AGENDA City Council Meeting 5:00 PM - Tuesday, July 21, 2020 Virtual Meeting |
Live public access to this virtual meeting is available on TV15, or via Zoom webinar (see instructions below).
CALL TO ORDER
1. Quorum Call. 2. Pledge of Allegiance. 3. Welcome Citizens. |
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COMMUNICATION: |
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1. | ANNOUNCEMENTS/REMINDERS: |
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a. | Live public access is available on TV15.
Remote access to participate in this meeting is available via Zoom webinar.
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2. | PUBLIC & EMPLOYEE RECOGNITIONS: |
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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. |
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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. |
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a. | Confederate Statue in DeLeon Plaza. Kim Pickens, Citizens for the Community - Crossroads, TX. |
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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. |
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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. |
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1. | Adopt the minutes of the regular City Council meeting held on July 7, 2020. April Hilbrich, City Secretary. |
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2. | Appoint a member to the Victoria Housing Finance Corporation Board of Directors. April Hilbrich, City Secretary. |
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3. | Award a contract for the replacement of ten (10) H-VAC systems to Schroeder Refrigeration Company, Inc. in the amount of $99,200.00. Roger Welder, Director of Building and Equipment Services. |
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4. | Approve a renewal of an annual supply contract with International Dioxide, Inc. for Liquid Sodium Chlorite in an estimated amount of $119,520.00. Ken Gill, Director of Public Works. |
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5. | Approve a renewal of an annual supply contract with Brenntag Southwest, Inc. for Liquid Chlorine in an estimated amount of $154,370.00. Ken Gill, Director of Public Works. |
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6. | Approve a renewal of an annual supply contract with Brenntag Southwest, Inc. for Liquid Phosphate-based Corrosion Inhibitor in an estimated amount of $57,911.25. Ken Gill, Director of Public Works. |
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7. | Approve a renewal of an annual supply contract with Pencco, Inc. for Liquid Ferrous Chloride in an estimated amount of $79,886.40. Ken Gill, Director of Public Works. |
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8. | Approve the renewal of a contract with Yellowstone Landscaping for mowing in the amount of $348,057.00. Ken Gill, Director of Public Works. |
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ACTION ITEMS FOR COUNCIL DISCUSSION: |
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1. | Appoint and/or reappoint members to the Victoria Health Facilities Development Corporation. April Hilbrich, City Secretary. |
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2. | Continue State of Local Disaster. Thomas Gwosdz, City Attorney. |
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3. | Approve amendments to VSTDC Bylaws. Thomas Gwosdz, City Attorney. |
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CITY MANAGER REPORTS: |
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1. | COVID-19 Update: CARES Act Related City Expenditures. Gilbert P. Reyna, Jr, Chief Financial Officer. |
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WORK SESSION: |
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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. |
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1. | Executive Session in accordance with Texas Government Code § 551.087, to discuss or deliberate the offer of 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. Mike Etienne, Assistant City Manager.
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* 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