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Home My WebLink About10/20/2015 City Council MINUTES OF COUNCIL REGULAR SESSION HELD ON OCTOBER 20, 2015 The Regular Session of the City Council of the City of The Colony,Texas,was called to order at 6:35 p.m. on the 206 day of October, 2015, at City Hall, 6800 Main Street, The Colony, Texas,with the following roll call: Joe McCourry Mayor Present Kirk Mikulec Councilmember Present Richard Boyer Mayor Pro-Tern Present Brian R. Wade Councilmember Present David Terre Councilmember Present Perry Schrag Councilmember Present Joel Marks Councilmember Present And with seven council members present a quorum was established and the following items were addressed: 1.0. ROUTINE ANNOUNCEMENTS,RECOGNITIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS 1.1. Call to Order 1.2. Invocation- Friendship Baptist Church 1.3. Pledge of Allegiance to the United States Flag 1.4. Salute to the Texas Flag 1.5. 2015 Make A Difference Day Announcement — Joe Perez announced this event to be held next Saturday at Bill Allen Park. 1.6. Presentation Regarding Lovepacs Student Support Program (General Admin, Perez) — Representatives from this organization gave an overview of their program. 1.7. Items of Community Interest- Councilmember Terre spoke about early voting currently underway, and the upcoming Job Fair scheduled for October 28`''. Lastly Mr. Terre mentioned the passing of the founder of The Colony's local Half Marathon scheduled for next Saturday. City Manager Powell briefly mentioned that early next year the city will hold meetings for establishing long range plans for Public Safety. 1.7.1. Receive presentation from Parks and Recreation regarding upcoming events and activities-Lindsay Stanzell made the announcements. 2.0. WORK SESSION - 2.1. Discuss public information requests Quarterly Report as presented for council review (City Secretary, Wilson) No discussion on this item. These items are strictly public service announcements. Expressions of thanks, congratulations or condolences; information regarding holiday schedules; honorary recognition of city officials, employees or other citizens; reminders about upcoming events sponsored by the City or other entity that are scheduled to be attended by a city official or city employee.No action will be taken and no direction will be given regarding these items. City Council-Regular Meeting Agenda Meeting Date 10/20/2015 Page 2 2.2. Discuss route options for upcoming Parade of Lights on Saturday, December 5, 2015 (PARD, Swain) David Swain provided council some options for the Christmas Parade route this year. It was decided to leave the route the same as in previous years and add additional signs for traffic control. 2.3. Discuss and provide dire tion to staff regarding providing a discount for the 2016 season for Stewart Creek Park 2 15 annual pass holders who purchased their passes prior to the 2015 flood and park closure (PARD, Nelson) Parks Director Pam Nelson reviewed the background on this item. She proposed that the city possibly consider some type of compensation to season pass holders since they were unable to use the park this summer. Councilmember Schrag was not in favor of any sort of discount however several other council members spoke in favor of Pam's proposal. Pam will move forward on the proposed discounted passes for next but only for those who had passes prior to the park closure. 2.4. Discuss Notification of Police Seized Fund Expenditure (Police, Coulon) This item was pulled from the agenda and not discussed. 2.5. Council to provide direction to staff regarding future agenda items (Council)None CITIZEN INPUT 3.0. CITIZEN INPUT - This portion of the meeting is to allow up to five (5) minutes per speaker with a maximum of thirty (30) minutes for items not posted on the current agenda. The council may not discuss these items, but may respond with factual data or policy information, or place the item on a future agenda. Those wishing to speak shall submit a Request Form to the City Secretary. Students from the Lakeview Middle School Science Club invited council members to attend their upcoming event. Christi Martin announced Art Quest, an event for local artists currently underway and also the Job Fair. Bill Manning spoke expressing his support and appreciation for our city manager and city council. He read a prepared statement. 4.0. CONSENT AGENDA 4.1. Consider approving city council meeting minutes for October 6, 2015 (City Secretary, Wilson) 4.2. Consider approving council expenditures for the month of August 2015 (Council) 4.3. Consider accepting Donna McCright's resignation from the Board of Adjustment (Council) 4.4. Consider approving a budget amendment ordinance for employee insurance RFP in the amount of$37,500 (Human Resources, Wallican) 4.5. Consider approving a budget amendment ordinance of $31,800 in compliance with TCEQ order(Public Works, Groeschel) 4.6. Consider approving a resolution authorizing the city manager to issue a purchase order for the purchase of three (3) police vehicles from Holiday Chevrolet with pricing City Council- Regular Meeting Agenda Meeting Date 10/20/2015 Page 3 available through the Tarrant County Cooperative Purchasing Agreement (Police, Chandler) Motion to approve-Schrag;second by Wade; motion passed with all ayes. 5.0. REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS 5.1. Discuss and consider approval of a Service Agreement for Demand Response Transit Service with SPAN(General Admin, Perez) City Manager Troy Powell explained that this item is being presented to discuss potential funding for SPAN, due to the loss of federal funding for their operations in our city. Joe Perez presented some options that could be included in an agreement. Several council members expressed concern over the amount of funding being requested and asked for other options to be presented. In order not to interrupt service, the Mayor asked that Option 2 be brought back to the council for consideration on November 17`h. (Option 2 includes trips to the Senior Center.) 5.2. Discuss and consider approving an ordinance amending the Code of Ordinances, Chapter 19, Section 19-11(c) entitled "Same--In school traffic zones"; by setting speed limits for school zones in the Tribute area for Bankside near the intersection with Lebanon Road, Lebanon Road near the intersection with Stonefield and Bankside, Oxford near the intersection with Stonefield, and Stonefield near the intersection with Lebanon Road (Engineering, Scruggs) Brant Shallenburger reviewed the locations this school zone will affect, including the proposed signage and school zone flashing lights. Motion to approve- Terre;second by Mikulec; motion passed with all ayes. 6.0. EXECUTIVE SESSION was convened at 8:15 p.m. 6.1. A. Council shall convene into a closed executive session pursuant to Section 551.074 of the TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE to deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of the City Secretary. Open session was reconvened at 9:47p.m. B. Any action as a result of executive session. Motion to approve a contract amendment as discussed in Executive Session- Boyer; second by Marks; motion passed with all ayes. City Council-Regular Meeting Agenda Meeting Date 10/20/2015 Page 4 And with no further business to discuss the meeting was adjourned at 9:48 p.m. APPROVED: J McC ayor ity of The Colony ATTEST: ►OO.:1.,,,,, OF Di Af4 (11(-42:r), Christie Wilson, TRMC SEAL City Secretary `~ TEXAS