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CITY OF CITY COUNCIL
MEETING A-2004-R-013 CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
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Thank you for your consideration. I.
CALL TO ORDER II. PLEDGE
OF ALLEGIANCE III. ROLL
CALL IV. MINUTES Approval of the minutes of V. COMMUNICATIONS
AND RECOGNITIONS Announcements Invitations Recognitions a.
Recognition of Vicente Moreno of the Parks and Recreation Department on
his selection as June 2004 City of b.
Recognition of Mr. Humberto Garza, Operations Manager for the c.
Recognition of Bernadette Galvan for placing 1st place in
both the 2003 National Physique Committee (NPC) Cornerstone Classic
Competition and the 2004 (NPC) Lonestar Classic Competition. VI. APPOINTMENTS
TO COMMISSIONS, BOARDS AND COMMITTEES a.
Appointment by Council
Member Johnny Rendon of: 1.
Jesus D. Romero to the
Airport Advisory Committee 2.
Joseph H. Hein to the
Citizen's Environmental Advisory Committee 3.
Melba N. Gonzales to
the Library Advisory Committee 4.
Delia Peña to the Parks
& Recreation Advisory Committee 5.
Veronica R. Cantu to
the Planning and Zoning Commission 6.
Luis Meza to the
Transportation & Traffic Safety Advisory Committee 7.
Frances G. Wawroski and
Alicia Medina to the Laredo Women’s Commission 8.
Eliseo Valdez Jr. to
the 9.
Ray Ayala to the Third
Party Funding Advisory Committee 10.
Rosy Gregory to the
Tree Advisory Committee VII.
PUBLIC HEARINGS 1.
Public hearing and introductory ordinance amending the City of 2.
Public
hearing and introductory ordinance amending the City of Laredo FY
2003-2004 annual budget by increasing revenues and expenditures in the amount
of $20,017.00 in additional funds, totaling $85,767.00 from the Texas
Department of Health for the Immunization Action Program of the City of
Laredo Health Department for the grant period beginning January 1, 2004,
through December 31, 2004. (Recess) (Press Availability) VIII.
INTRODUCTORY ORDINANCE 3.
Authorizing the City
Manager to execute an Assignment of that Rental Car Agency Concession and
Lease Agreement entered into between the City of IX.
FINAL 4.
2004-O-142 Amending
the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of 2004-O-143 Amending
the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of Laredo by rezoning Block 42, Eastern
Division, located at 305 Corpus Christi Street, from M-1 (Light Manufacturing
District) and B-3 (Community Business District) to B-3 (Community Business
District); providing for publication and effective date. 2004-O-144 Amending
the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of Laredo by rezoning 17.0722 acres, as
further described by metes and bounds in attached Exhibit “A”, located north
of Hwy 359, from R-1 (Single-Family Residential District) to B-4 (Highway
Commercial District); providing for publication and effective date. 2004-O-145 Amending
the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of Laredo by rezoning 19.7148 acres, as
further described by metes and bounds in attached Exhibit “A”, located north
of Hwy 359, from R-1 (Single-Family Residential District) to B-4 (Highway
Commercial District); providing for publication and effective date. 2004-O-146 Amending
the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of Laredo by rezoning 18.4346 acres, as
further described by metes and bounds in attached Exhibit “A”, located north
of Hwy 359, from R-1 (Single-Family Residential District) to M-1 (Light
Manufacturing District); providing for publication and effective date. 2004-O-147 Amending
the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of Laredo by rezoning Lots 10, 11, 12,
Block 891, Eastern Division, located at 1618 and 1620 Chihuahua St., from R-O
(Residential/Office District) to B-1 (Limited Commercial District); providing
for publication and effective date. 2004-O-148 Amending
the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of Laredo by rezoning 7.16 acres, as
further described by metes and bounds in attached Exhibit “A”, located
approximately east of Saldaña Avenue and west of the proposed Bartlett Avenue extension,
from R-1 (Single-Family Residential District) to B-3 (Community Business
District); providing for publication and effective date. 2004-O-149 Amending
the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of Laredo by rezoning 19.14 acres, as
further described by metes and bounds in attached Exhibit “A”, located south
