NOTICE

CITY OF JEFFERSON, TEXAS

REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING

TRANSPORTATION CENTER

305 E. AUSTIN STREET

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2022 @ 6:30 P.M.

 

Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Jefferson City Council will be held on Tuesday, November 1, 2022 at 6:30 PM at the Transportation Center at 305 E. Austin Street, Jefferson, Texas, at which time the subjects to be considered or upon which any formal action may be taken are as listed below.  Items do not have to be taken in the order shown on the meeting notice.  Unless removed from the consent agenda, items identified with the consent agenda will be acted on at one time.

 

AGENDA

  1. CALL TO ORDER – MAYOR
  2. INVOCATION
  3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
  4. WELCOME GUESTS AND VISITORS

Public Comments – Limited to citizens and business owners of the City of Jefferson, must sign up in advance on the list and must limit to 3 minutes conversation.  Jefferson City Council may ask questions but shall not discuss items that are not on the agenda.  On a subject that is not on the agenda a person may add an item to a future City Council Agenda by contacting City Hall a minimum of 5 days prior to a regular City Council Meeting

  1. MAYOR COMMENTS

a. Update on bids to re-install sewer service at Polk and Henderson. (Red Bus)

b. Handbook discussion

c. Stop sign, street sign update

  1. PRESENTATIONS

a. Tourism Quarterly Update – Colleen Taylor and Pam Thomas

  1. CONSENT AGENDA (City Council reserves the right to remove items from the Consent Agenda and consider and/or approve individually)

a. Consider, discuss and/or approve spending up to $1,100.00 Christmas ornaments for the city Christmas tree.

b. Consider, discuss and/or approve spending up to $325.00 for a commercial coffee pot for the Tourism Center

c. Consider, discuss and/or approve spending up to $5,875.00 for 25 six-foot heavy duty rectangular tables and 40 sixty-inch round tables for the Tourism Center.

d. Consider, discuss and/or approve BKS General Contractors, LLC quote for $5,437.50 to repair damage caused by improper drainage near 207 N. Alley Street.

e. Consider and/or approve Engagement Letter from McMinn, Pope, Woodfin & Shaw P.C. Certified Public Accounts, to conduct the financial audit for Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2022

  1. ACTION ITEMS

a. Consider, discuss and/or approve suggestions on realigning the 1st of the month special council meeting/workshop.

 EXECUTIVE SESSION

The Jefferson City Council reserves the right to adjourn into Executive Session at any time during the Course of the meeting to discuss any of the matters listed above, as authorized by the Texas Government Code.

a. Section 551.071 – Consultation with an Attorney

b. Section 551.072 – Deliberations concerning Real Property

c. Section 551.073 – Deliberations concerning gifts/donations

d. Section 551.074 – Deliberations concerning Personnel Matters:

e. Section 551.076 – Deliberation concerning Municipal Security

f. Section 551.087 – Economic Development

  1. POST-EXECUTIVE SESSION ACTION ITEMS

a. Return to Open Session and take action as a result of discussions in preceding:

  1. ADJOURNMENT

Certificate of Posting

I, Melissa Boyd, City Secretary for the City of Jefferson, Texas do hereby certify that this Notice of Meeting was posted at City Hall, 102 N. Polk Street, a place readily accessible to the general public at all times, on this the day of October 28, 2022, at 11:45 a.m. and remained to posted for at least 72 continuous hours preceding the scheduled time of said meeting.

 

Melissa Boyd, City Secretary

ATTENDANCE BY OTHER ELECTED OR APPOINTED OFFICIALS: It is anticipated that members of the City Council, or other city board, commissions and/or committees (JEDCO, Tourism, Citizen Action and Diversity, Core Team, Planning and Zoning, etc.) may attend the meeting in numbers that may constitute a quorum of the other city boards, commissions and/or committees.  Notice is hereby given that the meeting, to the extent required by law, is also noticed as a meeting of the other boards, commissions and/or committees of the City, whose members may be in attendance.  The members of the boards, commissions and/or committees may participate in discussions on the same items listed on the agenda, which occur at the meeting, but no action will be taken by such in attendance unless such item and action is specifically provided for an on an agenda for that board, commission or committee subject to the Texas Open Meetings Act.

 

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