Texas Side City Council to Meet Tonight

The only scheduled meeting for the Texarkana Texas City Council for the month of December is tonight at 6pm at City Hall.

Here is the complete agenda for the meeting:

I. CALL TO ORDER, ROLL CALL, ESTABLISHMENT OF QUORUM

II. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE LED BY COUNCIL MEMBER JAY DAVIS

III. MAYOR’S REMARKS AND ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST

Upcoming City Council Meetings
Monday, January 8, 2024 at 6:00 p.m.
Monday, January 22, 2024 at 6:00 p.m.

Parks & Recreation Activities
December 13th
Senior Day Out Christmas Party Southwest Center

Additional Parks & Recreation information can be found on the city’s website at <http://www.texarkanatexas.gov>

Perot Theatre Event
December 16th
Christmas on Main at the Perot Theatre

IV. OPEN FORUM: COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC
Per Council rules, comment time is limited to five minutes, or ten minutes if using a translator. Before comments are made, a speaker must complete an information sheet and give to the City Secretary. If your comment pertains to an agenda item with a scheduled public hearing or public comment, the Council requires
that you make your comment at that time; you do not need to complete an information sheet.

V. APPOINTMENTS TO BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND COMMITTEES
Council Members Annual Board Appointments Review

VI. ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION
Consent Items
1. Consider approval of the minutes of the Regular Meeting of the City Council held on November 13, 2023 at 6:00 PM.

2. Resolution No. 2023-157 approving the PY22/FY23 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Annual Comprehensive Assessment Performance Evaluation        Report. Public Hearing: Council Vote: December 11, 2023
3. Resolution No. 2023-158 authorizing the City Manager to execute a memorandum of agreement regarding staff providing fire and emergency services to Red River Army Depot. Public Hearing: Council Vote: December 11, 2023

4. Resolution No. 2023-159 authorizing the City Manager to approve the purchase and installation of a scoreboard for the George Dobson baseball field from Nevco, a Buy Board vendor, in the amount of Fifty-five Thousand Six Hundred Nine Dollars and Sixty Cents ($55,609.60), with funds available in the 2023 Bond Fund (Fund 426). Public Hearing: Council Vote: December 11, 2023

5. Ordinance No. 2023-160 amending the budgeted revenues and expenditures for the 2023 Bond Fund (Fund 426) in the amount of FOURTEEN MILLION SEVEN
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($14,700,000) for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024. Public Hearing: Council Vote: December 11, 2023

6. Resolution No. 2023-161 authorizing the City Manager to enter into a contract with Flock Safety for an amount not to exceed One Hundred Forty-one Thousand Nine
Hundred Fifty Dollars ($141,950) to be paid from the General Fund (Fund 101). Public Hearing: Council Vote: December 11, 2023

Action Items
7. Resolution No. 2023-164 authorizing the City Manager to sign an addendum for Komatsu Architecture for Perot Theatre renovations, in an amount not to exceed
Three Hundred Seventy Thousand Dollars ($370,000) with funds from the 2023 Bond (Fund 426). Agenda City Council December 11, 2023
Public Hearing: Council Vote: December 11, 2023

8. Resolution No. 2023-165 ratifying a contract change order with RBIS, LLC, for the sewer main replacement project at I-30 and Cowhorn Creek and authorizing change order payment of $103,461.05 to be paid from the TWU Texas Infrastructure Fund. Public Hearing: Council Vote: December 11, 2023

VII. FIRST BRIEFINGS
1. Ordinance No. 2023-154 rezoning an approximate 1.50-acre tract of land (being Tracts 84A, 84C, and 85A), M. H. Janes HRS, A-305, located at 7770 Hampton Road from Single Family-2 to Commercial. Tyler Parsons for FMG North Texas, owner. Public Hearing: January 8, 2024 Council Vote: January 8, 2024

2. Ordinance No. 2023-155 approving a Specific Use Permit to allow one additional use of a beauty salon on an approximate 4.126-acre tract of land (being Tract 15), located at 6500 Summerhill Road. Jessica Davis, owner, and Michelle Lee, agent. Public Hearing: January 8, 2024 Council Vote: January 8, 2024

3. Ordinance No. 2023-156 granting a Specific Use Permit to allow one additional use of a beauty school on the W 1/2 of Lots 1-3, Block 18 and the E 1/2 of Lots 1-3, All of Lots 4-6 and All of Block 17, Rochelle Addition, located at 3123 Magnolia Street. Brenda Adams, owner. Public Hearing: January 8, 2024 Council Vote: January 8, 2024

4. Resolution No. 2023-162 approving a Memorandum of Understanding with Texas A&M University Texarkana. Public Hearing: January 8, 2024 Council Vote: January 8, 2024

VIII. PUBLIC HEARINGS
1. Ordinance No. 2023-139 approving rules and regulations of the Texarkana Airport Authority and amending Chapter 4, Article II “Airport Authority”, Section 4-26 “Rules, regulations and bylaws”, of the Code of Ordinances. Public Hearing: December 11, 2023 Council Vote: December 11, 2023

2. Resolution No. 2023-148 adopting and approving Highly Qualified Professional Services Providers for future architectural, engineering, and surveying projects.
Public Hearing: December 11, 2023 Council Vote: December 11, 2023

3. Ordinance No. 2023-149 establishing rural water and sewer infrastructure fees for residential and commercial customers outside the city limits; dedicating collected
revenues from such fees to infrastructure replacement and depositing into the Texas Infrastructure Fund maintained by Texarkana Water Utilities; and amending the Master Fee List to reflect outside-city-limits water and sewer rates and fees. Public Hearing: December 11, 2023 Council Vote: December 11, 2023

4. Ordinance No. 2023-152 amending PD-85-1 for site plan approval on an approximate 1.57-acre tract of land (being Tract 2), Mary E. Wills Subdivision, located at 1802 Richmond Road. James Brower, owner. Public Hearing: December 11, 2023 Council Vote: December 11, 2023

IX. CITY MANAGER’S REPORT

X. ADMINISTRATIVE COMMENTS
1. City Council
2. City Staff

XI. ADJOURNMENT