of Southgate Boulevard, from AG (Agricultural District) to R-1A
(Single-Family Reduced Area District); providing for publication and
effective date. 2004-O-150 Amending
the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of Laredo by rezoning 7.61 acres, as
further described by metes and bounds in attached Exhibit “A”, located south
of Southgate Boulevard, from AG (Agricultural District) to B-1 (Limited
Commercial District); providing for publication and effective date. 2004-O-151 Amending
the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of Laredo by rezoning 24.236 acres, as
further described by metes and bounds in attached Exhibit “A”, located north
of Merida Drive, from R-1 (Single-Family Residential District) to R-1A
(Single-Family Reduced Area District); providing for publication and
effective date. 2004-O-152 Amending
the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of 2004-O-153 Amending
the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of Laredo by rezoning 55.75 acres, as
further described by metes and bounds in attached Exhibit “A”, located
northwest of Summerwind Subdivision, Unit I, from B-1 (Limited Commercial
District) and R-1 (Single-Family Residential District) to B-3 (Community
Business District); providing for publication and effective date. 2004-O-154 Amending
the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of Laredo by rezoning 2.74 acres, as
further described by metes and bounds in attached Exhibit “A”, located
northwest of Summerwind Subdivision, Unit I, from R-1 (Single-Family
Residential District) to B-1 (Limited Commercial District); providing for
publication and effective date. 2004-O-155 Amending
the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of Laredo by rezoning 46.40 acres, as
further described by metes and bounds in attached Exhibit “A”, located west
of R.W. Emerson Loop, from R-1 (Single-Family Residential District) to R-2
(Multi-Family Residential District); providing for publication and effective
date. 2004-O-156 Amending
City of 2004-O-157 Amending
the City of Laredo’s Land Development Code Handbook, Chapter 24: Article IV,
Section 24.65.6: Single Family Manufactured Housing District: Subsection (1),
to allow for non-manufactured home development in R-1-MH zone districts, and
Section 24.77.1: Dimensional Standards, by increasing the minimum lot area
required for a manufactured home in R-1-MH zone districts to 4,500 square feet,
and the minimum lot area required in R-O zone districts to 4,500 square feet;
providing for publication and effective date. 2004-O-158 Amending the City of Laredo FY
2003-2004 Hotel Motel Fund budget by appropriating a drawdown of $250,000.00
from the opening balance by amending the transfer of funds to the Convention
and Visitors Fund, and amending the City of Laredo’s Convention and Visitors
Fund budget by appropriating revenues and expenses in the amount of
$250,000.00, which will be placed in a Miss Texas Pageant division, and
authorizing the City Manager to implement said budgets. 2004-O-159 Amending
the City of Laredo FY 2003-2004 annual budget by appropriating revenues and
expenditures in the amount of $16,573.00 from Mercy Ministries of 2004-O-160 Authorizing
the City Manager to amend the City of Laredo FY 2003-2004 annual budget by
decreasing revenues and expenditures in the amount of $742.00 from the Texas
Department of Health for the Binational
TB Card Pilot Project of the City of Laredo Health Department for the
contract period beginning 2004-O-161 Amending
the City of Laredo FY 2003-2004 annual budget by appropriating revenues and
expenditures in the amount of $15,000.00 in funds from the Texas Department
of Health to conduct the Childhood
Lead Poisoning Prevention Program of the City of Laredo Health
Department for the period beginning 2004-O-162 Amending
the City of Laredo
FY 2003/2004 General Fund Budget to appropriate grant revenues and expenses
from the 2003 and 2004 State Homeland Security Grant Subrecipient agreements
between the City of Laredo and the Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX)
in the original amount of $1,195,134.00 and accepting and appropriating the
2004 calculated base grant award in the amount of $216,658.00 for a total amount of
$1,411,792.00. In addition, the
acceptance and appropriation of the State Homeland Security Grant through the
State Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program Sub-grant will be $51,142.00.
