01.21.1999 IFC MinutesCITY OF KENNEDALE
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MINUTES OF
IMPACT FEE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING
21 JANUARY 1999 — 7:00 P.M.
COMMUNITY CENTER
Chairman David Conroy called the Impact Fee Advisory Committee meeting to order at 7:02 P.M.
Members Present: David Conroy, Ray Cowan, Brian Johnson, Jerry Miller, and Bryan Lankhorst, Chuck
Shytles, Wayne Winters, Richard Jernigan, and Tiffany Spencer were not in attendance. Jody Risinger
(Alternate) was activated to sit on Conunittee as a result of these absences.
City Staff Present: Mort Wetterling, Code Enforcement
Linda Royster, Director of Utility Billing
Linda Royster, Director of Utility Billing, briefed Committee members on the five page handout, included
in their packet. She addressed fee collections, new construction (current and proposed) as well as a
breakdown of the Impact Fees relating to both commercial and industrial activity. Sewer availability in the
recently annexed portions of the ETJ was addressed as was the existing availability of water in those areas
from sources other than the City of Kennedale (City of Arlington, Bethesda, and private wells). David
Conroy provided a short briefing to the newest Committee member, Jody Reisinger, on the goals and
challenges of the Committee as well as historical data relating to the need for, and uses of, Impact Fee
collection.
The Committee then engaged in a discussion that evolved around some very serious member concerns
which included the following:
1. The City's inability, to date, to acquire a site and effect installation of both a new well and overhead
storage tank, both of which the City's Engineers had recommended completion of by the end of 1997.
2. The maxing out of the City's ability to provide water during the summer of 1998, during which near
record high temperatures were experienced. Providing 1.7 million gallons daily as against a maximum
capability of 1.8 million gallons was cited as an example.
3. Items 1. and 2. became of greater concern when the requirement to provide water services to still
another four hundred residential customers in the very near future, was addressed. Commission
members were of the opinion that those four hundred home sites, coupled with whatever demands may
be placed upon the system by a portion, or portions, of the recently annexed 819 acres of ETJ, will
burden the existing system capabilities beyond a limit to which it can respond.
4. Some of the Commission members expressed concern over the continuing water pressure problems
that haunt the residents on the north side of the City.
In light of the above, the Commission requested that City Staff advise the Council of these concerns and
that the acquisition of land, the drilling of a well, and the construction of an overhead storage facility be
given the highest priority.
Staff members advised the Commission that possible well site property had been targeted, that property
owners had been contacted, and that property appraisals had been acquired but beyond that, additional
action had not been completed.
With no additional matters to discuss, Chairman Conroy closed the Impact Fee Committee meeting and
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