NOTICE

CITY OF JEFFERSON, TEXAS

REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING

TRANSPORTATION CENTER

305 E. AUSTIN STREET

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2025 @ 5:30 P.M.

 

Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Jefferson City Council will be held on Tuesday, November 18, 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 
  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. PRESENTATIONS – Limited to 10 minutes each

a. Jefferson Economic Development Corporation (JEDCO) – Jamey Parsons

b. Tourism – Colleen Taylor

c. Friends of Jefferson Animals – Sharon Goolsby

  1. CITY ADMINISTRATOR/CITY SECRETARY COMMENTS

a. Accounting Software: FundView

b. City Website Updates:

c. Office Closures:

      November 26, 2025: Offices close at noon;

      November 27 & 28, 2025: Offices Closed

d. City Christmas Decorations/Lights

e. TML Conference Update 

  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 October 22, 2025 Special Council meeting minutes.

b. Consider and/or approve November 4, 2025 Special Meeting minutes.

c. Consider and/or approve November 12, 2025 Special Meeting minutes.

d. Consider and/or approve monthly financials.

e. Consider and/or approve hiring Lisa Hagger to fill the Administrative Assistant position at the rate of $17.00 per hour to be effective November 19, 2025.

f. Consider and/or approve the adoption and resolution of the new plan document for the upcoming 2026 plan year for the City of Jefferson Texas Cafeteria Plan sponsored by Colonial Life.

g. Consider and/or approve Christmas Train Event Application for December 4, 2025.

h. Consider and/or approve Shell Application for Sign Permit. (105 S. Walcott St. Price Sign corner of HWY 59 and HWY 49)

i. Consider and/or approve Shell Application for Sign Permit. (105 S. Walcott St. Canopy Sign)

j. Consider and/or approve Shell Application for Sign Permit. (105 S. Walcott St. High Rise on HWY 59) 

  1. ACTION ITEMS

 

a. Discuss, consider and/or approve Chris Richarson’s Application for Building Permit. (Single Family Home 204 E. Clay St.)

b. 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, amendment tabled on October 22, 2025. (407 E. Walker St. Carport with setback variance)

c. Discuss, consider and/or approve the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church Application for Building Permit. (206 W. Henderson St. Garage/Cover walkway attached to house being renovated)

d. Discuss, consider and/or approve official action approving Ordinance No. 2025-11-1. An ordinance by the City as a regulatory authority that has retained original jurisdiction to review and act on SWEPCO’s requested change in base rates.

e. Discuss, consider and/or approve adoption of a Resolution authorizing an application for Financial Assistance from the Texas Water Development Board.

f. Discuss, consider and/or approve naming the park on Haywood Street: “Doctor R. D. Douglas Park”.

g. Discuss, consider and/or approve renaming what is now known as Lions Park, to “Alley’s Grand Square”.

h. Discuss, consider and/or approve quote for stump removal for Oakwood Memorial Cemetery.

  1. DISCUSSION ITEMS 

a. Discuss extending Easement and Mutual Use Agreement between City of Jefferson and DBR Entertainment, Inc. (Historic Jefferson Railway 400 E Austin St.)

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 12th day of November 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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