing programs also, more to come on this later. VII. IDENTIFY ITEMS TO BE PLACED ON NEXT AGENDA 1. North Beach Restrooms 2. North Beach Redevelopment Speaker 3. Update: Fire Regulations 4. Update: GLO meetings 5. Update: PRAC 6. Update: Six pack projects 7. SHOT& HOT Fund updates VIII. ADJOURNMENT As there was no further business the meeting adjourned at 7:12 pm. Martha Lawhon, Management Assistant C:AUsers\NormaD2\AppData\Local\Temp\Minutes Watershore And Beach Advisory Committee-O1_04_2018_3690894\Minutes Watershore And Beach Advisory Committee-01_04 2018.doc