EVERMAN CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING

EVERMAN CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING Tuesday, June 10, 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 6:00pm. 2. INVOCATION 3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 4. CONSENT AGENDA 5. PRESENTATIONS A. Proclamation - Honoring and Celebrating the 250th Birthday of the United States Army Mayor read and presented the Proclamation for honoring and celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States Army. Susan Mackey accepted this proclamation. 6. CITIZEN’S COMMENTS We had no citizens comments. 7. DISCUSSION ITEMS A. Consideration of an Ordinance that would establish a permit procedure and requirements for solicitors within the City of Everman Craig stated that he has handed out the ordinance for the council to review. Victoria has drafted this ordinance for council review. This is something that we have not had in place, and we need to. Judy asked who will control this and this is her only concern. Registration process and permitting process for the people that go door to door. We get a lot of calls to the police department, and we need something to vet and make our citizens feel more comfortable about the door-to-door salesmen. We are one of the few cities that do not require this. This is all in the ordinance on who would have to be registered. The permit would last for one year. Most other cities have an ordinance similar to this already in effect. This is solicitation. We would advertise this to let people know that this is going into effect. The council will review this and this will be on the next council meeting. B. Updated website for the City of Everman Craig Spencer stated that we are very close to launching the new website. He stated also that Pro-Tem Mackey has spent about six hours helping and reviewing the website making sure that the formatting was good and the website was very easy to navigate. Craig displayed the website for the council to see on the screen. He explained that the home page is a no scroll home page, which means there is nowhere to scroll and everything is immediately on the home page for easy access. He navigated through the different menus to show council. He did explain some of the changes and showed them how everything was easy access. Council did  not have any questions and all council stated that the new website looks really nice and they were all good with the new website. 8. CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION A. RESOLUTION NO. 2025-06-01 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EVERMAN, TEXAS, APPROVING THE EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($27,000.00) FROM STREET IMPROVEMENT TAX FUNDS FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED BY TEAGUE NALL AND PERKINS, INC. FOR THE RACE STREET CULVERT BRIDGE ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Motion made by Place 5 Sellers, Seconded by Place 6 Davila. Voting Yea: Place 1 Sanders, Place 2 Renfro, Place 3 Allen, Place 4; Mayor Pro-Tem Mackey, Place 5 Sellers, Place 6 Davila, Mayor Richardson Motion Carried. B. RESOLUTION NO. 2025-06-02 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EVERMAN, TEXAS, APPROVING AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH TARRANT COUNTY FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF WICHITA STREET FROM BELL STREET TO ENON AVENUE; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE AGREEMENT; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Motion made by Place 4; Mayor Pro-Tem Mackey, Seconded by Place 6 Davila. Voting Yea: Place 1 Sanders, Place 2 Renfro, Place 3 Allen, Place 4; Mayor Pro-Tem Mackey, Place 5 Sellers, Place 6 Davila, Mayor Richardson Motion Carried. 9. EXECUTIVE SESSION A. Section 551.071 - Pending or Contemplated Litigation or to Seek Advice of the City Attorney related to Cause No. 067-364940-25; Earlene Wilson vs. Rollamania, LLC., the City of Everman Fire Department, et al. Mayor convened into Executive Session at 6:22pm. Mayor reconvened the meeting and closed executive session at 6:35pm. No Action Taken 10. CITY MANAGERS REPORT Craig stated that he and council woman Allen got a chance to go to meet with Forest Hill and Meals on Wheels regarding a potential partnership with them. Forest Hill did receive grant funding to expand their Senior Center to include a Youth Activity Center. Craig stated that they are exploring a possibility of a partnership with the City of Forest Hill to provide a Senior Center for our citizens. This will likely come at a very low cost comparing to standing up our own center. They have a lot to offer to our seniors with bingo and games and other things and he believes this could be a great partnership. These conversations are happening and will have this in the budget conversations. Putting this on the council radar. Hailstorm did cause some damage and there have been some claims with TML on vehicles and no building damage. This is being worked on at this time to get it taken care of. He also stated Budget is right around the corner. 11. MAYOR’S REPORT Mayor stated that Budget season is here, it is coming. He also stated that he has had a lot of meetings. The meetings are very productive and a lot of good is coming out the meetings with Edge cliff Village, Kennedale, Forest Hill and Everman. 12. ADJOURN Mayor adjourned the meeting at 6:39pm. I hereby certify that this agenda was posted on the City of Everman bulletin board at or before 5:00 p.m. on Friday June 6, 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. 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