Regular City Council Meeting Tuesday, May 28, 2024 06:30 PM Bastrop City Hall City Council Chambers

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The City of Bastrop reserves the right to reconvene, recess, or realign the Regular Session or called Executive Session or order of business at any time prior to adjournment.

PLEASE NOTE:  ANYONE IN ATTENDANCE WISHING TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL MUST COMPLETE A CITIZEN COMMENT FORM AND GIVE THE COMPLETED FORM TO THE CITY SECRETARY PRIOR TO THE START OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING. ALTERNATELY, IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND THE COUNCIL MEETING, YOU MAY COMPLETE A CITIZEN COMMENT FORM WITH YOUR COMMENTS AT CITYOFBASTROP.ORG/CITIZENCOMMENT AT LEAST TWO HOURS BEFORE THE MEETING STARTS ON THE REQUESTED DATE.   COMMENTS SUBMITTED BY THIS TIME WILL BE GIVEN TO THE CITY COUNCIL DURING THE MEETING AND INCLUDED IN THE PUBLIC RECORD, BUT NOT READ ALOUD.  COMMENTS FROM EACH INDIVIDUAL IN ATTENDANCE WILL BE LIMITED TO THREE (3) MINUTES.

1.CALL TO ORDER

2.PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE - Max Lassen and Connor Laskowski, Colorado River Collegiate Academy

TEXAS PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE - Honor the Texas Flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.

3.INVOCATION - Dale Burke, Police Chaplain

4.PRESENTATIONS

  1. 4A.Mayor's Report

  2. 4B.Council Members' Report

  3. 4C.City Manager's Report

  4. 4D.A proclamation of the City Council of the City of Bastrop, Texas recognizing June 2024, as Pride Month.

    Submitted by: Sylvia Carrillo-Trevino, ICMA-CM, CPM, City Manager

5.WORK SESSIONS/BRIEFINGS - NONE

6.STAFF AND BOARD REPORTS

  1. 6A.Receive presentation on the unaudited Monthly Financial Report for the period ending March 31, 2024.

    Submitted by: Edi McIlwain, Chief Financial Officer

  2. 6B.Receive presentation on the unaudited Monthly Financial Report for the period ending April 30, 2024.

    Submitted by: Edi McIlwain, Chief Financial Officer,

7.CITIZEN COMMENTS

At this time, three (3) minute comments will be taken from the audience on any topic. Anyone in attendance wishing to address the Council must complete a citizen comment form and give the completed form to the City Secretary prior to the start of the City Council meeting. Alternately, if you are unable to attend the council meeting, you may complete a citizen comment form with your comments at www.cityofbastrop.org/citizencommentform at least two hours before the meeting starts on the requested date.   Comments submitted by this time will be given to the City Council during the meeting and included in the public record, but not read aloud. In accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, if a citizen discusses any item not on the agenda, City Council cannot discuss issues raised or make any decision at this time.  Instead, City Council is limited to making a statement of specific factual information or a recitation of existing policy in response to the inquiry. Issues may be referred to City Manager for research and possible future action.

It is not the intention of the City of Bastrop to provide a public forum for the embarrassment or demeaning of any individual or group.  Neither is it the intention of the Council to allow a member of the public to slur the performance, honesty and/or integrity of the Council, as a body, or any member or members of the Council individually or collectively, or members of the City’s staff.  Accordingly, profane, insulting or threatening language directed toward the Council and/or any person in the Council’s presence will not be tolerated.

8.CONSENT AGENDA

The following may be acted upon in one motion.  A Council Member or a citizen may request items be removed from the Consent Agenda for individual consideration.

  1. 8A.Consider action to approve City Council minutes from the May 14, 2024, Regular meeting.

