Special City Council Meeting
City Council Chambers
Agenda — 19 items
- 1 Public Notice: Persons with disabilities who plan to attend this meeting and who may need auxiliary aids or services are requested to contact the City Secretary’s office (at 361-826-3105) at least 48 hours in advance so that appropriate arrangements can be made. Si Usted desea dirigirse al Concilio y cree que su inglés es limitado, habrá un intérprete inglés-español en todas las juntas del Concilio para ayudarle. This meeting may be held via videoconference call pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.127. If this meeting is held via videoconference call or other remote method of meeting, then a member of this governmental body presiding over this meeting will be physically present at the location of this meeting unless this meeting is held pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.125 due to an emergency or other public necessity pursuant to Texas Government Code § 551.045.
- A. Mayor Paulette Guajardo to call the meeting to order.
- B. Invocation to be given by Deacon Richard Longoria with St. Helena of the True Cross of Jesus Catholic Church.
- C. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States and the Texas Flag will be led by Zane Preston Badrow, 12th grader from Mary Carroll High School.
- D. City Secretary Rebecca Huerta to call the roll of the required Charter Officers.
- E. CITY MANAGER'S COMMENTS / UPDATE ON CITY OPERATIONS: (ITEM 1)
- 1. Staff Recognition of Corpus Christi Water employees and Lavaca - Navidad River Authority team who were instrumental in recent Mary Rhodes Pipeline Upgrades to fully leverage the pipeline capacity of a 76 million gallons a day average
- F. PUBLIC COMMENT
- G. BOARD & COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS: (NONE)
- H. CONSENT AGENDA: (ITEM 2)
- 11 Consent - Second Reading Ordinances
- 2. Ordinance accepting and appropriating the 2025 Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA) Homeless Housing and Services Program (HHSP) grant in the amount of $164,198 for the General Set Aside and $53,111 for the Youth Set Aside, totaling $217,309; authorizing agreements with the Nueces Center for Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities (MHID) for $142,309 and Mission 911 $75,000 for the 2025 funds; authorizing TDHCA to contract directly with MHID for the 2026 and 2027 program years for HHSP and Ending Homelessness Funds (EHF); and authorizing the execution of funding agreements, and other documents necessary to implement the 2025, 2026, and 2027 programs.
- I. INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION ITEMS: (ITEMS 3 - 4)
- 3. Resolution authorizing the negotiation and execution of fifteen professional services contracts for Professional Engineering Services in an amount not-to-exceed $22,022,500.00 with the fifteen engineering consultants who submitted Statements of Qualifications for the Bond 2024 Proposition A-Street Projects, Sales Tax Reauthorization Proposition E-Arterial & Collector Streets, and FY 2025 CIP Streets projects, located Citywide, with funding available from the Streets Bond 2024, Sales Tax Reauthorization Proposition E- Arterial & Collector Streets and Storm Water, Wastewater, and Gas Funds.
- 4. Ordinance approving the addition of 20 full-time positions and equipment to the Engineering Services Department budget; amending the FY 2025 Operating Budget as required for the last five months of the year with funding coming from the FY 2025 Capital Improvement Budget as required. The FY 2025 impact is $1,705,243.00 including vehicle purchases with an FY 2026 recurring amount of $1,969,676.00.
- J BRIEFINGS: (ITEMS 5 - 6)
- 5. Briefing Update on the progress of Residential Streets as part of the Rapid Pavement Program
- 6. Briefing on 89th Texas Legislative Session Update, Presented by Ryan Skrobarczyk, Director of Intergovernmental Relations
- K. Adjournment