NOTICE

CITY OF JEFFERSON, TEXAS

SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING

TRANSPORTATION CENTER

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2025 @ 6:30 P.M.

 

Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Jefferson City Council will be held on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 6:30 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 
  1. 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.
  • 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. PROCLAMATION

a. October 26, 2025: St. Paul United Methodist Church Day

  1. PRESENTATIONS – Limited to 10 minutes each

a. Specialized Public Financing/Schaumburg & Polk: Update on Texas Water Development Board Grant/Loans

b. Fire Department – Victor Perot

  1. POLICE CHIEF COMMENTS

a. Quarterly Update

  1. CITY ADMINISTRATOR/CITY SECRETARY COMMENTS

a. Accounting Software: FundView

b. City Christmas Decorations/Lights (Pole Lights and Ground Lights)

c. Reminder: Public Notice Posting Location moved to 305 E. Austin St.

d. Reminder: 5th Public Hearing on Proposed Zoning and Zoning Regulations for the City of Jefferson: November 13, 2025 at 6:30 pm 

  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 September 10, 2025 Special Council meeting minutes

b. Consider and/or approve September 11, 2025 Special Council meeting minutes.

c. Consider and/or approve September 16, 2025 Regular Council meeting minutes.

d. Consider and/or approve October 6, 2025 Special Council meeting minutes.

e. Consider and/or approve Wheels on the Bayou Spring Show Special Event application to be held on March 21, 2026.

f. Consider and/or approve the Dr. Martin Luther King Parade Special Event Application to be held on January 18, 2026

10. ACTION ITEMS

a. Discuss, consider and/or approve authorizing the City Administrator to sign and submit the TWDB invitation to apply for sewer system funding through the CWSRF program.

b. Discuss, consider and/or approve an agreement between the City of Jefferson and Texas A&M forest Service Justifications for Agreement to Conduct Specialized Services or Hazardous Fuel Reduction on non-TFS land.

c. Discuss, consider and/or approve Haunted River Float special event application on October 24 & 25, 2025.

d. Discuss, consider and/or approve Texas Ghosts, LLC Application for Walking Tour Permit.

e. Discuss, consider and/or approve James Hughes application for building permit. (102 N. Friou: Apartment)

f. Discuss, consider and/or approve James Hughes application for building permit. (111 W Clarksville: Carport Conversion to apartment.)

g. Discuss, consider and/or approve Jerrell & Angela Ritchie’s application for building permit. (108 E. Dixon: Residential Home)

h. Discuss, consider and/or approve Bentling Properties LLC. Application for building permit. (205 W. Austin St. Sidewalk Awning addition)

i. Discuss, consider and/or approve Tim Cariker’s application for building permit. (401 River Oaks Dr.: Residential Home)

j. Discuss, consider and/or approve Margrett Martin’s application for building permit. (102 E. Douglas: Addition to existing building: Commercial)

k. Discuss, consider and/or approve Steve and Peggy Walker’s amendment to the application for building permit that was previously approved on April 15, 2025. (407 E. Walker St. Carport with setback variance)

l. Discuss, consider and/or approve hiring a contract city attorney and/or scheduling a date for a special meeting to conduct interviews for the position of contract City Attorney. (Tabled from 9/16/2025)

m. Discuss, consider and/or approve moving records located at 102 N. Polk St. and behind the old public restrooms to 111 E. Austin St.

n. Discuss, consider and/or approve rescinding the September 4th, 2025 City Council approval of the Jefferson Athletic Booster Club to paint and maintain paw prints on the city streets beginning at the corner of Alley St. and Whelan St., continuing down Whelan St. to Line St., down Line St. and ending at the parking lot entrance to the football field. (U.S. Transportation SAFE ROADS Initiative notice from TxDot)

 

  1. DISCUSSION ITEMS

a. Discuss scheduling a date for a special meeting/workshop to discuss revisions to Ordinance 2025-07-15 Feeding of Animals Prohibited and development of an agreement between the City of Jefferson and Friends of Jefferson Animals. (postponed from 9/16/25 meeting)

b. Council Initiatives update:

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

 

  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, 305 E. Austin Street, a place readily accessible to the general public at all times, on this the 16th day of October 2025, at 5:00 pm and remained posted for at least 3 (three) business days preceding the scheduled time of said meeting.

Melissa Boyd, 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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