    Submitted by: Ann Franklin, City Secretary

  2. 8B.Consider action to approve the second reading of Ordinance No. 2024-15 of the City Council of the City of Bastrop, Texas, amending the budget for the Fiscal Year 2024 in accordance with existing statutory requirements; appropriating the various amounts herein as attached in Exhibit A; repealing all prior ordinances and actions in conflict herewith; and establishing an effective date.

    Submitted by: Edi McIlwain, Chief Financial Officer

  3. 8C.Consider action to approve the second reading of Ordinance No. 2024-12 of the City Council of the City of Bastrop, Texas, disannexing from the City limits, for full purposes, land being approximately 312.61 acres, known as Bastrop Colorado Bend, Phase 1, out of the Stephen F. Austin Survey, Abstract No. 2, in Bastrop County, Texas, located west of Lovers Lane and southeast of the Colorado River.

    Submitted by: Andres Rosales, Assistant City Manager

  4. 8D.Consider action to approve the second reading of Ordinance No. 2024-13 of the City Council of the City of Bastrop, Texas, approving the zoning change for 6.218 +/- acres out of the Nancy Blakey Survey, Abstract Number 98, located west of FM 969 within the City of Bastrop, Texas, P3 Residential to P5 Core, as shown in Attachment 2; providing for findings of fact; providing for repealer; providing for severability; providing for enforcement; providing for proper notice and meeting; and establishing an effective date.

    Submitted by: Kennedy Higgins, Senior Planner, Development Services Department

9.ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION

  1. 9A.Hold public hearing and consider action to approve the first reading of Ordinance No. 2024-11 of the City Council of the City of Bastrop, Texas, approving the zoning change for 31.4559 +/- acres out of the A11 Bastrop Town Tract, Bastrop County, Texas, more commonly known as Bastrop Gateway from P2 rural and P5 core to planned development district with P5 core base zoning, as shown in Attachment 2; providing for findings of fact; providing for repealer; providing for severability; providing for enforcement; providing for proper notice and meeting; and establishing an effective date; and move to include on the June 11, 2024, consent agenda.

    Submitted by: Kennedy Higgins, Senior Planner, Development Services

  2. 9B.Consider Action to approve the first reading of Ordinance No. 2024-14 of the City Council of the City of Bastrop, Texas amending the Code of Ordinances, related to Chapter 3 Building Regulations, Article 3.17 Flood Damage Prevention as attached in Exhibit A; and providing for findings of fact, repealer, severability, codification, effective date, proper notice, and meeting and move to include on the June 11, 2024, Consent Agenda for the second reading.

    Submitted by: Elizabeth Wick, Project Manager

  3. 9C.Consider action to approve Resolution No. R-2024-59 of the City Council of the City of Bastrop, Texas, to ratify the emergency procurement from Weisinger Incorporated, in the amount of Sixty Eight Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety Seven Dollars and 00/100 ($68,897.00) for materials and labor to repair Well H; providing for severability; providing for repeal; and providing an effective date.

    Submitted by: Curtis Hancock, Director of Water & Wastewater

  4. 9D.Consider Action to approve the first reading of Ordinance No. 2024-17 of the City Council of the City of Bastrop, Texas amending the Code of Ordinances, related to Chapter 12 Titled "Traffic and Vehicles," Article 12.05 Titled "Speed Limits," adding Section 12.05.009 titled “SH 304 speed limits.” Zoning for traffic and rate of speed therein, on SH 304 in the city limits of the City of Bastrop; defining speeding and fixing a penalty therefore; declaring what may be a sufficient complaint in prosecutions hereunder; repealing all prior ordinances that are in conflict herewith; and providing for findings of fact, enactment, codification, effective date, repealer, severability, proper notice and meeting as shown in Exhibit A, and move to include on the June 11, 2024 Consent Agenda for the second reading.

