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Home My WebLink AboutMinutes Island Strategic Action Committee - 01/12/20211 Webex Meeting Number: 146 428 9845 Password: zKD7KgBYF56 Island Strategic Action Committee Regular Meeting Agenda Meeting Minutes Tuesday, January 12, 2021 5:30 PM ISAC Agenda I. CALL TO ORDER, ROLL CALL Chair Jay Gardner called the meeting to order at 5:32 p.m. City Staff Bonnie McLaughlin called roll. Present Members (#) Jay Gardner, Brud Jones, Polly Balzer, Cheri Sperling, Carter Tate, Armon Alex, Tommy Kurtz, Daniel Brown , David Perry Absent Members (#) Jodi Steen, Charles Duffley Present Ex-Officios (#) Terry Palmer, Twila Stevens, Bryan Gulley, Brett Oetting Absent Ex-Officios (#) Keith McMullin, Steve Viera Present City Staff (4) Bonnie McLaughlin, Thomas Klein, Dan McGinn, Captain Trenade Paddock II. CONSIDERATION OF REQUEST FOR EXCUSED ABSENCES Absences: Jodi Steen was absent on December 3, 2020. Will wait on excused absences for next meeting. III. PUBLIC COMMENT Written & call-in comments will be attached to the end of these minutes. Call-in: Herb Bradley Read: Ryan Pendergraft IV. ONGOING BUSINESS for Discussion/Possible Action 1. Ex-Officio Members’ Updates a. Terry Palmer, Watershore & Beach Advisory Committee i. Meetings have clashed and have not covered a lot of new ground but have discussed flags on the beach, closing the jetties, when to open/close for the purpose of public safety. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be any conclusive criteria, so for now they will go with city judgement and then will address later when time/weather requires. ii. Packery Channel repairs: Waiting on the city (who is paying) but some of the engineers have left the city delaying response. iii. Lifeguard stats: Increase in general contact progressively since 2018 as well as preventatives. Beach guards will be receiving increase in pay to retain employees, especially those with national lifeguard standard certificates. iv. Beach Report: Still moving sand around from the summertime, they were able to put new gates on access roads 2 & 3 but there are still no showers. They are still waiting to finalize the water line. 2 b. Twila Stevens, Parks & Recreation Advisory Committee i. Beaches: The foundation is working with NWS to create a computer monitoring system to monitor developing weather systems at the beaches and report them in an attempt to predict current activity more actively. ii. Master Plan/Site Plan: further info coming, community outreach and townhall meetings will be needed to complete. Six areas they are focusing on: healthy lifestyles, lifelong learning, community building, quality neighborhoods, attractive and sustainable environment, and economic vitality. iii. New Parks Director, Kevin Johnson from Chicago c. Bryan Gulley, Nueces County i. Bob Hall Pier Rebuild: including the parking lot the rebuild will cost around 20 million. The commission is working with Congressman Cloud, trying to get Hurricane Hanna damages in the disaster declaration to enable more funding options. There is some grant money available (some usable, but the pier is profitable so not all). Commission is optimistic that the new council will enable everyone to work more collaboratively to get the pier rebuilt. d. Keith McMullin, Nueces County Water Control & Improvement District #4 i. Absent, no updates e. Brett Oetting, Convention & Visitors Bureau i. No updates, preparing for busy spring/summer 2. Beaches & Parks Updates a. See above 3. Island Engineering Update – Thomas Klein, Engineer IV a. See PowerPoint b. Discussion of North Padre Island Beach Facility, third iteration of this project, will add to future meeting agenda 4. TIRZ #2 Update a. Subcommittee: Call for members, will be a good amount of reading/work/paperwork, email Jay if interested VI. NEW BUSINESS for Discussion/Possible Action 1. Padre & Mustang Island Area Development Plan – Daniel McGinn a. Homework from the last meeting: received some information and feedback, need feedback from everyone by this Friday, more info at February meeting about how to roll out to public (engagement, etc.) 2. Bond Taskforce a. No update 3. Island Overlay Subcommittee – Brud Jones a. No update, waiting to see what is incorporated in ADP b. Keep as running agenda item 4. Short-Term Rental Subcommittee – Charles Duffley a. No new updates, working with city and new appointed staff b. Question about minutes, whether or not previous ACM reported votes/motions from December ISAC meeting to the city c. Ad hoc or supercommittee proposed (Jay Gardner) d. City Council needs a briefing from staff, no date yet, discussed in council today, Dan McGinn will speak with leadership to update ISAC on date when we have it e. Brett Oetting: Comments about tourism and ISAC. Stated that their (tourism’s) role was purely a support role. Wherever STRs are allowed there have to be proper procedures because tourism is big money to Corpus Christi. Tourism currently working on separate marketing strategy for STRs. It is now the job of the city to determine the policies moving forward, but is a subject that needs to 3 be discussed about the entire city, not just by ISAC. Need to look at data from other cities to determine how to proceed (“best practices”). f. Dan Brown: Would like rules to be consistent and thinks its important to direct city where they are wanted/not wanted. Feedback from the community is vital to share with decision makers (i.e. the city). g. Polly Balzer: Subcommittee only met twice and didn’t meet after the regulations from other cities were collected. Feels that the committee didn’t really resolve anything and that the subcommittee has not run its course, there is more that could be accomplished. h. ISAC recommends to the city that they begin a registration system immediately in order to enforce the ordinances/zoning already in place. VI. IDENTIFY ISAC FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS • Minutes from previous two meetings • TIRZ #2 Subcommittee meeting • Beach Facility Presentation (add to the end of engineering update) • Dan to talk to Parks & Engineering about site (Gignac bit on PowerPoint) was an alternative site proposed? VIII. SCHEDULE NEXT MEETING Date: February 2, 2020 @ 5:30 p.m. Location: Webex IX. ADJOURNMENT - Meeting Adjourned at 6:50 p.m. 4 Public Comments: ISAC Meeting 1/12/2021 Herb Bradley, Resident North Padre Island 13834 Captain Kidd Dr. Corpus Christi, TX 78418 Will call in to speak, questions submitted via email below: “I am I am concerned about short term rentals on the island. I hear there was a vote but what was the outcome? It is on the agenda with no report. What constitutes a short-term rental? How will you know? How will you police it? I would like to speak at the meeting. Please put me on the agenda. Thank you.” Ryan Pendergraft, Resident 13758 Eaglesnest Bay Dr. Corpus Christi, TX 78418 Dear ISAC Board of Directors: I wanted to thank you for the actions that were taken in support of single-family residential neighborhoods last month. I also want to make sure it is on the record that Chairman Jay Gardener was absolutely wrong with his interpretation of Texas Supreme Court case law dealing with Short-Term Rentals and that I was correct in my comments that were submitted last month as well as on Facebook under Mr. Gardener’s column “On The Rocks” in the Island Moon. The comments by the City Attorney were printed in the Island Moon on December 10, 2020 Issue #869 on the front page vindicate my comments as correct and Chairman Gardener’s comments regarding Texas Supreme Court law dealing with regulation of short-term rentals are completely wrong. Sincerely, Ryan Pendergraft