Regular City Council Meeting
Regular MeetingBastrop, TX · May 28, 2024
Agenda
Bastrop, TX City Council Meeting Agenda
Bastrop City Hall City Council Chambers
1311 Chestnut Street
Bastrop, TX 78602
(512) 332-8800
May 28, 2024
Regular City Council Meeting at 6:30 PM
AMENDED PACKET ITEMS 9G AND 9H
City of Bastrop City Council 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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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
4A. Mayor's Report
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4B. Council Members' Report
4C. City Manager's Report
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
6A. Receive presentation on the unaudited Monthly Financial Report for the period ending
March 31, 2024.
Submitted by: Edi McIlwain, Chief Financial Officer
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.
8A. Consider action to approve City Council minutes from the May 14, 2024, Regular
meeting.
Submitted by: Ann Franklin, City Secretary
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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.
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.
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: Friday, May 24, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. and remained posted for at least two
hours after said meeting was convened.
/s/ Ann Franklin
Ann Franklin, City Secretary
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