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AGENDA

City Council Meeting

5:00 PM - Tuesday, April 21, 2020

107 West Juan Linn Street (Council Chambers)

 

A.

CALL TO ORDER

 

 

1.     Quorum Call.

2.     Pledge of Allegiance.

3.     Welcome Citizens.

 

 

B.

COMMUNICATION:

 

 

 

1.

ANNOUNCEMENTS/REMINDERS:

 

 

 

a.

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2.

PUBLIC & EMPLOYEE RECOGNITIONS:

 

 

 

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.

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.

Adopt the Minutes of the April 7, 2020 Council Meeting. April Hilbrich, City Secretary.

Draft of City Council - Apr 07 2020 - Minutes

 

 

 

2.

Request to Waive City of Victoria Fees for 311 E. Constitution St. Julie Fulgham, Director of Development Services.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-080 - Pdf

 

 

 

3.

Support for Prospera's Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas Affordable Housing Program application for the Fox Run Development located at 2008 Sam Houston Drive. Julie Fulgham, Director of Development Services.

Agenda Item Memo - Prospera Housing - Pdf

 

 

 

4.

Denial of AEP Rate Increase. Thomas Gwosdz, City Attorney.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-094 - Pdf

 

 

D.

CITY MANAGER REPORT:

 

 

 

1.

Overview of COVID-19 Impact on Local Businesses & Available Resources. Jesús A. Garza, City Manager.

 

 

E.

ACTION ITEMS FOR COUNCIL DISCUSSION:

 

 

 

1.

Approve a Chapter 380 Agreement in an amount not to exceed $750,000 with LiftFund, Inc for a Small Business Recovery Program. Jesús A. Garza, City Manager.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-096 - Pdf

 

 

F.

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.

Emergency Reading to Appropriate $750,000.00 from the TxDOT Overpass Reimbursement Fund -- Reserved Park Project Fund to provide funding for the Small Business Recovery Program Agreement with LiftFund, Inc. Wesley Janecek, Assistant Director of Finance.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-093

 

 

G.

CITY MANAGER REPORTS:

 

 

 

1.

COVID-19 Financial Impact Update. Jesús A. Garza, City Manager.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-095

 

 

 

2.

Victoria Public Library 2019 Annual Report. Dayna Williams-Capone, Director of the Victoria Public Library.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-087

 

 

 

3.

Overview of CARES Act funding and Federal funding related to COVID-19. Julie Fulgham, Director of Development Services.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-092

 

 

H.

WORK SESSION:

 

 

I.

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.

 

 

* 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