City Council

CITY OF GROVETON AGENDA The regular meeting of the City Council of Groveton, Texas will be held on Monday, January 26, 2015 at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at City Hall, located at 115 West Front Street, Groveton, Texas. The following items will be discussed: I. CALLED TO ORDER: II. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: III. APPROVE MINUTES: a. Regular Session Meeting December 22, 2014 IV. PUBLIC FORUM: V. POLICE DEPARTMENT: a. Chief John Raiford-Monthly Report b. Approve the Racial Profiling Report for 01/01/14 to 12/31/14 VI. STREETS & BRIDGES: a. Mayor Byron Richards-Monthly Report VII. WATER & SEWER: a. Allen Jenkins- Severn Trent Services-Monthly Report b. KSA Engineers- An Update on the Water Project VIII. NEW BUSINESS: a. Jack Paschetag Accountant- Presentation on Financial Statement b. Discussion and Action on Appointing a Building Standards Commission for the Dilapidated Building Ordinance #1-A c. Discussion and Action on Phone System from John Isham d. Approve to order a General Election on May 9, 2015 e. Approve two weekdays for early voting 12 hours for the General Election on May 9, 2015 f. Ray Vann- Discussion and take action regarding a Resolution to submit a 2015-2016 TxCDBG Grant Application to the Texas Department of Agriculture IX. UNFINISHED BUSINESS: X. MAYOR’S REPORT: XI. EXECUTIVE SESSION: XII. ADJOURN: I certify that the above Notice of meeting of the City Council is a true and correct copy of said Notice and that I posted a true and correct copy of said Notice on the door of City Hall at 3:30 P.M. on January 23, 2015 where it remained so posted continuously for at least 72 hours preceding the scheduled time of said meeting. THE COUNCIL MAY CHOOSE TO DELIBERATE IN EXECUTIVE SESSION UNDER ANY OF THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS: 551.071- Consultations with attorney-551.072- Deliberation regarding Real Property-551.073-Deliberation regarding gifts & donations-551.074-Personnel matters (with deliberation by Council) - 551.076-Deliberation Security Matters- 551.076 Deliberation Certain Homeland Security Matters- 551.087-Deliberation Regarding Economic Development Negotiations. _________________________________ Byron Richards, Mayor