NOTICE

CITY OF JEFFERSON, TEXAS

SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING

TRANSPORTATION CENTER

305 E. AUSTIN STREET

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2024 @ 6:30 P.M.

 

Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Jefferson City Council will be held on Tuesday, October 29, 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
  1. 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.
  1. ACTION ITEMS

a. Consider, discuss, and/or approve authorizing the City Secretary to transfer $142,700 from the Water/Sewer TexPool Account to the VeraBank Consolidated account Water/Sewer Fund as approved on the FY 2025 budget for the Lead Service Line Replacement TCEQ Inventory and Spreadsheet.

b. Consider, discuss, and/or approve the Public Works Director to take necessary steps to determine where the water flow is coming from on City property at the corner of Polk and Austin going onto private property.

c. Consider, discuss, and/or approve the sewer line installation/tap for the property at 220 Austin at Mr. Ponder’s expense with the City Public Works supervision.

d. Consider and/or approve hiring the Willdan Company to perform building inspections for the city of Jefferson with fees from building permits to pay for the inspection.

e. Consider, discuss, and/or approve Ordinance 2024-10-1: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON, TEXAS PRESCRIBING THE NEW RATES FOR SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE WATERWORKS AND SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE CITY OF JEFFERSON AND SETTING AN EFFECTIVE DATE

f. Consider, discuss, and/or approve hiring a surveyor to survey the road to gun range and an attorney to advise on procedure and prepare paperwork to convey property to and from Ed Cobb, property being the tract that was deeded to the city along the road to the gun range and the road leading to the gun range.

g. Consider, discuss, and/or approve relocation of files currently stored behind the old city restrooms, in the old city jail, and in the old city hall.

  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. 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 25th day of October 2024, at 5:00 pm. 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.

 

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