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AGENDA

City Council Meeting

5:00 PM - Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Virtual Meeting

 

Live public access to this virtual meeting is available on TV15, or via Zoom webinar (see instructions below).

 

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.

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.

Amend City Code to create a Tourism Advisory Board to provide direction and advice to the Convention and Visitor's Bureau. Joel Novosad, Director of the Convention and Visitor's Bureau.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-188 - Pdf

 

 

 

2.

Amend Section 2-97 related to the Parks Commission's purpose and bylaws. Jason Alfaro, Director of Parks and Recreation.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-186 - 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.

Adopt the Minutes of the Council meeting held on July 21, 2020. April Hilbrich, City Secretary.

Draft of City Council - Jul 21 2020 - Minutes

 

 

 

2.

Reappoint members to the Golden Crescent Regional Planning Commission. April Hilbrich, City Secretary.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-164 - Pdf

 

 

 

3.

Approve a programmatic agreement with the Mid-Coast Family Services for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) public facilities expansion project in the amount $270,000.00. Julie Fulgham, Director of Development Services.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-185 - Pdf

 

 

 

4.

Amend the resolution approving the Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority grant to change the identified state statute. Mark Jameson, Interim Police Chief.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-174 - Pdf

 

 

E.

ACTION ITEMS FOR COUNCIL DISCUSSION:

 

 

 

1.

Appoint or reappoint members to the Planning Commission. April Hilbrich, City Secretary.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-155 - Pdf

 

 

 

2.

Approve a Performance Agreement for sanitary sewer installation related to development of a Medical Park. Mike Etienne, Assistant City Manager.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-189 - Pdf

 

 

 

3.

Authorize the professional service provider selection for Community Development Block Grant - Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) programs through the Texas General Land Office (GLO). Katy Connally, Grant Administrator.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-187 - Pdf

 

 

 

4.

Confirm the City’s program for HOT Funds for Outside Agencies and appoint members to the Hotel Occupancy Tax Funds Committee. Darrek Farrell, Assistant City Manager.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-190 - Pdf

 

 

 

5.

Appoint Gilbert P. Reyna, Jr., C.P.A. as the representative to perform the No-New-Revenue (Effective) Tax Rate and Voter-Approval (Rollback) Tax Rate calculations. Gilbert P. Reyna, Jr., CPA, Chief Financial Officer.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-182 - Pdf

 

 

 

6.

Grant variance to Section 10-115 and 13-27, which prohibits Septic System installations within one-mile of the City Limits for 280 County Road. Ken Gill, Director of Public Works.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-172 - Pdf

 

 

F.

CITY MANAGER REPORTS:

 

 

 

1.

Presentation on the Community Development Block Grant Draft 2020 Analysis of Impediments. Julie Fulgham, Director of Development Services.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-176

 

 

G.

WORK SESSION:

 

 

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.

 

 

 

1.

Executive Session in accordance with 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.

 

 

* 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