NOTICE

CITY OF JEFFERSON, TEXAS

REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING

TRANSPORTATION CENTER

305 E. AUSTIN STREET

TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2025 @ 5:30 P.M.

 Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Jefferson City Council will be held on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM at the Transportation Center at 305 E. Austin Street, Jefferson, Texas, at which time the subjects to be considered or upon which any formal action may be taken are as listed below.  Items do not have to be taken in the order shown on the meeting notice.  Unless removed from the consent agenda, items identified with the consent agenda will be acted on at one time.

AGENDA

  1. CALL TO ORDER – MAYOR
  2. INVOCATION
  3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
  4. WELCOME GUESTS AND VISITORS

Public Comments –

  • Public Comments will only be taken during the Public Comments section of the agenda.
  • Must sign up in advance on the list and must limit to 3 minutes conversation.
  • Jefferson City Council may ask questions but shall not discuss items that are not on the agenda.
  • Council may not comment publicly on issues raised that are not included on the current meeting agenda. On a subject that is not on the agenda, a person may request to add an item to a future City Council Agenda by contacting City Hall. The deadline for the request to be placed on an agenda for consideration must be received with all corresponding documents by 5pm the Wednesday before the regularly scheduled meeting.
  • While civil public criticism is not prohibited; disorderly conduct or disturbance of the peace as prohibited by law shall be cause for the chair to terminate the offender’s time to speak.
  1. PRESENTATIONS – Limited to 10 minutes each

a. Tourism Quarterly Report – Colleen Taylor

b. Planning and Zoning Quarterly Report – Tracy Graham

c. NETMWD Quarterly Report – George Otstott

  1. CITY ADMINISTRATOR/CITY SECRETARY COMMENTS

a. Republic: Fire Department Check

b. Accounting Software: FundView & OpenGov

c. Water/Sewer/Streets:

  1. ARPA Polk St.
  2. Streets

d. Visitor Center Parking

  1. CONSENT AGENDA (City Council reserves the right to remove items from the Consent Agenda and consider and/or approve individually)

a. Consider and/or approve May 20, 2025 Regular Council meeting minutes.

b. Consider and/or approve a Resolution supporting City of Jefferson’s application to the Texas Department of Transportation’s 2025 Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside (TA) call for projects.

c. Consider and/or approve the 2026 Employee Retirement Plan City Contribution Rate of 0.42%.

  1. ACTION ITEMS

a. Discuss, consider and/or approve Resolution adopting the updated FEMA 2024 Multi-Jurisdiction Hazard Mitigation Plan.

b. Discuss, consider and/or approve the Agreement between the City of Jefferson and Schaumburg & Polk, Inc. for Engineer Services relating to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Trails Grant, Phase 1 for the amount of $66,964.

c. Discuss, consider and/or approve Contract for Services between the City of Jefferson and Willdan Engineering.

d. Discuss, consider and/or approve the Big Cypress Corvette Weekend to be held on June 4 – 6, 2026.

e. Discuss, consider and/or approve the opening of River Oaks Drive as it terminates into Barbara Andersons property.

f. Discuss, consider and/or approve designating the dead end of River Oaks Drive as a public beautification location to be maintained by Mildred Manning. (Reference: Signed protest of property owners requesting to keep River Oaks Drive a dead-end street)

g. Discuss, consider and/or approve asking JEDCO to fund up to $500,000 for water and gravity sewer improvements from Lake and Market to Vale and Dallas Streets.

h. Discuss, consider and/or approve the use of funds from the Oakwood Memorial Cemetery account to repair the road in Oakwood Memorial Cemetery with the same type of materials that are there now.

i. Discuss, consider and/or approve applying a 2” overlay to complete street maintenance repairs. Individual projects selected based on areas of high traffic use:

  1. North Owens/Broadway
  2. South Friou/Broadway
  3. Alley from Broadway to Brookshires (Front of Building)
  4. Alley/Broadway (North Side)
  5. North Owens to East Elizabeth
  6. South Friou to East Walker

j. Discuss, consider and/or approve appointment: Mayor Pro Tem.

