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00 - AgendaCITY COUNCIL AGENDA Notice is hereby given that the City Council of the City of Paris shall meet in regular session at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, September 14, 2020. The meeting will be held at the City Council Chamber, 107 E. Kaufman Street, in Paris, Texas. Due to the CoVID outbreak; facemasks are encouraged for those in attendance of the meeting. Access to the meeting will also be available through live stream on https://paristexas.gov/public. The matters to be discussed and acted upon are as follows: Opening Agenda 1. Call meeting to order. 2. Invocation. 3. Pledge of Allegiance. 4. Citizens' forum. (Persons desiring to address the Council must limit their presentation to no more than two minutes. Unless an item is posted on the Agenda, the Texas Open Meetings Act prohibits the Council from responding to any comments other than to refer the matter to a future agenda, to an existing policy, or to a staff person with specific factual information. Claims against the City, Council Members, or employees, as well as individual personal appeals are not appropriate for citizens' forum.) If necessary, the City Council may convene into Executive Session under Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code regarding any item on this agenda. Consent Agenda Items on the Consent Agenda are approved by a single action of the Council, with such approval applicable to all items appearing on the Consent Agenda. A Council Member may request any item to be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered as a separate item. 5. Approve minutes from the meetings on August 17, 2020 and August 24, 2020. 6. Receive reports and/or minutes from the following boards and commissions: a. Library Advisory Board (7-15-2020) b. Airport Advisory Board (5-21-2020) c. Paris Visitors & Convention Council Board of Directors (6-15-2020 & 7-15-2020) d. Housing Authority (3-15-2020 corrected & 6-16-2020) Regular Agenda 7. Conduct a public hearing on the City's proposed tax rate for 2020-2021. Conduct a public hearing on the City Manager's proposed budget for fiscal year 2020- 2021. 9. Discuss and act on an Ordinance adopting a budget for the ensuing fiscal period beginning October 1, 2020 and ending September 30, 2021. 10. Discuss and authorize City Staff and SAMCO Capital Markets, the City's financial advisor, to proceed with refunding the City's outstanding Combination Tax and Limited Pledge Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2010, so long as certain savings thresholds can be achieved. 11. Discuss and act on an Ordinance Approving a Negotiated Settlement between the Atmos Cities Steering Committee ("ACSC") and Atmos Energy Corp., Mid -Tex Division regarding the Company's 2020 Rate Review Mechanism Filings; Declaring Existing Rates to be Unreasonable; Adopting Tariffs that Reflect Rate Adjustments Consistent with the Negotiated Settlement; Finding the Rates to be Set by the Settlement Tariffs to be Just and Reasonable and in the Public Interest; Requiring Reconciliation and Rate Adjustments if Federal Income Tax Rates Change; Terminating the RRM Process for 2018 Pending Renegotiation of RRM Terms and Conditions; Requiring the Company to Reimburse ACSC's Reasonable Ratemaking Expenses; Determining that this Ordinance was Passed in Accordance with the Requirements of the Texas Open Meetings Act; Adopting a Savings Clause; a Severability Clause; a Repealer Clause; Declaring an Effective Date; and Requiring Delivery of this Ordinance to the Company and the ACSC's Legal Counsel. 12. Discuss and act on an Ordinance extending the Mayor's Declaration of Local Disaster for Public Health Emergency and Order dated March 19, 2020, as extended by Resolution No. 2020-011 and by Ordinances Nos. 2020-014, 2020-017, 2020-023 and 2020-030 for an additional one -hundred twenty (120) days. 13. Discuss and act on an Ordinance authorizing the issuance of a solid waste collection permit to Sanitation Solutions. (Pursuant to Sec. 16-24 of the Code of Ordinances, passage of this ordinance requires five affirmative votes.) 14. Discuss and act on an Ordinance authorizing the issuance of a solid waste collection permit to Raymond Tabor d/b/a Waste Connection of Northeast Texas. (Pursuant to Sec. 16-24 of the Code of Ordinances, passage of this ordinance requires five affirmative votes.) 15. Discuss and act on an Ordinance authorizing the issuance of a solid waste collection permit to Richard Mark Boswell, Jr. d/b/a Dumpster Drop, LLC. (Pursuant to Sec. 16-24 of the Code of Ordinances, passage of this ordinance requires five affirmative votes.) 16. Discuss and act on an Ordinance authorizing the issuance of a solid waste collection permit to Nelson and Tanna Stoll d/b/a Countryside Disposal, LLC. (Pursuant to Sec. 16- 24 of the Code of Ordinances, passage of this ordinance requires five affirmative votes.) 17. Discuss and act on an Ordinance authorizing the issuance of a solid waste collection permit to Mike Viehe, Jr. and Justin Miller d/b/a MJ Outdoors, LLC. (Pursuant to Sec. 16-24 of the Code of Ordinances, passage of this ordinance requires five affirmative votes.) 18. Discuss and act on an Ordinance authorizing the issuance of a solid waste collection permit to JOTS Rentals, LLC (Pursuant to Sec. 16-24 of the Code of Ordinances, passage of this ordinance requires five affirmative votes.) 19. Discuss and act on a recommendation to remove one board member from the Historic Preservation Commission for failure to attend meetings and for failure to take the oath of office; and appoint one member to fill the vacant position. 20. Discuss and approve a Professional Services Agreement in the amount of $129,999.00 with Sterling, Inc. to upgrade the City's Data Center Hardware. 21. Discuss and authorize $31,000 from the 2019-2020 Community Development underspent budget to hire Hargis Electric & Bryco & Co. to install landscape lighting for the Plaza. 22. Convene into executive session pursuant to: A. Sec. 551.087 of the Texas Government Code, (1) to discuss or deliberate regarding commercial or financial information that the governmental body has received from a business prospect that the governmental body seeks to have locate, stay, or expand in or near the territory of the governmental body and with which the governmental body 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), as follows: • Project Rocket X • Project Rainwater Falls B. Sec. 551.072 of the Texas Government Code, to deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property. 23. Reconvene into Open Session and possibly take action on those matters discussed in Executive Session. 24. Consider and approve future events for City Council and/or City Staff pursuant to Resolution No. 2004-081. 25. Adjournment. Certification I certify that the above notice of meeting was posted on the bulletin board in the City Hall Annex, 150 First St. SE, Paris, Texas and on the City's website at www.paristexas.gov, no later than 5:30 p.m. on September 11, 2020. . d .ter--- .1 nice Ellis, City Clerk , S �ecial Accommodations This facility is wheelchair accessible and accessible parking spaces are available. Requests for special accommodations or interpretive services must be made forty-eight (48) hours prior to this meeting. Please contact Janice Ellis at (903) 784-9248 orjellis@paristexas.gov for assistance.