00 AMENDED AGENDA 8-27-07
REGULAR MEETING
CITY COUNCil, CITY OF PARIS, PARIS, TEXAS
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER
107 E. KAUFMAN
PARIS, TEXAS
MONDAY. AUGUST 27. 2007
6:00 O'CLOCK. P.M.
errlZENS NEEDING SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS DUE TO DISABILITIES SHOULD GIVE
NOTICE TO THE CITY FORTY-EIGHT (48) HOURS IN ADVANCE BY CALLING (903) 784-
9202, OR (903) 784-6688.
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(NOTE: It is respectfully requested that presentations before the City Council
be confined to two minutes or less.)
1. Call meeting to order.
2. Pledge of Allegiance.
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3. Presentation by Pete Kampfer recognizing Rodney Bass and Sims Norment
for their service on the Paris Economic Development Corporation Board.
4. CONSENT AGENDA
[Matters of a routine nature are placed on a single consent agenda for
City Council consideration. Items appearing on a consent agenda are
approved by a single vote of Council, with such approval applicable to
all items appearing on said agenda. If any Council member desires to
discuss and consider separately any item appearing on the consent
agenda, that Council member may do so by requesting that the item be
removed from the consent agenda and considered as a separate item.]
A. Approval of minutes from previous City Council meetings.
(8/13/07; 8/20/07)
B. Receipt of reports andlor minutes from committees, boards, and
commissions:
(1) Paris Public Library Advisory Board. (6120/07; 7118107)
(2) Paris Economic Development Corporation. (6/18/07; 6120107;
7/25/07)
C. Awarding the bid and approving and authorizing the execution of a
contract for the 2007 City Street HMAC Overlay Program.
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5. Consideration of and action on the following ordinances:
A. Extending the moratorium enacted by Ordinance No. 2007-010 adopted
May 14, 2007, for one hundred twenty (120) additional days on the
erection, construction, reconstruction, and placement of billboards,
electronic signs, and off-premises signs within the city limits of the City
of Paris.
6. Consideration of and action on the fOllowing resolutions:
A. Denying the request by Atmos Mid-Tex made under its fourth GRIP
filing on May 31, 2007, also indicating the City's support for statutory
changes to the Texas GRIP statute to ensure fairness for ratepayers
and to eliminate piecemeal rate making for any change in invested
capital.
B. Accepting and approving the Paris Economic Development Corporation
budget for the fiscal year October 1,2007, to September 30,2008.
C. Appointing Thomas E. Hunt, III as City Judge of the City of Paris for a
two-year term beginning October 1, 2007 and ending September 30,
2009.
D. Authorizing the appointment of Stephanie Harris as Acting City Judge
to serve in the absence of the City Judge.
E. Appointing members to the Northeast Texas Library System. (2 expire
8/31/07)
F. Appointing members to the Historic Preservation Commission. (5
expired 7/31/07)
G. Increasing the membership to the Airport Advisory Board and
appointing additional member to the Board.
H. Releasing Federal Aviation Administration non-primary entitlement
funds for FY 2003 and FY 2004 in the amount of $300,000.00, requesting
replacement funding to make repairs to existing runways, taxiways,
apron, and drainage, and reallocating the previously approved local
cash match to the new proposed project.
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7. Public hearing on the proposed application for funding through the Texas
Department of Economic Development Main Street Program for sidewalk and
other improvements in the Downtown area.
8. Consideration of and action on a resolution approving an application for
funding through the Texas Department of Economic Development Main Street
Program for sidewalk and other improvements in the downtown area.
9. Consideration of and Possible action on the Leadership Lamar County Class
of 2006-2007 project - construction of a lighted walking track and a large
open-air pavilion at Leon Williams Park.
10. Citizens Forum.
(Citizens desiring to appear under this item must limit their presentation to
two (2) minutes in duration. Under the Open Meetings Law, because advance
notice of the subject matter of each presentation was not received in time to
appear on the agenda, City Council is limited in its response to referring the
matter to a future agenda, to an existing policy, or to a staff person with
specific factual information. Claims against the City and individual personnel
appeals are not appropriate for Citizens Forum).
11. Discussion, selection and appointment of members to the City Council Task
Force on Code Enforcement.
12. Discussion and possible action regarding goals and objectives of the City of
Paris.
13. Review and explanation of proposed 2007-2008 Budget by the City Manager
for the City of Paris.
14. Consideration of and action on a resolution calling two public hearings to
receive public comment on the City's proposal to increase total tax revenues
by $395,705 or 4.94% from the preceding tax year.
15. Consideration of and action on a proposal to place on a future City Council
agenda an action item to approve a tax rate of .59225 for tax year 2007.
August 27, 2007
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16 Oath of Office will be administered to City Manager Kevin Carruth by
Municipal Judge Thomas Hunt III.
17. Information items.
A. Five year history of the certified tax roll of the City of Paris.
18. Possible future agenda items.
19. Adjournment.
POSTED: FRIDAY. AUGUST 24 2007. /a~O'CLOCK. A.M.. CITY HALL BULLETIN
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