Bastrop Main Street Advisory Board meetings are available to all persons regardless of disability. If you require special assistance, please contact the City Secretary at (512) 332-8800 or write 1311 Chestnut Street, 78602, or by calling through a T.D.D. (Telecommunication Device for the Deaf) to Relay Texas at 1-800-735-2989 at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting.
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At this time, three (3) minute comments will be taken from the audience on any topic. Anyone in attendance wishing to address the Board/Commission must complete a citizen comment form and give the completed form to the Board/Commission Secretary prior to the start of the Board/Commission meeting. In accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, if a citizen discusses any item not on the agenda, the Board/Commission cannot discuss issues raised or make any decision at this time. Instead, the Board/Commission 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 Board/Commission to allow a member of the public to slur the performance, honesty and/or integrity of the Board/Commission, as a body, or any member or members of the Board/Commission individually or collectively, or members of the City’s staff. Accordingly, profane, insulting or threatening language directed toward the Board/Commission and/or any person in the Board/Commission’s presence will not be tolerated.
Submitted by: Elisa Puentes, Community Engagement Exec Admin Assistant
The duties and powers of the officers of the Board shall be as follows:
Chair: The Chair shall preside at all meetings of the Board; shall communicate to the Board in compliance with the Open Meetings Act such
matters and make such suggestions as, in the Chair’s discretion, may increase the effectiveness of the Board, and shall perform such other duties
as are incident to the office of Chair.
Vice‐Chair: The Vice‐Chair shall assist the Chair in the executive duties of the Board; shall serve as presiding officer in the absence of the Chair or
in the Chair’s inability to act and shall perform any and all other duties as assigned by the Chair.
Secretary: The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Board and produce the official record of the meetings and member attendance; shall be
the keeper of the Bylaws of the Board, shall maintain a list of Board members including current contact information, and shall perform any and all
other duties as assigned by the Chair or Vice‐Chair.
ARTICLE V - ORGANIZATION
(addition) 6. Board members cannot miss more than 75% of the regularly schedule monthly meetings.
ARTICLE VIII - COMMITTEES
(update) 2. In July or August of each year, each standing committee shall develop work plans and formulate priorities for the ensuing year. The Board shall consider and approve such priorities.
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: 6/7/2024 at 5:00 p.m. and remained posted for at least two hours after said meeting was convened.
/s/Michaela Joyce
Michaela Joyce, Main Street Manager