The total amount appropriated from the State Homeland Security Grant will be
$1,462,934.00. Equipment received
through the grant agreement will be used for the City’s Fire, Police and
Health Departments. The appropriation
of the said grant revenue and expenditures will account for grant proceeds
and equipment purchased through the grant and authorizing the City Manager to
implement said budget amendment. The
above said grant requires no in kind or matching funds. 2004-O-163 Amending
the City of Laredo FY
2003-2004 annual budget by increasing Operation Cooperation (Southbound)
by $20,000.00. The United States
Customs Service will reimburse this full amount for overtime expenses
incurred by police officers working in conjunction through joint task forces. The term of the original agreement is from 2004-O-165 Closing as public easements, certain
platted but unopened city street sections
described in Exhibits “A”, “B”, “C” and “D” said street sections being
situated in the Eastern Division, City of Laredo, Webb County, Texas, and
authorizing the City Manager to (1) convey fee simple title to the “surface
only” of the tracts described in Exhibits “A”, “B”, and “C” to David
Slaughter and Wife Millicent B. Slaughter; provided however, that the City of
Laredo will retain as utility easements the two tracts described in Exhibits
“B” and “C” as utility easements; and (2) to convey fee simple title to the
“surface only” of the tract described in Exhibit “D” to Sheila Slaughter
Glassford; said conveyances being in partial consideration by the city for
the City’s pending purchase of the Slaughter Farm, for the creation of a
future park in 2004-O-166 Closing as a public easement that section
of 2004-O-167 Closing as a public easement that section
of Eistetter Circle which is bounded by Eistetter Street and surrounded by
Block 478 as per the Amended Retama Park Subdivision Plat recorded in Volume
2, Page 171, of the Plat Records of Webb County, Texas situated in the Retama
Park Subdivision, City of Laredo, County of Webb, Texas; and providing for an
effective date. 2004-O-168 Authorizing the City Manager to execute a
contract by and on behalf of the City of Laredo, Zone Grantee of
Foreign-Trade Zone No. 94, Site I, and specifically authorizing the City
Manager to enter into an operations agreement with International Dairy Products,
Inc., Zone Site Operator, for approximately 15,000 square feet of activated
space located at 5400 Thomas Avenue at Foreign-Trade Zone No. 94, Site I,
effective upon execution of this contract and ending on October 31, 2009. Providing activation, administration, and
transaction fees to the City and providing for an effective date. 2004-O-169 Closing as public easements those sections
of: C.
All
said streets are situated in the Western Division, City of 2004-O-170 Authorizing the City Manager to execute an Assignment of
the lease agreement approved by Ordinance No. 2001-O-042 dated February 20,
2001, as amended, between the City of Laredo, as Lessor, and Fedlaredo
Partnership, L.P., a Pennsylvania
limited partnership. Said Lease Assignment is to GLK, L.P., a X.
RESOLUTIONS
5.
2004-R-049 A resolution of
support for the water use strategy of sea water desalination for the purposes
of providing additional sources of water for the 6.
2004-R-057 Declaring the
public necessity to acquire the “Surface Only” of one parcel of land for the
Riverfront Development Project. Said
parcel being the South 69.44 feet of Lot 1, Block 50, Western Division, City
of Laredo, Webb County, Texas; as delineated on attached copy of City Plat;
and authorizing staff to negotiate with the owner for the acquisition of said
parcel by purchase at a market value to be established by a State Certified
Real Estate Appraiser, and further authorizing the City Attorney to initiate
condemnation proceedings to acquire said parcel if staff is unable to acquire
due to inability to agree to a purchase price, conflict of ownership, owner
refusal to sell, and/or inability to locate the listed owner. 7.
2004-R-058 Accepting the
donation of one utility easement from Yolanda Avitia for the right-of-way
acquisition, Ranchitos 359 East Subdivision project. This being a strip of land 15 feet in
width, containing 3,209.25 square feet or 0.074 of an acre, more or less, and
being situated in porcion 31, abstract 3116, City of Laredo, Webb County,
Texas, and described by metes and bounds and survey attached as Exhibits A
and B. 8.
2004-R-059 Accepting the
donation of one utility easement from Teodoro Delgado and wife Hermelinda
Delgado for the right-of-way acquisition, Ranchitos 359 East Subdivision project. This being a strip of land 15 feet in
width, containing 3,209.25 square feet or 0.074 of an acre, more or less, and
being situated in porcion 31, abstract 3116, City of Laredo, Webb County,
Texas, and described by metes and bounds and survey attached as Exhibits A
and B. 9.
2004-R-060 Accepting the
donation of one utility easement from Luz Olivia Gonzalez for the Pueblo
Nuevo Subdivision easement acquisition project. This being a 0.02066 of an acre, more or
less, parcel, which is out of Lot 6, Block 10, Pueblo Nuevo Subdivision,
described by metes and bounds and survey attached as Exhibits A and B. 10. |