EVERMAN CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING

EVERMAN CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM 213 North Race Street Everman, TX 76140 MINUTES 1. MEETING CALLED TO ORDER Mayor Richardson called the meeting to order at 6:01pm. 2. INVOCATION 3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 4. CONSENT AGENDA 5. PRESENTATIONS A. Proclamation - National Police Week 2025 Mayor Richardson read out the Proclamation and presented this to the Police staff that was present at the meeting. B. Proclamation - National Public Works Week 2025 Mayor Richardson read out the Proclamation and presented it to the Public Works staff that was present at the meeting. C. Proclamation - Declaring May 14th as Tow Truck & Traffic Safety Professionals Day Mayor Richardson read out the Proclamation and presented this to Beards Towing and American Barricade. There was an employee from both of the businesses to except this Proclamation. D. New Municipal Animal Services Mobile Adoption Trailer The truck was right outside the back door and the council went into recess to go out and look at this trailer. Mayor recessed the meeting at 6:14pm. Mayor reconvened the meeting at 6:24pm. 6. CITIZEN’S COMMENTS 7. CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION A. RESOLUTION NO. 2025-05-01 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EVERMAN, TEXAS, EXPRESSING STRONG OPPOSITION TO ANY COUNTY REDISTRICTING PLAN THAT WOULD RELOCATE THE CITY OF EVERMAN FROM COMMISSIONERS COURT PRECINCT 1; AFFIRMING THE CITY’S HISTORIC RELATIONSHIP WITH PRECINCT 1; AND PROVIDING FOR AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE. This will be tabled.  B. RESOLUTION NO. 2025-05-02 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EVERMAN, TEXAS, CANVASSING THE RETURNS AND DECLARING THE RESULTS OF THE GENERAL ELECTION HELD ON MAY 3, 2025, FOR THE PURPOSE OF REAUTHORIZING THE LOCAL SALES AND USE TAX FOR STREET MAINTENANCE AND APPROVING OR REJECTING PROPOSED CITY CHARTER AMENDMENTS; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Motion made by Place 5 Sellers, Seconded by Place 4; Mayor Pro-Tem Mackey. Voting Yea: Place 1 Sanders, Place 2 Renfro, Place 3 Allen, Place 4; Mayor Pro-Tem Mackey, Place 5 Sellers, Mayor Richardson Motion Carried C. ORDINANCE 833 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EVERMAN, TEXAS, ADOPTING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER APPROVED BY THE VOTERS OF THE CITY OF EVERMAN, TEXAS, AT AN ELECTION HELD ON MAY 3, 2025; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Motion made by Place 5 Sellers, Seconded by Place 4; Mayor Pro-Tem Mackey. Voting Yea: Place 1 Sanders, Place 2 Renfro, Place 3 Allen, Place 4; Mayor Pro-Tem Mackey, Place 5 Sellers, Mayor Richardson Motion Carried 8. DISCUSSION ITEMS A. Forest Hill Public Library District - Upcoming Summer Library Events Michael Hardrick and Willie Strickland came to share all the program's and events that they have going on at the Forest Hill Public Library. Willie Strickland, the Library Service Specialist approached council and proceeded to share his presentation on the screen that he had to present. This presentation includes special events and regular events that they will be hosting at the Library. Some of those programs are Computer Classes, Teen Movie Night, Summer program events (Painting and a lot of other activities), Summer Reading Program, Story Time, Teen Cooking Camp, Dance Classes and so much more. They also have a Pod Cast every Wednesday at 12pm. All these activities and events are on their website calendar with all the times and dates. They are excited to be hosting these activities and events for both communities and making sure that they cater to the needs of very group of the communities. Willie also stated that the Everman residents have access to their resources for free. With their Library Card they also get to access Kanopy, Hoopla, and Libby. These allow them to check out ebooks, audiobooks, certain movies and TV Shows from your phone, TV and computer. He also stated that over the last two years they have accumulated over 500 Everman Residents utilizing these resources and he believes this is a big deal and they are using them. Forest Hill Library also offers Metroshare, and this allows Patrons to borrow items from other Metroshare Libraries which include Benbrook, Burleson, Decatur, Forest Hill, Haltom City, Haslet, Keller, Richland Hills, Roanoke, Saginaw and Watauga. He stated that all this information can be found on the ForesHillPublicLibrary.org website and the calendar of events is on there as well. Mayor did state that the City of Everman has a big Hispanic community and are they thinking of anything in the future to help better serve them as well and Willie did add that there as been discussion about other events besides bilingual story time. In the Fall they are Looking to host what they call Latin Night. They will have a known band called the Tejano Heat to come and perform and other activities as well. Craig just wanted to say that he is blown away with all that they offer and anything the City of Everman can do to help they do not need to hesitate to ask.  B. Staff Report - Semi-annual Park, Stream, and Bulk Trash Cleanup Day This event went on this past weekend. Craig stated that there was a lot of advertising for this event as well. We had about 10 dumpsters full that they hauled off. It was a great event and flowed well and went well and Public Works did a phenomenal job with the set up. Johnnie Allen asked about advertising on the actual banners and including that into the new budget. Craig stated that when we do have Budget he will look into making that happen. C. Staff Report - Tarrant County Commissioner Roderick Miles Town Hall - May 15th, 2025 Craig wanted to announce that there will be a Town Hall meeting here at the Civic Center, and this is being hosted by Tarrant County Commissioner Roderick Miles. This will be this Thursday, May 15th at 5pm. D. FY 2026 Budget Planning Calendar Craig presented a schedule to the council for the upcoming Budget Workshops. He explained to the council what the meetings will address and when they will be. Council got the schedule from Craig as a handout and wanted to know if they wanted to make any changes. The council has no changes for the schedule. E. Creation of a shared City Council Calendar Craig stated that this calendar should be created and ready by the next meeting. This will be a shared google calendar that they could access from their phones or laptop. This is and would be a public facing calendar as well so council would need to keep that in mind. 9. EXECUTIVE SESSION A. The City Council will convene into closed, executive session pursuant to Texas. Govt. Code section 551.071, consultation with City Attorney, to receive legal advice regarding the petition to protect Texas taxpayers from potentially unconstitutional public contracts relative to Texas Government Accountability Assn. Mayor convened into Executive Session at 7:00pm and Mayor reconvened out of Executive Session at 7:18pm. Motion made by Place 4; Mayor Pro-Tem Mackey to authorize the Mayor to execute on behalf of the City Petition to protect the Texas Tax payers from potentially, unconstitutional contracts relative to Texas Government Accountability Association, Seconded by Place 5 Sellers. Voting Yea: Place 1 Sanders, Place 2 Renfro, Place 3 Allen, Place 4; Mayor Pro-Tem Mackey, Place 5 Sellers, Mayor Richardson Motion Carried. 10. CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION RESULTING FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION 11. CITY MANAGERS REPORT Craig wanted to inform council of the At home event with Frost Bank at Civic Center at 10am to 2pm on Saturday May 17th. This event is free. This is a lot of educational information. 12. MAYOR’S REPORT Mayor Richardson had nothing to report. 13. ADJOURN Mayor Richardson adjourned the meeting at 7:20pm. I hereby certify that this agenda was posted on the City of Everman bulletin board at or before 5:00 p.m. on Friday May 9, 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. Citizens wishing to make comments should notify the City Secretary as soon as possible. City Hall is wheelchair accessible. Parking spaces for disabled citizens are available. Requests for sign interpretative services must be made 48 hours prior to the meeting. To make arrangements, call 817.293.0525 or TDD 1.800.RELAY TX, 1.800.735.2989.