NOTICE

CITY OF JEFFERSON, TEXAS

SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORKSHOP

TRANSPORTATION CENTER

305 E. AUSTIN STREET

MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2024 @ 6:30 P.M.

 

Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Jefferson City Council will be held on Monday, August 26, 2024 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

 

  • 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. The deadline for an item to be placed on an agenda with all corresponding documents for consideration is 5pm the Wednesday before the regularly scheduled meeting.
  • Public Comments will only be taken during the Public Comments section of the agenda.
  • 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.

 

  1. BUDGET WORKSHOP

a. There will be no action taken at this workshop. This meeting is for a budget workshop on the preliminary proposed 2024/2025 fiscal budget that will be presented and discussed. Recommendations for adjustments may be made to the preliminary proposed budget, however, there will be no action taken on approving the budget at this time.

  1. ACTION ITEMS

a. Consider, discuss, and/or approve granting the Mayor the ability to issue a letter of support on behalf of the City to any broadband internet supplier who wishes to apply for the Texas Broadband Development Office Boot II grant program for use in the City.

b. Consider, discuss, and/or approve appointment to Planning and Zoning by Ald. Bubba Haggard.

c. Consider, discuss, and/or approve the proposed 2024 Tax Rate.

d.  Consider, discuss, and/or approve SPI’s recommendation of award to a contractor for the ARPA Owens St. Force Main.

e.  Consider, discuss, and/or approve SPI’s recommendation of award to a contractor for the ARPA Polk St. Sanitary Sewer Improvements.

  1. DISCUSSION ITEMS

a. Visitor Center Building Use

  1. 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 or below, 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: (appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee)

e. Section 551.076 – Deliberation concerning Municipal Security

f. Section 551.087 – Economic Development

  1. POST-EXECUTIVE SESSION ACTION ITEMS
  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 22nd 23rd day of August, 2024, at 5:00  3pm. 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, Quiet Zone, 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.

Corrections to the Action Items d & e, date and time of posting at city hall are in the blue text in the Certification of Posting above. 

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