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Home My WebLink AboutCCpkt2021-09-25 Special MeetingAGENDA City Council Meeting Saturday, September 25, 2021 @ 8:30 AM Anna City Hall, Council Chambers 111 N. Powell Parkway, Anna, Texas 75409 The City Council of the City of Anna will meet at 8:30 AM, on September 25, 2021, at the Anna City Hall, Located at 111 N. Powell 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. Also, at this time any person may address the City Council regarding an item that is not on this meeting agenda. Each person will be allowed up to 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 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.Update on Federal Funds 5.Work Session. a.Council Briefing by staff on strategic plan elements. 6.Closed Session (Exceptions). Under Tex. Gov'T 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 (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). 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. 7.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. 8.Adjourn. This is to certify that I, Carrie L. Land, City Secretary, posted this Agenda on the City’s website (www.annatexas.gov) and at a place readily accessible to the public at the Anna City Hall and on the City Hall bulletin board at or before 8:30 a.m. on 09/22/2021. Carrie L. Land, City Secretary Item No. 4.a. City Council Agenda Staff Report Meeting Date:9/25/2021 Staff Contact:Jim Proce AGENDA ITEM: Update on Federal Funds SUMMARY: Staff will provide an update on pending federal funding items. This will include the American Rescue Plan Act funding and the SAFER Grant. FINANCIAL IMPACT: None at this time. STRATEGIC CONNECTIONS: This item supports the City of Anna Strategic Plan, specifically advancing: Goal 1: Growing Anna Economy Goal 2: Sustainable Anna Community Through Planned Managed Growth Goal 3: Anna – Great Place to Live Goal 4: High Performing, Professional City STAFF RECOMMENDATION: This is an inofrmational item only. ATTACHMENTS: APPROVALS: Jim Proce, City Manager Created/Initiated - 9/22/2021 Jim Proce, City Manager Final Approval - 9/22/2021 Item No. 5.a. City Council Agenda Staff Report Meeting Date:9/25/2021 Staff Contact:Jim Proce AGENDA ITEM: Council Briefing by staff on strategic plan elements. SUMMARY: The purpose of this item is to brief the Council on several strategic items, which include items from the Strategic Plan, the EDC/CDC Strategic Plan, the Comprehensive Plan, the Parks and Trails Master Plan, and the Downtown Plan. This includes the status of pending projects and upcoming Council agenda items. While there is not an action item, staff is seeking consensus, guidance, and input from the Council on several development projects, resource allocations relating to the same, and reinforcement of strategic goals as set forth in the Council-approved Strategic Plan. FINANCIAL IMPACT: None at this time as this is not an action item. STRATEGIC CONNECTIONS: This item supports the City of Anna Strategic Plan, specifically advancing: Goal 1: Growing Anna Economy Goal 2: Sustainable Anna Community Through Planned Managed Growth Goal 3: Anna – Great Place to Live Goal 4: High Performing, Professional City STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends supporting of all items present and future, which are supported in the Strategic Plan adopted by the City Council and ratified annually. ATTACHMENTS: APPROVALS: Jim Proce, City Manager Created/Initiated - 9/22/2021 Jim Proce, City Manager Final Approval - 9/22/2021