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CITY COUNCIL
MEETING A-2006-R-09 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 a.
Inaugural radio test transmission for new 800 MHz radio system. b.
Presentation by Dr. Dennis D. Cantu,
LISD Board President and Dr. Daniel Garcia, Jr., LISD Superintendent r Invitations Recognitions a.
Presentation of the Fourth Annual Sister Cities Festival award and
tribute to Mayor Elizabeth G. Flores for her devotion to the mission of “promoting
peace through mutual respect, understanding, & cooperation - one
individual, one community at a time”. b.
Recognition of Council Member Alfredo Agredano for his eight years of
service in the Transit Advisory Committee. c.
Recognition of the appointees for District III, by Council Member John C.
Galo. d.
Recognition of the appointees for District I, by Council Member Alfredo
Agredano. e.
Presentation to Council Member John Galo, District III, and Council
Member Alfredo Agredano, District I for eight years of service to the City of
Laredo. f.
Presentation by Susan
Parish, The Webb County Community Coalition of SCAN, Inc., to members of the Laredo City Council for their
support of the smoking ban. Communiqués a.
Mayor Elizabeth G.
Flores reports on the City of VI.
APPOINTMENTS TO COMMISSIONS, BOARDS AND
COMMITTEES a.
Appointment by Council
Member Johnny Amaya of Rebecca C. Sepulveda to the Historic District /
Landmark Board. VII.
PUBLIC HEARINGS 1.
Public hearing
and introductory ordinance authorizing the City Manager to accept a Federal Aviation
Administration Grant and amend the City of Laredo FY 2006 2.
Public hearing
and introductory ordinance authorizing the City Manager to accept a Federal Aviation
Administration Grant and amend the City of Laredo FY 2006 3.
Public hearing
and introductory ordinance establishing Laundromat service fees on all Multi-Family Apartment
Properties where a Laundromat facility is available in the Airport Noise
Compatibility Program and implementing a $1.00 fee for each washer or dryer
cycle use. The Laredo Municipal
Housing Corporation as authorized through the property management service
contract of 4.
Public hearing and introductory ordinance accepting a grant in the amount of $20,000.00 from the
Texas Department of Transportation for enforcement of Vehicle Occupant
Protection during the Memorial Day Holiday Crackdown and amending the City of
(Recess) (Press
Availability) VIII.
INTRODUCTORY ORDINANCES 5.
Amending Article II, Section 2-16, “Departments of the City,” of the
Code of Ordinances of the City of Laredo, Texas, clarifying the authority of
the City Manager to appoint, suspend or remove all City Department Directors
except as otherwise provided by law, the City Charter, or policies adopted in
accordance with the Charter, and clarifying the authority of Department
Directors to appoint, suspend or remove all employees in their respective
departments, and limiting the power of each to del 6.
Amending Chapter 19, “Motor Vehicles and Traffic”, Article VIII;
Stopping, Standing or Parking, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of
Laredo: Specifically Section 19-364, restricted parking areas, by adding
Subsection B “No Parking Anytime/Tow Away Zone” on Spring Road, north of
Shiloh Drive; providing severability, an effective date and publication. IX.
FINAL 7.
2006-O-085
Amending the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of 2006-O-086
Amending the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of Laredo by rezoning
2,505.83 square feet out of Lots 1, 2 and 3, Block 1127, Western Division,
further described by metes and bounds in attached Exhibit “A”, located at
2012 Farias Street, from R-3 (Mixed Residential District) to R-1A (Single
Family Reduced Area District). 2006-O-087
Amending the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of 2006-O-088
Amending the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of 2006-O-089
Amending the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of 2006-O-090
Amending Ordinance No. 2004-O-089 authorizing the issuance of a
Conditional Use Permit to David Richter for a concrete batch plant on 5.00
acres, as further described by metes and bounds in attached Exhibit “A”,
located at 2006-O-091
Amending the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of 2006-O-092
Amending the Zoning Ordinance Map of the City of 2006-O-093
Amending the City of 2006-O-094
Amending the City of Laredo 2005 – 2006 General Fund annual budget by
adding one (1) full time equivalent position to address l 2006-O-095
Amending the City of 2006-O-096
Authorizing the City
Manager to amend the Fiscal Year 2006 Recreation Fund to appropriate
expenditures in the amount of $130,000.00 for a professional services
contract for research and development of a Request for Proposals and develop
criteria for evaluating proposals to determine the suitability of the
construction of a new Baseball Stadium for the City of 2006-O-097
Accepting a grant
awarded to the City of 2006-O-098
Accepting a grant
awarded and amending the City of Laredo Fiscal Year 2005 – 2006 budget by
decreasing revenues and expenses in the amount of $7,260.00 to reflect the
actual grant amount of $630,685.00 awarded by the Office of the National Drug
Control Policy (ONDCP) High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), at no cost
to the city, to fund the Laredo Financial Task Force. Funds will be used to pay personnel
salaries, travel, and operational expenses from 2006-O-099
Abandoning a utility easement described as being a 15 foot wide strip
of land, containing 0.0344 acres, more or less, situated in Porcion 32,
Abstract 296, Antonio Treviño, original grantee, Webb County, Texas. Said 0.0344 acre tract being out of Tract
A-4, Tanquesitos II Subdivision, Webb County, Texas and being a utility
easement was granted to the City of Laredo by Rafael Hernandez by conveyance
instrument dated January 15, 2003, recorded in Volume 1354, pp. 645-647,
Official Public Records of Webb County, Texas, and described on the attached
Exhibit A. Said release of easement,
being in consideration of an alternative utility easement that was conveyed
to the City of X.
