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SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA

City Council Meeting

4:00 PM - Thursday, October 15, 2020

Virtual Meeting

 

A.

CALL TO ORDER

 

 

1.     Quorum Call.

2.     Pledge of Allegiance.

3.     Welcome Citizens.

 

 

B.

COMMUNICATION:

 

 

 

1.

ANNOUNCEMENTS/REMINDERS:

 

 

 

a.

Live public access is available on TV15.

 

Remote access to aprticipate in this meeting is available via Zoom webinar.

 

Please click the link below to join the webinar:

https://victoriatx.zoom.us/j/444573113

 

Or dial Toll Free (888) 475 4499 or (877) 853 5257 and enter Webinar ID:

 444 573 113   

 

 

 

2.

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.

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.

 

 

D.

ACTION ITEMS FOR COUNCIL DISCUSSION:

 

 

 

1.

Approve a real estate sales contract for the sale of 10 acres on Ben Jordan St. for $350,000. Jesús A. Garza, City Manager.

Agenda Item Memo - AIM-20-289 - Pdf

Resolution No. 2020-205 - Pdf

 

 

* 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