EVERMAN CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING

EVERMAN CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM 213 North Race Street Everman, TX 76140 MINUTES 1. MEETING CALLED TO ORDER Mayor Richardson called meeting to order at 6:03pm. 2. INVOCATION 3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 4. CONSENT AGENDA A. Minutes February 11, 2025 Regular Meeting February 25, 2025 Regular Meeting Motion made by Place 5 Sellers, Seconded by Place 1 Sanders. Voting Yea: Place 1 Sanders, Place 2 Renfro, Place 3 Allen, Place 5 Sellers, Place 6 Davila, Mayor Richardson Motion Carried. B. Financials February 2025 Motion made by Place 5 Sellers, Seconded by Place 6 Davila. Voting Yea: Place 1 Sanders, Place 2 Renfro, Place 3 Allen, Place 5 Sellers, Place 6 Davila, Mayor Richardson Motion Carried. 5. PRESENTATIONS A. Proclamation - Child Abuse Awareness Month B. Swearing In Ceremony - Everman Fire Department 6. CITIZEN’S COMMENTS We had no citizens comments. 7. DISCUSSION ITEMS A. Monthly Departmental Report Police Department  Fire Department Public Works Code Compliance/Animal Services Al Brroks presented the monthly activity summary for February 26-March 25th. This included the total dispatched calls which was 1385 calls for service. He went through the calls and the types of calls and what some of those calls resulted in. Traffic enforcement activities resulted in 66 citations and 37 warnings. He also updated some activities that were held at the school and the newest K-9, two-year old Belgian was introduced to the students. Landon Whatley presented and reported calls for services from February 22-March 24th. This included the emergency incident, and incident by response type. He also updated the council on the staffing and at this time, Landon is happy to say that they are fully staffed at this time. B. Discussion and Deliberation of Garbage, Waste, and Recycling Services for the City of Everman Craig stated that they do not have an Ordinance just yet. They are working on the legal side of things with this Ordinance. He then went back over what council asked for Waste Connection to come back with as far as Scenario's and coming back with the senior citizens discount that the council has asked for. Abel Moreno at this time approached council. He wanted to present council with instead of a 5 -year agreement a 3-year agreement with take all and then handout 500 carts for free for a trial to the 500 citizens to get their feedback on the cart service. Abel will give 500 citizens carts every year of the 3-year agreement to see if he can get the city citizens to do the carts and it would be cheaper for the city. $21.70... senior $20.20. $20.20 and $18. for senior citizens. Council would like to keep the recycling and to go with option 1. The city will have some conversation with Waste Connection on how they will pick the first 500 to get the carts. C. Staff Report - Update on the Mayor's Youth Advisory Council Craig just wanted to update you with the initiative that they have come up with and that is a Community Reck Center. Grossman is going to come and meet with them to come up with a concept and present this to the council by the end of the school year. The goal is to get this on the Capital Improvement Plan for years to come. This will come to council by late May. 8. CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION A. Actions Concerning Appointments to Various Boards, Commissions, or Committees Motion made by Place 5 Sellers to table this item, Seconded by Place 6 Davila. Voting Yea: Place 1 Sanders, Place 2 Renfro, Place 3 Allen, Place 5 Sellers, Place 6 Davila, Mayor Richardson Motion Carried. 9. EXECUTIVE SESSION A. Texas Government Code section 551.087 – Deliberation Regarding Economic Development Negotiations – to discuss or deliberate the offer of a financial or other incentive to a business prospect that the EEDC seeks to have locate, stay, or expand in or near the territory of the City and with which it is conducting economic development negotiations, to wit: Timberview Farmstead Mayor Richardson opened executive session at 6:57pm.  Mayor Richardson closed executive session at 7:27pm. 10. CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION No action taken after Executive Session. 11. CITY MANAGERS REPORT Craig reported that we will be working together with Forest Hill for an Easter Egg Hunt. Once he gets the details, he will let council know. Also, he wanted to let them know we will get more new tables like the new ones that are here now. He also updated council about Mike Nicoletti and his retirement party. It was a very nice event, many came to share his special day with him. Craig also wanted to report that he is looking into implementing a city podcast. This is something that the Youth Mayor's council suggested, and Craig thinks that it is a great way to share with our community and get information out there. He hopes to have information about this by the next meeting with a presentation. 12. MAYOR’S REPORT Mayor Richardson just wanted to report to council on how they need to be checking their email. There is information from Fort Worth that is be distributed and that needs to be on their radar. 13. ADJOURN Mayor Richardson adjourned the meeting at 7:32pm. I hereby certify that this agenda was posted on the City of Everman bulletin board at or before 5:00 p.m. on Friday March 21, 2025. /s/ Mindi Parks City Secretary Citizens may watch city council meetings live on YouTube. A link to the City of Everman YouTube channel is provided on the city website at: www.evermantx.us/government/citycouncil/ Pursuant to Texas Government Code Sec. 551.127, on a regular, non-emergency basis, members may attend and participate in the meeting remotely by video conference. Should that occur, a quorum of the members, including the presiding officer, will be physically present at the location noted above on this Agenda. Pursuant to Section 551.071, Chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code, Council reserves the right to convene into Executive Session(s) from time to time as deemed necessary during this meeting, to receive advice from its attorney on any posted agenda item, as permitted by Law. Additionally, Council may convene into Executive Session to discuss the following: A. Section 551.071 - Pending or Contemplated Litigation or to Seek Advice of the City Attorney. B. Section 551.072 - Purchase, Sale, Exchange, Lease, or Value of Real Property. C. Section 551.073 - Deliberation Regarding Prospective Gift. D. Section 551.074 - Personnel Matters. E. Section 551.087- Deliberation Regarding Economic Development Negotiations. F. Section 551.089 - Deliberations Regarding Security Devices or Security Audits. Citizens wishing to submit written comments should e-mail the City Secretary at mparks@evermantx.net. Comments that are received at least one-hour prior to the start of the meeting will be provided to all council members. According to the City of Everman Policy on Governance Process, individual citizen comments will be restricted to three (3) minutes unless otherwise determined by a majority vote of the Council. The mayor is responsible to enforce the time limit. Citizens may address City Council either during the Citizen Comments portion of the meeting or during deliberation of a listed agenda item. City Council is only permitted by Law to discuss items that are listed on the agenda. 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