CITY OF TAYLOR, TEXAS
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 400 PORTER ST.
July 22, 2008, 6:00 P.M.
CALL TO ORDER AND DECLARE A QUORUM
INVOCATION
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
CITIZENS COMMUNICATION
(The City Council welcomes
public comments on items not listed on the agenda. However, the Council cannot
respond to matters not listed until posted on a future meeting agenda.)
CONSENT AGENDA
(The Consent Agenda includes non-controversial and routine
items that the Council may act on with one single vote. The Mayor or a Council
member may pull any item from the Consent Agenda to discuss and act upon it
individually as part of
the Regular agenda.)
1. Minutes for July 8,
2008. (Susan Brock)
2. Ordinance
2008-22, Downtown Neighborhood Zoning Ordinance. (John Elsden)
3. Ordinance
2008-23, Hotel/Motel Tax amendment. (Jim Dunaway)
4. Concur with
financials for June, 2008 (Rosemarie Dennis)
REGULAR AGENDA – REVIEW/DISCUSS & CONSIDER/ACTION:
5. Proclamation:
National Night Out, August 5, 2008. (Mayor)
6. Proclamation:
Recognition of Taylor Tennis Tournament Trophy winners. (Mayor)
7. Proclamation:
National Breast Feeding Month, August, 2008. (Mayor)
8. Consider and take
action with respect to the appointment of hearing officers for the City for the
purpose of holding the TEFRA hearing related to a financing for Temple College at Taylor Foundation, Inc. and related publication of notices of such
hearing. (Frank Salvato)
9. Consider and take
action on the Economic Development Grant Agreement with Temple College at Taylor Foundation (TCAT) regarding the construction of the East Williamson County
Higher Education Center (EWCHEC). (Frank Salvato)
10. Consider
approving Ordinance 2008-18 establishing speed limits on Highway 95/Main Street. (Danny Thomas)
11. Consider Work
Authorization No. 4 with KSA Engineers, Inc. for the Safe Route to Schools
Grant Program. (Danny Thomas)
12. Consider awarding
bid for 2008 Manhole Rehabilitation project. (Danny Thomas)
13. Consider
Hotel/Motel Occupancy Tax Quarterly Reports from Taylor Chamber of Commerce.
(Jim Aanstoos, President)
14. Consider TEDC
Budget for FY 2008/2009. (Jason Ford, President)
15. Consider tax
abatement agreement for expansion and/or relocation of a company in accordance
with Chapter 312, Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act, of the Texas
Tax Code: Blackland Publishing. (Bob van Til)
16. Executive Session
I. The
Taylor City Council will conduct a closed executive meeting pursuant to the
provisions of the Open Meetings Law, Chapter 551, Government Code, in
accordance with the authority contained in Section 551.087 to discuss or
deliberate regarding commercial and/or financial information on a business
prospect that the City of Taylor, Texas, seeks to have locate, stay, or expand
in or near the City of Taylor, Texas, and with which the City of Taylor, Texas,
is conducting economic development negotiations and/or deliberate the offer of
financial or other incentives to the business prospect.
17. Consider action
from Executive Session.
18. Executive Session
II. The Taylor City Council will conduct a closed executive meeting under
Section 551.071 of the Texas Government Code in order to meet with it’s City
Attorney on a matter 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 authorize and allow such a closed meeting and which Rules conflict with
the Texas Open Meetings Act.
19. Consider action
from Executive Session.
ADJOURN
The Council may vote and/or act upon each of the items
listed in this Agenda. The Council reserves the right to retire into executive
session concerning any of the items listed on this Agenda, whenever it is
considered necessary and legally justified under the Open Meetings Act. I
certify that the notice of meeting was posted in the Taylor City Hall Lobby
before 6:00 pm on July 18, 2008 and remained posted for at least 72 continuous
hours before the scheduled time of said meeting. I further certify that the
following news media was notified of this meeting: Taylor Daily Press.
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Susan Brock,
City Clerk