City Council

NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING LA FERIA CITY COMMISSION CITY COMMISSION MEETING ROOM 115 E. COMMERCIAL AVE., LA FERIA, TX 78559 Tuesday, March 9, 2021 AT 6:30 PM AGENDA In accordance with the Order of the Office of the Governor issued March 16, 2020, the City of La Feria will conduct the meeting and provide audio/telephonic availability for the public using live stream in order to advance the public health goal of limiting face-to-face meetings (also called “social distancing”) to slow the spread of the Coronavirus (also known as Covid-19). To view the meeting via internet live streaming, please use the following link: https://zoom.us/j/97698699447?pwd=ejRzUFN2aHBJcm9yc09PWHN3Z1AvUT09 Meeting ID: 976 9869 9447 Passcode: 063157 Or listen telephonically at: +1 346 248 7799 The public will be permitted to offer citizen communication or participate in items listed as public hearings telephonically as provided by the agenda and as permitted by the presiding officer during the meeting. To offer citizen communication or participate in scheduled public hearings telephonically, please email Amanda Morales at amorales@cityoflaferia.com . Please indicate (1) the agenda item on which you wish to speak, (2) whether you prefer to speak on the item during citizen communication or at the time the agenda item is brought for consideration before the commission, and (3) a working telephone number at which you may be reached to submit your comments. The Civil service commission will then call you when the item you wish to address is being considered. You will then address the civil service commission through the speakerphone, and your call will be mad audible to the City Commission and to the public through the live stream. Please submit written comments before 5PM the day PRIOR to the meeting. A recording of the meeting will be made and will be available to the public in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act. If during the course of the meeting, any discussion of any item on the agenda is permitted to be held in executive or closed session, whether such item is already so identified on this Agenda or not, the City Commission will convene in such executive or closed session in accordance with Texas Government Code Section 551.001-551.146. 1. Invocation 2. Pledge of allegiance to the U.S. Flag – All present 3. Determine quorum present and call meeting to order – Mayor 4. Public Comments  5. Consent Agenda: A. Approval of minutes for City Commission meeting held February 23, 2021. 6. Consideration and possible action to extend declaration of local disaster pertaining to the public health emergency pertaining out of public health issues arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic. 7. Discussion regarding Governor Abbot’s Order #34. 8. Public hearing regarding a request for a zone change from I-Industrial to MH-Mobile Home District for CAD #180473, legal description Minnesota-Texas Irrigation Land Co., being 0.35 acre out of Block 50, address is 815 N. Parker, owner Abel Rivera. 9. Consideration and possible action on request for a zone change from I-Industrial to MH-Mobile Home District for CAD #180473, legal description Minnesota-Texas Irrigation Land Co., being 0.35 acre out of Block 50, address is 815 N. Parker, owner Abel Rivera. 10. Public hearing regarding a request for a Specific Use Permit to allow a mobile food trailer to operate at 108 W. Primrose Ave, at CAD #177416, legal description being lots 1-2-3, Clement Bakes, property Owner Estevan & Mary A. Reves. 11. Consideration and possible action on request for a Specific Use Permit to allow a mobile food trailer to operate at 108 W. Primrose Ave, at CAD #177416, legal description being lots 1-2-3, Clement Bakes, property Owner Estevan & Mary A. Reves. 12. Consideration and possible action to approve the annual racial profiling report. 13. Consideration and possible action of Resolution 2021-05 in support of the formation of Drainage District No.6. 14. Adjourn. THE LA FERIA CITY COMMISSION MEETING ROOM IS WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE AND ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPACE IS AVAILABLE. I certify that this notice was posted at 5:00 PM. On Friday, March 5, 2021, pursuant to the Texas Open Meetings Act and on the City of La Feria website accessed at www.cityoflaferia.com.