NOTICE

CITY OF JEFFERSON, TEXAS

REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING

TRANSPORTATION CENTER

305 E. AUSTIN STREET

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2025 @ 5:30 P.M.

 

Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Jefferson City Council will be held on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 at 5:30 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.

 

  1. PROCLAMATION

a. January 2025 National Human Trafficking Prevention Month (Acceptance by: Nell Spencer and Heather Miller, Women’s Center of East Texas)

  1. CITY ADMINISTRATOR/CITY SECRETARY COMMENTS

a. May 3, 2025 General Election Information:

  1. Deadline to File for a Place on the Ballot: 5pm on February 14, 2025:

Candidate Packets available at City Hall during regular office hours.

  1. Candidate positions: 2025 – 2027 Full Term Wards 1, 2, & 3; Unexpired Term 2025 – 2026 Ward 2
  2. Deadline to order the election: Friday, February 14th, 2025. A special meeting will be held on February 11, 2025 at 6:30pm.

b. Accounting Software: FundView & OpenGov

c. Water/Sewer/Streets

  1. Meter Identification (Lead Service Line Replacement TCEQ Inventory and Spreadsheet update from December 17, 2024 Regular City Council meeting)
  2. Water Rate Increase: Effective January 1, 2025. Rates will show on the March 1, 2025 utility bill.
  3. American Rescue Plan Grant (ARPA)
  4. Owen St. Forcemain (Delta to Broadway)
  5. Polk St. Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project (Bonham to Henderson)

d. City Hall Offices at 305 E. Austin St.

  1. POLICE CHIEF COMMENTS

a. Jefferson Police Department 2024 End of the Year Report to include Racial Profiling Report.

  1. PRESENTATIONS – Limited to 10 minutes each

a. JEDCO – Jamey Parsons

b. Tourism – Colleen Taylor

c. FOJA – Sharon Goolsby

d. Planning & Zoning – Tracey Graham

e. Community Center – Hugh Lewis

f. Jefferson Volunteer Fire Department – Victor Perot

g. Quiet Zone – Jim Stacey

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

a. Consider and/or approve December 17, 2024 Regular Council meeting minutes.

b. Consider and/or approve December Monthly Financial Reports.

c. Consider and/or approve Quarterly Financial Reports.

d. Consider and/or approve the Interlocal Agreement between the City of Jefferson and Marion County for Library Services.

e. Consider and/or approve contract/agreement between the City of Jefferson and the Jefferson Carnegie Library.

f. Consider and/or approve Interlocal Agreement between the County of Marion and the City of Jefferson Covering Shared Services and Responsibilities.

  1. ACTION ITEMS

a. Discuss, 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. (Tabled from 10/29/2024 Special City Council Meeting)

b. Discuss, consider and/or approve the Krewe of Hebe Mardi Gras Upriver 2025 event application for February 25th through March 3rd, 2025. (Tabled from 11/19/2024 Regular City Council Meeting)

c. Discuss, consider and/or approve Grant Contract with The City of Jefferson, Texas and the Marion County Community Center, Inc. (Tabled from 12/17/2024 Regular City Council Meeting)

d. Discuss, consider and/or approve applying for the TxDOT 2025 Transportation Alternatives Grant

e. Discuss, consider and/or approve streets for the 2025/2026 street campaign.

 

  1. DISCUSSION ITEMS
  1. Ordinances: ECode 360
  2. City Hall 102 N. Polk St.
  3. Council Initiatives update:
  4. Firehouse & City Hall structure – Bubba
  5. Stop & street signs plus city street painting updates – TBD
  6. Employee Handbook redo – Robin
  7. Street campaigns – TBD
  8. Drainage items –April
  9. Cemetery needs – Ray
  10. Building inspector & ordinances – Ray
  11. City Limits & Floodplain surveys – Robin
  12. Mass Communication & town siren – Hollis
  13. General Grant needs & mgmt. – TBD
  14. City parks – Hollis
  15. City signage in streets, sidewalks, city ROWs, private property – Hollis
  16. “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.

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) (Administrator/Secretary)

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 17th day of January 2025, at 5:30 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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