k. Discuss, consider and/or approve rescinding the City Council action taken on March 18, 2025: Action Item 8(d) approval of JEDCO’s recommendation to adopt a new policy for recruitment and appointment of JEDCO board members as well as a board membership application. Due to lack of a new recruitment policy and applications for appointments to JEDCO, authorize the city council members may make their appointment to JEDCO at this time.

l. Discuss, consider and/or approve appointment to JEDCO by Ald. Haggard.

m. Discuss, consider and/or approve appointment to JEDCO by Ald. Hengst.

n. Discuss, consider and/or approve appointment to JEDCO by Ald. Keith.

o. Discuss, consider and/or approve appointment to JEDCO by Ald. Thompson.

p. Discuss, consider and/or approve appointment to Tourism Board by Ald. Haggard.

q. Discuss, consider and/or approve appointment to Tourism Board by Ald. Hengst.

r. Discuss, consider and/or approve appointment to Tourism Board by Ald. Keith.

s. Discuss, consider and/or approve appointment to Tourism Board by Ald. Thompson.

t. Discuss, consider and/or approve appointment to Planning and Zoning by Ald. Haggard.

u. Discuss, consider and/or approve appointment to Planning and Zoning by Ald. Hengst.

v. Discuss, consider and/or approve appointment to Planning and Zoning by Ald. Keith.

w. Discuss, consider and/or approve appointment to Planning and Zoning by Ald. Thompson.

  1. DISCUSSION ITEMS

a. Discuss location of an alleyway located in Block Q of the Alley Addition between South Alley Street and South Friou Street. – Ray Todd

b. Update and discussion on how to begin process of selling City property to raise capital for upcoming City projects

c. Discuss Brownfield Assessment Program (TBD)

d. Council Initiatives update:

  1. Firehouse & City Hall structure – Bubba
  2. Stop & street signs plus city street painting updates – TBD
  3. Employee Handbook redo –
  4. Street campaigns – TBD
  5. Drainage items –April
  6. Cemetery needs – Ray
  7. Building inspector & ordinances – Ray
  8. City Limits & Floodplain surveys –
  9. Mass Communication & town siren – Hollis
  10. General Grant needs & mgmt. – TBD
  11. City parks – Hollis
  12. City signage in streets, sidewalks, city ROWs, private property – Hollis
  13. “Welcome to Jefferson” signs on Hwy 59 (current condition, potential plans, funding, volunteer groups, on-going maintenance, etc.) – April
  1. EXECUTIVE SESSION

 The Jefferson City Council reserves the right to adjourn into Executive Session at any time during the Course of the meeting to discuss any of the matters listed above or below, as authorized by the Texas Government Code.

a. Section 551.071 – Consultation with an Attorney

b. Section 551.072 – Deliberations concerning Real Property

c. Section 551.073 – Deliberations concerning gifts/donations

d. Section 551.074 – Deliberations concerning Personnel Matters: (appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee)

e. Section 551.076 – Deliberation concerning Municipal Security

f. Section 551.087 – Economic Development

  1. POST-EXECUTIVE SESSION ACTION ITEMS 
  1. ADJOURNMENT

Certificate of Posting

I, Melissa Boyd, City Secretary for the City of Jefferson, Texas do hereby certify that this Notice of Meeting was posted at City Hall, 102 N. Polk Street, a place readily accessible to the general public at all times, on this the 13th day of June 2025, at 5:00 pm and remained to posted for at least 72 continuous hours preceding the scheduled time of said meeting.

 

Melissa Boyd, City Administrator/City Secretary

 

ATTENDANCE BY OTHER ELECTED OR APPOINTED OFFICIALS: It is anticipated that members of the City Council, or other city board, commissions and/or committees (JEDCO, Tourism, Citizen Action and Diversity, Core Team, Planning and Zoning, Quiet Zone, etc.) may attend the meeting in numbers that may constitute a quorum of the other city boards, commissions and/or committees.  Notice is hereby given that the meeting, to the extent required by law, is also noticed as a meeting of the other boards, commissions and/or committees of the City, whose members may be in attendance.  The members of the boards, commissions and/or committees may participate in discussions on the same items listed on the agenda, which occur at the meeting, but no action will be taken by such in attendance unless such item and action is specifically provided for an on an agenda for that board, commission or committee subject to the Texas Open Meetings Act.

 

 

 

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