Written Briefings: a. Artist Services Agreement for the Signature Sculpture at Granville Arts Center Council is requested to consider authorizing the City Manager to execute a professional artist services agreement with Barvo Creations, in the amount of $300,000.00, for final full-size design and fabrication of the signature sculpture proposed for the front entrance to the Granville Arts Center facility, at 300 N. Fifth Street. Unless otherwise directed by Council, this item will be scheduled for formal consideration at the March 15, 2016 Regular Meeting. b. Proposed Street Name Change Request The East Garland Church of God in Christ, located at 200 Casalita Drive, requests to re-name Caruth Drive to W. A. Baker Drive. According to the applicant, W. A. Baker founded the church in 1976 and passed away at the age of 85 in 2013. Unless otherwise directed by Council, a public hearing will be scheduled at the next available regular City Council meeting for formal consideration. c. Downtown Square Design From 2010-2012, the City engaged a professional consultant (David C. Baldwin, Inc.) and the general public in a process of formulating possible designs for the Downtown Square. Staff will initiate the next phase of the Downtown Redevelopment Strategy, revisiting the previous design scenarios and begin the process towards identifying a preferred scenario. d. Audit of Solid Waste Franchise Fees Solid waste haulers offer their services to multi-family units, construction job site, retail and commercial business. The waste haulers utilize city owned streets, alleys and thoroughfares to perform their services. By Ordinance, 5% of gross revenues must be periodically reported and paid to the city. The waste haulers self-report their revenues. The City has not recently audited this General Fund revenue. e. 2015-16 Budget Amendment No. 1 Amend the 2015-16 Adopted Budget in order to appropriate available funds. Unless otherwise directed by Council, this item will be scheduled for formal consideration at the April 5, 2016 Regular Meeting.
Senior Citizens Advisory Commission Dodson/Stanley At their request, members of the Senior Citizens Advisory Commission will brief the Council regarding vacancies on their board.
Administrative Services Committee Report Cahill Council Member Jim Cahill, Chair of the Administrative Services Committee, will provide a committee report on the Ethics Ordinance review.
Discuss Appointments to Boards and Commissions Council Mayor Pro Tem B. J. Williams • Michael Pendleton – Parks Board
Consider the Consent Agenda Council A member of the City Council may ask that an item on the consent agenda for the next regular meeting be pulled from the consent agenda and considered separate from the other consent agenda items. No substantive discussion of that item will take place at this time.
Announce Future Agenda Items Council A member of the City Council, with a second by another member, or the Mayor alone, may ask that an item be placed on a future agenda of the City Council or a committee of the City Council. No substantive discussion of that item will take place at this time.
6. Council will move into Executive Session Council EXECUTIVE SESSION AGENDA 1. 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’ Discussions, deliberations, voting on, and taking final action with regard to any competitive matter, that being a utility-related matter that is related to the City’s competitive activity, including commercial information, and would, if disclosed, give advantage to competitors or prospective competitors including any matter that is reasonably related to the following categories of information: (A) 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; (B) bidding and pricing information for purchased power, generation and fuel, and Electric Reliability Council of Texas bids, prices, offers, and related services and strategies; (C) effective fuel and purchased power agreements and fuel transportation arrangements and contracts; (D) risk management information, contracts, and strategies, including fuel hedging and storage; (E) 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 (F) customer billing, contract, and usage information, electric power pricing information, system load characteristics, and electric power marketing analyses and strategies; Sec. 551.806; Sec. 552.133, Tex. Gov’t Code. • Consider matters relating to the 2018 TMPA Plan 7. Adjourn
Mar 14, 2016 Work Session
Written Briefings: a. Artist Services Agreement for the Signature Sculpture at Granville Arts Center Council is requested to consider authorizing the City Manager to execute a professional artist services agreement with Barvo Creations, in the amount of $300,000.00, for final full-size design and fabrication of the signature sculpture proposed for the front entrance to the Granville Arts Center facility, at 300 N. Fifth Street. Unless otherwise directed by Council, this item will be scheduled for formal consideration at the March 15, 2016 Regular Meeting. b. Proposed Street Name Change Request The East Garland Church of God in Christ, located at 200 Casalita Drive, requests to re-name Caruth Drive to W. A. Baker Drive. According to the applicant, W. A. Baker founded the church in 1976 and passed away at the age of 85 in 2013. Unless otherwise directed by Council, a public hearing will be scheduled at the next available regular City Council meeting for formal consideration. c. Downtown Square Design From 2010-2012, the City engaged a professional consultant (David C. Baldwin, Inc.) and the general public in a process of formulating possible designs for the Downtown Square. Staff will initiate the next phase of the Downtown Redevelopment Strategy, revisiting the previous design scenarios and begin the process towards identifying a preferred scenario. d. Audit of Solid Waste Franchise Fees Solid waste haulers offer their services to multi-family units, construction job site, retail and commercial business. The waste haulers utilize city owned streets, alleys and thoroughfares to perform their services. By Ordinance, 5% of gross revenues must be periodically reported and paid to the city. The waste haulers self-report their revenues. The City has not recently audited this General Fund revenue. e. 2015-16 Budget Amendment No. 1 Amend the 2015-16 Adopted Budget in order to appropriate available funds. Unless otherwise directed by Council, this item will be scheduled for formal consideration at the April 5, 2016 Regular Meeting.
Senior Citizens Advisory Commission Dodson/Stanley At their request, members of the Senior Citizens Advisory Commission will brief the Council regarding vacancies on their board.
Administrative Services Committee Report Cahill Council Member Jim Cahill, Chair of the Administrative Services Committee, will provide a committee report on the Ethics Ordinance review.
Discuss Appointments to Boards and Commissions Council Mayor Pro Tem B. J. Williams • Michael Pendleton – Parks Board
Consider the Consent Agenda Council A member of the City Council may ask that an item on the consent agenda for the next regular meeting be pulled from the consent agenda and considered separate from the other consent agenda items. No substantive discussion of that item will take place at this time.
Announce Future Agenda Items Council A member of the City Council, with a second by another member, or the Mayor alone, may ask that an item be placed on a future agenda of the City Council or a committee of the City Council. No substantive discussion of that item will take place at this time.
6. Council will move into Executive Session Council EXECUTIVE SESSION AGENDA 1. 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’ Discussions, deliberations, voting on, and taking final action with regard to any competitive matter, that being a utility-related matter that is related to the City’s competitive activity, including commercial information, and would, if disclosed, give advantage to competitors or prospective competitors including any matter that is reasonably related to the following categories of information: (A) 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; (B) bidding and pricing information for purchased power, generation and fuel, and Electric Reliability Council of Texas bids, prices, offers, and related services and strategies; (C) effective fuel and purchased power agreements and fuel transportation arrangements and contracts; (D) risk management information, contracts, and strategies, including fuel hedging and storage; (E) 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 (F) customer billing, contract, and usage information, electric power pricing information, system load characteristics, and electric power marketing analyses and strategies; Sec. 551.806; Sec. 552.133, Tex. Gov’t Code. • Consider matters relating to the 2018 TMPA Plan 7. Adjourn