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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-09-22 Regular Meeting AgendaAGENDA City Council Meeting THE CITY OF Tuesday, September 22, 2020 @ 6:30 PM Ahtia Sue Rattan Elementary School 1221 S. Ferguson Parkway, Anna, Texas 75409 The City Council of the City of Anna will meet at 6:30 PM, on September 22, 2020, at the Sue Rattan Elementary School, Located at 1221 S. Ferguson Parkway, to consider the following items. Welcome to the City Council meeting. Please sign the Sign -In -Sheet as a record of attendance. If you wish to speak on an open -session agenda item, please fill out the Opinion/Speaker Registration Form and turn it in to the City Secretary before the meeting starts. 1. Call to Order, Roll Call and Establishment of Quorum. 2. Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance. 3. Neighbor Comments. At this time, any person may address the City Council regarding an item on this meeting agenda that is not scheduled for public hearing and any item that is not on this meeting agenda. The public will be permitted to offer public comments electronically, as provided by the agenda and as permitted by the presiding officer during the meeting. We are encouraging neighbors, who wish to speak, to complete a Speaker Registration Form and submit to City Secretary Carrie Land land .annatexas.gov) by 5:00 PM so it may be read into the record. Each person will be allowed up to three (3) minutes to speak. No discussion or action may be taken at this meeting on items not listed on this agenda, other than to make statements of specific factual information in response to a citizen's inquiry or to recite existing policy in response to the inquiry. 4. Reports. Receive reports from Staff or the City Council about items of community interest. Items of community interest include: expressions of thanks, congratulations, or condolence; information regarding holiday schedules; an honorary or salutary recognition of a public official, public employee, or other citizen (but not including a change in status of a person's public office or public employment); a reminder about an upcoming event organized or sponsored by the governing body; information regarding a social, ceremonial, or community event organized or sponsored by an entity other than the governing body that was attended or is scheduled to be attended by a member of the governing body or an official or employee of the municipality, and announcements involving an imminent threat to the public health and safety of people in the municipality that has arisen after the posting of the agenda. a. Comprehensive Plan Update. (Director of Development Services Ross Altobelli) 5. Consent Items. These items consist of non -controversial or "housekeeping" items required by law. Items may be considered individually by any Council member making such request prior to a motion and vote on the Consent Items. a. Approve Council Meeting Minutes for September 8, 2020. (City Secretary Carrie Land) b. Review minutes of the July 30, 2020 Special Called Joint Community Development and Economic Development Corporation meeting. (Director of Economic Development Joey Grisham) C. Approve a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a Local Government Project Advance Funding Agreement with TxDOT for the Ferguson Parkway project. (Director of Public Works Greg Peters, P.E.) d. Approve a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute an agreement for a partnership and cost sharing of costs associated with the construction of public sidewalk in the Northpointe Crossing Subdivision along Elam Drive and Dumas Drive. (Director of Public Works Greg Peters, P.E.) 6. Items For Individual Consideration. a. Public Hearing: For City Council to hear public comment regarding the creation of the Sherley Tract Public Improvement District. (City Attorney Clark McCoy) b. Consider/Discuss/Action regarding a resolution approving the creation of the Sherley Tract Public Improvement District. (City Attorney Clark McCoy) C. 1) Conduct a Public Hearing regarding a request to amend subsection 9.04.042(d) Appeals related to signs and related sections of the City of Anna Code of Ordinances. 2) Consider/Discuss/Action on a recommendation regarding text amendments to subsection 9.0.042(d) Appeals related to signs and related sections of the City of Anna Code of Ordinances. (Director of Development Services Ross Altobelli) d. Consider/Discussion/Action on a variance request to allow for modified signage. (Director of Development Services Ross Altobelli). e. Consider/Discuss/Action Letter to Governor Abbott regarding Executive Order GA-29. (City Manager Jim Proce) 7. Closed Session (Exceptions). Under Tex. GoVT Code Chapter 551, The City Council May Enter Into Closed Session To Discuss Any Items Listed Or Referenced On This Agenda Under The Following Exceptions: a. Consult with legal counsel regarding pending or contemplated litigation and/or on matters in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas clearly conflicts with Chapter 551 of the Government Code; Parks Agreements (Tex. Gov't Code §551.071). b. Discuss or deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property (Tex. Gov't Code §551.072). C. Discuss or deliberate Economic Development Negotiations: (1) To discuss or deliberate regarding commercial or financial information that the City has received from a business prospect that the City seeks to have locate, stay, or expand in or near the territory of the City of Anna and with which the City is conducting economic development negotiations; or (2) To deliberate the offer of a financial or other incentive to a business prospect described by subdivision (1). (Tex. Gov't Code §551.087). d. Discuss or deliberate personnel matters (Tex. Gov't Code §551.074). The Council further reserves the right to enter into executive session at any time throughout any duly noticed meeting under any applicable exception to the Open Meetings Act. 8. Consider/Discuss/Action on any items listed on any agenda - work session, regular meeting, or closed session - that is duly posted by the City of Anna for any City Council meeting occurring on the same date as the meeting noticed in this agenda. 9. Adjourn. This is to certify that I, Carrie L. Land, City Secretary, posted this agenda at a place readily accessible to the public at the Anna City Hall and on the City Hall bulletin board at or before 5:00 p.m. on September 18, 2020. Carrie L. Land, City Secretary 1. The Council may vote and/or act upon each of the items listed in this agenda. 2. The Council reserves the right to retire into executive session concerning any of the items listed on this agenda, whenever it is considered necessary and legally justified under the Open Meeting Act. 3. Persons with a disability who want to attend this meeting who may need assistance should contact the City Secretary at 972 924-3325 two working days prior to the meeting so that appropriate arrangements can be made.