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LEGISLATIVE PRAYER AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
It is a custom and tradition of the City Council to have an invocation and recital of the Pledge of Allegiance prior to the beginning of each Regular Meeting. Members of the audience are invited but not required to participate. The decision to participate is strictly a matter of personal choice. It has no bearing on matters to be considered by the City Council and will not affect the decisions to be made during this meeting.
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MAYORAL PROCLAMATIONS, RECOGNITIONS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Mayor may present proclamations, recognize attendees or accomplishments, and make announcements regarding City events or other matters of interest to citizens including but not limited to listed items. There will be no Council discussion or votes on these matters.
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CONSENT AGENDA
All items under this section are recommended for approval by a single motion of Council, without discussion. Council has had the opportunity to review each of these items at a previous Work Session, and approval of the consent agenda authorizes the City Manager or his designee to execute each item. The Mayor will announce the consent agenda and provide an opportunity for members of the audience, as well as Council, to request that any item be removed and considered separately.
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Approve the mintues of the February 6, 2024, Regular Meeting. |
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Approve the following bids:
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This request is for funds to cover the additional cycles and locations added to the contract during the 2023 year / season. |
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This request is to obtain engineering and design services to support the replacement of the 69kV/138kV transformer at the TMPA Spencer Interchange and for the reconductor of the TMPA Spencer Interchange to Spencer Station 69kV Transmission Line. This is part of the approved TMPA Spencer Interchange Transformer Upgrade CIP project and will be reimbursed at 100%. An owner's contingency is included for any additional work that may be required. |
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This request is to obtain engineering and design services to support the relocation of the existing Firewheel 138kV Transmission Line to a new terminal at the 138kV Campbell Road Switch Station and the termination of the new 138kV Holford Transmission Line into the existing Firewheel position at the Campbell Road Switch Station. This is part of the approved GP&L Substation Terminal Upgrades CIP project. An owner's contingency is included for any additional work that may be required. |
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This request is to obtain Change Order No. 1 to Blanket Services Contract 9590 issued to obtain utility customer call assistance for power outages. There has been a larger volume of customers choosing to speak to a live agent rather than using the automated outage reporting option, causing higher charges than originally anticipated for these services. This change order will be effective on the current Blanket Services Contract as well as the remaining optional renewals available for Bid Award 1021-22. |
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This request is to provide construction services for Speegle Green located at 1002 Marion Drive. City Council adopted the Las Brisas Small Area Plan in February 2023 and authorized design services in September 2024. |
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A public hearing was previously conducted for the zoning case(s) below. Council approved the zoning request(s) and instructed staff to bring forth the following ordinances:
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Z 23-44 Ofi Chito (District 7) Consider and take appropriate action on an ordinance amending the Garland Development Code of the City of Garland, Texas, by approving 1) a Specific Use Provision for a Restaurant, Drive-Through use and 2) a Detail Plan for a Restaurant, Drive-through use on a 1.071-acre tract of located at 4680 North Shiloh Road and zoned Planned Development (PD) District 20-35; providing a penalty under the provisions of Sec. 10.05 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Garland, Texas; providing a Notice of Conditions of Compliance Clause; providing a Savings Clause and a Severability Clause; and providing an effective date. |
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Z 23-41 Cross Engineering Consultants, Inc. (District 2) Consider and take appropriate action on an ordinance amending the Garland Development Code of the City of Garland, Texas, by approving 1) a Change in Zoning from Multi-family-1 (MF-1) District to a Planned Development (PD) District for Multi-family-2 (MF-2) use and 2) a Detail Plan for an Elder Care – Independent Living development on a 5.977–acre tract of land located at 1600 Edgefield Drive providing for conditions, restrictions, and regulations; providing a penalty under the provisions of Sec. 10.05 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Garland, Texas; providing a Notice of Conditions of Compliance Clause; providing a Savings Clause and a Severability Clause; and providing an effective date. |
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FY23 Justice Assistance Grant Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Council is requested to allow the City Manager to execute a Funds Sharing and Fiscal Agency Agreement Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the City of Dallas in order to obtain funding for the FY23 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program. |
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Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) Resolution Approve the Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) resolution. The resolution will allow the City of Garland to acquire funding to help support and improve public safety response and recovery capabilities. |
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ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION
Members of the audience may provide public comment in favor, in opposition or about any of the items for individual consideration. Anyone wishing to speak must fill out a speaker card (located at the entrance to the Council Chambers) and give it to the City Secretary in advance of the respective agenda item. Speakers are grouped by agenda item and will be called in the order of the agenda. All comments and testimony are to be presented from the podium. The Mayor may impose a time limit and may provide for rebuttal.