    Submitted by: Kennedy Higgins, Senior Planner, Development Services Department

     

  5. 9E.Consider action to approve Resolution No. R-2024-60 of the City Council of the City of Bastrop, Texas, approving and authorizing a proposal from Aqua-Metric Sales Company, for Sixty-Seven Thousand Five Hundred Thirty-Five Dollars and 99/100 ($67,535.99) as a sole source provider for Sensus products and services; providing for execution of all necessary documents; providing for repealer; providing for severability; and providing an effective date.

    Submitted by: Curtis Hancock, Director of Water & Wastewater

  6. 9F.Consider action to approve Resolution No. R-2024-61 regarding a petition filed by Christopher Humphreys to remove approximately 5.100  acres of land, as described in the petition, from the City of Bastrop’s extraterritorial jurisdiction pursuant to Local Government Code Chapter 42.

    Submitted by: Sylvia Carrillo-Trevino, City Manager

  7. 9G.Consider action to approve Resolution No. 2024-64 to create a Charter Review Committee, with 2 appointments by each council member, to bring back recommendations to the City Council for a Charter Election to be held in May 2025.

    Submitted by: Sylvia Carrillo-Trevino, ICMA-CM, CPM

  8. 9H.Consider action to approve Resolution No. R-2024-54 expressing official intent to reimburse certain expenditures of the City of Bastrop, Texas to pay costs related to (1) constructing, improving, extending, and equipping the City's water and wastewater system, and (2) paying professional services in connection therewith including legal, fiscal, consulting, engineering fees and other related costs

    Submitted by: Edi McIlwain, Chief Financial Officer

  9. 9I.Consider action to approve Resolution No. R-2024-63 of the City Council of the City of Bastrop, Texas, authorizing the closure of the submission period for the Request for Qualifications for Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity for Engineering Services; authorizing the City Manager to proceed with the evaluation of the submittals and negotiations with the qualified respondents; providing for a repealing clause; and establishing an effective date. 

    Submitted by: Andres Rosales, Assistant City Manager

10.EXECUTIVE SESSION

  1. 10A.City Council shall convene into closed executive session pursuant to Texas Government Code section 551.071 and .087 to seek the advice of legal counsel regarding the contribution of Hotel Occupancy Tax Funds to fund renovations and updates to the Bastrop County Museum & Visitor Center. 

  2. 10B.City Council shall convene into closed executive session pursuant to Texas Government Code section 551.071 to seek the advice of legal counsel regarding a potential request for a petition to create Bastrop County Emergency Services District No. 3.

  3. 10C.City Council shall convene into closed executive session pursuant to Texas Government Code section 551.071 to seek the advice of legal counsel regarding the Master Agreement for the Transfer of Retail Water Certificate of Convenience and Necessity Service Area from Aqua Water Supply Corporation to the City of Bastrop and consideration of compensation for certain service areas. 

11.TAKE ANY NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE ACTION ON MATTERS POSTED FOR CONSIDERATION IN CLOSED/EXECUTIVE SESSION

12.ADJOURNMENT

All items on the agenda are eligible for discussion and action unless specifically stated otherwise.

The Bastrop City Council reserves the right to adjourn into executive session at any time during the course of this meeting to discuss any of the matters listed above, as authorized by Texas Government Code Sections 551.071 (Consultation with Attorney), 551.072 (Deliberations about Real Property), 551.073 (Deliberations about Gifts and Donations), 551.074 (Personnel Matters), 551.076 (Deliberations about Security Devices), and 551.087 (Economic Development), and §551.086 (Competitive Matters regarding Electric Utility).

I, the undersigned authority, do hereby certify that this Notice of Meeting as posted in accordance with the regulations of the Texas Open Meetings Act on the bulletin board located at the entrance to the City of Bastrop City Hall, a place of convenient and readily accessible to the general public, as well as to the City’s website, www.cityofbastrop.org  and said Notice was posted on the following date and time:  Thursday, May 23, 20224, at 6:00 p.m. and remained posted for at least two hours after said meeting was convened.

    /s/ Ann Franklin                      
Ann Franklin, City Secretary