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497 MINUTES REGULAR MEETING n MINERAL WELLS CITY COUNCIL CITY HALL ANNEX January 17, 2017 - 6:00 pm City Councilmembers present were Mayor Mike Allen, Mayor Pro-Tern John Upham, Councilmembers Clif Wright, Brian Reagan, Tammy Underwood, and Wayne Johnson. Councilmember Jerrel Tomlin was absent.. A quorum of City Councilmembers was present Staff members present were City Manager Lance Howerton, Police Chief Dean Sullivan, Finance Director John Moran, Public Works Director Kelly Jones, Fire Chief Mike Pool, City Clerk Juanita Formby, and City Attorney Mack Reinwand. Mayor Pro-Tern Upham called the meeting to order, Pastor Gary Word of City View Community Church of Mineral Wells gave the invocation, and the Pledges of Allegiance to the U.S. and Texas were recited. CITIZEN COMMENT No one had signed to speak. 1. Mayor Allen recognized individuals and organizations who helped during the City's water crises, when the entire City was without water service for two days immediately after Christmas due to a major line break. A number of those so recognized were present, and they received a standing ovation . Mr. Reagan moved and Mr. Upham seconded to approve the following CONSENT AGENDA, and the motion carried 6-0: 2 . Consider minutes of previous meeting held January 3, 2017. 3. Consider approval of budgeted expenditures over $500. 4. Consider extension of Specific Use Permit for Brazos Valley Spring Water, LP. 5. Consider authorizing payment to Independent Building Consultants for Design Services in the amount of $153,161.41. ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION 6. Mr. Howerton presented an ordinance which would affect the closure of a 15 foot easement located in property owned and occupied by EZ Mart #298 located at 1505 Hwy 180 West in Mineral L Wells. EZ Mart Inc. has asked for the abandonment of the alley/easement. The Planning and Zoning Commission has met on Mineral Wells City Council Minutes 01/17/2017 Page 1of3 498 January 9, 2017 to consider this request, and now recommends to the City Council that the request be granted and the alley/easement be closed. There are no utilities in the alley/easement. Mr. Reagan moved and Mr. Upham seconded to pass and approve an ordinance of the City of Mineral Wells, Texas, abandoning and vacating a certain undeveloped alley right-of-way located in the C.H. Glidewell Survey No. 2, Abstract 1683, and as more particularly described and depicted in Exhibit "A"; authorizing the execution of a quitclaim deed; providing an effective date. Motion carried 6-0. 7. Mr. Moran presented a resolution which would authorize submission of an application to the Texas Department of Agriculture for a 2017-2018 Texas Community Development Block Grant Program - Community Development Fund grant of up to $275,000 to construct water improvements, and which would also commit a matching contribution of $55,000 from the City's Utility Fund, and which would designate the Mayor as the City's authorized signatory. Mr. Reagan asked that language in the resolution be changed to show that the $55,000 in matching funds will be taken from the City's Utility Capital Projects Fund. With that change, Mr. Wright moved the adoption of the resolution as presented, Mr. Reagan seconded, and the motion carried 6-0. 8. Mr. Moran referenced the City's application for a Texas Community Development Block Grant (TxCDBG), and said that in a community where a significant number of the population affected by the subject project are non-English speaking, such citizens should have "meaningful access" to all aspects of the TxCDBG project. To provide such "meaningful access" grant recipients may need to provide interpreter services at public hearings or provide routine written materials in non-English. Examples of such documents include the application, complain procedures, notice, etc. Mr. Moran presented a Citizen Participation Plan and Citizen Complain Procedures in English and Spanish, to be followed during implementation of TxCDBG projects and asked that these be adopted by .the City Council, and that the Mayor be authorized to execute associated documents. Mr. Reagan so moved, Mr. Upham seconded, and the motion carried 6-0. 9. At the City Council's previous meeting held on January 3, 2017, the City Council revisited the matter of a bond election, and possible projects that might be the subject thereof. A citizens committee was appointed in 2015 to review a vast array of possibilities, and submitted their final recommendations. It was the consensus of the City Council at the most recent meeting that a City Council subcommittee should be appointed for the purpose of reviewing the final recommendations, and to discuss a plan for implementation, which might include such elements as location, detailed cost estimates, architectural and feasibility studies, etc. Mayor Allen Mineral Wells City Council Minutes 01/17/2017 Page 2 of3  499 named Councilmembers Tammy Underwood, John Upham, Wayne Johnson, and himself to the recommended Committee. 10.Mr. Jones said that at the previous Council meeting, the Council had discussed an amendment to the Water Conservation and Drought Contingency Plan, which would effect a less restrictive use of outdoor watering in Stage 0 of the Plan. In response to the Council's direction, an ordinance amending Stage 0 was prepared to permit unattended landscape watering on odd and even days. Addresses ending with odd numbers can water on odd numbered days, and addresses ending with an even numbers can water on even numbered days. Following discussion, Mr. Upham moved and Mr. Reagan seconded to adopt an ordinance of the City of Mineral Wells, Texas amending Chapter 90, Utilities, of the Code of Ordinance, City of Mineral Wells, Texas, by adopting a revised Water Conservation and Drought Contingency Plan; providing for repealing, severability and savings clauses; providing for a criminal penalty; and providing for an effective date. Motion carried 6-0. 11. There was no further business, and the meeting was adjourned at 6:27 pm. C' Mi~ L Mineral Wells City Council Minutes 01/17/2017 Page 3 of3 500 . .. :_. . ... ... .·., . ' .~ -~ ,. . . . " .: .. ~ . .. . ~ . ' . I