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CONSIDER APPOINTMENTS TO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
Terms are usually staggered whereby at least half of the membership has previous experience. Members are appointed based on qualifications. |
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Council Member Carissa Dutton
- Kim Everett - Environmental and Community Advisory Board
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Council Member Dylan Hedrick
- Jimmy Tran - Community Multicultural Commission
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Council Member Dylan Hedrick
- Lauren Sauri Bruns - Environmental and Community Advisory Board
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CITIZEN COMMENTS
Members of the audience wishing to address issues not on the meeting agenda may have three minutes to speak. However, according to the Texas Open Meetings Act, Council is prohibited from discussing any item not on the posted agenda.
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ADJOURN
All Regular Meetings of the Garland City Council are broadcast live on CGTV, Time Warner Cable Channel 16 and Frontier FIOS TV 44. Meetings are rebroadcast at 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesdays - Sundays. Live streaming and on-demand videos of the meetings are also available online at GarlandTX.tv. Copies of the meetings can be purchased through the City Secretary's Office (audio CD's are $1 each and DVD's are $3 each).
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NOTICE: The City Council may recess from the open session and convene in a closed executive session if the discussion of any of the listed agenda items concerns one or more of the following matters:
- Pending/contemplated litigation, settlement offer(s), and matters concerning privileged and unprivileged client information deemed confidential by Rule 1.05 of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct. Sec. 551.071, Tex. Gov't Code.
- The purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property, if the deliberation in an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the position of the City in negotiations with a third person. Sec. 551.072, Tex. Gov't Code.
- A contract for a prospective gift or donation to the City, if the deliberation in an open meeting would have a detrimental effect on the position of the City in negotiations with a third person. Sec. 551.073, Tex. Gov't Code.
- Personnel matters involving the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline or dismissalof a public officer or employee or to hear a complaint against an officer or employee. Sec. 551.074, Tex. Gov't Code.
- The deployment, or specific occasions for implementation of security personnel or devices. Sec. 551.076,Tex. Gov't Code.
- Discussions or deliberations regarding commercial or financial information that the City has received from a business prospect that the City seeks to have to locate, stay, or expand in or near the territory of the City and with which the City is conducting economic development negotiations; or to deliberate the offer of a financial or other incentive to a business prospect of the sort described in this provision. Sec. 551.087, Tex. Gov't Code.
- Discussions, deliberations, votes, or other final action on matters related to the City's competitive activity, including information that would, if disclosed, give advantage to competitors or prospective competitors and is reasonably related to one or more of the following categories of information:
- generation unit specific and portfolio fixed and variable costs, including forecasts of those costs, capital improvement plans for generation units, and generation unit operating characteristics and outage scheduling;
- bidding and pricing information for purchased power, generation, and fuel, and Electric Reliability Council of Texas bids, prices, offers, and related services and strategies;
- effective fuel and purchased power agreements and fuel transportation arrangements and contracts;
- risk management information, contracts, and strategies, including fuel hedging and storage;
- plans, studies, proposals, and analyses for system improvements, additions, or sales, other than transmission and distribution system improvements inside the service area for which the public power utility is the sole certificated retail provider; and
- customer billing, contract, and usage information, electric power pricing information, system load characteristics, and electric power marketing analyses and strategies. Sec. 551.086; Tex. Gov't Code; Sec. 552.133, Tex. Gov't Code]
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Each year, the City Council reviews and updates its goals for the Garland community and City operations. City management uses these goals to guide operational priorities, decision-making and resource allocation.
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