NOTICE

CITY OF JEFFERSON, TEXAS

REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING

TRANSPORTATION CENTER

305 E. AUSTIN STREET

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2025 @ 5:30 P.M.

 

Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Jefferson City Council will be held on Tuesday, February 18, 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. PRESENTATIONS – Limited to 10 minutes each

a. Jefferson Volunteer Fire Department – Victor Perot

  1. CITY ADMINISTRATOR/CITY SECRETARY COMMENTS

a. May 3, 2025 General Election Information:

  1. Candidate applications received: 2025 – 2027:

          Full Term Wards 1, 2, & 3;

          Unexpired Term 2025 – 2026 Ward 2

  1. Drawing for a place on the Ballot will be Monday, February 24, 2025 at 10:00 am

 

b. Records Management Training:

  1. 1990 Ordinance and Designation of Records Management Officer
  2. Texas Administrative Code Title 13, Part 1, Chapter 7, Subchapter F, Rule 7.164

c. Accounting Software: FundView & OpenGov

d. Water/Sewer/Streets

  1. Water Rate Increase: Effective January 1, 2025. Rates will show on the bills that are due March 10, 2025.
  2. 2025/2026 Street Campaign
  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 January 21, 2025 Regular Council meeting minutes.

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

c. Consider and/or approve the March Miata Madness event application for March 22, 2025.

d. Consider and/or approve Joshua Cox’s transition from full-time to part-time at the rate of $15.00 per hour to be effective February 12, 2025.

e. Consider and/or approve Adam Fisher’s resignation without a two weeks’ notice, to be effective February 14, 2025.

f. Consider and/or approve Joseph Chance Robertson’s resignation without a two weeks’ notice to be effective February 14, 2025.

 

  1. ACTION ITEMS

 a. Discuss, consider and/or approve Jefferson Nail Spa, LLC – c/o Allen & Mae Goode’s Application for Building Permit. (407 E. Whelan; Carport)

b. Discuss, consider and/or approve Ray Todd’s Application for Building Permit with variance. (503 S. Alley St.; Carport)

c. Discuss, consider and/or approve hiring Excel Utility Construction, Inc. for the Waterline Lowering – FM 881 and Old Colony Road for the amount of $49,000 (Project: Oct. 7, 2024 City Council approved to submit the project to JEDCO to consider granting funds and on Dec. 17, 2024 for Schaumburg and Polk, Inc. to engineer the project)

d. Discuss, consider and/or approve adopting the Local Records Management Retention Schedules and Designating Melissa Boyd as the Records Management Officer.

  1. DISCUSSION ITEMS

a. Discuss possible resolution to stop the sale of Lake O the Pines water

b. 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.

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 14th day of February 2025, at 5:00pm 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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