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AGENDA

City Council Meeting

5:00 PM - Tuesday, April 19, 2022

107 West Juan Linn Street (Council Chambers)

 

A.

CALL TO ORDER

 

 

1.     Quorum Call.

2.     Pledge of Allegiance.

3.     Texas Pledge of Allegiance.

4.     Moment of Silence.

5.     Welcome Citizens.

 

 

B.

COMMUNICATION:

 

 

 

1.

ANNOUNCEMENTS/REMINDERS:

 

 

 

a.

Riverside Stadium 75th Anniversary. Jason Alfaro, Director of Parks and Recreation

 

 

 

b.

City Attorney Thomas Gwosdz Announces Retirement. Thomas Gwosdz, City Attorney

 

 

 

2.

PUBLIC & EMPLOYEE RECOGNITIONS:

 

 

 

a.

City Attorney Thomas Gwosdz was awarded Fellowship in the Legal Scholars by the Texas Bar College. Jeff Bauknight, Mayor

 

 

 

3.

ITEMS FROM COUNCIL:

 

With respect to items not listed on this agenda, City Council Members may request specific factual information, a recitation of existing policy, or placement of items on the City Council agenda for discussion at a following meeting.

 

 

 

4.

CITIZEN COMMUNICATION:

 

At this time, the public is invited to address the City Council and speak on any matter not specifically listed for public hearing in the subsection titled: “Public Hearings,” below. Please note that City Council may not deliberate on topics not included on this agenda.

 

 

C.

ITEMS WITH PUBLIC HEARINGS:

 

The City Council shall call a public hearing before taking action on each item below in this section. Any person wishing to address the City Council on these items should please come forward when that public hearing is called.

 

 

 

1.

An ordinance amending and re-adopting Traffic Regulation Schedules as provided in various sections of City Code.  Ken Gill, Director Public of Works

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-22-077 - Pdf

 

 

 

2.

Establish the City of Victoria PACE Program and approve a professional services agreement with Texas PACE Authority to administer the City of Victoria PACE Program. Danielle Williams, Director of Economic Development

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-22-087 - Pdf

 

 

D.

CONSENT AGENDA:

 

All consent agenda items listed are considered to be routine by the City Council and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Council Member so requests, in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered after the remainder of the consent agenda. Information concerning consent agenda items is available for public review.

 

 

 

1.

Adoption of Minutes of the special meeting on March 30, 2022 and the regular meeting on April 5, 2022. April Hilbrich, City Secretary

Special City Council - Mar 30 2022 - Minutes - Pdf

City Council - Apr 05 2022 - Minutes - Pdf

 

 

 

2.

Approve a variance to Section 21-82(a)(1-2) for a property located at 2514 Callis Street in order to allow the platting for a single family residential lot. Julie Fulgham, Director of Development Services

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-22-072 - Pdf

 

 

 

3.

Approve a variance to Section 21-55(f) for a property located Southwest of Escalera Ranch Road and F.M. 1685 intersection to allow for a cul-de-sac length greater than 750 feet while serving more than 24 residential lots. Julie Fulgham, Director of Development Services

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-22-071 - Pdf

 

 

 

4.

Ratify Change Order No. 8 for the Crestwood Drive Reconstruction Project Phase II (Navarro St. to Laurent St) to Brannan Paving Co., LTD in the amount of $73,701.00. Ken Gill, Director Public of Works

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-22-075 - Pdf

 

 

 

5.

Approve a Sales Contract for the Property Located at 1204 E. North Street to Cable One, Inc. d/b/a Sparklight in the amount of $8,000. Darrek Ferrell, Assistant City Manager

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-22-082 - Pdf

 

 

E.

ACTION ITEMS FOR COUNCIL DISCUSSION:

 

 

 

1.

Appointing Deputy City Attorney Allison Lacey to be the City Attorney effective May 1, 2022, and authorizing the Mayor to execute an employment agreement with Allison Lacey as City Attorney. Allison Lacey, Deputy City Attorney

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-22-083 - Pdf

 

 

 

2.

Deny AEP Texas Inc.'s application to amend its Distribution Cost Recovery Factors. Thomas Gwosdz, City Attorney

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-22-080 - Pdf

 

 

 

3.