RESOLUTIONS
8.
2006-R-045 Authorizing the City Manager to
enter into a Funding Agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation in
the amount of $6,629,500.00 for the West Laredo Multimodal Trade Corridor
Phase III – Calton Road Railroad Grade Separation Project. The Federal contribution is $6,375,600.00
and the City’s contribution of $253,900.00.
Funding will be available through a future
bond issuance. The Federal
contribution for this project is derived from $3,500,000.00 awarded through
the National Corridor Planning and Development/Coordinated Border
Infrastructure Program (NCPD/CBI), of which $975,600.00 is to be used for
this project, $2,400,000.00 awarded through the Highway Discretionary
Projects Earmarks, and $3,000,000.00 awarded through the Surface
Transportation Projects Program. 9.
2006-R-046 Accepting the
donation of a Utility Easement from Laredo Hills, Ltd., L.L.P., and Hurd
Ranch Company, Ltd., to install a waterline to serve the Larga Vista
Subdivision area. Said easement being
described in the document dated 10.
2006-R-047 Accepting the
donation of one (1) Utility Easement from Javier M. Ramos for the extension
of water and sewer services lines to the Tanquecitos II Subdivision. This being the North 15 feet of Tract A-6,
Tanquecitos II, situated in Porcion 32, Abstract 296, 11.
2006-R-048 Amending
contract with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) by
decreasing the grant award amount by $1,832.52 for the operation of the two
(2) continuous air monitoring stations (CAMS) by the City of Laredo Health
Department, changing the total amount awarded to $208,167.48, for the
contract term from September 1, 2003 through August 31, 2006. The decrease in funds is due to a reduction
in funding from TCEQ. 12.
2006-R-051 Resolution
directing publication of notice of intention to issue City of Laredo, Texas Combination
Tax and Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2006, in the principal
amount of $17,370,000.00 for paying all or a portion of the City’s
Contractual Obligations for the purpose of constructing and equipping Police
and Fire Department improvements for substations, a training center and
headquarters building, constructing, improving, repairing, and extending city
streets, and providing improvements to the West Laredo Corridor Project (Road
Improvements), together with drainage improvements, traffic and signal
equipment and improvements, constructing and equipping improvements to the
City’s health complex, branch library, and municipal parks, and for the
payment of l XI.
MOTIONS 13.
Authorizing the City
Manager to approve payment from the City’s Arena Renewal and Replacement
Account for the purchase of folding chairs, pipe and drape, folding tables,
and stage components and decking in a total amount not to exceed $50,000.00. Items purchased through the Renewal and
Replacement Account are on a 50% cost basis to the City of 14.
Authorizing the City
Manager to amend its 2004 Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) contract with the
Laredo Homeless Coalition by extending the contract deadline from 15.
Consideration to amend
the existing Hosting Agreement, a multi-year contract with Crystal Group,
Inc. a Texas Corporation, to increase the contract amount from $84,225.00 to
$273,225.00 for Fiscal Year 2006, to include costs to meet contractual
obligations of the City of Laredo, found in Schedule 2, A. Items 1, 10, and
11 of the Hosting Agreement; and to limit the financial responsibility of the
City for Schedule 2, A. Items 1, 10,
and 11 to $189,000.00, not including local labor costs. Funding is available in the Laredo
Convention & Visitors Bureau Budget. 16.
Consideration to
approve a five (5) year professional service contract with Estrada – Hinojosa
& Company, Inc., 17. |
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