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AGENDA

City Council Meeting

5:00 PM - Tuesday, May 5, 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.

This meeting may be streamed live at VTV-15 and via the City's Facebook page.

 

 

 

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.

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.

 

 

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 the minutes of the regular Council meeting held April 21, 2020. April Hilbrich, City Secretary.

Draft of City Council - Apr 21 2020 - Minutes

 

 

 

2.

Approve the modernization of the Victoria City Hall elevator by thyssenkrupp using the Omnia Partners purchasing cooperative contract #R150801 for $142,333.00. Roger Welder, Director of Building and Equipment.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-085 - Pdf

 

 

 

3.

Approve the modernization of the Victoria Police Department elevator by thyssenkrupp using the Omnia Partners purchasing cooperative contract #R150801 for $185,711.00. Roger Welder, Director of Building and Equipment.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-086 - Pdf

 

 

 

4.

Approve an emergency purchase of an ambulance from Frazer, Ltd. for $271,000 through Buy Board contract # 570-18. Robert T. Fox, Fire Chief.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-091 - Pdf

 

 

 

5.

Professional services agreement with CivilCorp, LLC for the Airline Road Water Line and Reconstruction Project (Laurent to Navarro) in the amount of $184,000.00. Ken Gill, Director of Public Works.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-098 - Pdf

 

 

 

6.

Award the annual supply contract for limestone base to Cemex, Inc. in the amount of $23.25 per ton, for a total of approximately $186,000.00 based on an estimated annual quantity of 8,000 tons. Ken Gill, Director of Public Works.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-081 - Pdf

 

 

E.

ACTION ITEMS FOR COUNCIL DISCUSSION:

 

 

 

1.

Amend the resolution continuing a State of Local Disaster. Thomas Gwosdz, City Attorney.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-097 - Pdf

 

 

F.

CITY MANAGER REPORTS:

 

 

 

1.

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

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-107

 

 

 

2.

A report on the Fiscal Year 2018–2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR). Wesley Janecek, Assistant Director of Finance.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-099

 

 

 

3.

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

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-095

 

 

 

4.

Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) Update and Recommendations. Mike Etienne, Assistant City Manager.

 

 

G.

WORK SESSION:

 

 

 

1.

Discussion and possible action on programs to assist recovery and development of small businesses.  Mayor Rawley McCoy.

 

 

H.

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