NOTICE

CITY OF JEFFERSON, TEXAS

SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING

TRANSPORTATION CENTER

305 E. AUSTIN STREET

MONDAY, OCTOBER 07, 2024 @ 6:30 P.M. 

Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Jefferson City Council will be held on Monday, October 7, 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

Public Comments –

  • Public Comments will only be taken during the Public Comments section of the agenda.
  • 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 request to add an item to a future City Council Agenda by contacting City Hall. The deadline for the request to be placed on an agenda for consideration must be received with all corresponding documents by 5pm the Wednesday before the regularly scheduled 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. MAYORS COMMENTS 

    1. October 15, 2024 Regular City Council Meeting is cancelled.

6.  PRESENTATIONS – Limited to 10 minutes each 

    1. Marion County Community Center – Hugh Lewis 

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

  1. Consider and/or approve September 17, 2024 Regular Council meeting minutes.
  2. Consider and/or approve a renewal application for Walking Tour Permit from Historic Jefferson Ghost Walk Tour.
  3. Consider and/or approve the TXHB Member Group Policy for employee health benefits and authorizing Mayor to sign on behalf of the city.

8.  ACTION ITEMS

    1. Consider, discuss, and/or approve Application for Amusement Ride Permit from Jefferson Tombstone Tours.
    2. Consider, discuss, and/or approve Application for Amusement Ride Permit from Big Cypress Railway for a Motorized Electric Trackless Train.
    3. Consider, discuss, and/or approve request from Queen Horse Bedding to relocate a water line for the purpose of creating a new entrance to the facility and for the submission to JEDCO for possible funding.
    4. Consider, discuss, and/or approve Schaumburg & Polk, Inc. (SPI’s) recommendation to decline the funding for a loan without loan forgiveness on the CWSRF (wastewater) funding from the Texas Water Development Board.
    5. Consider, discuss, and/or approve Gene Ponder’s Application for Building Permit. (220 Austin St. Cottage A)
    6. Consider, discuss, and/or approve Gene Ponder’s Application for Building Permit. (220 Austin St. Cottage B)
    7. Consider, discuss, and/or approve Gene Ponder’s Application for Building Permit. (220 Austin St. Cottage C)
    8. Consider, discuss, and/or approve Gene Ponder’s Application for Building Permit. (220 Austin St. Cottage D)
    9. Consider, discuss, and/or approve Gene Ponder’s Application for Building Permit. (220 Austin St. Gazebo)

9 Discussion

  1. Discuss Cliff Bode/General Store water drainage. (Letter from SPI)
  2. Discuss selection of streets for the 2024/2025 street campaign.
  3. Council Initiatives update:
    1. Firehouse & City Hall structure – Bubba
    2. Stop & street signs plus city street painting updates – TBD
    3. Employee Handbook redo – Robin
    4. Street campaigns – TBD
    5. Drainage items –April
    6. Cemetery needs – Ray
    7. Building inspector & ordinances – Ray
    8. City Limits & Floodplain surveys – Robin
    9. Mass Communication & town siren – Hollis
    10. General Grant needs & mgmt. – TBD
    11. City parks – Hollis
    12. City signage in streets, sidewalks, city ROWs, private property – Hollis
    13. “Welcome to Jefferson” signs on Hwy 59 (current condition, potential plans, funding, volunteer groups, on-going maintenance, etc.) – April
  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.

  1. Section 551.071 – Consultation with an Attorney
  2. Section 551.072 – Deliberations concerning Real Property
  3. Section 551.073 – Deliberations concerning gifts/donations
  4. Section 551.074 – Deliberations concerning Personnel Matters: (appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee)
  5. Section 551.076 – Deliberation concerning Municipal Security
  6. Section 551.087 – Economic Development

11.  POST-EXECUTIVE SESSION ACTION ITEMS

12.  ADJOURNMENT

Certificate of Posting

I, Kami Rosser, City Administrative Assistant 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 4th day of October 2024, at 3:35 p.m. and remained to posted for at least 72 continuous hours preceding the scheduled time of said meeting.

Kami Rosser______________ 

Kami Rosser, City Admin Assistant                                                       Date/Time Notice Removed/Initials

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.

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