NOTICE
CITY OF JEFFERSON, TEXAS
QUIET ZONE COMMITTEE REGULAR MEETING
TRANSPORTATION CENTER
305 E. AUSTIN STREET
MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 2023 @ 6:30 P.M.
Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Jefferson Quiet Zone Committee will be held on Monday, August 21, 2023 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 – Committee Chairman
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 Quiet Zone Committee 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 Quiet Zone Agenda by contacting City Hall a minimum of 5 days prior to a regular City Council Meeting. While civil public criticism is not prohibited; disorderly conduct or disturbance of the peace as prohibited by law shall be cause for the chair to terminate the offender’s time to speak.
5. CONSENT ITEMS (Quiet Zone Committee reserves the right to remove items from the Consent Agenda and consider and/or approve individually)
a. Consider and/or approve the July 17, 2023 Special Meeting minutes
6. ACTION ITEMS
a.
7. DISCUSSION ITEMS
a. Update on possible Question and Answer presentation from Dr. Washington.
b. Discussion on group message board.
c. Discuss the City of Irving Texas Railroad Quiet Zone and flow chart packet.
d. Discuss moving forward with gathering information from other local cities/TxDot on their step-by-step processes on implementing a quiet zone and the possibility of having a representative do a presentation for the Jefferson Quiet Zone Committee with the public.
8. ADJOURNMENT
Certificate of Posting
I, Jim Stacey, Committee Chair for the City of Jefferson, Texas Quiet Zone Committee, 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 18th day of August, 2023, at 1:00 pm. and remained to posted for at least 72 continuous hours preceding the scheduled time of said meeting.
Jim Stacey, Committee Chair
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.