Approve a variance to Section 21-82(a)(1) for a property located at 1705 Avondale Street in order to allow for the submittal and approval of a replat depicting two single family residential lots below the minimum total lot size. Julie Fulgham, Director of Development Services

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-22-073 - Pdf

 

 

 

4.

Approve a professional services agreement with Freese and Nichols for preliminary design services for the DeLeon Plaza Expansion Project - Phase I in the amount of $170,000.00.  Ken Gill, Director Public of Works

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-22-079 - Pdf

 

 

 

5.

Approve a professional services agreement with Garver, LLC for design services for the Water and Wastewater SCADA Improvement Project in the amount of $741,050.00.  Ken Gill, Director Public of Works

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-22-074 - Pdf

 

 

 

6.

Approve a professional services agreement with Garver, LLC for an engineering evaluation of the Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant Facility in the amount of $225,729.00. Ken Gill, Director of Public Works

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-22-078 - Pdf

 

 

 

7.

Approve a professional services agreement with RJN Group, Inc. for an Inflow and Infiltration (I&I) Study of the sanitary sewer collection system in the amount of $1,254,945.00. Ken Gill, Director of Public Works

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-22-070 - Pdf

 

 

F.

CITY MANAGER REPORTS:

 

 

 

1.

Environmental Services Annual Report. Darryl Lesak, Director of Environmental Services

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-22-088 - Pdf

 

 

G.

EXECUTIVE SESSIONS:

 

All items listed in this section may be considered Action Items and City Council may take action on any item listed in this section without further notice.

 

 

 

1.

Texas Government Code § 551.072, to deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property interests, due to the fact that deliberation in an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the position of the City in negotiations with a third party.  Jesús A. Garza, City Manager

 

 

 

2.

Texas Government Code § 551.087, to discuss or deliberate the offer to a financial or other incentive to a business prospect that the City Council seeks to have, locate, stay, or expand in or near the territory of the City of Victoria and with which the City of Victoria is conducting economic development negotiations. Jesús A. Garza, City Manager

 

A quorum of the city council will be present at 107 W. Juan Linn St, Victoria Texas ("City Council Chambers"), and the city intends to have a quorum present at that location. The Presiding officer of the meeting will be present at City Council chambers, and that location will be open to the public. Other city council members may participate in this meeting by video conference, so long as their face is visible, and their voice audible to members of the public in attendance at City Council Chambers while that member is speaking.

 

* Regardless of the agenda heading under which any item is listed, any subject mentioned in any word or phrase of any item listed on this agenda may be deliberated by City Council, and such words or phrases are hereby added as additional subjects to be considered. Resolutions, ordinances, and other actions concerning any word, phrase, or other subject of this meeting include the regulation of animals, construction, signs, unsafe buildings, floodplains, land development, nuisances, mowing, sanitation, food establishments, manufactured house, itinerant vendors, outdoor sales, water conservation practices, and proposed changes to the City Charter. Any descriptions of property or amounts stated herein are descriptive and not restrictive, and property and amounts may be changed in the motions, actions, or documents without further public notice.

 

** In addition to the items listed under “Public Hearings,” every item on this agenda shall be considered a public hearing

 

*** Any penal ordinance of the City of Victoria or item which is funded by the current or next proposed City of Victoria budget, including, without limitation, any park, street, water pipe, sewer, drainage structure, department, employee, contract, capital improvement project, or real property interest of the City of Victoria may be discussed and deliberated as a City Manager’s Report, and the subject is hereby defined as such without further notice.

 

****Any item on this agenda may be discussed in executive session if authorized by Texas law regardless of whether it is listed under “Executive Sessions” of this agenda, regardless of any past or current practice of City Council. Executive sessions herein are closed meetings, may include consideration of any item otherwise listed on the agenda, plus any subject specified in the executive session notice, and may include items under Texas Government Code Sections 551.071, 551.072, 551.073, 551.074, 551.076, 551.084, and/or 551.087. Executive sessions may be held at 105 W. Juan Linn, Victoria, Texas or such other location as determined by the City Council. This agenda has been reviewed and approved by the City Attorney’s office, and the presence of any subject in the Executive Session portion of this agenda constitutes a written interpretation of Chapter 551 of the Texas Local Government Code by the attorney for the governmental body indicating that said subject may be legally discussed in a closed meeting