City Council

CITY OF GROVETON AGENDA The regular meeting of the City Council of Groveton, Texas will be held on Monday, January 22, 2018 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 18, 2017 IV. PUBLIC FORUM: V. POLICE DEPARTMENT: a. Chief John Raiford-Monthly Report VI. STREETS & BRIDGES: Mayor Byron Richards-Monthly Report VII. WATER & SEWER: a. Mike Brown- Inframark Operations-Monthly Report VIII. NEW BUSINESS: a. Discuss and Review Audit Report 2016-2017 prepared by Todd, Hamaker and Johnson, LLP b. Discussion and Action on Extended Agreement with Pro-Star Waste- Joseph Walker c. Approve to Order a General Election for May 5, 2018 d. Approve two weekdays for early voting 12 hours for the General Election on May 5, 2018 e. Discussion and Action for a grant application to the 2018 Civil War “Battle of BlackJack Grove” reenactment in the amount of $2,500.00 GEDC-4A f. Discussion and Action for grant application for partial matching funds of approximately $37,000 required under the downtown improvement project grant GEDC-4A g. Discussion and Action for grant application for additional funding for the City of Groveton’s five (5%) percent matching for projected cost of runway lighting system of $7,000.00 at the Trinity Groveton Airport GEDC-4A 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 19, 2018 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